BEEKEEPING & AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY ROLE OF BEEKEEPING WITH INDIGENOUS BEE-APIS CERANA IN CROP PRODUCTION Contents Preface Foreword Acknowledgment Chapter 1 Title and Abstract The Apis group Background of the project Need for the current study Background of the study area Aim and Objectives Materials and Methods Time line of the study Chapter 2 Observations: Activity of bees in Bee Boxes 1. Bee Activity in Bee boxes 2. Pollen load and nectar load collection 3. Out-going trips of Apis cerana
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Evaluation of the phytochemical composition and the anti-proliferative potential of seed extract of Dicerocaryum senecioides on Jurkat T cell lines By Humbulani Ronald Tshilongamulenzhe A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Science and Agriculture‚ Department of Biochemistry‚ Microbiology and Biotechnology‚ School of Molecular and Life Sciences in accordance with the requirements of the University of Limpopo for honours for the degree Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry UNIVERSITY OF LIMPOPO
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Food For All In The 21st Century By Gordon Conway Gordon Conway is president of the Rockefeller Foundation in New York City. His expertise is in the field of agricultural ecology. This article is drawn from his most recent book. The Doubly Green Revolution: Food for All in the 21st Century (Ithaca. N.Y.: Cornell University Press. 1998). Conway is a former contributing editor of Environment. He can be contacted at the Rockefeller Foundation‚ 420 Fifth Avenue‚ New York‚ NY 10018. For most of the
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Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Chicken and Poultry Raising in the Philippines Among the poultry species utilized for food production in the whole world‚ the chicken ranks as the most exploited fowl species. In fact‚ in the Philippines‚ chicken is first in economic importance as source of meats and eggs making chicken broiler and egg production as the most progressive animal enterprise in the country. Owing to this fact‚ this industry has been considerable attention in scientific
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INTRODUCTION Genetic variations are the basic tools in the hands of breeders to develop new cultivars with better traits‚ like tolerance against various environmental stresses‚ resistance against pest and diseases and improved yield and quality. In field conditions‚ a number of abiotic stresses affect the crop plants. Abiotic factors generally disturb various cellular functions along with the complex metabolic pathways (Kassem et al.‚ 2004; Lee et al.‚ 2004; Popelka et al.‚ 2004). Drought is
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Development of a core set in brinjal (Solanum melongena L.) K.K.Gangopadhyay‚ R.K.Mahajan*‚ Gunjeet Kumar‚ S.K.Yadav‚ B.L.Meena‚ Chitra Pandey‚ I.S.Bisht‚ S.K.Mishra‚ N. Sivaraj‚ Rajeev Gambhir‚ S.K.Sharma‚ and B.S.Dhillon K.K.Gangopadhyay‚ R.K.Mahajan‚ Gunjeet Kumar‚ S.K.Yadav‚ B.L.Meena‚ Chitra Pandey‚ I.S.Bisht‚ S.K.Mishra‚ N. Sivaraj‚ Rajeev Gambhir‚ and S.K.Sharma‚ National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources‚ Pusa Campus‚ New Delhi-110 012‚ India; B.S.Dhillon‚ Institute of Plant Breeding
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2 Production of Protein from Cloned Genes Now that we have covered the basic techniques involved in gene cloning and DNA analysis and examined how these techniques are used in research‚ we can move on to consider how recombinant DNA technology is being applied in biotechnology. This is not a new subject‚ although biotechnology has received far more attention during recent years than it ever has in the past. Biotechnology can be defined as the use of biological processes in industry and technology
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India’s tribal village first to get rights over its forests [pic] 24 December 2009 A tribal village in western India has been granted the right to cultivate and manage its forest‚ as per the provisions of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest-Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act 2006. For over a decade the villagers have fought against the commercialisation of their land. As climate change negotiators try and figure out how to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest
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UTILIZATION OF PLANT RESOURCES IN THE MANAGEMENT OF COUGH CONDITIONS IN PAKELLE SUBCOUNTY‚ ADJUMANI DISTRICT LEBU SARAH ATIENO 08/U/26857/PS A RESEARCH PROJECT REPORT SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE AWARD OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE DEGREE IN WILDLIFE HEALTH AND MANAGEMENT OF MAKERERE UNIVERSITY JUNE‚ 2011 DECLARATION I LEBU SARAH ATIENO declare that the work presented in this special project report is my own original piece of work unless otherwise stated and
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FACTORS AFFECTING BELOWGROUND BIOCONTROL ACTIVITY IN URBAN GARDENS AND VACANT LOTS Priyanka Yadav‚ Kuhuk Sharma and Parwinder S. Grewal* Center for Urban Environment and Economic Development‚ Department of Entomology‚ The Ohio State University‚ OARDC‚ 1680 Madison Avenue‚ Wooster‚ OH 44691‚ USA. *Corresponding author Tel.: +1 330-263-3963; Fax: +1 330-263-3686 E-mail address: grewal.4@osu.edu Abstract Conservation of naturally occurring belowground pest biocontrol services can enhance
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