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During these last years, the commercialization of camel milk was developed in Algeria, especially by the intensification of dromedary husbandry and the introduction of forage and concentrated food. For this purpose, the present work aims to identify the influence of camel feeding on the composition of milk, particularly on the technology of its transformation into cheese. Camel milk was taken from two breeding systems, the extensive and the semi-intensive. The results showed that pH and protein content were significantly higher for milk from the semi-intensive farming were 6.54 ± 0.12 and 33.11± 0.85 g/l, respectively. Higher cheese yield was obtained for cheese samples made from a semi-intensive system 24.85 ± 0.22 %. Sensory analysis indicated significant differences in terms of appearance and elasticity (p < 0.05). These observations suggested that camel feeding seems to be partly responsible for certain characteristics of milk. The obtained results could confirm that livestock intensification of dairy camels could develop the commercialization of camel milk while transforming a part of it into derived products such as cheese.

The objectives of the research work were to evaluate the morphophysiological behaviour and yield contributing attributes of white maize under different organic mulches. The experiment was laid out in a randomized complete block design (RCBD) with three replications at the central research field of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka-1207, from October 2019 to May 2020. This experiment used 4 types of organic mulches these are T1 = Control (without mulch); T2 = Water hyacinth; T3 = Rice straw; T4 = Rice husk; T5 = Ash and white maize variety Shuvra. Due to this (T3) mulch material, tasselling, silking, cob appearance was hastened by (10-12) days than T1. The highest plant height (cm), number of leaves plant-1, leaf area (cm2), leaf area index were obtained from T3 (Rice straw). The highest days to harvesting 148.83a were observed in T3. The highest total dry matter after harvest (506.44gm per plant) was recorded from T3. In case of yield attributes, highest cob length, cob diameter, cob wt. plant-1, no. of cob plant-1, no. of row cob-1, no. of seed row-1, no. of seed cob-1, no. of seed plant-1, seed wt. cob-1, seed wt. plant-1 and 1000 seed wt., was recorded at (22.13cm, 5.07cm, 910.68gm, 3.03, 15.57, 37.87, 589.68, 1791, 167gm, 506.46gm and 335.5gm) from mulch treatment T3 (Rice straw). The results showed that rice straw mulch had outstanding superiority for morphophysiological and yield attributes in white maize over the other organic mulches.

This study was conducted with the objective of evaluating the effects of Moringa oleifera leaves powder and Aloe vera gel on the biochemical and haematological parameters of quails. For this purpose, 147 quails were divided into 7 batches of 21 subjects (12 males and 9 females) receiving respectively 0% ; 2% ; 5% and 10% of Moringa oleifera leaves powder and 2% ; 5% and 10% of Aloe vera gel were used. After 8 weeks of treatment, the blood of a sample of 3 males and 3 female’s quails was taken from each batch for biochemical and haematological analysis. The analyses were done using automatics Mindrays analysers according to different assays methods. Following the analyses, no significant differences were observed between the blood parameters of males and females quails. The haematological analyses showed that only the white blood cell count varied. Thus, this rate was meaningfully higher in the quails of the MO5% batch by 55.16% (P=0.040), the MO10%, batch by 51.77% (P=0.041) and the AV10% batch by 104.45% (P=0.009) compared to the control batch. As for the biochemical parameters, the analyses revealed no significant difference between those of the treated quails and the controls, except for the MO10% lot, which had an increased blood glucose level of 72.73% (P=0.032) compared to the controls. The addition of Moringa oleifera leaves powder or Aloe vera gel up 10% to the feed had no adverse effect on the health of the quails.

Species composition and abundance of Diatoms in the lower Ferlo valley were studied after ten years of its reflooding. A qualitative sampling of diatom from upstream waters toward the downstream side was carried out in five stations using a Phytoplankton net of 30μm mesh size. A total of 71 species of diatoms belonging to 25 genera were identified in this study. The species richness decreased with increasing level of salinity from upstream toward the downstream side. The highest species richness and abundance were observed in upstream stations. The most abundant species were Aulacoseira granulata, Nitzschia compressa, Nitzschia desertorum, Navicula halophila, Surirella robusta, Gomphonema truncatum, Fragilaria ulna and Cocconeis placentula. While the most abundant species in the upstream stations was Aulacoseira granulata, Navicula halophila dominated in the downstream side stations with higher salinity values. Thus, the salinity concentration seems to play a major role in the diatom species distribution in lower Ferlo valley.

Chili is one of the horticultural commodities that still requires serious handling, especially in the context of increasing production both in quality and quantity. Seed treatment using biological seed treatment agents is an alternative as a substitute for synthetic chemicals in seed treatment. This study aims to determine the inhibitory power of rhizobacteria in the growth of colonies of pathogens carried by chili seeds in vitro and the mechanism of action of rhizobacteria to inhibit the growth of Phytophthora colonies in chili. The research was carried out at the Seed Science and Technology Laboratory, Laboratory of Plant Disease, Biology Laboratory, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Syiah Kuala University, Inter-University Central Laboratory and Bacteriology Laboratory of IPB Bogor from July 2014 to March 2015. Conducted isolation of carrying pathogens of chili seeds namely pathogenic fungi P. Capsi and isolation of rhizobacteria of bio-control agent candidates and rhizobacterial agents promote plant growth candidates. The results showed that the results of detection, exploration and isolation of rhizobacteria from the root system of healthy chili plants obtained 154 rhizobacterial isolates. Antagonistic test results obtained one rhizobacterial isolate, namely Rbks-5 isolate has a very high inhibitory power on the growth of pathogenic colonies test S.rolfsii dan Phytium sp. While rhizobacteria Rbks-6 isolates and Rbks-7 isolates have very high inhibitory power on the pathogen S. rolfsii and P. capsici. Rhizobacterial isolates which produced the highest IAA were Rbkb-2 isolates, followed by 3 isolates capable of producing IAA growth regulators namely Rbkp-4, Rbks-2, Rbks-5 rhizobacterial isolates.

Rhizospheric fungi play pivotal roles for both soil and plant health. These fungi improving the growth of the plants and enhance the production of secondary metabolites. In the rhizosphere of medicinal plants, a very complex and diverse microbial community is present, including fungi, that significantly influences plant health and secondary metabolite production. Rhizospheric fungi are attracting researchers towards medicinal plants uses due to the presence of bioactive compounds, which consist of alkaloids, peptides, steroids, phenols, quinones, flavonoids, terpenoids, etc. The present study has been undertaken to isolate and identify the soil fungi associated with the rhizosphere of some medicinal plants, viz., Ocimum sanctum, Asparagus officinalis, Cymbopogon citratus, and Mentha arvensis of the Rewa district of MP, India. Total eight fungal species were isolated from the rhizosphere of selected medicinal plants. The highest number of fungal colonies was found in the rhizosphere of Cymbopogon citratus. Maximum fungal diversity was in the rhizosphere of Ocimum sanctum, with six species while minimum was in Asparagus officinalis with three species. Aspergillus fumigatus, Aspergillus niger, and Penicillium sp. were more frequent, which were associated with all these plants except Cymbopogon citratus. These findings suggested that medicinal plants are associated with different rhizosphere fungi, which are helpful for developing sustainable agriculture practices.

Urban spaces are continually suffering from innumerable evils caused in particular by an accelerated population explosion, followed by an anarchic and disproportionate urban growth. Indeed, in parallel with the abstract plans imposed to regulate the spaces, circumvention and diversion practices emerge and make them lose their legitimacy. This problematic has led us in the present work to verify the applicability of the urban rule in force in Annaba through case studies at different scales. This allows to enlighten the makers of the urban order to improve the urban production.

The study has been carried out to provide basic data for analyzing the ecology and distribution of carabid beetles in six forests of Eastern Visayas namely: Lake Danao, Mt. Nacolod, Kuapnit Balinsasayao, Asug Forest, City Forest, and Closed Canopy on January to June of 2019. Collected carabid beetles was comprised of 7844 individuals belonging to 41 species under 25 genera, 13 tribes, and two (2) subfamilies. Carabid species diversity, as estimated by diversity indices, was significantly different among the six forests. Of the six forests, Mt. Nacolod had comparatively high diversity (4.00). equitability (0.78), dominance (2.709), and species richness (32). In terms of habitat types, there were 41 species belonging to 25 genera identified among 3,771 carabids collected from natural forests of Eastern Visayas. In agricultural habitat type, 28 species were identified from 4, 073 carabid beetles. Natural forest had comparatively high diversity (5.95), high equitability (0.80), dominance (3.1), and species richness (41) over agricultural land. Along with other factors, these habitat parameters are influenced by the nature of the vegetation. Conservation should be conducted to the carabid beetles especially the rare and endemic ones in some forests. Strengthened implementation of protection in both protected landscapes against mining, illegal logging, slash and burn farming and human settlements should also be done.

This study aims to characterize the common stylistic patterns of selected environmental-related articles in the Philippine setting by analyzing the conventional devices used to enhance their newsworthiness to the Filipino audience. It employed a mixed method research, for the quantitative aspect, descriptive presentation of the topics using frequency and percentage was used. For the qualitative aspect, it used the analytical perspective adaptation of Bednarek and Caple’s (2014) newsworthiness framework. Results of the study revealed that the thematic categories of the papers shows that most of the topics surfaced issues on climate change and biodiversity. Further, the analysis reveals that patterns of lexical and grammatical features of the articles adhere on the newsworthiness of rationalization and mitigation of speculation, followed by timeliness and impact, presentation of negativity and positivity, and novelty. Sense of infotainment is dominant among the selected environmental-related articles but there is limited conversationalized interaction pattern observed. As an implication of the study, Philippine environnmental-related articles may adhere to infotainment as well as put emphasis on the conversational style to engage Filipino readers and ultimately increase public understanding of environmental science.