The study evaluated the in vitro iron chelating, lipid peroxidation inhibitory and DNA protective activities of hydroalcoholic (60% ethanolic) extracts of various plant parts of Terminalia chebula, Caesalpinia crista, Cajanus cajan, Terminalia belerica, Emblica officinalis, and Tinospora cordifolia. The iron chelating property of the plants is in accordance with the order of their IC50 values f...

The study was designed to evaluate the effect of ethanol extract of Moringa oleifera and Cajanus cajan leaves on lipid profiles in alloxan induced diabetic albino rats. Diabetes was induced in three groups of rats, one group was not treated while two groups were treated orally with M. oleifera and C. cajan ethanol leaf extracts at 200,400 and 800 mg/kg body weight once for seven days respective...

The hybrid pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan) breeding technology based on cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) is currently unique among legumes and displays major potential for yield increase. CMS is defined as a condition in which a plant is unable to produce functional pollen grains. The novel chimeric open reading frames (ORFs) produced as a results of mitochondrial genome rearrangements are considered...

The effect of dimethoate on the photosynthetic activity and pigments content on Cajanus cajan L. is determined by laser induced chlorophyll fluorescence (LICF) and fluorescence induction kinetics (FIK) of leaves. The LICF spectra is recorded in the region of 650-780 nm by using 405 nm violet diode laser and FIK curves are recorded at 685 and 730 nm by using 635 nm red diode laser as the excitat...

Mitochondria isolated by a zonal procedure from the cotyledons of germinating peas possessed a cyanide-resistant respiration. This respiration was virtually absent in mitochondria isolated during the first 24 hours of germination but thereafter increased gradually until the 6th or 7th day of seedling development. At this time between 15 and 20% of the succinate oxidation was not inhibited by cy...

Uncontrolled weeds cause considerable losses in the grain yield of pigeonpea. Field experiments were conducted for seven years from 1998 to 2004 on a loamy sand soil to study the effect of weed management on weeds, growth and grain yield of pigeonpea. In some years, weed dry matter was higher than in others, due to variation in rainfall received. Two hand weedings, pendimethalin in integration ...

The effect of inclusion level on nutrient intake, digestibility, nitrogen metabolism and haematological parameters of West African Dwarf (WAD) goat fed Cajanus cajan as supplement to cassava peels was investigated in a completely randomized design experiment using twenty-four WAD goats with average initial weight of 10.75±0.85kg (March-September, 2016). There were four treatments as: A...

To assess the suitability of Leguminous species in rice intercropping systems, physiological and morphological characteristics of Crotalaria juncea, Cajanus cajan, Mucuna pruriens var. cochinchinensis, Calopogonium mucunoides, Aeschynomene histrix and Stylosanthes hamata were determined in monoculture. C. cajan and S. hamata were selected and intercropped with two upland rice cultivars (WAB56-5...

thy, 1988; Peter et al., 1995). They could therefore provide a potential resistance mechanism against H. armiTrichomes have been modified in a number of crops to develop gera and other pests of pigeonpea. Bisen and Sheldrake insect-tolerant genotypes. Pigeonpea, Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp., is often heavily damaged by insect pests, and trichomes provide a poten(1981) and Navasero and Ramaswamy (...