Aims: This study was designed to evaluate the antibacterial and antioxidant activities of methanolic, ethanolic, ethyl acetate and n-hexanic extract from the leaves of Strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo L.) growing in Morocco. Study Design: Determination of total phenol and flavonoid...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/26488
This research work was designed to examine the antimicrobial activities of some medicinal and aromatic plants. The essential oils of Adansonia digitata, Arachis hypodaea, Capsicum frutecens, Gossypium hirsutum, Hisbiscus esculentus, Nicotiana tabacum L., Piliostigma reticulatum H...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/24290
Aim: To investigate the antioxidant property as well as the phenolic and flavonoid content of Anthocleista vogelii root ethanolic extract (EE) and fractions (aqueous [AF], ethyl acetate [EAF], dichloromethane [DF] and n-hexane [HF] fractions). Study Design: Activity directed anti...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/27016
Twenty cotton genotypes belonging to Gossypium barbadense L. were used to screen the cotton genotypes for drought stress tolerance and to study gene expression of some genes related to cotton tolerance for drought stress. According to the field performance, highly significant gen...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/26643
Aim: To study the phytochemical profiles of Cynodon dactylon with three different solvent extractions, such as petroleum ether, acetone and ethanol, and their growth promoting ability on Macrobrachium rosenbergii PL. Study Design: Complete extraction of C. dactylon using non-pol...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/26863
Aims: To reveal which amino acid residues determine whether a protein is acidic or basic between orthologous pairs, acidic proteins from halophilic species and corresponding basic proteins from non-halophilic species were compared. Similarly acidic versus acidic protein pairs, an...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/25207
Probiotics, in point of fact, well-thought-out as the health effective microbial food supplements by fashioning mutuality environment to consumers intestinal gut in an advantageous manner. Goat milk is a broaden source of probiotics in consort with other nutrients. That’s why the...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/26397
Aims: This study reported the purification and partial characterization of the enzyme β-galactosidase (EC 3:2: 1: 23) from the seeds of Cajanus cajans. Methodology: The dry seeds of Cajanus cajans were purchased at Shomolu market in Lagos Nigeria. One hundred and fifty gram of th...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/21345
Aims: This experiment was carried out to investigate the effect of cassava chips-based diets with methionine supplementation on performance and meat physico-chemical attributes of broiler chickens. Methodology: 400 one-day old Arbor Acre broiler chicks were randomly allotted to t...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/25689
Broiler chickens require adequate feed intake and uninterrupted emission of heat for intensive growth. An eight-week feeding trial was conducted to investigate the effects of stocking density on performance, carcass yield and meat composition of broilers. A total of 240 one-day o...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/24372
Biopharmaceuticals are large complex therapeutic drug molecules composed of amino acids, nucleotides and proteins obtained by extraction from non-conventional sources. The biopharmaceutical products include cytokines, interleukins, enzymes, hormones, monoclonal antibodies and clo...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/25742
Comparative studies are conducted on the effect of roasting and boiling methods on anti–nutritional properties and in–vitro protein digestibility of bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea L.), scarlet runner bean (Phaseolus coccineus L.) and lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus L.) which a...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/22581
The study was carried out to unravel the in vitro cytological behaviour of leaf callus cultures of Orthosiphon ariststus (Blume) Miq. The cultures were raised using leaf explants on Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium supplemented with different growth regulators like auxins (2,4-D,...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/25638
Carlo P. J. M. Brouwer, Thuy Duong Vu, Miaomiao Zhou, Gianluigi Cardinali, Mick M. Welling, Nathalie van de Wiele & Vincent Robert·Biotechnology Journal International·2016
Many publications have demonstrated the huge potential of NGS methods in terms of new species discovery, environment monitoring, ecological studies, etc. [24,35,92,97,103]. Undoubtedly, NGS will become one the major tools for species identification and for routine diagnostic use....
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/25662
Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the toxicological effects of plastic composted soil on some nitrifying bacteria which are Nitrosomonas sp. and Nitrobacter sp. Methodology: Five plastic composted soil samples were collected from different locations within the Edo State...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/26234