Aspergillus flavus is predominant among other fungi species responsible for aflatoxin contamination of crops on the field and in storage. A study was conducted to determine the incidence of Aspergillus flavus in maize seeds from various sources. Sixty (60) maize seed samples were...
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Research Article10.9734/aprj/2018/v1i226269
Field experiment was conducted during the 2016 and 2017 raining season in the Teaching and Research Farm of the Department of Crop Production, Modibbo Adama University of Technology Yola, Adamawa State. The experiment was designed to study the effect of compost and farmyard manur...
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Research Article10.9734/aprj/2018/v1i2595
M. A. Omoirri, O. M. Odigie, K. O. Gbagbeke, I. F. Ajegi, J. O. Oseyomon, O. J. Okafoanyali & V. I. Eje·Asian Plant Research Journal·2018
Abnormally emanates from difficulty in insulin secretion, Diabetes mellitus (DM) is known to be a metabolic disorder that causes an increase of blood glucose in blood streams. The lack of effective modern treatments, the lifelong treatment with modern medicines, overtime, its ass...
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Research Article10.9734/aprj/2018/v1i1589
Background: Traditional Medicine is time-tested and still caters to the health needs of the society and provides health care through prophylactic treatment and rejuvenation. Today poisonous snake bites are life-threatening problems resulting in high morbidity and mortality all ov...
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Research Article10.9734/aprj/2018/v1i1576
Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz is an oilseed crop whose oil is used as biofuel and the meal as animal feed. While the seed composition is widely documented, little is known about variations in the concentration of some compounds during seed development of camelina. The aim of this s...
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Research Article10.9734/aprj/2018/v1i1574
Background: The Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands of Micronesia lie in the western Pacific Ocean and are unique in terms of their isolation, climate, soils and diversity of rare plant species. We hypothesized that the vegetation on the islands will be a robust model system to study long-...
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Research Article10.9734/aprj/2018/v1i1568
Most of the information regarding traditional medicinal plants are still in the hands of traditional vendors, and knowledge of vendors is either lost or passed orally from generation to next generation. This study aimed to survey and document the currently used plants by herbalis...
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Research Article10.9734/aprj/2018/v1i1560