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PHYSICAL PLANNING PROPOSAL FOR MAKARFI LOCAL GOVERNMENT MARKET KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA
Abstract: AbstractMakarfi market is known for its continued pressure to contain the activities and have led to encroachment on adjourning land uses, which is as a result of congestion within the market. The aim is to prepare a physical planning proposal for Makarfi for efficiency, convenience and aesthetics. The market comprises of some problems among which are:- lack of defined plan to guide its development, lack of drainage system, developments are …
Published in International Journal of Town Planning and Management · Vol. 9, Issue 2, 2023 · pp. 17–25 Read article
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Lipoxygenase (LOX) enzyme activity ofwheat during grain filling period under conservation agriculture management
Abstract: For smooth and wider adoption of conservation agriculture (CA), remaining uncertainties about its impacts on quality crop yield need to be reduced through study of physiological performance. The objectives of this study were to examine the lipoxygenase (LOX) enzyme activity in flag leaves of wheat as an important factor influencing future grain quality during the grain filling period. This study, carried out over two consecutive wheat growth seasons (rabi season …
Published in International Journal of Plant Biotechnology · Vol. 1, Issue 1-2, 2015 · pp. 1–11 Read article
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Phytoremediation of Lead by Brassica juncea and Vetiver zizanioidus
Abstract: The engineering-based remediation technologies of heavy metals from contaminated soil are time consuming, expensive, and create noise to the environment. Accumulation of heavy metals such as Pb, Cd, Hg, Cr, and Ni is destructive to not only plants and animals but also to complete ecosystem. Lead contamination keeps on increasing day by day from industrial waste, paints, ceramics, use of biosolids, and many more. Metals cannot easily degrade, so effective …
Published in International Journal of Plant Biotechnology · Vol. 1, Issue 1-2, 2015 · pp. 42–49 Read article
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In-Vitro and In-Vivo Selection of Efficient Growth Promoting Fluorescent Pseudomonas Isolated from Bamboo Rhizosphere
Abstract: Bamboo is one of the important plant species for sustainability in both forestry and agriculture sector. Among bamboos, Dendrocalamus strictus is widely present in Indian sub-continent. Though bamboo having adventitious as well as shallow root system, it is one of the fastest growing plant species. This may be due to its dependency on several symbiotic soil microbes which may be in return providing nutrients and water for its fast growth. …
Published in International Journal of Plant Biotechnology · Vol. 3, Issue 2, 2017 · pp. 20–52 Read article
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Performance Evaluation of Local Oil Palm Fibre Dried in Dark Environment for Bioremediation of Crude Oil Polluted Soil
Abstract: The research work was carried out to investigate the effectiveness of the oil palm fibre dried in dark environment for bioremediation of crude oil polluted loamy soil. Experimental analysis was conducted to examine the characteristics of the effectiveness of the oil palm fibre dried in dark environment on the degradation of the crude oil in loamy soil. Gas Chromatograph (GC) made of x-ray fluorescence spectrometer was used in the analysis …
Published in International Journal of Plant Biotechnology · Vol. 4, Issue 1, 2018 · pp. 16–23 Read article
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Prediction of Functional Parameters of Vegetable Stem Solid Waste Degradation Using Taylor’s Variable Model
Abstract: Mathematical model was developed to monitor, predict and simulate the functional parameters of vegetable stem solid waste degradation using Taylor’s variable model. Data obtained from the experimental research work was transformed and resolved using Laplace transformation upon the degradation of vegetable stem solid waste. The specific rate of vegetable stem solid waste, maximum specific rate and the disassociation constant rate were evaluated in terms Michaeli’s Menten and Linear method using …
Published in International Journal of Plant Biotechnology · Vol. 4, Issue 2, 2018 · pp. 30–36 Read article
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Impact of Secondary Metabolism on Therapeutic Efficacy of Medicinal Plants
Abstract: Medicinal plants constitute main resource base of almost all the traditional healthcare systems. Most of the herbal drugs produced currently in majority of the developing countries lack proper quality specification and standards. Both the raw drugs and the finished herbal products manufactured contain complex mixtures of organic compounds, such as fatty acids, sterols, alkaloids, flavonoids, polyphenols, glycosides, saponins, tannins, terpenes, etc. The quality of the finished product is based on …
Published in International Journal of Plant Biotechnology · Vol. 4, Issue 2, 2018 · pp. 6–12 Read article
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Bioremediation of Domestic Waste Water by Selected Aqua Plants
Abstract: Around 30 percent of the service costs of predictable centralized wastewater treatment requires energy to operate the machines for pumping and ventilation. In comparatison, constructed marshlands involving photosynthetic plants and other organisms have a lower energy requirement. The aim of the present work is to select aquatic plants which have a high efficiency of removing pollution from wastewater. Four plants were selected out of the available plants growing in nearby …
Published in International Journal of Plant Biotechnology · Vol. 5, Issue 1, 2019 · pp. 1–7 Read article
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Imminent Bioperspectives of Aromatic Plant Leaf Extracts from Cinnamomum tamala and its Biopesticidal Potential against Tribolium castaneum (Herbst.)
Abstract: present research work concluded that when the C. tamala leaf extract of five various solvents revealed that acetone extract possessed potential biopesticidal efficiency because it contains the cinnamaldehyde and linalool like compounds present in the same extract. Totally eleven compounds are elucidated from the leaf (acetone extract) through a GCMS analysis. It was almost conformed that these two aldehyde and aromatic carboxylic acid groups were presented in the acetone extract …
Published in International Journal of Plant Biotechnology · Vol. 5, Issue 2, 2019 · pp. 31–43 Read article
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Metals from Plantation to Search Toxicity
Abstract: Ascent of sap by plant tissues absorbs chemical complexes for ingrowth. Trace elemental complexes have been as require by successive growth strategies as per standards. Therefore, heavy elements in soil compositions have adhered other than morphological, which have been either in excess or others under composed variations. Soil content ever has studied to be primary issue to assess the possibilities of polluting elemental containment. Examples are innumerable; however some of …
Published in International Journal of Plant Biotechnology · Vol. 6, Issue 1, 2020 · pp. 1–9 Read article
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Antioxidant, Anti-inflammatory and Anti-proliferative potential of Amaranthus viridis and Swertia chirata
Abstract: AbstractMedical plants have been used to treat various chronic disease from ancient times. The development of science and technology in recent time makes it possible to discover the active constituents present in these plants and establish their biological targets for evolving them as a remedy for treating diseases. The aim of this study was to determine the phytochemical constituents and antioxidant potential of methanolic extracts of Amaranthus viridis and Swertia …
Published in International Journal of Plant Biotechnology · Vol. 7, Issue 1, 2021 · pp. 16–25 Read article
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Microbes in Fruit Crops-An Analysis
Abstract: Fruit crops have already become a prominent alternative due to their nutritional properties, cutting short the dangerous burden on traditional repetitive cereal/tuber crop-based diets. Microbial diversity has shown varying degrees of synergism with fruit crops, which has played a catalytic role in releasing productivity stagnation through better nutrient efficacy. Because of their perennial framework and root structure, perennial fruit crops are better positioned to profit from nutrientmicrobe synergy. However, using …
Published in International Journal of Plant Biotechnology · Vol. 7, Issue 2, 2021 · pp. 1–9 Read article
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Two-Line Method for Hybrid Rice Breeding
Abstract: Rice (Oryza sativa) is staple food for almost half of the population in the world. The rising global population, continuous reduction in cultivated land and several other factors have created pressure to look at the varieties which can fulfil the present and future demand of the food in the world. Hybrid rice has played a very important role for food security, and employment in China for many years and can …
Published in International Journal of Plant Biotechnology · Vol. 7, Issue 2, 2021 · pp. 37–44 Read article
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Pre-extension Demonstration of Improved Cassava Technologies with Chopping Device at Gofa Zone, Southern Ethiopia
Abstract: The production and use of cassava is not well known to farmers, although there are several local varieties of cassava that have been used for food security purposes at different times in drought-prone areas of the Gofa Zone, Southern region. To address this issue, the Arba Minch Agricultural Research Center conducted an adaptation trial of the improved cassava varieties Chichu and Hawassa-04 at the station level and obtained promising results. …
Published in International Journal of Plant Biotechnology · Vol. 9, Issue 2, 2023 · pp. 34–41 Read article
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Protein Determination and Soluble Amino Acids Prediction in Various Solvents Extracted Solutions of Indigenous Red Lentil and Moong Pulse through Direct UV- Visible Spectrophotometer Technique: A Comparative Study
Abstract: In this comparative study, direct protein determination have been done for indigenous Red lentil (Lens culinaris) and Moong pulse (Vigna radiata) (obtained from Muzaffarpur, Bihar) by UV-Visible spectroscopy in three different solvents viz. double distilled water (ddH2O), ethyl alcohol (C2H5OH), and methyl alcohol (CH3OH). A few amino acids in solutions have also been predicted (not characterized) based on their peaks observed in UV-region by comparing them with reported range of …
Published in International Journal of Plant Biotechnology · Vol. 9, Issue 2, 2023 · pp. 42–48 Read article
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Transgenic Animals
Abstract: A transgenic animal is one that carries a foreign gene that has been deliberately inserted into its genome. The foreign gene is constructed using recombinant DNA methodology. In addition to the gene itself, the DNA usually includes other sequences to enable it to be incorporated into the DNA of the host as well as to be expressed correctly by the cells of the host.
Published in International Journal of Animal Biotechnology and Applications · Vol. 2, Issue 1, 2016 Read article
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Sero-prevalence of Hydatidosis Among Patients Visiting Neurological Department of Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal
Abstract: Hydatidosis caused by Echinococcus granulosus remain as a considerable problem for public health and livestock economy in developing countries. A hospital based Screening of 80 neurological patients visiting neurology department of TUTH was carried out. Of the total studied samples 10 (12.5%) were found to have positive sero-prevalence towards E. granulosus (hydatidosis) using commercial indirect ELISA kit. The high rate of sero- prevalence was found among the dalit ethnic group …
Published in International Journal of Animal Biotechnology and Applications · Vol. 3, Issue 2, 2017 · pp. 1–6 Read article
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Clinical Evaluation of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Culture and Multiplex PCR for the Characterization of Multiple Drug Resistance Tuberculosis in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
Abstract: Multiple drug resistance (MDR) tuberculosis timely diagnose is of utmost clinical relevance and needs to be diagnose at initial stages for the proper treatment. The current study was done to detect the multiple genes for MDR tuberculosis (TB) in clinical isolates by molecular tools. 186 clinical samples were considered out and subjected for AFB smear preparation, Nested PCR (IS6110) for Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex detection and MDR TB PCR targeting rpoB, …
Published in International Journal of Animal Biotechnology and Applications · Vol. 3, Issue 2, 2017 · pp. 26–31 Read article
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Signs of Approaching Parturition, Stages of Parturition, Hormonal Cascade of Parturition and Cause of Dystocia in Domestic Animals: An Overview
Abstract: Parturition encompasses the various physiological processes involved in the birth of young ones. Parturition is a physiological and hormonal cascade process by which pregnant uterus delivers foetus and foetal membranes at the end of normal length of gestation or pregnancy. Domestic animals vary in their pregnancy period as well as signs of parturition. Canine species are unique in their pre- and peri-parturient event occurring during pregnancy and parturition. The imminent …
Published in International Journal of Animal Biotechnology and Applications · Vol. 4, Issue 1, 2018 · pp. 10–16 Read article
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The Need for An Ecosystemic Approach in Animal Biotechnological Settings: A Phenomenological Study
Abstract: Local and global demand for meat and dairy has been expected to increase and so do farming and research facilities which perform at high throughputs to meet such high demand of nowadays populations. However, both processes pose a challenge in maintaining production and animal wellbeing during husbandry. A phenomenological study was carried out at a research laboratory specialized in farm animal biotechnology which was compared with published records of similar …
Published in International Journal of Animal Biotechnology and Applications · Vol. 5, Issue 1-2, 2019 · pp. 20–24 Read article