This study aimed to identify undesirable and toxic effects of plants used in Guinean traditional medicine. Materials Methods: We surveyed 131 practitioners 2 prefectures Guinea about their knowledge experience with adverse or events associated the medicinal non-medicinal use plants, collecting samples these for botanical analysis. Results: Ethnobotanically, 54 species from 33 families were iden...

In-Vitro Propagation of Dioscorea alata for Tyrosinase ProductionB. Gopal Samy, K. Jegatheesan, C. Infant Francina

In recent years there has been a shift in the focus of biotechnological progress to find new approaches in food fermentation and develop multifunctional microorganisms to improve the nutritional and health benefit of food. In the present study, rice-mucuna blends of different formulation, (100:0, 100:0, 90:10, 80:20, 70:30, 60:40, and 50:50) respectively, were subjected to solid state fermentat...

Los bajos rendimientos en maíz Paraguay, podrían ser paliados con una adecuada fertilización y su manejo, incluyendo la incorporación abonos verdes, como de mucuna ceniza (Mucuna pruriens). El objetivo del estudio fue evaluar el efecto fosfatada comportamiento agronómico variedad Dkb 290, cultivada ya sea incorporada al suelo o cobertura suelo. tratamientos fueron implementados un diseño experi...

Catharanthus roseus (L.).G. Don, a highly valued medicinal plant suffers from a serious disease. A survey on the symptom and severity of the leaf blight of C. roseus was performed in the nurseries of the Institute of Forestry and Environmental Sciences (IFESCU), Bangladesh Council of Industrial Research (BCSIR) and Bangladesh Forest Research Institute (BFRI), Bangladesh. An observation was also...

The effect of feeding velvet bean (Mucuna pruriens L.) meal on the performance and lipid profile in broilers was investigated. Fourteen days old 200 broiler chicks were randomly allocated to five dietary treatments in a completely randomized design and feeding was continued for four weeks. Maize and soybean meal based control feed, and four test diets produced from the control feed by incorpora...