Raw white rice has not been considered a good carrier for oral vaccination, probably because of its antiviral activity. Methods are required to overcome antiviral activity in raw white rice. This study was carried out to determine the effects of various treatments of raw white rice on the survival of strain I-2 of Newcastle disease virus. These included cooking and baking the rice or mixing the...

Water samples of some burrow pits in Kano metropolis were examined for Microcystis aeruginosa and their ability to produce toxins. Identification for the organisms was achieved by the use of standard procedure and its pure culture was obtained by capillary pipette technique. The pure culture was harvested and dried at 25oC. These were kept in refrigerator before being subjected for the analysis...

priming is one of the seed enhancement methods that might be resulted in increased seed performance (germination and emergence). the objective of this research was to evaluate effect of priming on seed emergence and yield under wide ranges sowing dates in cotton. treatments were combinations of 6 sowing dates and 2 seed treatments (control and primed seeds). hydropriming method was used; seeds ...

A microbial consortium (EG-c) capable of degrading high concentrations of glycol-based waste was isolated from soil enrichments. The isolate primarily responsible for glycol degradation was a gram-negative rod (EG-y) that produced a water-soluble pigment. Initial laboratory experiments measured the degradation of ethylene glycol (EG) and propylene glycol (PG) at 25OC. Cell biomass optical densi...

Background: Continual exposure to the sun's ultraviolet radiation damages skin. Freckles are little brown patches that develop on skin after repeated sun exposure. Terminalia chebula and Cucumber Sativus extracts-infused water in oil (W/O) emulsion is created, has anti-freckle emollient effect. Methodology: Base with no extract formulation containing three different concentrations 4% of Chebula...

ABSTRACT In experiments conducted in growth chambers with the susceptible wheat cultivar BR 23, interactions between five temperatures (10, 15, 20, 25 and 30°C) eleven wetting periods were assessed for fusarium head blight (FHB) intensity. Each temperature consisted of one experiment hours corresponded to treatments. The disease occurred even at 10ºC, minimum tested temperature, maximum inciden...

Two industrial ASTM Portland cements were carefully tested for heat of hydration (HOH) continuously up to 7 days at 23o C using isothermal conduction calorimetry in accordance to ASTM C1702. Internal and external mixing procedures were implemented. The results for HOH measurements at 7 days using isothermal calorimetry were compared to those obtained through heat of solution method (ASTM C186)....