Volume 7, Issue 3 (2012) | American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Drying of Poultry Manure for Use as Animal Feed

A. E. Ghaly — 2012-07-05

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 5 July 2012; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2012.239.254

The poultry industry is one of the largest and fastest growing sectors of livestock production in the world. The estimated 2010 world flock was over 18 billion birds with a yearly manure output of 22 ...

Antioxidant and Photosynthetic Responses in Plants Under Boron Toxicity: A Review

Lucia Guidi — 2012-07-05

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 5 July 2012; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2012.255.270

Boron (B) is a micronutrient that has long been known essential not only for plants and animals. Otherwise, in crop plants the range of B concentration from essentiality to toxicity appears extremely ...

Evaluation of Neuropharmacological Activities of Stephania venosa Herb Consumption in Healthy Rats

Terdthai Tong-Un — 2012-07-05

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 5 July 2012; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2012.271.277

Public concern on mental health has noticeably increased given the high prevalence of neuropsychiatric disorders especially anxiety and depression. Most of the drugs for these conditions used nowadays...

Implications of Method Chosen for Analysis of Fatty Acids in Meat: A Review

Livia Facuri Araujo Macedo — 2012-07-09

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 9 July 2012; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2012.278.284

The influence of the beef Fatty Acid (FA) profile on human health, has become a recurring concern. For an analysis of the lipid composition of food, it is necessary that the complex lipids be quantifi...

Biological Control of Spodoptera frugiperda Eggs Using Telenomus remus Nixon in Maize-Bean-Squash Polyculture

Antonio GutiA©rrez-MartAnez — 2012-07-17

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 17 July 2012; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2012.285.292

The maize earworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), is an important pest in maize. Telenomus remus Nixon (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) is an important control agent of this pe...

Contribution of Primary Spikes Vs Tillers to Total Deoxynivalenol in Harvested Grain of Wheat and Barley

Pravin Gautam — 2012-07-25

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 25 July 2012; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2012.293.300

Formation of higher number of tillers is desirable for higher grain yield in both wheat and barley; tillers have delayed physiological development. Studies addressing the contribution of secondary til...

Application of Value Chain Management to Longan Industry

Apichat Sopadang — 2012-07-28

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 28 July 2012; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2012.301.311

Longan plays an important role as an economic fruit of Thailand because of its volume and size in markets, both domestic and aboard. It was generally known that serious problems were encountered in cu...

Availability and Physical Properties of Residues from Major Agricultural Crops for Energy Conversion Through Thermochemical Processes

Yaning Zhang — 2012-08-04

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 4 August 2012; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2012.312.321

Plant residues from the major agricultural crops (wheat, rice, corn, soybean, sugarcane, coffee and cotton) are abundantly available renewable resources that can be used to supply energy through therm...

Effects of Mulberry Fruit Powder in Animal Model of Stroke

Pratchaya Kaewkaen — 2012-08-15

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 15 August 2012; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2012.322.329

Stroke is the leading cause of death and the important cause of disability worldwide. Presently, the effectiveness of therapeutic strategy is still very limited. Based on the role neuroprotective effe...

Silkworm Pupae Protect Against Alzheimer’s Disease

Jintanaporn Wattanathorn — 2012-08-16

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 16 August 2012; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2012.330.336

Silkworm (Bombyx mori) pupae have long been used as food and medicine in Asian countries. It is reputed for the treatment of numerous neurological disorders related to oxidative stress including strok...

Antioxidant Activity of Brown Algae Sargassum species Extract from the Coastline of Java Island

Siti A. Budhiyanti — 2012-08-30

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 30 August 2012; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2012.337.346

The coastlines with rocky shores at Java Island Indonesia, Gunung Kidul (Yogyakarta) and Jepara (Central Java), have abundant resources of brown algae Sargassum sp. Little effort, however, has been ma...

Drying Characteristics of the Borneo Canarium odontophyllum (Dabai) Fruit

Dayang Fredalina Basri — 2012-09-05

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 5 September 2012; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2012.347.356

The quality and shelf-life of an underutilized fruits are compromised by the conventional method of drying. We therefore proposed using hot-air chamber to develop the drying curves of Canarium odontop...

Enumeration of Microbes and Gas Production During Denitrification and Nitrogen Fixation Processes in Soil

A. E. Ghaly — 2012-09-11

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 11 September 2012; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2012.357.369

Dry plant material contains 2-4% nitrogen, making it an essential nutrient for all plants. The nitrogen cycle regulates the pathways which transform nitrogen from a relatively inert dinitrogen gas to ...

Attitudes of Vegetable Farmers Towards Public Agricultural Extension Services

Ali AL-Sharafat — 2012-09-19

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 19 September 2012; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2012.370.377

Among vegetable farmers in Jordan, there are conflicting attitudes towards the extension activities provided by the public sector. Some farmers accept and adopt the recommendations of these activities...

Acute and Subchronic Toxicity of Mulberry Fruits

Jintanaporn Wattanathorn — 2012-09-19

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 19 September 2012; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2012.378.383

At present, the application of phytomedicine worldwide is substantial increase. The data of the acute and subchronic toxicity studies on medicinal plants or fruits and vegetables used for medicinal pu...