Treponema saccharophilum was isolated in the early decades and described as highly preferred to utilize pectin for growth. Typically, alfalfa hay contains 10–15% pectin as a component of the cell wall matrix, whereas grass or corn stover has pectin content less than 5%. The objective of this study was to develop a set of PCR primers targeting the 16S rRNA gene of T. saccharophilum and to assess...

The dextrins, which occur as successive steps in the transition from glucose to starch and from starch to glucose, are so rarely detected in plant tissues and so ephemeral in existence, that their occurrence in stable form in matured or dormant tissues has seldom been reported. It has been the occasion of no little interest, therefore, to find that the sole carbohydrate in the endosperm of “wax...

intercropping is one of the management methods for crop production and leads to improvement of resource absorption and use by plants. based on this purpose the present field study was conducted to evaluate radiation absorption and uses efficiency in corn and bean strip intercropping at the farm of the faculty of agriculture, ferdowsi university of mashhad, iran during 2009. the experiment was s...

The objective of this study was to determine standardized AA digestibility of corn, corn gluten meal, and 3 distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) using the precision-fed cecectomized rooster assay (PFR), the standardized ileal AA broiler chicken assay (SIAAD), and a newly developed precision-fed ileal broiler chicken assay (PFC). For the PFR, cecectomized roosters were precision-fed appr...

Intercropping is a labor-intensive practice largely adopted by smallholder farmers to increase yield per unit area, cope with crop failures and market fluctuations, meet food preferences farm income. A field experiment was conducted examine the performances intercropping efficiencies of sweet corn okra planted in young rubber plantation. The treatments were arranged Randomized Complete Block De...

Targeted mutagenesis using programmable DNA endonucleases has broad applications for studying gene function in planta and developing approaches to improve crop yields. Recently, a genetic method that eliminates the need to emasculate the female inbred during hybrid seed production, referred to as Seed Production Technology, has been described. The foundation of this genetic system relied on cla...

Integrating alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) with corn (Zea mays for grain will increase biodiversity, reduce the negative environmental impact of monoculture and farm profitability. The objectives this research were to evaluate forage productivity nutritive value, along stand establishment in a system Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota. experimental design was randomized complete block four replicates ...

the aim of the present study was to assess whether near infrared reflectance spectroscopy (nirs) and regression equations are the practical and accurate approach of nutritional assessment of common feedstuffs. therefore two experiments were conducted to study the effect of amino acid determination methods on broiler performance. in experiment i, two hundred thirty four male ross broiler chicks ...