an efficient and cost effective protocol for in vitro propagation of pineapple (ananas comosus var. queen) has been developed. in the proliferation stage, agar based murashige and skoog (ms) media was supplemented with 3.0 mg/l benzyleaminopurine (bap), 0.5 mg/l indole acetic acid (iaa) and 50 mg/l adenine sulphate as rbc design experiment. two approaches were taken to reduce the chemical cost ...

This research was supported by the National Institute of Forestry, Livestock and Agricultural Research (INIFAP); the Council of Science and Technology of the State of Guanajuato (CONCYTEG); and the Protected Agriculture Project, University of Florida/IFAS. *Corresponding author; email: [email protected]; phone: (352) 392-1928, ext. 203 Yield and Quality of Greenhouse-grown Strawberries as Affected...

Lowering costs for software maintenance, development and reuse is a great challenge. Strategies like the 3 schema architecture for databases has shown to lower maintenance and development costs of databases. For a similar purpose an architecture has been developed over the last 10 years for object-oriented systems. This architecture is now named the COIR architecture and has helped in lowering ...

The purpose of this study was to develop substrates with little or no peat by combining coir-based growing media municipal compost and/or acacia biochar, two locally produced renewable resources, and assess their effects on lettuce seedling emergence growth, as well content in photosynthetic pigments total phenols. Two experiments were carried out, the first six mixes using biochar blended perl...

This research work developed and evaluated the mechanical properties of coconut fibre reinforced low density polyethylene (LPDE) composite material. The effect loading on properties: tensile, flexural, impact material have been investigated. Also carried out was water absorptivity Sample categories were prepared by varying contents weight at 0%, 10%, 20%, 30%. aim is to reduce excessive waste d...

The cellulase producing bacteria was isolated from cow dung and characterized by morphological and biochemical analysis. Further partial purification of cellulase was carried out by dialysis and ammonium phosphate precipitation and also to determine molecular weight by SDS-PAGE. Bacterial isolated were grown on Carboxy Methyl Cellulose (CMC) agar at various optimum conditions such as parameters...

Abstract There is a rising demand for advanced new materials in food packaging to meet the growing economic and sustainability requirements. Natural fibers have excellent mechanical thermal isolation properties lower production costs than synthetic fibers, making them suitable candidates development of sustainable packaging. Other characteristics natural i.e., low cost, easy availability, impac...