(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.
Sorghum
Definition:
(n.) A genus of grasses, properly limited to two species, Sorghum Halepense, the Arabian millet, or Johnson grass (see Johnson grass), and S. vulgare, the Indian millet (see Indian millet, under Indian).
(n.) A variety of Sorghum vulgare, grown for its saccharine juice; the Chinese sugar cane.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) They dealt in dozens of different commodities – from major grains such as wheat and sorghum to specialised food aid products such as corn-soy blend.
(3) Studies were conducted to compare the effects of feeding high-tannin sorghum (HTS)- and low-tannin sorghum (LTS)-based diets suboptimal in protein to ducks, chicks, and rats.
(4) The purpose of this study was to attempt to establish a possible relationship between the physical characteristics of grain sorghum and its capacity to expand.
(5) Cinematically, RED SORGHUM achieved a fantastically rich colour palette in its politically less-than-correct depiction of Chinese peasant life – blood and earth predominate – and trod a careful political line by focusing on atrocities by the invading Japanese rather than internal repression.
(6) There are numerous sustainable options, including packing materials made from corn starch or sorghum , which can be composted .
(7) Regulation of the in vitro phosphorylation process of the photosynthetic form (G form) of Sorghum leaf Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC: EC 4.1.1.31) was studied.
(8) Sorghum mitochondrial atp6 occurs as one copy in the line Tx398 and as two copies in IS1112C.
(9) The development of new heterowaxy or waxy sorghum hybrids may further increase sorghum feed efficiency.
(10) Experiments 1 and 2 were 35-d growth trials in which barley was substituted for gain sorghum at levels of 0, 10, 20, 30 and 40% of the diet.
(11) The antibodies were tested against whole wheat gliadin and its alpha, beta, gamma, and omega subfractions, and the prolamins of rye, barley, oats, maize, millet, rice, and sorghum.
(12) F. napiforme and F. nygamai also may be important because of their association with the food grains millet and sorghum.
(13) Hays offered included two sorghum-sudan, four barley, four oat and two pearl millet.
(14) We studied the heritability of fumonisin production in mating population A by crossing fumonisin-producing strains collected from maize and sorghum in the United States with fumonisin-nonproducing strains collected from maize in Nepal.
(15) These supplements consisted of 60% wheat middlings and various ratios of soybean meal and grain sorghum to achieve the desired CP concentration.
(16) To further substantiate the regulatory role of this disulfide, site-directed mutagenesis has been used to replace each or both of the amino-terminal cysteines of the sorghum leaf NADP-malate dehydrogenase, expressed in Escherichia coli, by serines.
(17) It produced the same effect on phosphorus balance only in sorghum groups.
(18) The exon of sorghum tRNAleu gene has an identical nt sequence to its counterpart in maize.
(19) Cows were assigned randomly to receive a control [C; containing grain sorghum (GS) and soybean meal (SBM)] or CSFA-based (containing Megalac [a source of CSFA], GS, and SBM) supplement.
(20) Since activation of the alveolar macrophage to release chemotactic activity represents an additional indirect mechanism of neutrophil recruitment, an extract from grain sorghum dust was evaluated for its ability to stimulate guinea pig and human alveolar macrophages to release neutrophil chemotactic activity.