The adhesion of water droplets to leaves is important in controlling rainfall interception, and affects a variety of hydrological processes. Leaf water drop adhesion (hereinafter, adhesion) depends not only on droplet formulation and parameters but also on the physical (leaf roughness) and physico-chemical (surface free energy, its components, and work-of-adhesion) properties of the leaf surfac...

The research aims to detect insect in betel nut storage (Areca catechu) using some sampling methods. was conducted by survey method three methods, namely hand method, yellow sticky trap and dome method. parameters observed were types of pests found, populations obtained, abundance pest populations. from July October 2018 four storagesin Jambi City Muaro District. Insects found the storages with...

The gross and microscopic anatomy of the Cape fur seal heart, lung, liver, spleen, stomach, intestine and kidneys (n = 31 seals) is described. Absolute and relative size of organs from 30 male seals are presented, with histological examination conducted on 7 animals. The relationship between log body weight, log organ weight and age was investigated using linear regression. Twenty five animals ...

Ephemeroptera is an important group of insects used in the bioassessment and monitoring of freshwater bodies worldwide because of their relative abundance in a wide variety of substrates and their increasing chances of detecting pollution impacts. In this study, their faunistic composition and spatiotemporal variations in density and diversity in River Orogodo (Southern Nigeria) was investigate...

various plant organ segments including segments from roots (root tip, and root collar), stems, leaves, and also seeds of several hyoscyamus species (i.e. h. pusillus, h. arachnoideus, annual and biennial h. niger from two distinct geographical regions) were cultured on ms media with various growth regulator combinations, to assess the ability of flower production. statistical assessments showed...

A total of 400 samples were collected from different thermogenic habitats such as nests of birds, decomposing litter, soils from furnace area, cattle dung, zoo dump, industrial waste, vegetable market compost, mushroom compost, horse dung, municipal waste, chicken manure and coal mine soils of Godavari Khani (Karimnagar) and Bhoopalpally (Warangal) group of mines in Andhra Pradesh. From which 4...

Here, we report the discovery and characterization of biominerals in the acorn worms Saccoglossus bromophenolosus and Ptychodera flava galapagos (Phylum: Hemichordata). Using electron microscopy, X-ray microprobe analyses and confocal Raman spectroscopy, we show that hemichordate biominerals are small CaCO(3) aragonitic elements restricted to specialized epidermal structures, and in S. bromophe...