to study the effect of essential oils of medicinal plants on post-harvest stability of fruits quality and decay management of kinnow mandarin, this experiment was carried out as factorial in completely randomized design with four replications. essential oils of thyme, mint, fennel, rosemary, ajowan and cummin at two levels 500 and 750 ml/l were applied to wounded and non-wounded fruits, that ha...

The expansion of sesame growth has led to one the biggest challenges in weed management mainly due limited options selective herbicides for control eudicots species. This study aimed evaluate selectivity diuron, s-metolachlor or imazethapyr herbicide treatments isolation, a tank mixture, when applied preemergence only, association with diuron sprayed postemergence during cultivation. Two experi...

A range of options exist to improve pasture in the South Island hill and high country. Pasture yield cost seed, lime fertiliser from 55 trial sites were used calculate partial gross margins (GM) for a improvements on different slopes aspects. On drillable land, average rainfall <500 mm/yr, pastures should be based subterranean clover or perennial lupins. Lucerne can where root growth is not ...

SCOPE The long-term effect of exposure to relevant dietary levels of genistein (GEN) on estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) human breast cancer (MCF-7) progression after GEN withdrawal in athymic mice xenograft model was studied. MATERIALS AND METHODS Feeding studies were conducted to determine the estrogenic effect of diets on MCF-7 tumor growth: (1) implantation (19 weeks) and withdrawal (6 we...

in this research, possibility of bulblet production from different cuttings including leaf, leaf-bud and leafy-stem of lilium oriental hybrid cv. ‘star gazer’ evaluated under different levels of indole-3-butyric acid (iba) with 0, 250, 500, 750 and 1000 mg per liter (ppm). the cuttings were taken from stems which grown from cold treated bulbs in early october. a factorial experiment was done in...

OBJECTIVES To assess the efficacy of three different daily doses of acetazolamide in the prevention of acute mountain sickness and to determine the lowest effective dose. DESIGN Systematic review and meta-analysis. DATA SOURCES Medline and Embase along with a hand search of selected bibliographies. No language restrictions were applied. STUDY SELECTION Randomised controlled trials assessi...

The effects of reaction conditions on the yield ethylene and propylene from pentene cracking were investigated in a fixed-bed reactor at 500–750 °C for weight hourly space velocity (WHSV) 15–83 h−1. total reached maximum (67.8 wt%) 700 57 In order to explore mechanism high temperatures, thermal/catalytic proportion model was established. It found that feed chemically adsorbed with acid sites cr...

A panchagavya Ayurvedic formulation containing E. officinalis, G. glabra, and cow's ghee was evaluated for its effect on pentobarbital-induced sleeping time, pentylenetetrazol-induced seizures, maximal electroshock-induced seizures, spontaneous motor activity, rota-rod performance (motor coordination) and antagonism to amphetamine in mice. The formulation (300, 500 mg/kg, po) produced a signifi...