Biodiversity is the variability of life on earth that boosts up the ecosystem productivity. Diversity and abundance are the key components that are beneficial for the present and future researchers to control many problems being faced by harmful insects and to promote beneficial...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaar/2019/v9i229999
The aim of the study was to evaluate the biodegradation of petroleum hydrocarbons in two Brazilian contaminated soil types (clayey S1 and sandy S2) at a loading rate of 30,000 and 45,000 mg/kg. A model soil of 300 g with used lubricating oil was amended with commercially availabl...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaar/2019/v9i229996
Field experiment was carried out at the field of Department of Agronomy, BSMRAU campus, Gazipur, of Bangladesh during aman season (July-October) of 2017 to study the effect of zinc fertilizer application on growth, yield and zinc partitioning in three rice varieties: (BRRI dhan 5...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaar/2019/v9i229998
Aims: To evaluate the effect of different types of organic fertilizers on growth performance of Amaranthus caudatus (Samaru local variety) and Amaranthus cruentus (NH84/452). Study Design: A randomized complete block design (RCBD) was used for the experiment. Place and Duration o...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaar/2019/v9i229994
Ana Cristina Tanello, Cristine Durante de Souza Silveira, Eduardo Carasek, Silvani Verruck, Elane Schwinden Prudencio & Renata D. M. Castanho Amboni·Asian Journal of Advances in Agricultural Research·2019
Two different yogurts, control and probiotic with Bifidobacterium BB-12 were produced and analyzed for their contents of total solids, proteins, pH, counts of probiotic bacteria, and volatile composition during refrigerated storage for 28 days. The response surface methodology (R...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaar/2019/v9i229995
The study examined the key gene Dishevelled (Dvl or Dsh) in Wnt (Wingless and INT-1) signaling pathways. The gene (Dvl) was characterized in the flat fish Paralichthys olivaceus for its expression pattern structure and phylogenetics at the Ocean University of China in Qingdao, Ch...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaar/2019/v9i129991
The National Crops Varieties and Livestock Breeds Registration and Release Committee in Nigeria is domiciled in the National Centre for Genetic Resources and Biotechnology (NACGRAB), Moor – Plantation, Ibadan, Nigeria. The Director/Chief Executive Officer of NACGRAB doubles as th...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaar/2019/v9i129990
A field experiment was conducted at the Agronomy field of central research farm of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh during the period from June 2014 to December 2014 to study the influence of nitrogen on growth and seed quality of T. Aman rice variety with...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaar/2019/v9i129989
The study examined effect of occupational hazards on poverty status of cassava processors in the study area. Specifically, the study profiled the cassava processors based on their poverty status and determined the factors influencing it. It identifies the general processing activ...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaar/2019/v9i129987
Tractor wheel slippage is a critical parameter for fuel consumption and field performance and should not exceed 15%. Several attempts have been made to study the wheel slippage of the agricultural tractor in order to minimize it to acceptable levels during the tillage operations....
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Research Article10.9734/AJAAR/2019/46706
A pot experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of coconut oil cakes on the growth performance of gima kalmi (Ipomoea aquatica). The experiment was laid to fit a completely randomized design (CRD) with three treatments (5, 10, 20 tonha-1) of coconut oil cake treatment al...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAAR/2018/46970
Trends in Indian rainfall records have been extensively studied but the subject remains complicated by the high spatiotemporal variability of rainfall arising from complex atmospheric dynamics. The aim of this work is to study the variation in rainfall pattern and classification...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAAR/2018/44429
Aim: An experiment was conducted to assess the performance of growing snails fed maize-based concentrate and maize supplemented with Cola rostrata seed meal in addition to forage mixtures. Methodology: A total of eighty eight (88) growing snails with weight ranging from 94.45g...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAAR/2018/46611
Some engineering properties of Rubus fruticosus fruits were characterized in order to provide fundamental information about their properties that will aid in designing modern technology for their handling, processing, storage, preservation, quality evaluation, distribution and ma...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAAR/2018/43734
The field experiment was conducted at the Horticultural farm of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka -1207 during the period from October 2014 to March 2015 to find out the efficacy of different organic manures and different varieties on the growth, y...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAAR/2018/46047