The present study aims to determine the hematology, serum biochemistry, and acute phase proteins (APPs) responses of both cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in sheep fed with low high levels Brachiaria decumbens (B. decumbens) diets at different time phases. A total 30 6-month-old male Dorper cross were randomly divided into three treatment groups consisted 10 each. Treatment 1 (control) Pennisetum purp...

In the present study seed-born fungi in choy sum (Brassica Chinensis Var. Parchinensis) was detected through a near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy–based nondestructive technique. Four common species of seed-borne namely, Penicillium decumbens, namyslowskii, Lichtheimia corymbifera, and Aspergillus niger were found to grow southern China. A novel finding that P. decumbens had greatest inhibit...

Morphological variation in three rarely collected European species of the genus Lasiochernes Beier, 1932 is thoroughly examined in the present study. Detailed descriptions of previously ignored morphological characters of Lasiochernes cretonatus Henderickx, 1998, Lasiochernes jonicus (Beier, 1929) and Lasiochernes pilosus (Ellingsen, 1910) are presented. The female of Lasiochernes cretonatus an...

In a loamy clay soil of the Colombian Altillanura, animal production legumes Centrosema molle accession CIAT 15160, C. macrocarpum 15799 and Grona heterocarpa subsp. ovalifolia (syn. Desmodium ovalifolium) cv. Maquenque, in association with Urochloa decumbens Brachiaria decumbens) Decumbens, was evaluated under rotational grazing zebu Brahman steers. The experiment established native savanna ar...

Background Corbichonia decumbens (Forssk.) Exell (Molluginaceae), recently has moved to Lophiocarpaceae as per angiospermic plant group (APG) III system, is an annual or short-lived, dwarf, glabrous subshrub, prefers to grow on rocky places and on sand-stones in dry, hot areas of Rajasthan. This is the potential plant with medicinal properties. Vegetative organs under study show antioxidant, an...

Apomixis, asexual reproduction through seed, enables breeders to identify and faithfully propagate superior heterozygous genotypes by seed without the disadvantages of vegetative propagation or the expense and complexity of hybrid seed production. The availability of new tools such as genotyping by sequencing and bioinformatics pipelines for species lacking reference genomes now makes the const...

Cyclopenicillone (1), possessing a unique 2,5-dimethylcyclopent-2-enone carbon skeleton, has been isolated from the cultures broth of the fungus Penicillium decumbens. The structure and absolute configuration of 1 were elucidated using a combination of NMR spectroscopy, CD data and computational approaches. Cyclopenicillone (1) demonstrated a dose-dependent (10-100 μM) inhibition against LPS-in...

Population densities of the root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne incognita, were lower after 90 days in soil planted to digitgrass (Digitaria decumbens cv. Pangola) than in soil left fallow or planted to tomato. Roots of tomato seedlings interplanted with Pangola digitgrass were less galled than were roots of tomato seedlings planted alone. Fewer second stage larvae invaded roots of Pangola digitgra...

pposites really do attract. Results on page 101 by Oliveria et al. show that, although they perform opposing functions, a kinase and a phosphatase linked to synaptic plasticity are close neighbors at the plasma membrane. The two are brought together by the scaffolding protein AKAP79 into a complex that may be important for efficient learning. The close proximity of the three proteins is uncover...