Application of Soil Moisture Model to Marula (Sclerocarya birrea): Millet (Pennisetum glaucum) Agroforestry System in Burkina Faso

Extending the Shelf Life of Fresh Marula (Sclerocarya birrea) Juice by Altering Its Physico-Chemical Parameters

اثر هیدروژل و رژیم های آبیاری بر میزان کلروفیل، نیتروژن و بعضی شاخص‌های رشد و عملکرد ارزن علوفه‌ای (L.‌ Pennisetum glaucum)

Drought stress has an important role in yield reduction of crops. To investigate the effects of applying zeolite hydrogel (as a superabsorbent) in reduction of adverse effects of drought stress on chlorophyll content, nitrogen, growth indices and their relationships with quantitative and qualitative yield of pearl millet (cv. Nitrifeed), a split plot experiment (in space and time), based on ran...

Assessment of genetic diversity in accessions of pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) and napier grass (Pennisetum purpureum) using microsatellite (ISSR) markers

Pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.) and napier grass (Pennisetum purpureum Schumach) are the most economically important species in the genus Pennisetum. Knowledge of genetic diversity of these two species would enhance their potentials for utilization. The present work assessed the genetic diversity and phylogenetic relationship among Nigerian and Indian accessions of pearl millet an...

Myth, marula, and elephant: an assessment of voluntary ethanol intoxication of the African elephant (Loxodonta africana) following feeding on the fruit of the marula tree (Sclerocarya birrea).

Africa can stir wild and fanciful notions in the casual visitor; one of these is the tale of inebriated wild elephants. The suggestion that the African elephant (Loxodonta africana) becomes intoxicated from eating the fruit of the marula tree (Sclerocarya birrea) is an attractive, established, and persistent tale. This idea now permeates the African tourist industry, historical travelogues, the...

Effects of elephants on vegetation along a fenceline contrast in South Africa

We assessed the degree of damage of two common plant species, marula Sclerocarya birrea and the mountain aloe or flat-flowered aloe Aloe marlothii in two neighboring game reserves along a fenceline with respect to the presence of African elephants Loxodonta africana. One of these reserves, Thornybush, had 40-50 elephants while the other reserve, the Wits Rural facility, contained no elephants, ...