The nutritional composition and hypoglycaemic effect of crackers produced from blend of sprouted pigeon pea, unripe plantain and brewers’ spent grain and fed to Alloxan induced diabetic rat was investigated. Crackers were produced from different blends of sprouted pigeon pea, unripe plantain and brewers’ spent grain. The crackers were evaluated for proximate composition, amino acid profile and ...

Initially, the devastating Mw 7.0, 12 January 2010 Haiti earthquake seemed to involve straightforward accommodation of oblique relative motion between the Caribbean and North American plates along the Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault zone. Here, we combine seismological observations, geologic field data and space geodetic measurements to show that, instead, the rupture process involved slip on ...

Cyanophos is commonly used in Egypt to control various agricultural and horticultural pests. It is not easily hydrolyzed and thus they are highly persistent and accumulate in various aquatic compartments such as rivers and lakes. Such issues may be solved by phytoremediation, which is the use of plants for the cleanup of pollutants. Here, we tested Plantago major L. to clean water polluted with...

Plantain marketing offers great profit-making, yet it is unclear if this has translated to more profits, making imperative examine the drivers of plantain marketing. Primary data collected with structured questionnaire in purposive 2-staged random sampling were analyzed using net income, margin, efficiency and multiple linear regression models. was mainly done by married educated women, average...

Organic dairy farmers often introduce alternative pasture species, such as chicory (Cichorium intybus) and narrow-leaved plantain (Plantago lanceolata), to their swards because of their higher mineral contents, yet they are concerned about the presence of weed species such as docks (Rumex spp.) and dandelion (Taraxacum officinale). The mineral content and nutritive value of both desired and les...

crop rotation is one of the essential practices in sustainable agricultural systems, be-cause of its effects on soil fertility and other benefits including a reduction in weed compe-tition. a field experiment was conducted at chaparsar rice research station, tonekabon, iran, from 2002 to 2003 to assess the influence of crop rotation, time of planting, and till-age depth on rice (oryza sativa l....

Biscuits are wheat flour-based manufactured food products. Another option is to locate a flour substitute, such as plantain or purple rice. This study aims establish the ideal ratio of rice and based on quality attributes biscuits. employed one-factor, Completely Randomized Design (CRD) with five treatment levels three replications. The observational data were analysed using ANOVA DNMRT further...

This work focuses on conversion of agricultural wastes into fermentable sugar via acid hydrolysis. Proximate and ultimate analysis was carried out to ascertain the physiochemical properties biomass feedstock sugar. Mineral such as hydrochloric (HCl) sulfuric (H2SO4) used media for plantain peels water yam Concentration glucose analyzed using DNS techniques. Modelling process done three establis...

The objective of this study was to establish cell suspension culture and plant regeneration via somatic embryogenesis of a Brazilian plantain, cultivar Terra Maranhão, AAB. Immature male fl owers were used as explant source for generating highly embryogenic cultures 45 days after inoculation, which were used for establishment of cell suspension culture and multiplication of secondary somatic em...

Abstract This study presented the effects of catalyst and co-digestion on performance biogas production. Rabbit dung plantain peels were used as feedstock materials while clay, KOH NaOH catalysts. The experiment was divided into five setups. slurry stayed in digester for 45days. temperature fluctuated around 35-47°C pH varied from 6.8-7.8. result analysis revealed that gas produced has high met...