April 2021

Pharmacognostic and phytochemical characterization of Maerua angolensis DC.

Maerua angolensis DC is a medicinal plant widely used in ethnomedicine in northern Nigeria. It is used to treat disease conditions like skin infections, sexually transmitted diseases, peptic ulcers and wounds amongst others. The plant is well known in Fulani Fulfude as leggal baali (or leggal mbaali). The plant was subjected to pharmacognostic and physicochemical characterization to establish standard profiles for...

Author(s): Obi Peter Adigwe, Jemilat Aliyu Ibrahim, Aisha Halilu Buhari, Kamal Abdurrahman Muhammed, Rukaiyatu Abdullahi Kirim, Abubakar Mustapha Danraka  and Henry Omoregie Egharevba

April 2021

Litterfall production, nutrient input and soil fertility in yerba-mate agroforestry systems

Adoption of agroforestry systems (AFS) for yerba mate (Ilex paraguariensis St. Hil.) production contributes to improvement of soil quality due to intense litterfall input. This study aimed (i) to quantify the litterfall input and its nutrients, as well as soil fertility attributes in yerba mate AFS (ii) to discriminate which soil fertility attributes and litterfall nutrients enabled differentiation of yerba mate AFS and...

Author(s): Neuri Carneiro Machado, Adriel Ferreira da Fonseca, Francisco Paulo Chaimsohn and Flavia Biassio Riferte

April 2021

Comparative effect of weed control methods on Mexican sunflower (Tithonia diversifolia) in maize

Mexican sunflower management in arable crops is becoming increasingly important due to its prevalent growth habit. The field experiments were conducted to compare weed suppressive abilities of two cover crops and two maize herbicides on Mexican sunflower.  The treatments consist of the pre-emergence application of Primextra Gold (atrazine + metolachlor) at 4 l/ha, a post-emergence application of Aminoforce (2, 4-D)...

Author(s): Josephine Olutayo Amosun, Olubunmi Abiodun Aluko and Donatus Obinna Ilem