Climate prediction models suggest that agricultural productivity will be significantly affected in the future. The expected rise average global temperature due to higher release of greenhouse gases (GHGs) into atmosphere and increased depletion water resources with enhanced climate variability a serious threat world food security. Moreover, there is an increase frequency severity long-lasting d...

A series of Polynesian pearls has been investigated with particular attention to the structural and compositional patterns of the early developmental stages of the pearl layer. These initial steps in pearl formation bear witness of the metabolic changes that have occurred during the pearl-sac formation. The resulting structurally and biochemically complex structures have been investigated using...

An experiment was conducted to compare a commercial corn-soybean meal diet with a pearl millet diet containing less soybean meal (-27%), alone or in combination with exogenous enzymes, on growth performance, jejunal villus development, ileal CP, and AA digestibility, and cecal microbial populations in broilers. One hundred sixty 1-d-old male Ross 508 broilers (5/cage) were randomly allocated to...

Sorghum and pearl millet are two important dry land crops that provide grain and fodder. India is the largest pearl millet producer and second largest producer of sorghum in the world. The productivity of these crops has been low due to various reasons such as unavailability of quality inputs to the farmers, lack of access to improved technologies for crop production, unavailability of credit o...

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality, disease's prevalence increasing with each passing day. DM can be prevented controlled modifications to diet, especially by incorporating millet in diet. Throughout history, eating habits have been recognized for their significant contribution promoting health wellness foods rich nutrients. Millet an underutilized food crop ...

Hydroides elegans is a major fouling organism in tropical waters around the world, including Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. To determine the importance of initial surface characteristics on biofilm community composition and subsequent colonization by larvae of H. elegans, the settlement and recruitment of larvae to biofilmed surfaces with six different initial surface wettabilities were tested in Pearl ...