Volume 7, Issue 4 (2012) | American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Life Cycle of Laboratory-Reared Acrobasis nuxvorella Neunzig (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae): A Pecan Nut Pest

Corella-Madueno Alba Guadalupe — 2012-09-19

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 19 September 2012; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2012.384.389

Acrobasis nuxvorella Neunzig is a monophagous pest that feeds on pecan nut trees, Carya illinoinensis. Its specific feeding habit makes the reproduction of this insect in the laboratory challenging. T...

Influence of Microbial Inoculants on Feeding Value of Spent Lentinula edodes Substrate

Yunfu Gu — 2012-09-20

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 20 September 2012; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2012.390.395

Sawdust-based Spent Lentinula Edodes Substrate (SLES) is an important agricultural waste resource for its’ huge production amount, on the other hand, it is hard to recycling because of the low diges...

The Spatial Distribution of Apis Dorsata Host Plants Using an Integrated Geographical Information System-Remote Sensing Approach

Izzat F. Ibrahim — 2012-09-20

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 20 September 2012; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2012.396.406

Apis dorsata is one of the important honeybee species in tropical and subtropical regions that forages on various plants including herbs, grasses, forest trees and plantation trees. However, informati...

Community Structure and Abundance of Tintinnids in the Bay of Bengal During the Spring

Huaxue Liu — 2012-09-20

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 20 September 2012; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2012.407.411

The Bay of Bengal (BoB) locates in eastern part of the northern Indian Ocean, with a unique inter-related oceanographic system due to the monsoon and enormous runoffs’ supply. microbial food web oft...

Effect of Complete Micro Nutrient Fertilizer Application on Soybean Yield and Yield Components

Farimah Ghannadi Behrouzi — 2012-10-05

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 5 October 2012; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2012.412.416

In last decades, sever population growth cause to enormous problems in developing countries. One of the effective factors in improving of quantity and quality of agricultural products is optimal appli...

Antioxidant Potential in Lipophilic and Hydrophilic Extracts from Medicinal Herbs (Salvia officinalis and Echinacea angustifolia). A Comparison Between Assays Based on Electron Paramagnetic Resonance and Spectrophotometry

Flavia Navari-Izzo — 2012-11-06

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 6 November 2012; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2012.417.424

Recently, detection of antioxidant activity of plant extracts has caught the attention of researchers. Determination of antioxidant activity is usually performed using stable free radicals. A number o...

Employing Electromagnetic Induction Technique for the Assessment of Soil Compaction

Khalid A. Al-Gaadi — 2012-11-07

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 7 November 2012; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2012.425.434

An experiment on a sandy soil field was conducted to investigate the potential of determining soil compaction from apparent soil Electrical Conductivity (ECa) measured by Electromagnetic Induction (EM...

The Impact of Attitude Toward Watershed Management Operation on Level of People Participation

B. M. Golrang — 2012-11-19

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 19 November 2012; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2012.435.441

Recent studies in many countries had display the influence of many factors including: Satisfaction, Knowledge, Demographic and Attitudinal variables in level of people participation. The main question...

Rooting Responses of Miracle Fruit (Synsepalum dulcificum) Softwood Cuttings as Affected by Indole Butyric Acid

Xing Wei Chen — 2012-12-04

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 4 December 2012; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2012.442.446

Large scale productions of miracle fruit (Synsepalum dulcificum) faces some restrictions as the seeds are recalcitrant and propagation by cuttings is difficult to root. When grown from seed, miracle f...

Evaluation of Wheat-Chickpea Intercrops as Influenced by Nitrogen and Weed Management

A. Abdulahi — 2012-12-04

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 4 December 2012; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2012.447.460

Wheat and chickpea are most important crops in dryland farming areas of Iran. Weeds have major impact on chickpea grain yield. This experiment was carried out to increase land use efficiency and weed ...

Examination of Chitinolytic Bacteria in Alginate-Chitosan Encapsulation on Chili Seed Against Damping off Caused by Fusarium oxysporum

Dwi Suryanto — 2012-12-05

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 5 December 2012; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2012.461.467

One alternative in biological control of plant pathogenic fungi is to provide biological agent inoculant in coated seed. This study was to evaluate potential control and viability of two chitinolytic ...

The Effect of Several Antibiotics on Lactococcus garvieae Isolated from Jordanian Dairy Products

Nizar Issa Alrabadi — 2012-12-28

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 28 December 2012; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2012.468.472

This study investigated the antibiotic resistance profile of the L. garvieae isolated strains from Jordanian dairy products. Disk diffusion method was used. In particular, different antibiotics were t...

Phosphorus Biogeochemical Cycling in a Sugar Cane Agroecosystem

D. Sequera — 2013-01-29

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 29 January 2013; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2012.473.481

The annual harvest of sugarcane plantations together with the burning of the crop before harvest, a common practice of management of sugarcane plantations in South America, leads to the loss of signif...

New Biological Dietary Feed Supplement for Laying Hens with Microelements Based on Duckweed (Lemna minor)

Zuzanna Witkowska — 2013-01-31

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2013; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2012.482.493

In this study the applicability of enriched duckweed (Lemna minor) as a dietary supplement witch microelements is reported. In our previous studies, the technology of new feed additives with microelem...