Oil-pollution due to accidental during transportation or leakage from storage not only brings large damage to the environments, but it also affects the geotechnical properties of soil. Hence, an extensive laboratory testing program was carried out to investigate the geotechnical properties on palm biodiesel contaminated weathered granite soil and mining sand. A series of laboratory experiments ...

Background. Date palm's pollen has been identified as a source of allergy; the rate of sensitization of this pollen is between 6 and 29%. Objective. To determine the prevalence of sensitization to date palm in Marrakesh and to identify the clinical profile. Patients and Methods. This study is based on a questionnaire and the prick test on 7 allergens, in population aged 5 years and above with c...

Objective Hard envelope of date palm pollen is used as a sedative and calmative compounds in Iranian traditional medicine. We tried to study the effects of Phoenix dactylifera (Tarooneh) extract on sleep time and Brian waves. Materials and Methods Rats were divided into control and test groups in sleep experiment. Control groups included intact group (without any injection), negative control ...

The palm weevil, Rhynchophorus vulneratus, is native to Southeast Asia and was recovered from an infested Canary Islands date palm in Laguna Beach, California, USA, in 2010. The detection of this potentially destructive palm pest initiated a detection, containment, and eradication program that was reliant, in part, on the deployment of bucket traps loaded with aggregation pheromone and baited w...

Steven D. Karlen, Rebecca A. Smith, Hoon Kim, Dharshana Padmakshan, Allison Bartuce, Justin K. Mobley, Heather C. A. Free, Bronwen G. Smith, Philip J. Harris, and John Ralph Department of Energy Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Wisconsin Energy Institute, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53726 Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 School ...

Iran is one of the main date (Phoenix dactylifera) producing countries in the world. however, little information is available on the pollen viability and favorable storage conditions of Iranian male date cultivars. This study was conducted to estimate the best in vitro pollen germination of three male date palm cultivars, `Ghanami’, `Samsmavi’ and `Gheibani’ using various doses of boric acid (0...