We aimed to develop alternative fishing gear for catching the common octopus, to decrease the use of bait and operating costs in comparison to commercial net pots. A tubular-type pot was designed, and behavioral responses of the common octopus were experimentally monitored in tank and replicated 10 times to compare fishing performances between 300 experimental and 300 commercial net pots in the...

Among deciduous fruit crops, maximum sustained yields under ideal conditions reportedly range from 22 MT/ha in sweet cherry to 112 MT/ha in apple: about a 5-fold difference. Root length densities under fruit trees, however, range from about 0.2 km/m in apple to about 12 km/m in kiwifruit: a 60-fold difference. What causes these differences among the root systems of different fruit crops? Patter...

Cadmium (Cd), as a widespread metal pollutant, readily accumulates in the food chain due to its easy absorption and high mobility. The endophytic fungi are cosmopolitan microorganisms that occur widely in association with plants in a heavy metal stress environment. A current pot experiment was conducted to evaluate the influence of Piriformospora indica, as a root endosymbiotic fungus, on the b...

A growth chamber pot experiment and a field plot experiment were conducted with the installation of rhizobags to study the effects of repeated phytoextraction by Sedum plumbizincicola on the bioavailability of Cd and Zn in the rhizosphere and bulk soil Repeated phytoextraction gave significantly lower Cd and Zn concentrations in both rhizosphere and bulk soil solutions compared with soil withou...

An experiment was carried out to assess the allelopathic effect of leaf leaches Morus alba on growth and yield Brinjal. Leaf were prepared by soaking sun dry leaves in tap water for 24 Hours a ratio 1:10 (w/v). Various concentrations leashes (25, 50, 75 100%) prepared. The result showed that concentration plays an important inhibitory role germination, shoot root brinjal. During laboratory expe...

1. The evolution of increased competitive ability (EICA) hypothesis proposes that exotic plants often become invasive because they have evolved reduced allocation to defence and increased allocation to growth and reproduction in response to low herbivore loads. Previous studies with Chinese tallow tree Sapium sebiferum support EICA predictions of invasive North American ecotypes displaying rapi...

mosud iqbal1*, gkm mustafizur rahman2, gm panaullah1, m mizanur rahman2 and  jatish chandra biswas1 1 -soil science division, bangladesh rice research institute, gazipur-1701, bangladesh 2 -department of soil science, bangabandhu sheikh mujibur rahman agricultural university, salna, gazipur-1706, bangladesh *corresponding author email: [email protected], [email protected] received: 20 jun...