Despite the immense returns of new agricultural technologies to increase productivity and meet rising food demand, there is a lag in adoption these by farmers. The aeroponics system one such innovative implemented for seed yam propagation. This study assessed awareness determinants willingness farmers adopt farming system, employing likert scale logit regression model. Results showed that more ...

In this paper, we present YAM, a schema matcher factory. YAM (Yet Another Matcher) is not (yet) another schema matching system as it enables the generation of a la carte schema matchers according to user requirements. These requirements include a preference for recall or precision and a training data set (a set of expert correspondences or a domain of interest). YAM uses a knowledge base that i...

Yams (Dioscorea spp) in Ghana are important food staples and the most non-traditional export crop contributing to foreign exchange incomes of smallholder producers. Research development over years produced release three improved Dioscorea rotundata varieties 2005. However, adoptions these have been very low. Using cross-sectional data from 544 randomly selected yam farmers employing logit model...

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are widely distributed in nature. They live in the roots of higher plants, in a symbiotic relationship. In this study, five commercial species of yams (Dioscorea spp.) were inoculated with six species of AMF, Glomus clarum, G. etunicatum, G. fasciculatum, Gigaspora sp., G. mosseae, and Acaulospora sp., in field cultivation conditions to investigate the influen...

Yam (Dioscorea batatas Decne.) has long been used as a health food and oriental folk medicine because of its nutritional fortification, tonic, anti-diarrheal, anti-inflammatory, antitussive, and expectorant effects. Reactive oxygen species (ROS), which are known to be implicated in a range of diseases, may be important progenitors of carcinogenesis. The aim of this study was to investigate the ...

Yam (Dioscorea spp.) plants are potentially hosts to a diverse range of badnavirus species (genus Badnavirus, family Caulimoviridae), but their detection is complicated by the existence of integrated badnavirus sequences in some yam genomes. To date, only two badnavirus genomes have been characterised, namely, Dioscorea bacilliform AL virus (DBALV) and Dioscorea bacilliform SN virus (DBSNV). A ...

The bitter yam tuber is consumed as a staple in various regions of the world and is known to possess medicinal properties due to the presence of bioactive compounds such as saponins. These compounds may induce health complications resulting in tissue damage in cases of overconsumption. This study was geared towards determining the effects of Jamaican bitter yam (5%) on tissue damage parameters ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study is to investigate cardiovascular benefits of juices obtained from two commonly consumed fruits in Thailand, Pachyrhizus erosus, L. (yam bean) and Psidium guajava, L. (guava), by examining their acute cardiovascular effects in healthy volunteers. Possible involvements of the dietary nitrate on their effects were investigated as well. METHOD Thirty healthy v...