Help for a garden design??

Hello everyone, We are planning to make garden on the school located on mid hill area. The elevation of the location is 1300 masl. Area of the field is estimated around 30x20 sq. m. The soil there...

05 June 2018 1,983 5 View

Bacterial Leaf blight control methods and approaches

What could be the best approach for the control of Bacterial Leaf Blight leaving the chemical ones??

07 August 2017 4,302 2 View

Help needed

Can anyone help me with some literature review on Gender Analysis, Problem Analysis and SWOT analysis on Goat farming. Please experts, I need the help for one of my friend doing research on the...

07 August 2017 5,130 1 View

Is spraying of Ash a healthy practice??

We normally finds many rural communities to be spraying ashes of firewood generated during cooking,in the kitchen garden on the soil and also on the plant surface hoping to add nutrition to the...

06 July 2017 8,906 7 View

What's wrong with this plant???

05 June 2017 8,552 5 View

Help me identify this??

Seems like eggs but what it actually is?? This tiny water droplet like structure seems to be eggs that is spongy like when touched. This was abundant in okra field once in everywhere of the plant...

05 June 2017 3,053 6 View

Disease ID?

Help me to identify the disease with the management practices....

05 June 2017 3,255 8 View

Insect ID??

Help me to identify this found on my research plot of okra...

05 June 2017 3,499 3 View

Really shocked???

05 June 2017 6,103 9 View

Identification, please??

The black robbery type growth is found on the lower surface of leaf of bittergourd plants.What could be the probable cause?? How to get rid of it?

05 June 2017 4,256 11 View

What are the countries most affected by extreme rainfall as a result of climate change?

Increased heat, drought and insect outbreaks, all associated to climate change, have increased wildfires. Decreasing water supplies, declined agricultural yields, health impacts in cities owing to...

01 March 2021 7,168 9 View

How to accurately quantify chitin?

Hi all, I have been working on the quantification of chitin in insect samples and feed for a while but I can notice that the quantification methods (e.g. exposure to HCl, NaOH, and weighing sample...

01 March 2021 1,843 2 View

Please help in identification of this insect?

This insect is minute in size around 1 mm and not clearly visible with naked eye.

22 February 2021 5,907 11 View

Purification of proteins from baculovirus-infected insect cells?

18 February 2021 6,665 6 View

Extraction of DNA from insect samples conserved in silica gel?

Hi everybody, can anybody suggest how to extract DNA from insect samples conserved in silica gel (in my case, mosquitoes)? Does anybody know a commericial kit which does that or a particular...

10 February 2021 3,392 4 View

How do I prepare and store insect samples for JH measurements?

I need to preserve termite samples for future quantification of juvenile hormone in their bodies. Or extract the Juvenile Hormone and keep that samples stored for future quantification. I may need...

09 February 2021 1,995 1 View

Working with insect primary cells in cell medium and in saline solution?

I work with insect primary cells, which I let grow in TC100 insect medium. For fluorescence measurements I have to discard medium (because of its fluorescence properties) and give a saline...

28 January 2021 3,867 1 View

How to extract a single stranded DNA from a double stranded DNA sample isolated from stem borer(rice affecting insect) ?

How to extract a single-stranded DNA from a double-stranded DNA sample isolated from stem borer(rice affecting insect)? As I need to amplify ss Dna using a COX-1 marker having primer sequence as...

22 January 2021 3,424 3 View

Triggering feeding of beetles / how to make them hungry?

Hey, I am working with Psylliodes chrysocephala feeding on oilseed rape. In feeding trials I often have the problem that a huge portion of the beetles do not feed at all. In clip cages I observed...

19 January 2021 9,851 6 View

Detection of insect eggs in stored and processed products?

Currently, in order to identify insect eggs in stored or processed products (such as contaminated flour or wafer samples), staining was performed based on the method mentioned in the below...

15 January 2021 6,362 5 View