Forest operations often enhance runoff and soil loss in roads skid trails, where cut slopes fill are the most important source of sediment. This study evaluated effectiveness four erosion control treatments applied to slope segments forest different ages Hyrcanian northern Iran. The treatment combinations, each replicated three times, included classes mulch cover (bare [BS], wood chips [WCH], s...

Article investigates the influence of different pretreatment methods on sugar conversion and bioethanol production. Different dilute acid and alkaline pretreatment methods are compared to determine the best pretreatment method to give the highest glucose and ethanol yields under the mild operating conditions. Wheat straw is used as a raw material as it is the most widely grown cereal in Europe....

The main objective of this study was production of ethanol from three lignocellulosic biomasses like sugarcane bagasse, rice straw and wheat straw by Sacchromyces cervisae. All the three substrates were ground to powder form (2 mm) and pretreated with 3%H2O2 + 2% NaOH followed by steaming at 130 °C for 60 min. These substrates were hydrolyzed by commercial cellulase enzyme. The whole fermentati...

Machinery for sowing wheat directly into rice residues has become more common in the rice-wheat systems of the north-west Indo-Gangetic Plains of South Asia, with increasing numbers of farmers now potentially able to access the benefits of residue retention. However, surface residue retention affects soil water and temperature dynamics, thus the optimum sowing date and irrigation management for...

Sheep with oesophageal fistulas were used in sham-feeding experiments to assess how sham intakes were affected by (a) physical form of straw (finely and coarsely ground; ground and pelleted), (b) type of food (straw pellets v. lucerne (Medicago sativa) hay pellets) and (c) additions of monosodium glutamate (MSG) with or without NaCl to the various straw diets. Normal animals were also fed on di...

YUKSEL, S., L. TURGUT, M. YANAR, M. AKSU, G. KABAN and N. UNLU, 2011. Fatty acid composition, lean color and drip loss of the different muscles from young Holstein friesian bulls fi nished on diets containing varied proportions of wet sugar beet pulp and wheat straw. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 17: 696-703 The main purpose of this work is to determine meat quality attributes in 3 muscles of the Holst...

Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) was grown in earthen pots containing soil of Balkasar Soil Series (Sandy Loam) in green house at the Department of Soil Science and SWC, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi during Rabi season, 2007. The Crop was treated with two levels of Phosphorus (40 and 80 kg P ha-1 ) in the form of SSP, TSP, NP and DAP. A basal doze of 100 kg N and 60 kg K...

An experiment was conducted with 24 Arabi lambs to investigate the possibility to increase the utilization of wheat straw by ensiling with urea at rate of 1.5 % as a nitrogen source and to get the advantage of the additional digestion caused by the released ammonia, and molasses at rate of 10 % to encourage the fermentation responsible for silage making. Straw silage (ES) was compared with whea...

A viruses and silverleaf whitefly can completely devastate cantaloupe crops, causing serious economic losses to growers. The California Melon Research Advisory Board (2003) lists the management and control of aphid-borne viruses and whitefly as a top pest-management research priority. At the UC Kearney Research and Extension Center (KREC), we studied the use of reflective plastic mulch and stra...