Introduction: Climate change and urbanization have been shown to alter plant phenology. However, a mechanistic understanding of these changes in flowering phenology and associated pollinator communities is lacking. Thus, this study was designed to examine finer scale flowering phenological patterns and driving processes in an arid urban ecosystem. Specifically, we tested the effect of water ava...

A study was conducted to evaluate the effect of 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 (25-OHD) with different levels vitamin (VD3) during rearing period (1–20 weeks) on laying hen performance, bone quality, and eggshell quality. total four hundred 1-day-old Lohman pullets were randomly allotted into a 2 × factorial design dietary VD3 (300 2800 IU/kg) 25-OHD (0 56 μg/kg). Each treatment had five replicates 20 he...

Merino lambs born in September and October 1964 were weaned at 4, 6 and 11 weeks of age, at average liveweights of 9 kg, 12 kg, and 19 kg respectively, on to a pasture of phalaris and white clover. The lambs remaining with their mothers for 11 weeks showed the earliest onset of an appreciable worm infection which reached a peak in December about one month after weaning. Similar levels of infect...

Beta-glucan that is typically isolated from the fungi or yeast, by solvent extraction, a commonly used supplement. However, extraction of beta-glucan these sources destroys tertiary structure compound, and reduces immuno-stimulating efficacy denatured when compared to undenatured (UDBG1). The objective this study was investigate growth performance piglets, weaning, received diets containing (UD...

My research on mango flowering began about five years ago. By that time, smudging, the traditional Philippine use of smoke to promote flowering, had given way to the more convenient and efficacious use of ethephon (a compound that generates ethylene in plants) and potassium nitrate sprays. Not only were mango trees in the Philippines stimulated to flower out of season with these treatments, but...

5-Leukotriene pathway inhibitors, Accolate, MK-886, and Zileuton, were evaluated as chemopreventive agents in female strain A mice. The mice were administered by injection vinyl carbamate (2 x 16 mg/kg) to induce lung tumors. Two weeks later, they received in their diet Accolate (270 and 540 mg/kg), MK-886 (30 mg/kg), Zileuton (600 and 1200 mg/kg), or combinations containing the lower concentra...

in order to study the effects of different irrigation regimes and nitrogen fertilizer levels on yield and yield components of chickpea (ilc482), a field experiment involving chickpea genotype ilc482 was conducted as factorial arrangement based on a randomized complete block design with four replications in the agricultural research station, ferdowsi university of mashhad during growing season o...

In the present study effects of production history on tuber sprout, root, stem development and crop yield of seed potato cultivars Fambo and Van Gogh were investigated in the High Grade Area of Finland (64.9 N, 25.4 E). The haulms of seed potatoes were destroyed at the time of flowering (50 days after planting, DAP), three weeks after flowering (75 DAP) and as a control the haulm was left to na...