Sorghum is an important source of food, feed, and biofuel, especially in the semi-arid tropics because this cereal is well adapted to harsh, drought-prone environments. Post-flowering drought adaptation in sorghum is associated with the stay-green phenotype. Alleles that contribute to this complex trait have been mapped to four major QTL, Stg1-Stg4, using a population derived from BTx642 and RT...

Feed resources availability at cheap and affordable prices for livestock consumption are major factors determining capability of livestock production to supply products for increasing urban and cities consumers in Nigeria. To take advantages of the high demand in urban areas, livestock producers on extensive pastoralism are moving closer to cities and urban communities such as Abuja the Nigeria...

A large number of hypotheses have been proposed to explain the adaptive significance and evolution of the endophagous-feeding mode, nutritional benefits being considered to be one of the main advantages. Leaf-mining insects should feed on most nutritional tissues and avoid tissues with high structural and/or biochemical plant defences. This selective feeding behaviour could furthermore be reinf...

How do we feed the nine billion people who are projected to inhabit the Earth by 2050? the issue is one of serious concern (ash et al, 2010; Butler, 2010), as an increase in food production of up to 40% will be needed to cope with the growing population. in response, many scientists, politicians and economists have proposed a second ‘green revolution’. their call references the first green revo...

In total, 240 one day old Thai-native chickens (Gallus domesticus) were housed in floor pens, located in a light-proof shed and exposed to one of the following lighting treatments: 1) white fluorescent light throughout the 16 wk of the experimental period (WF), 2) green light provided by a light emitting diode (LED) throughout the experimental period (GLED) and 3) green LED light for the first ...