Abstract Background Fuelwood is considered to be the primary source of cooking energy in Tanzania and, due ongoing deforestation, access fuelwood becoming more cumbersome. On-farm agroforestry systems can reduce dependency on off-farm fuel; however, output on-farm produced fuel typically uncertain as production potentials are often not known. In this paper, we have developed allometric equation...

The pulses are belongs to the family Fabaceae which is also known as food legumes. Pulses are second important group of the crops after cereals. Pulses are the most important crops of Indian Agriculture. The member of Fabaceae family includes the economically important legume like pulses, oil seed, forage and fodder crops and also shrubs and tropical or subtropical trees. These pulses are chick...

Germination was investigated as a bioprocess for enhancing the digestibility and bioactivity of pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan). Pigeon seeds were germinated 0, 4, 24 48 h. Electrophoresis revealed that 7S vicilin subunits most abundant proteins in control seeds. FTIR showed loss β sheet gain α-helix contents, microscopy cell wall degradation decreased seed protein yield due to partial hydrolysis pr...

Variability in growth and sporulation of five isolates of Arthrobotrys dactyloides was studied on five agar, 6 bran and 5 grain media. Potato dextrose agar (PDA) supported maximum growth of isolate A, C and E, while growth of isolate B and D was significantly lower on this medium. On Czapek's agar and yeast glucose agar media the differentiation in the isolates in relation to growth was poor th...

CRP 3.5 is a comprehensive proposal built around combined research on eight grain legumes (GLs) – groundnut, soybean, chickpea, cowpea, common bean, pigeon pea, lentil, and faba bean – proposed by four CGIAR Centres (ICARDA, ICRISAT, IITA and CIAT) and by several NARES (India, Brazil, Turkey and Ethiopia). These crops are important dietary staples and sources of income for farmers in many, low ...