Prosopis africana is an under utilized tree crop with immense medicinal and industrial values. Manual threshing of the pods to extract the seeds is uneconomical, time consuming, associated with drudgery and low output capacity. A motorized Prosopis africana pod thresher was designed, fabricated and assessed for performance. The main components of the thresher include hopper, threshing unit, cle...

Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) DC. commonly known as mesquite, vilayti babul, vilayti kikar belongs to family leguminosae sub family (mimosoidae). It’s a thorny ever-green to semi-evergreen fast growing tree capable of growing in arid and semi-arid regions and attaining heights up to 10m. A polysaccharide was isolated from Prosopis juliflora seed and purified. Purified juliflora polysaccharide has be...

Anticonvulsant activity of the methanolic extract of Prosopis Cineraria (Linn) Druce stem barks was studied against maximal electro shock (MES) and Pentylenetetrazole (PTZ) induced convulsions in mice. The extract suppressed hind limb tonic extensions (HLTE) induced by MES and also exhibited Protector Effect in PTZInduced Seizures. In conclusion, the methanolic extract of Prosopis Cineraria (Li...

Background and Objective: In development and progression of atherosclerosis, hypercholesterolemia plays a vital role. Prosopis cineraria L. Druce family, Fabaceae, Leguminosae reported to have various pharmacological potential. Hence, the aim of the present investigation was to evaluate its anti-hyperlipidemic potential against High Fat Diet (HFD) induced hyperlipidemia in the laboratory rat. M...

N2-fixing, drought tolerant and multipurpose Acacia and Prosopis species are appropriate trees for reforestation of degraded areas in arid and semiarid regions of the tropics and subtropics. Acacia and Prosopis trees form N2-fixing nodules with a wide range of rhizobia, for example African acacias mainly with Sinorhizobium sp. and Mesorhizobium sp., and Australian acacias with Bradyrhizobium sp...

background and aims: medicinal plants are a valuable resource for flavonoids extraction. prosopis fracta is one of the plants with medicinal properties. prosopis fracta was found in abundance in southern regions in iran. coersetin is medicinal substance found in the fruit of this plant. quercetin is used in treatment of cancer and viral infections. this study was conducted to determine the quer...

Semiarid environments throughout the world have lost a major part of their woody vegetation and biodiversity due to the effects of wood cutting, cattle grazing and subsistence agriculture. The resulting state is typically used for cattle production, but the productivity of these systems is often very low, and erosion of the unprotected soil is a common problem. Such dry-land degradation is of g...

The evaluation of foodstuffs provides the animal nutritionists with necessary information to adjust the diet from a physiological and economic point of view, so that the animal performance be desirable. Nowadays, there are various methods for evaluating ruminant feed intake. One of the most important methods is in situ nylon bag technique. Prosopis farcta is one of plants which is used as forag...

The proliferation of woody plants in grasslands over the past 100+ years can alter carbon, nitrogen, and water cycles and influence land surface-atmosphere interactions. Although the majority of organic carbon in these ecosystems resides belowground, there is no consensus on how this change in land cover has affected soil organic carbon (SOC) and total nitrogen (TN) pools. The degree to which d...