Aims: This study was conducted to study the growth, leaf gas exchange and secondary metabolites of Orthosiphon stamineus as affected by Multiwalled carbon nanotubes application (MWCNT). Study Design: Orthosiphon stamineus were exposed to four different multi-walled carbon nanotub...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2018/38113
Tania Rodríguez-González, Jesús Cerezo Valverde, António V. Sykes & Benjamín García García·Advances in Research·2018
The common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) has aroused great interest in recent years as a new species for aquaculture. The current research is focused on developing a formulated feed, although a proper diet management has also promoted rearing success of other commercial cultured spe...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2018/39175
Intraspecific hybridization studies were carried out in two strains of Heterobranchus bidorsalis obtained from two ecological zones in Nigeria – Yola (Sudan savannah) and New Bussa (Guinea savanna) with the aim of evaluating the fecundity, percentage fertilization, hatchability,...
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Research Article10.9734/BJI/2017/38472
The study evaluated effects of varying dietary protein levels on growth, protein utilization, survival and yield of the African catfish, Clarias gariepinus using floating net-hapa (1 m x 1 m x 1 m) system. A total of 300 catfish fingerlings (4.50± 0.01 g) were randomly stocked at...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOB/2018/35557
As retail chain store business is gaining popularity very quickly, people engaged in this sector should pay special attention to the growth of this sector. The present study elucidates the direct and associated factors influencing the growth of supermarket activity in Sylhet dist...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2018/38593
Samra Aftab, F. S. Hamid, Samavia Farrukh, Abdul Waheed, Naveed Ahmed, Nadia Khan, Seemab Ali, Madiha Bashir, Saqib Mumtaz, Hina Gul & Muhammad Adil Younis·Asian Research Journal of Agriculture·2017
The field experiment was conducted to study the effect of different levels of potassium on growth and yield of onion at Agricultural Research Station Baffa, Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, during the year 2016- 2017. Four levels of potassium i.e. 0, 60, 120 and 180 kg ha-1 were use...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2017/38322
This paper investigates the effect of foreign capital on poverty reduction. For our analysis, we used recent panel data for ten West African countries* for the period 2000 - 2014. Results of the empirical test of the simultaneous equation model indicate that foreign capital affec...
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Research Article10.9734/JEMT/2017/38479
Aim: To study the response of Pigeonpea to seed polymerization with micronutrients and foliar spray at different growth stages. Place of Study: Field experiment was conducted during kharif 2014 at Main Agricultural Research Station, College of Agriculture, University of Agricultu...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2017/37999
Production and quality of citrus fruits depend largely on scion/rootstock compatibility. In order to find suitable combinations able to solve productivity problems of citrus at local scale, the performance of ‘Valencia late’ sweet orange (Citrus sinensis) on 14 rootstocks was stu...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2017/37924
A pot experiment was conducted at the experimental net house of the Department of Soil Science, Sylhet Agricultural University, Sylhet, Bangladesh to observe the effect of fertilizers on growth of local aromatic rice varieties during the aman (summer) season of 2015. The experime...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2017/37106
The population dynamics of Periophthalmus barbarus in the mangrove swamp of Iko River estuary, southeast of Nigeria were obtained from a twenty four month length composition data ranging 4.6 – 14.5 cm total length (TL) (mean 9.1841± 1.6346: n = 2,876) corresponding to 1.16 – 50.6...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2017/37007
Aims: This study was designed to investigate how CO2 and nitrogen availability alters growth, leaf gas exchange, primary and secondary metabolites production (total phenolics and flavonoid) in three varieties of L. pumila. namely var alata, var pumila and var lanceolata. under CO...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2017/36540
This study assesses the ability of fish feeds to produce competitive commercial fish in quantity. Three hundred and one (301) fish farms were surveyed in fifteen (15) regions of Côte d’Ivoire between May and November 2013. Fish feeds and farming systems were inventoried, characte...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2017/36595
Aims: This experiment was conducted to investigate and distinguish the relationships in the production of total phenolics, total flavonoids, chlorophyll content, total biomass, leaf area, leaf nitrate, proline, net photosynthesis and chlorophyll fluorescence parameters under thre...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2017/36401
Aim: To evaluate the effect of polymer coated urea on plant growth and yield of paddy under lowland cultivation. Study and Design: The experiment consisting five treatments was carried out in Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with four replications. Place and Duration of st...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2017/36461