Volume 11, Issue 1 (2016) | American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences: Ten Years Later

Marco Landi — 2016-03-05

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 5 March 2016; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2016.1.1

GIS Mapping of Basal Stem Rot Disease in Relation to Soil Series Among Oil Palm Smallholders

K. Parthiban — 2016-01-05

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 5 January 2016; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2016.2.12

Basal Stem Rot (BSR) is a disease caused by fungus which affect oil palm tree. This study aims to visualize the geographical distribution of BSR incidence among oil palm smallholders in Selangor using...

SSR Analysis of Maternal and Paternal Lines Selected in the Don Region (Russia)

N. V. Markin — 2016-01-16

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 16 January 2016; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2016.13.18

Evaluation of DNA polymorphisms of breeding material of sunflower from L.A. Zhdanov Don Experimental Station of oil Crops of V.S. Pustovoit All-Russian Research Institute of Oil Crops represented by 1...

Year-Round Forage Yield Stability through a System Combining Triple-Maize Crops with Winter Barley in Kyushu, Japan

Yingkui Yang — 2016-01-21

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 21 January 2016; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2016.19.28

Reduction of feeding cost for the beef and dairy cow industry is an urgent matter requiring the intensification of summer and winter forage cropping in Kyushu, Japan. Forage maize is a prominent high-...

Can Contract Marketing Motivate Farmers to Go Organic? Measuring the Moderation Effect of Contract Marketing

Golnaz Rezai — 2016-02-04

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 4 February 2016; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2016.29.34

The demand for organic food is growing in Malaysia due to consumer concerns for food safety, sustainable development, and urban expansion. However, the share of farmers engaged in this type of agricul...

Quality Herbage Production of Dwarf Napiergrass with Italian Ryegrass Cropping under Digested Effluent Application in Southern Kyushu, Japan

Hadijah Hasyim — 2016-02-25

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 25 February 2016; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2016.35.44

Digested effluent produced by a biogas-plant contains essential plant nutrients to solve the treated and disposal problems of livestock manure. Dwarf variety of late-heading type (dwarf) napiergrass a...

Heterophylly in Murraya exotica L. (Rutaceae)

I. P. Astuti — 2016-03-12

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 12 March 2016; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2016.45.50

Heterophylly, the existence of different leaf types and leaflet shapes on the same plant was observed for the first time in Murraya exotica L. populations from different locations in Java, Indonesia. ...