Pengembangan dan perbaikan teknik budidaya yang dapat dilakukan untuk memperbaiki kesuburan tanah salah satunya dengan cara mengaplikasikan bahan organik. Penelitian bertujuan mempelajari interaksi antara perlakuan aplikasi azolla dosis pupuk anorganik berbeda mengetahui terhadap tepat telah dilaksanakan di lahan percobaan Fakultas Pertanian Universitas Brawijaya terletak kelurahan Jatimulyo, k...

Stable flies are an important pest of humans and livestock. Despite being blood feeders, they also visit flowers to eat nectar. Stable flies with pollen adhering to their exoskeletons were collected at the University of Florida Horse Teaching Unit and taken to the Paleobotany and Palynology Laboratory at the Florida Museum of Natural History for processing and identification. The pollen on all ...

An early English explorer of North America, Captain John Smith reported use of a wild food called mattoume by native inhabitants of Virginia. Botanical identification of mattoume has been a mystery. In an attempt to solve the mystery of which plant species Captain Smith observed, I compare the botanical descriptions of wild rice and several other possible species that were mentioned either in s...

The growth of the aquaculture sector leads to a demand for sustainable feed ingredients. Prebiotics are potential ingredients that can promote improved performance species without use antimicrobials. This study investigated Azolla pinnata as candidate prebiotic source. Prebiotic characteristics and dietary effect commercial diet (CD) with varying pulverised azolla (PA) inclusion was evaluated. ...

Cyanobacteria constitute one of the largest subgroups of Gram-negative photosynthetic prokaryotes and are of great evolutionary antiquity, dating back to the Precambrian (2.8–3.5 billion years ago). They are found worldwide in highly diverse ecosystems, from aquatic (limnic and marine) habitats to terrestrial systems and from polar to tropical regions of the globe. In terrestrial systems, nitro...

* Department of Environmental Medicine, Kochi Medical School, Kochi University, Nankoku, Japan * * Department of Materials Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi, Japan ** * Ndeko Basile Medical Center, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo **** Department of Pediatrics, University of Lubumbashi, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo ***** Department of Health Sci...