(1) Biochemical investigations showed that plasma alpha-amino nitrogen was significantly reduced in jowar fed groups, indicating the deficiency of utilisable proteins in these chicks.
(2) The affect of feeding jowar (Sorghum vulgare) was investigated in day old chicks for the periods of 10 and 30 days.
(3) The blood sugar levels in chicks fed on jowar for 10 and 30 days were significantly higher as compared to the respective controls.
(4) Liver glycogen in 10 days jowar fed chicks was significantly greater than in the control group.
(5) The jowar fed chicks showed marked reduction in growth, poor development of comb and feathers, and symptoms of nicotinic acid deficiency.
(6) Four new media, namely Wheat straw extract agar, Bajra straw extract agar, Jowar straw extract agar and Paddy straw extract agar, were evaluated for their potential to stimulate the growth and sporulation of Madurella mycetomatis in comparison with the conventional Sabouraud dextrose agar and Soil extract agar.
Maize
Definition:
(n.) A large species of American grass of the genus Zea (Z. Mays), widely cultivated as a forage and food plant; Indian corn. Also, its seed, growing on cobs, and used as food for men animals.
Example Sentences:
(1) Their contour lengths varied from 0.28 to 51 micron, but unlike in the case of maize, a large difference was not observed in the distribution of molecular classes greater than 1.0 micron between N and S cytoplasms of sugar beet.
(2) The optimum is 30 degrees C for the maize isolate and only 20 degrees C for the haricot bean isolate.
(3) The lambs of the second group were given 1200-1500 g of concentrate pellets and 300 g chopped wheat straw, and those of the third group were given 800 and 1050 g each of concentrate pellets, and 540 g and 720 g of pellets of whole maize plant containing 40 per cent.
(4) Fumonisins are mycotoxins produced by strains belonging to several different mating populations of Gibberella fujikuroi (anamorphs, Fusarium section Liseola), a major pathogen of maize and sorghum worldwide.
(5) Additionally, the component parts of Mu elements exist separately in the maize genome.
(6) The orf25 coding region shares greater than 85% identity with orf25 sequences from maize, tobacco and wheat, suggesting that orf25 may code for a conserved protein product.
(7) A pollen-specific cDNA clone, Zmc13, has been isolated from a cDNA library constructed to poly(A) RNA from mature maize pollen.
(8) In vivo, in vitro, and in situ plant assays are presented, and the maize wx locus assay is discussed.
(9) When electroporated into maize protoplasts from a suspension cell line not synthesizing anthocyanins, reporter genes with Bz2, Bz1, and A1 promoters are expressed only when both R and C1 expression plasmids are co-electroporated.
(10) The promoter segment of a plant gene (maize alcohol dehydrogenase 1 (Adh 1)) has been fused to two bacterial reporter genes, Ecogpt (1) and neo (2), in pSV2-derived vectors and introduced into cultured mammalian cells by DNA transfection.
(11) The primary amino acid sequence of the enzyme exhibits only 25.0% and 21.1% identity with 177 and 151 amino acid residues of maize glutathione S-transferase I and rat glutathione S-transferase Yb2, respectively.
(12) In studies with PEPC isolated from leaves of maize, an assay coupled with reduction of OAA to malate was compared with product analysis using high-performance liquid chromatography and an assay based on Pi release.
(13) The diet of pre-school children in this region of Kenya consists foremost of maize and milk.
(14) of fission neutrons for the induction of yellow-green sectors in maize.
(15) In-vitro, PAA showed the best bioadhesive properties, followed by modified maize starch and PEG with a mol.
(16) Three trials were conducted at the beginning of lactation, with maize silage, grass silage or grass silage and hay based diets.
(17) Each field is like a room: mostly wheat or pasture but occasionally barley, oilseed rape, maize or broad beans.
(18) The carboxy-terminal part of the maize homeodomain protein is related to the human Oct2 transcription factor, but homology to the POU specific domain is restricted to the POU-B subdomain.
(19) The staples of the poor consisted of one or two bulky carbohydrate meals (derivatives of different species of cocoyam, cassava, yam and maize) eaten with vegetable soup in palm oil, melon seeds, snail, occasional meat and fish.
(20) One pair of sheep was fed on the frozen grass and the other pair was fed on the grass-maize pellets.