Two experiments were carried out to determine the effects of feeding grass silages differing in their water-soluble carbohydrate content, with or without red clover silage, on the efficiency of nutrient use. High-sugar grass, control grass, and red clover were ensiled in laboratory silos for use in an in vitro experiment (Exp. 1). For an in vivo experiment (Exp. 2), the same forage types were b...

BACKGROUND Grasses release the most widespread aeroallergens with considerable sensitization rates, while different species produce several pollen concentration peaks throughout the season. This study analyzed the prevalence of grass species in three different European city areas and compared the flowering period of these species with daily pollen concentrations and the symptom loads of grass p...

Adding greenery from public spaces to the co-digestion process with sewage sludge was evaluated by shredding experiments and laboratory-scale batch and continuous mesophilic anaerobic fermentation experiments. The ratio of the shredded grass with 20mm or less in length by a commercially available shredder was 93%. The methane production was around 0.2NL/gVS-grass in the batch experiment. The co...

Allergic rhinitis is one of the most common diseases of adult and pediatric age, associated with grass pollen (GP) allergy in >50% cases, with a consistent impact on quality of life of affected patients. A grass allergen tablet, containing standardized extract derived from Timothy grass (Phleum pratense) pollen and ~15 μg major allergen P. pratense (rPhl p 5), may be the future of allergen-spec...

BACKGROUND The use of wheat grass (Triticum aestivum) juice for treatment of various gastrointestinal and other conditions had been suggested by its proponents for more than 30 years, but was never clinically assessed in a controlled trial. A preliminary unpublished pilot study suggested efficacy of wheat grass juice in the treatment of ulcerative colitis (UC). METHODS A randomized, double-bl...

An experiment was conducted to evaluate the productive performance and carcass characteristics of three groups of growing grasscutters fed home-made concentrate diets. The objective was to assess the feeding values of the diets. The diets were labelled 0% grass diet, 7.5% grass diet and 15% grass dietand respectively contained 0, 7.5 and 15% guinea grass, Panicum maximum. The completely randomi...

knowledge of the warming or cooling effects induced by asphalt or grass covered areas, may improve our understanding of how thermal stress or thermal comfort is created for workers who have to work outdoors for long hours in warm seasons. for this purpose a field measurements were carried out to know the cooling and warming effects of two adjacent areas, one covered with grass and the other wit...

Invasive species can alter the succession of ecological communities because they are often adapted to the disturbed conditions that initiate succession. The extent to which this occurs may depend on how widely they are distributed across environmental gradients and how long they persist over the course of succession. We focus on plant communities of the USA Pacific Northwest coastal dunes, wher...

The grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) is one of the most important freshwater fish species in China and the world; grass carp production accounts for about 16% of the world’s total freshwater aquaculture [1]. In 2015, Wang et al. performed whole-genome sequencing and de novo assembly for a female (0.9 Gb) and male grass carp (1.07 Gb) by using the shotgun sequencing strategy [2]. Based on th...

the major lymphoid tissues in teleost fish are the kidneys, thymus, spleen and mucosa-associatedlymphoid tissue including the skin, gills and intestine. the head of kidney (pronephros) is an importanthaematopoietic organ and has morphological similarities with the bone marrow in higher vertebrates. in thisstudy, during 12 months from august 2002 to july 2003, 120 grass carp (10 fish/month) were...