No-till cropping is an option for growers needing to reduce soil erosion in the Palouse annual-cropped region of the Pacific Northwest, which is well suited for wheat production. A 6-yr field study was conducted to determine optimum levels of fertilizer and herbicide inputs in a no-till continuous wheat crop production system. Three levels of nitrogen (N) and two weed management levels (WML) we...

BACKGROUND In continuation of our previously interest in the saccharification of agriculture wastes by Bacillus megatherium in solid state fermentation (SSF), we wish to report an investigation and comparative evaluation among Trichoderma sp. for the saccharification of four alkali-pretreated agricultural residues and production of hydrolytic enzymes, carboxymethyl cellulase (CMCase), filter pa...

The effects of ispaghula and wheat bran on the contents of the caecum and proximal and distal colon of the rat were investigated to identify any differences that might account for their effects on colonic motility. Rats fed diets supplemented with 5% ispaghula and 10% wheat bran for 28 days were killed and the contents of the gut collected. Caecal and colonic content wet and dry weight and shor...

Web-based expert system of wheat and corn growth management mainly to put the information of wheat and corn planting on web. It integrated much new knowledge of agriculture including weather, plant protection, expertise, GIS, Internet and computer technology. It provided the information of breed, soil, wheat and crop characteristic for the farmer of different area in Hebei Province on web. Furt...

Ways of increasing the production of wheat, the most widely grown cereal crop, will need to be found to meet the increasing demand caused by human population growth in the coming decades. This increase must occur despite the decrease in yield gains now being reported in some regions, increased price volatility and the expected increase in the frequency of adverse weather events that can reduce ...

The enzyme L-asparaginase has been proved to be efficient in treatment of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia [ALL] and Lymphosarcomas. The present paper discusses the studies carried out for the production of this enzyme from bacillus species. By study obtained optimization of medium, solid state fermentation by using cotton cake and wheat bran and submerged fermentation using distillery waste. a M2 ...

Policy makers, government planners and agricultural market participants in Pakistan require accurate and timely information about wheat yield and production. Punjab Province is by far the most important wheat producing region in the country. The manual collection of field data and data processing for crop forecasting by the provincial government requires significant amounts of time before offic...

BACKGROUND Bioethanol can be produced from sugar-rich, starch-rich (first generation; 1G) or lignocellulosic (second generation; 2G) raw materials. Integration of 2G ethanol with 1G could facilitate the introduction of the 2G technology. The capital cost per ton of fuel produced would be diminished and better utilization of the biomass can be achieved. It would, furthermore, decrease the energy...

a solid state fermentation method was used to utilize wheat straw as substrates for citric acid production by using aspergillus niger atcc 9142. the plackett burman design (pbd) of experiments was used to test the relative importance of the variables affecting production such as moisture content, age of spore, inoculum size, initial ph of substrate, methanol concentration, incubation temperatur...

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) forage growth stage, forage allowance, time of day, and commercial condensed tannins (CT) on steer bloat dynamics and in vitro ruminal gas production. Twenty-six crossbreed steers (Angus x Hereford x Salers; average initial BW = 194 +/- 26 kg) were used. Wheat forage allowances were either 18 kg (high forag...