March 2012

Effect of oil types as pollutants on physiognomic characteristics of Gmelina arborea in the tropical rainforest zone of Nigeria

The research was designed at studying the effect of oil pollution on the physiognomic characteristics of Gmelina arborea and the pollutants used are diesel oil and spent engine oil respectively. The experiment lasted for 6 months before analysis was done. Five treatments were carried out separately for diesel oil and spent engine oil in which the application of pollutants was at the rate 0, 400, 800, 1200 and...

Author(s): Alamu L. O., Ojo A. O. and Ogunesan B. A.      

March 2012

Evaluation of some okra (Abelmoschus spp L.) germplasm in Ghana

Twenty-five accessions of okra collected from different parts of Ghana were evaluated for their horticultural and agronomic attributes in the major and minor cropping seasons of 2008 at the crop and soil sciences experimental field, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Kumasi, Ghana, using a randomized complete block design (RCBD) with four replications. The objectives of the experiment were...

Author(s): D. Oppong-Sekyere , R. Akromah, E. Y. Nyamah, E. Brenya and S. Yeboah