Aims: Find a suitable method for the protein extraction from flower buds of Solanum lycopersicum. Study Design: Compare some kinds of protein extraction methods and find the best one among them suitable to tomato flower buds. Place and Duration of Study: Biological Science and Te...
Aim: Phyllanthus amarus Schum (Euphorbiaceae) is an annual herbal shrub which has been used in traditional medicine in Nigeria to treat some disease conditions. The aim of this study is to evaluate the anti-inflammatory and analgesic activities of the aqueous extract of Phyllanth...
Aims: The aims of this work was optimization of two-step enzymatic hydrolysis of sweet potato starch using statistical approach and subsequent utilization of the hydrolyzate obtained for citric acid production. Methodology: Box Behnken design was used in this study to generate a...
In this study, the effects of methanol-to-oil molar ratio, catalyst amount and reaction time on the transesterification of waste cooking oil (WCO) to biodiesel were investigated. Methanol with calcium oxide as a heterogeneous catalyst was used for the transesterification process...
The present investigation was conducted to study the effects of different concentrations of picloram on somatic embryogenesis induction, development and maturation of three strawberry (Kurdistan, Paros and Camarosa) cultivars. For this purpose, leaf blade, nodal, petiole, stamen...
Claude Ahouangninou, Thibaud Martin, Françoise Assogba-Komlan, Serge Simon, Luc Djogbénou, Ibrahim Siddick, Cédric Pennetier, Vincent Corbel & Benjamin Fayomi·Biotechnology Journal International·2013
In Benin, the use of synthetic pesticides in vegetable production poses a risk to the environment and human health. Vegetables, water and soil quality assessment is very important for monitoring and mitigation of these risks. The evaluation of pesticide contamination of vegetable...
The present study investigated the role of soil pH adjustments in heavy metals concentrations in waste engine oil (WEO) - polluted soils. Sun-dried top soil (0-10cm) was measured into buckets. WEO was added to soil and mixed thoroughly to obtain similar concentrations of 2.5% w/w...
Molecular microbiology techniques have revolutionized microbial ecology by paving the way for rapid, high-throughput methods for culture-independent assessment and exploitation of microbial communities present in complex ecosystems like crude-oil/hydrocarbon polluted soil. The so...
Aims: To assess the effects of initiating antihypertensive therapy with amlodipine (AML) or hydrochlorothiazide (HCZ) for 48 weeks on creatinine clearance (Clcr) in hypertensive Nigerians with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). Study Design: Randomized, open-label, prospective, outpa...
Endo-1, 4-β-xylanase (Endo-β-1, 4-xylan, xylanohydrolase; EC. 3.2.1.8, commonly called xylanase) is an industrially important enzyme which degrades xylan randomly and produces xylooligosaccharides, xylobiose and xylose. It is mainly present in microbes and plants but not in anima...