Abstract Purpose Commercial production and the use of liquid vermicompost extract (LVE) is gaining attention as a technique that supports integrated soil-microbial-crop management for sustainable agriculture. However, interaction effects LVE, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), host plants on delivery agroecosystem services in alkaline soil have been less studied. Methods We carried out 3-year ...

Extracts from secondary biomass, e. g. spent coffee grounds (SCG), can be utilized in the production of biodiesel additives (esters of fatty acids with low molecular mass alcohols). However, they contain a significant amount of free fatty acids, so the transesterification of their glycerides has to be preceded by catalytic esterification of these acids. SCG extracts are essentially a mixture of...

In sunflower, molecular markers for simple traits as, e.g., fertility restoration, high oleic acid content, herbicide tolerance or resistances to Plasmopara halstedii, Puccinia helianthi, or Orobanche cumana have been successfully used in marker-assisted breeding programs for years. However, agronomically important complex quantitative traits like yield, heterosis, drought tolerance, oil conten...

Wasted writes occur when modified cache lines are evicted and written back to main memory even though the data contained in those lines is no longer needed by the program or does not change the existing memory contents. Wasted writes include values in retreating stacks and values in heap objects that have been deallocated. They also occur as a result of unmodified data values being written back...

High consumption of polyunsaturated fatty acids, such as sunflower oil has been associated to beneficial effects in plasma lipid profile, but its role on inflammation and insulin resistance is not fully elucidated yet. We evaluated the effect of sunflower oil supplementation on inflammatory state and insulin resistance condition in HFD-induced obese mice. C57BL/6 male mice (8 weeks) were divide...

In this study, preheated crude sunflower oil at 75C was used in a fourcylinder, naturally aspirated, indirect injection diesel engine. The experiments were conducted at the constant engine speeds under the full load condition of the engine to determine the performance, combustion, and injection characteristics of test fuels. The engine test results have been compared with the reference values t...

To evaluate of the sunflower crushed in nutritional parameters in steers, supplemented at pasture, we used four steers in 4×4 Latin square design. The supplements were provided in 6 g/kg of body weight/animal/day, consisting of sunflower crushed, corn, soybean meal and mineral. All the supplements was isonitrogenous and soybean meal was replaced in 0, 20, 40, and 60% for sunflower crushed. The ...

Agricultural biomass is one of the most important renewable energy sources. As a byproduct corn, soybean and sunflower production, large amounts are produced that can be used as an source through conversion. In order to assess quality possibility use biomass, its composition calorific value must determined. The nonlinear models allows for easier estimation properties concerning certain input ou...

in order to evaluate the yield and advantage of two- and three-species intercropping of sunflower with corn and soybean, an experiment was conducted at the research farm of faculty of agriculture of tabriz university in tabriz, iran 2011. the experiment was arranged based on randomized completely block design with 6 treatments and three replications. treatments were included the pure stand of s...