Mankind has been strongly dependent on plant fibres for all kind of purposes. In earlier days, natural fibres served a crucial role mitigate the everyday needs in a wide range of uses. But in recent years the arrival of synthetic products are dominating over the natural fibre, due to the low cost. But the synthetic fibres are non degradable and causing serious pollution problems. Banana is one ...

samples with stalk rot, yellowing and stunting symptoms from maize fields in western provinces of iran were collected. after cultured of them on eosin methylen blue (emb) medium, twenty bacterial strains with metallic green color colonies on emb medium were selected for identification tests. according to the biochemical and phenotypic characteristics, these strains were identified as dickeya ze...

A subset of 113 garlic accessions from the Gatersleben genebank collection was characterised using 16 morphological characters. The characterisation data were used for principal components and cluster analyses. Comparisons with existing RAPD and isozyme classifications were performed and gave high correlations especially in cases of the ophioscorodon and sativum groups. The morphological charac...

Fibrous wastes correspond to approximately 54.3 wt.-% of a banana plant. The waste weight is mainly bunches, stems, and leaves. These ligno-cellulosic fibre can be designed tailored yield value added products which exploited by the farmers, exporters weavers. Pectin (plant cement) hemicelluloses (22-25%) found in plant cell walls plate (middle lamella). macromolecules have needs hydrolyzed fast...

A comparative study was carried out to determine the most suitable substrate for breeding of midges (Forcipomyia spp.) and the implications for pollination and yield in a typical cocoa production system in the forest ecological zone of Ghana. For the field experiment, the typically available substrates in cocoa farms which were used as the treatments under cocoa trees were: 1) rotten cocoa leaf...

Investigation was done to find out the effect of different polyamines viz., spermine and spermidine (5, 10, 20 mg/l) biostimulants 2 % Novel (banana pseudostem sap) 2% cow urine as foliar spray on growth parameters rose var. Top Secret.
 Plant height, number branches leaves were found be significantly higher with biostimulants. Maximum plant height in plants treated mg/l while maximum sper...

Plantain is the most important crop for Peruvian Amazonian population, developed in recent alluvial soils rich nutrients, but fragile and susceptible to degradation. Therefore, impact of permanent cultivation was evaluated, through modelling, on indicators soil quality production plantations Musa paradisiaca L. var. Harton, Aguaytia River valley, Peru. The treatments were areas with...