A pot experiment to determine the effects of summer cover crops and soil amendments on okra yields and population densities of various soil nematode taxa was conducted in two consecutive growing seasons in a subtropical region. Two cover crops, sunn hemp (Crotalaria juncea) and sorghum sudangrass (Sorghum bicolorrS. bicolor var. sudanense), were grown and returned to the soil with fallow as a c...

The seeds of ten genotypes and twenty-nine wild relatives of okra were analysed for the presence of trypsin, chymotrypsin, and Helicoverpa gut proteinases (HGPs) inhibitors (HGPIs), with the aim to identify potent inhibitors of H. armigera gut proteinases. Proteinase inhibitors (PIs) obtained from wild relatives of okra exhibited stronger inhibition of HGPs than the genotypes of okra. In in vit...

In September 2005, Charity Hospital in New Orleans, the oldest continually operating hospital in the US and the safety net for the poorest patients in one of the poorest cities in America, was closed by a hurricane. It is closed for good. ‘Too far gone’ is the recurring phrase in the news. There is brave talk about rebuilding at another site, but the appetite in this country for public hospital...

Chemical/synthetic coagulants are widely used to remove suspended solids and organic loads from water, but they pose several environmental public health issues due their chronic toxicity. The study evaluated the performance of these natural individually in blended combinations with a synthetic coagulant, Alum, terms percentage removal turbidity, TSS, BOD, COD after water treatment at optimum do...

The field experiment was laid down in randomized block design (RBD), three treatments, each treatment replicated thrice and botanical extractives untreated control at Research farm of Fattepur village Kanpur Nagar affiliated to Department Zoology, D.B.S. Collage, biopotency sweet flag, Acorus calamus extract 0.5, 1.0 2.0 per cent were tested against nymphs adults cotton bug, Dysdercus koenigii ...

Summary The aim of the article was to obtain maximum information about plant mucilage, its sources and applications in pharmaceutical industry. This study focuses on scientific articles books available Internet resources college library that deal with sources, applications, extraction isolation mucilage. Mucilage is obtained mainly from can be isolated easily. Due low cost, easy availability, n...

Despite the importance of okra, as one of the important vegetable crop, very little attention has been paid to its genetic improvement using advanced biotechnological tools. The exploitation of marker assisted breeding in okra is often limited due to the availability of a few molecular markers, the absence of molecular genetic-map(s), and other molecular tools. Chromosome linkage-groups were no...