In traditional in vitro culture, explants grow enclosed in a non-ventilated vessel at high relative humidity with phytohormones continuously present and sucrose as the main energy source. Under such conditions explant growth is far from normal. In this paper, explants of Actinidia deliciosa were cultured in MS medium supplemented with sucrose, benzyladenine and gibberellic acid under autotrophi...

Objective: Digoxin is a therapeutic cardenolide widely used to treat various heart conditions such as atrial flutter, atrial fibrillation and heart failure in both Western as well as Chinese medicine. Digoxin is extracted from cultivated Digitalis lanata Ehrh. plants, known as Mao Hua Yang Di Huang in Chinese medicine. This manuscript presents two studies that were conducted to optimize the cul...

ing opened her discussion of the movement in other countries with the remark that she would begin with the United States, as so little was done there. Since then the number of cities having begun the practical experiment of furnishing lunches in elementary schools has grown from three to thirty. Moreover, the work is under consideration in about thirty other cities. Judging by the rate of expan...

The two preceding papers of this series have dealt with the phenomenon of peroxide formation by pneumococcus. The first of these studies (1) concerned itself with the conditions under which this compound is formed when air is admitted to cultures of pneumococci which have been grown anaerobically. Under these conditions peroxide is formed at reactions and at temperatures inhibiting active cell ...

Sea cucumbers play an important role in nutrient cycling of marine ecosystems by consuming sediments and moving sand, thus occupying a similar niche to earthworms in terrestrial ecosystems. However, our understanding of microbial diversity and functions associated with sea cucumbers is meager. Here, we isolated 141 bacterial strains under aerobic conditions using various media from the intestin...

There is high demand for cucumber because of its nutritional and medicinal implications. Despite the several benefits crop, there little information on agronomic performance crop in open shaded conditions using different rates poultry manure south east Nigeria. The experiment was carried out to determine effect growth yield conditions. This research conducted farm Agricultural Education Departm...