The ecology of seed dispersal is critical to understand the patterns of distribution and abundance of plant species. We investigated seed dispersal aspects associated with the high abundance of Buchenavia tomentosa in the Serra Azul State Park (PESA). We estimated fruit production and conducted fruit removal experiments. We carried out diurnal and nocturnal observations on frugivory as well as ...

The saw gin, the primary technical device used in cotton ginning process, is responsible for separating fiber from seed. After being cleansed of khaschops and dried to desired humidity drying, cleaning, cleaning shops, seeded transferred main building business (separation fiber). Up now, 4DP-130, 5DP-130, DPZ gins have been employed operations spin medium cotton. machine's operation, which sepa...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Myrmecochory is a conspicuous feature of several sclerophyll ecosystems around the world but it has received little attention in the semi-arid areas of South America. This study addresses the importance of seed dispersal by ants in a 2500-km(2) area of the Caatinga ecosystem (north-east Brazil) and investigates ant-derived benefits to the plant through myrmecochory. METHOD...

The objective of this project was to evaluate winter wheat stand count and grain yield responses seeding rate its interaction with seed cleaning treatment in Kansas during the 2019–2020 growing season. Experiments evaluating response variety ‘SY Monument’ three rates (600,000, 900,000, 1,200,000 seeds per acre), intensities (none, air screen, gravity table), two treatments insecticide + fungici...

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...

Sri Lankan Journal of Agriculture and Ecosystems (SLJAE) is published by the Faculty Agriculture, Rajarata University Lanka. It publishes peer-reviewed original research articles from all fields agriculture including crop science, forestry, agricultural biology, plant protection, genetics breeding, food nutrition, animal soil water resource management, machinery, economics extension system stud...

Among one dimensional nanomaterials, TiO2 nanorods have found important applications in various industries due to optical, photocatalyst and self-cleaning properties. In this research, at first TiO2 nanorods were synthesized on a glass substrate by hydrothermal method. Then a thin film of TiO2 particles was dip coated (as seed layer) on the substrate. After that, hydrothermal synthesis of TiO2 ...