African Journal of Biotechnology - 10 (82), 2011

Contents:

Review


R. O. Anyasi and H. I. Atagana

Biological remediation of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) in the environment by microorganisms and plants


Bing-Hua Liao, Sheng-Yan Ding, Nan Hu, Yan-Fang Gu, Xun-Ling Lu, Guo-Fu Liang, Jin Liu, Yu-Long Fan,Yan-Jie Zhai, Shun-Ping Ding and Sheng Ding

Dynamics of environmental gradients on plant functional groups composition on the northern slope of the Fu-Niu Mountain Nature Reserve


Research Articles

  
GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY


JIANG Xiang-Hui, Zhu Young-Hua, Xuan Ming Liu and SHE Chao-Wen

Karyotype analysis of three Solanum plants using combined PI-DAPI staining and double fluorescence in situ hybridization with 45S and 5S rDNA probes


Farhad Ali, Jehan Bakht, Saleem Khan, Muhammad Ali, Tahir Hussain, Muhammad Ali, Wajid Khan, Bilal Muhammad Khan and Muhammad Maroof Shah

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based molecular characterization of popular wheat varieties of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa (KPK) region of Pakistan


Behrouz Golein, Reza Fifaei and Malek Ghasemi

Identification of zygotic and nucellar seedlings in citrus interspecific crosses by inter simple sequence repeats (ISSR) markers


Dong-hui Cao, Xiang Gao, Jie Liu, Josphert N. Kimatu, Shu-juan Geng, Xiao-ping Wang, Jing Zhao and De-cheng Shi

Methylation sensitive amplified polymorphism (MSAP) reveals that alkali stress triggers more DNA hypomethylation levels in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) roots than salt stress


Saeidnia Soodabeh, Faraji Hoda, Sarkheil Pantea, Moradi-Afrapoli Fahimeh, Amin Gholamreza

Genetic diversity and relationships detected by inter simple sequence repeat (ISSR) and randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis among Polygonum species growing in North of Iran


PLANT AND AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY


Puspasree Puhan and Thirunavoukkarasu, M.

Direct organogenesis of Aegle marmelos (L.) Corr. from cotyledon explants


Yan Jin, Caohao Zhang, Hui Yang, Yuhong Yang, Chengjiang Huang, Yun Tian and Xiangyang Lu

Proteomic analysis of cold stress responses in tobacco seedlings


Yinshan Guo, Yuhui Zhao, Kun Li, Zhendong Liu, Hong Lin, Xiuwu Guo and Chengxiang Li

Embryo rescue of crosses between diploid and tetraploid grape cultivars and production of triploid plants


Xibing Jiang, Yuepeng Song, Xiaojun Xi, Bin Guo, Kaifeng Ma, Zeliang Wang, Bo Li, Deqiang Zhang, Xinmin An and Zhiyi Zhang

Physiological and biochemical responses to low temperature stress in hybrid clones of Populus ussuriensis Kom. × P. deltoides Bartr


Allah Wasaya, Muhammad Tahir, Abdul Manaf, Mukhtar Ahmed, Shuaib Kaleem and Ijaz Ahmad

Improving maize productivity through tillage and nitrogen management


Huanhuan Shao, Qinghua Cao, Xiang Tao, Yinghong Gu, Mengjie Chang, Chenglin Huang, Yizheng Zhang and Hong Feng

Cloning and characterization of ATP synthase CF1 ? gene from sweet potato


Shoufeng Sha, Juncai Li, Jun Wu and Shaoling Zhang

Effect of metabolic enzyme on organic acids in developing ‘Dangshansuli’ pear leaf


Vera Stojšin, Dragana Budakov, Barry Jacobsen, Ferenc Bagi, Eva Grimme and Oliver Neher

Analysis of Rhizoctonia solani isolates associated with sugar beet crown and root rot from Serbia


J. Emanuel de A. Bojórquez-Quintal, Lucila A. Sánchez-Cach, Naivy F. Gamboa-Tec, Fausto Quintal-Tun, Yereni Minero-García, Manuel Martínez-Estévez, Carlos F. de J. Fuentes-Cerda and César De los Santos-Briones.

Effect of plant growth regulators on in vitro germination of coffee zygotic embryos


Aihua Shen, Haibo Li, Ke Wang, Hongmei Ding, Xin Zhang, Lin Fan and Bo Jiang


Sequence characterized amplified region (SCAR) markers-based rapid molecular typing and identification of Cunninghamia lanceolata


Gul Jan, Mir Ajab Khan, Aman khan, Farzana Gul Jan, Rafiullah Khan1, Mushtaq Ahmad, Atta-Ur-Rehman, Muhammad Danish, Muhammad Asif, Saimdad Khan, Muhammad Zafar and Masood Jan

An Ethnobotanical Survey on Fuel Wood and Timber plant Species of Kaghan Valley, Khyber pakhtoonkhwa Province, Pakistan


Hossein Reza Rouhi, Mohammad Ali Aboutalebian, Ali Sepehri, Fatemeh Karim and Seyed Amir Moosavi

Effect of osmopriming on antioxidant activity of Bersim clover (Trifolium alexandrinum L.)


Mouaad Amine Mazri, Ahmed Elbakkali, Mouhssine Belkoura and Ilham Belkoura

Embryogenic competence of calli and embryos regeneration from various explants of Dahbia cv, a Moroccan olive tree (Olea europaea L.)


Behzad Babazadeh Darjazi

Morphological and pomological characteristics of fig (Ficus carica L.) cultivars from Varamin, Iran


Lei Wang, Ke Zhang, Wei Huang, Wei Han and Chang-Yan Tian

Seed oil content and fatty acid composition of annual halophyte Suaeda acuminata: A comparative study on dimorphic seeds


ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

 
Tawadchai Suppadit, Napassawan Sunthorn and Pakkapong Poungsuk

Use of anthocyanin extracted from natural plant materials to develop a pH test kit for measuring effluent from animal farms


Kekan Yao, Siming Song, Zhenming Zhang, Jing Xu, Rong Zhang, Jiakai Liu, Lixia Cheng and Jinglan Liu

Vegetation characteristics and water purification by artificial floating island


FOOD TECHNOLOGY


Esref IŞIK and Halil UNAL.

Some engineering properties of white kidney beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)


José Luis Montanez Soto, José Venegas González, Aurea Bernardino Nicanor and Emma Gloria Ramos Ramírez

Enzymatic production of high fructose syrup from Agave tequilana fructans and its physicochemical characterization


Yan Jin, Mu Wang, Songyi Lin, Yang Guo, Jingbo Liu and Yongguang Yin

Optimization of extraction parameters for trehalose from beer waste brewing yeast treated by high-intensity pulsed electric fields (PEF)


APPLIED BIOCHEMISTRY

 
Qiang Tan, Yewang Zhang and Dongzhi Wei

Characterization and stability of D-amino acid oxidase and catalase within the permeabilized recombinant Pichia pastoris cells


MEDICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

 
Tanmoy Sinha and A. Bandyopadhyay

Induction of callogenesis in Ipomoea obscura (L.) Ker-Gawl, a little known medicinal plant


Yong Peng, Qing-Wang Li and Jian Li

Antitumor activity of Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi total flavonoids on mice bearing U14 cervical carcinoma


Jinous Asgarpanah, Saeed Mohammadi Motamed, Avishan Farzaneh, Bahareh Ghanizadeh and Simin Tomraee

Antioxidant activity and total phenolic and flavonoid content of Astragalus squarrosus Bunge


FISHERY SCIENCE


Hadi Raeisi, Moslem Daliri, Seyed Yousef Paighambari, Mohamad Javad Shabani, Mehdi Bibak and Reza Davoodi

Length-weight relationships, condition factors and relative weight of five fish species of Bushehr waters, Northern Persian Gulf


BIOTECHNIQUES

 
Norha Saifudin, Nurina Anuar and Nazlina Ibrahim

Long-term stability of ß-galactosidase protein expression in the absence of selective growth conditions in transfected Chinese hamster ovary cell


Jinfeng Yang, Ju-Sung Kim, Hyun Ju Jeong, Hak-Hee Kang, Jun-Cheol Cho, Hun-Myeong Yeom and Myong Jo Kim

Determination of antioxidant and ?-glucosidase inhibitory activities and luteolin contents of Chrysanthemum morifolium Ramat extracts


Shih-Chun Yang, Wenny M. Kao, Chyi-Jang Wu, Yenliang Kuo, Gwan-Han Shen, Chwen-Jen Shieh, Shiou-Ping Yu and Jiann-Hwa Chen

Detection and partial identification of proteins in pearls formed in Hyriopsis cumingii (Lea)


PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES


Mahrukh Sanai and Nageen Hussain

Levels of inflammatory markers (complement C3, Complement C4 and C-reactive protein) in smokers


ANIMAL SCIENCE

 
N. Najafi, A. R. Seidavi, S. Z. Mirhosseini, S. Gharahveysi, M. Mavvajpour and M. Salehi Nezhad

Analysis of genetic divergence for classification and evaluation of 37 productive performances in 54 oval cocoon strains of Iran silkworm germplasm


Hamideh Hashemipour, Vahid Khaksar and Hassan Kermanshahi

Application of probiotic on egg production and egg quality of chukar partridge


Sayyed Shahram Miraghaee, Behzad Heidary, Hossein Almasi, akbar shabani, Mazda Elahi and Mohamad Hadi Modaber Nia

The effects of Nigella sativa powder (black seed) and Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench extract on performance, some blood biochemical and hematological parameters in broiler chickens


WORD PRESERVATION

 
Ergun Baysal

Combustion properties of wood impregnated with commercial fertilizers

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