Research Articles

 

 

            ENTOMOLOGY

 

Gidey Yirga, Bethelhem Koru, Dawit Kidane and Alem Mebrahatu

     Assessment of beekeeping practices in Asgede Tsimbla district, Northern Ethiopia:

     Absconding, bee forage and bee pests
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1 - 5

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR10.1071

 

 

            CROP SCIENCE

 

Amin Mirshekari, Phebe Ding, Jugah Kadir and Hasanah Mohd Ghazali

     Effect of hot water dip treatment on postharvest anthracnose of banana var.

     Berangan
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 6 - 10

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.056

 

 

 

           PLANT PATHOLOGY

 

Samuel Tegene, Temam Hussein, Taye Tessema, Firehun Yirefu, Butner Carmen and Monika Gossmann

     Exploration of fungal pathogens associated with water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes

    (Mart.) Solms-Laubach) in Ethiopia
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 11 - 18

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.222

 

 

 

           PLANT BREEDING

 

ZHANG Zhen-hua, LIU Qiang, SONG Hai-xing, RONG Xiang-min and Abdelbagi M. Ismail 1

     Responses of different rice (Oryza sativa L.) genotypes to salt stress and relation to

     carbohydrate metabolism and chlorophyll content
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 19 - 27

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.834

 

 

Filiz Okturen Asri and Sahriye Sonmez

     Effects of different potassium and iron levels on seasonal changes of nutrient

     concentrations of tomato plant grown in soilless culture
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 28 - 33

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.1119

 

 

 

 

           AGRONOMY

 

Pravin Kumar Tripathi, Manoj Kumar Singh, Jitendra Pratap Singh and Onkar Nath Singh

     Effect of rhizobial strains and sulphur nutrition on mungbean (Vigna radiata (l.)

     wilczek) cultivars under dryland agro-ecosystem of Indo-Gangetic plain
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 34 - 42

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.868

 

Sh. Lack

     The effects of seed number per hill on grain yield and source-sink relations of three

     rice cultivars
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 43 - 50

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.1016

 

 

Nahid Niari Khamssi and Abdollah Najaphy

     Agro-morphological and phenological attributes under irrigated and rain-fed

     conditions in bread wheat genotypes
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 51 - 57

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.1097

 

 

 

           AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION

 

Mgbenka, RN, Nicholas Ozor, Igbokwe, EM and Felix Ebe

     Soil and water conservation capabilities among farmers and extension agents in

     eastern region of Nigeria
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 58 - 67

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.927

 

 

 

           SOIL SCIENCE

 

Adornis D Nciizah and Isaiah IC Wakindiki

     Aggregate stability and strength of a hardsetting soil amended with cattle manure
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 68 - 73

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.1271

 

 

Abebe Nigussie and Endalkachew Kissi

     The contribution of coffee agroecosystem to soil fertility in Southwestern Ethiopia
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 74 - 81

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.1566

 

 

           AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING

 

Zenglin Zhang, Pute Wu, Wenting Han and Xiaoqing Yu

     Design of wireless underground sensor network nodes for field information

     acquisition
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 82 - 88

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJARX11.069

 

       

 

          ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

 

Fazel Amiri and Abdul Rashid B. Mohamed Shariff

     Application of geographic information systems in land-use suitability evaluation for

     beekeeping: A case study of Vahregan watershed (Iran)
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 89 - 97

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR10.1037

 

Tamara Osorno-Sánchez, Alfonso Torres Ruiz and Roberto Lindig-Cisneros

     Effects of harvesting intensity on population structure of Lippia graveolens

     (Verbenaceae, Lamiales) in the Semidesert of Queretaro, Mexico
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 98 - 106

                 OI: 10.5897/AJAR11.1797

 

 

        AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

 

Chikuse L. J., Katsvanga C. A. T., Jimu L. and Mujuru L.

     Impacts of outsourcing forestry operations in the hyperinflationary economic

     environment of Zimbabwe
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 107 - 114

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR10.066

 

Véronique Alary, Adel Aboul-Naga, Mohamed El-Sheifa, Nidal Abdelkrim, and Helmi Metawi

     Dynamics and farmers strategies for small ruminant market in Egypt
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 115 - 122

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.008

 

 

      HORTICULTURE

 

Juan Yan, Yong-qing Wang, Jun-qiang Li, Lian Tao, Qun-xian Deng and Xiu-lan Lv

     Morphological and histological observations on the induction of anther calluses and

     embryos in loquat (Eriobotrya japonica Lindl.)
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 123 - 127

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.1728

 

 

Chiachung Chen and Rey-Song Lin

     CO₂ uptake patterns in Phalaenopsis amabilis
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 128 - 141

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.1221