The major aim of this study was to compare the morphology and activity of rumen protozoa of Khuzestan water buffalo and Holstein cow using in vitro digestibility and gas production parameters of steam treated sugarcane pith. Rumen fluid obtained from two buffalo and cow steers fed the same diet, 30:70 concentrate: forage. To separate rumen protozoa, antibiotic solution and fungicides w...

Activated carbon prepared from coir pith using ZnCl2 was investigated to find the feasibility of its application for removal of 2,4,6-trichlorophenol (TCP) in aqueous solution through adsorption process. Batch mode kinetics and isotherm studies were carried out to evaluate the effects of contact time, initial concentration, adsorbent dose, pH, and temperature. Lagergren, second order, and Bangh...

The effects of grafting on the morphology, physiology, and aerenchyma balsam pear aboveground under waterlogging stress were studied using a two-factor randomized block design. At 8 16 days, degree reduction grafted was lower than those self-rooted pear, although height leaf number pears remarkably reduced stress. Compared with considerably decreased malondialdehyde content leaves but substanti...

UNLABELLED • PREMISE OF THE STUDY Wood specific gravity (WSG) mediates an interspecific trade-off between growth and mortality and is a key measure for estimating carbon stocks. Most studies use species mean values to represent WSG, despite variation at different levels of biological organization. We examined sources of variation in WSG across four nested scales (segments within cores, cores ...

Ethanol production from sugarcane bagasse pith hydrolysate by thermotolerant yeast Kluyveromyces sp. IIPE453 was analyzed using response surface methodology. Variables such as Substrate Concentration, pH, fermentation time and Na2HPO4 concentration were found to influence ethanol production significantly. In a batch fermentation, optimization of key process variables resulted in maximum ethanol...

Accurate methods of reconstructing historical tree diameters from increment cores are important because diameter is used in allometric equations to predict stand characteristics and to study stand dynamics. The conventional reconstruction method assumes that the pith is in the centre of the stem. This is often incorrect, as evidenced by a pith increment index quantifying the deviation between t...

Studies pertaining to the detection, isolation anid chemical characterization of naturally occurring and synthetic cytokinins have been aided by the utilization of cultured callus tissues derived from soybean cotyledons (6, 9, 10, 11, 12) and tobacco stem pith (7, 8, 13, 14). Both tissues, when exposed to a specific anid defined chemical milieu, require kinetin or another similarly active 6-sub...

Pseudomonas mediterranea strain CFBP 5447(T) is a phytopathogenic bacterium isolated from tomato plants affected by pith necrosis disease. Moreover, its ability to produce medium-chain-length polyhydroxyalkanoates (mcl-PHAs) in culture from different carbon sources and valuable microbial products, such as cyclic lipopeptides, has been well documented. Here, we report the first draft genome sequ...

Within-stem variation in the mechanical properties of Portuguese oak wood was analysed, considering different locations (three sites centre and north Portugal—Site 1, Site 2, 3) positions within tree (two distances to pith—P1, P2). The study comprised compression parallel grain, bending strength modulus elasticity. Ultimately, this aims at assuring building a body knowledge on technological qua...