The objective of the study was to determine the chemical composition and nutritional value of palm pollen grains. The proximate chemical composition, vitamin, mineral, amino acid and fatty acid contents of palm pollen grains were analyzed. The results obtained showed that the values of the proximate chemical composition of palm pollen grains were moisture (28.80%), ash (4.57%), crude fiber (1.3...

The co-occurrence of Fusarium mycotoxins in contaminated swine diets has been shown to result in synergistic toxicity beyond that observed for individual toxins. An experiment was conducted, therefore, to investigate the effects of feeding a blend of grains naturally contaminated with Fusarium mycotoxins on growth, brain regional neurochemistry, serum immunoglobulin (Ig) concentrations, serum c...

DIET COMPOSITION AND ILEITIS IN PIGS 3 1 2 Effect of dietary inclusion of distiller’s dried grains with solubles, soybean hulls, 3 or a polyclonal antibody product on the ability of growing pigs to resist 4 a Lawsonia intracellularis challenge 5 6 M. H. Whitney, G. C. Shurson, and R. C. Guedes 7 8 Departments of Animal Science and Veterinary Biosciences, University of 9 Minnesota, St. Paul 5510...

to investigate the changes in yield and yield components of dry land wheat (triticum aestivum l. cv agosta), under the influence of residue and nitrogen levels and different tillage practices, a field experiment was conducted during the 2006-2007 growing season, in the agricultural research station of the college of agriculture, shiraz university, iran. the experiment was designed as a split-sp...

Much attention has been directed recently to ultra-grain refining of metallic materials, where the grain size is reduced to less than 1 mm. It is expected that submicrometer grained structure would result in high strength and toughness at ambient temperature [1] as well as high strain rate or low temperature superplasticity at elevated temperatures [2,3]. It has been reported recently that ultr...

ABSTRACT. A new technique for the measurement of dielectric constant of materials, using a partially filled waveguide cell and a new mixture equation, has been developed which is first tested for teflon and then used to measure the dielectric constant of rice and air mixture in the frequency range of 2.6GHz to 3.9GHz. The values of dielectric constant of rice grain obtained using the mixture mo...

Survival and growth of monarch larvae, Danaus plexippus (L.), after exposure to either Cry1Ab-expressing pollen from three Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) corn (Zea mays L.) events differing in toxin expression or to the insecticide, lambda-cyhalothrin, were examined in field studies. First instars exposed to low doses ( approximately 22 grains per cm(2)) of event-176 pollen gained 18% less weight ...

Flowering plants shed their pollen either as single grains or in groups of two or more grains. Groups of four grains are of particular interest since they are commonly derived from the same meiotic divisions. Retention of meiotically related gametes in a group enables the use of a powerful genetic tool—tetrad analysis. While tetrad analysis is a routine tool in yeast (and other fungal systems) ...

in order to determine combining ability, heritability and heterosis of some agronomic traits in rice, 4 pure lines were crossed with 2 cytoplasmic male sterile testers. parents and their f1 progenies arranged in rcb design with three replications. analysis of variance showed significant differences among genotypes for all traits, except for filled grains/panicle. furthermore, the crosses effect...