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Volume 15 (2012): Recent submissions

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Germination potential of toddy palm (caryota urens), cardamom (elettaria cardamomum) and nutmeg (myristica fragrans) seeds under in vivo conditions

Rodrigo, W.D.R.J.; Dahanayake, N.; Senanayake, S.G.J.N. (Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2012-06-04)

Kithul (Caryota urens: Arecaceae), Cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum: Zingiberaceae) and Nutmeg (Myristica fragrans: Myristaceae) are three species having great export potential in Sri Lanka. Due to the hard seed coat the ...
Preparation of ready-to-serve beverage from tropical almond (terminalia cattappa) fruit pulp

Weerasekara, W.M.R.A.B.; Rathnayaka, R.M.U.S.K.; Saranandha, K.H. (Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2012-08-01)

Tropical Almond (Kottamba) is a locally available underutilized fruits which is rich in vitamins, pigments and antioxidants. In this research, ready to serve drink (RTS) was produced using ripened Tropical Almond fruits. ...
Preparation of ready-to-serve beverage from tropical almond (terminalia cattappa) fruit pulp

Weerasekara, W.M.R.A.B.; Rathnayaka, R.M.U.S.K.; Saranandha, K.H. (Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2012-08-01)

Tropical Almond (Kottamba) is a locally available underutilized fruits which is rich in vitamins, pigments and antioxidants. In this research, ready to serve drink (RTS) was produced using ripened Tropical Almond fruits. ...
Qtl analysis of dehydration tolerance at seedling stage in rice (oryza sativa l.)

Ranawake, A.L.; Nakamura, C. (Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2012-06-04)

Dehydration tolerant QTLs at the seedling stage in rice (Oryza sativa L.) was studied using green shoot length as a parameter, which was measured during the recovery period after dehydration stress. According to the ...
Factors influencing the responsiveness of male oriental fruit fly, bactrocera dorsalis, to methyl eugenol (3, 4 dimethoxyalyl benzene)

Karunaratne, M.M.S.C.; Karunaratne, U.K.P.R. (Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2012-06-04)

The parapheromone, methyl eugenol (ME) (3, 4 dimethoxyalyl benzene), occurring in a variety of plant species, is the most effective known lure attracting the male oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel). Bioassays ...
Effect of potting mixture on growth and yield of chilli varieties (capsicum spp) and microbial activity

Dahanayake, N.; Madurangi, S.A.P.; Ranawake, A.L. (Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2011-09-20)

The study was carried out as pot experiments using a Green Chilli variety, MI 2, and a Curry Chilli variety, Hungarian Yellow Wax (HYW) at the research field, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ruhuna. The basal soil ...
Multiplier effect of micro credit investment among sma - ll scale poultry agribusiness entrepreneurs in delta sta - te, Nigeria

Achoja, F.O. (Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2011-04-16)

Financial injection, through credit program is expected to result in a proportional increase in saving and investment of beneficiaries. The multiplier measures the size of the carry-through effect of credit. It is ...
Explaining fish consumption behavior in Sri-Lanka: the role of consideration set size, attitude, knowledge, con venience orientation, price consciousness, and variety seeking tendency

Pethiyagoda, N.A.; Olsen, S.O. (Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2012-08-01)

This study focuses on how and why consumers vary, know and consider different kind of alternatives of fish in their diet. Consideration set size of fish is considered to be affected by consumer attitude, convenience ...
Journalists’ attitude towards maternal health education broadcast on radio in Oyo State, Nigeria

Thomas, K.A.; Tijani, S.A.; Seidu, A.A. (Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2011-04-17)

The study investigated journalists’ attitude towards maternal health education (MHE) broadcast on radio in Oyo State, Nigeria. One hundred journalists were surveyed randomly from the federal, state and privately owned ...
Assessment of salinity tolerance in an inbred population of rice (oryza sativa l) derived from a Japonica X Indica cross

Ranawake, A.L.; Nakamura, C. (Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2011-11-06)

Development of methodologies for the characterization of parental rice cultivars under different abiotic stress conditions is important to exploit the genetic components of the relevant stress in populations us ing ...
An assessment of the perception of facilitators of cotton integrated pest management programme in Sindh province of Pakistan

Akhtar, A. S.; Agha, T. P.; Ghulam, S. M.; Imran, K. (Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2011-07-16)

The purpose of this study conducted in the Sindh province of Pakistan was to assess the performance of facilitator of agriculture extension during implementation of Farmer Field School (FFS) trainings in 2001 to 2004 ...
Impact of food price increase on poor households in Sri Lanka

Koralagama, D.N.; Sandika, A.L. (Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2012-02-03)

Food price inflation was one of the major crises mooted in recent past. Marginalized poor people were hammered largely in developing countries including Sri Lanka. The awareness and preparedness for food crisis can ...
Callus induction and plantlet regeneration ability of selected Sri Lankan traditional rice cultivars (oryza sativa l.) In caryopses culture

Dahanayake, N.; Ranawake, A.L. (Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2011-01-05)

A total of forty Sri Lankan traditional rice varieties (Oryza sativa L) were examined for their callus induction, growth and regeneration ability at Laboratory of Agricultural Biology, Faculty of Agriculture, University ...
Addressing multi-stakeholder conflicts in the coastal zone through a special area management (sam) process: a case study in Rekawa of the southern Sri-Lanka

Pethiyagoda, N.A.; Amarasinghe, O. (Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2011-06-28)

It is accepted globally that management of the coastal zone should be done through an integrated process. Special Area Management (SAM) is a particular form of Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM), which addresses ...
Identification of rastrococcus rubellus williams (hemipte ra: pseudococcidae) on mango: a new record to Sri Lanka

Galanihe, L.D.; Watson, G.W. (Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2012-05-08)

An island-wide survey of mealybugs (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) conducted in 2008/09 helped identify two species of Rastrococcus from Sri Lanka. R. invadens Williams was identified from samples collected on Plumeria sp. ...
Med16/sfr6 is necessary but not sufficient for cor gene ex pression of cbf pathway

Wathugala, D.L.; Heather Knight; Marc R Knight (Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2011-11-05)

Developing stress tolerant crops to cope with the rapid environmental degradation that is occurring is an absolute requirement in order to provide enough food for growing population. One of the basic genetic engineering ...
Proximate analysis and phytochemical and mineral constituents in four cultivars of yams and tuber crops in Sri Lanka

Senanayake, S.A.; Ranaweera, K.K.D.S.; Bamunuarachchi, A.; Gunaratne, A. (Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2011-03-22)

A study was carried out to determine the levels of starch, protein, crude fat, crude fibre, ash and a few phytochemical constituents (saponins, flavanoids and alkaloids) and mineral elements (Calcium, Magnesium, Iron, ...
Assessment of macrogeographical genetic variations in jatropha curcas l in india using allozyme and rapd markers

Warrier, R.R.; Devika Nagalakshmi, B.; Savitha, C.; Anandalakshmi, R.; Nicodemus, A.; Singh, G.B. (Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2011-09-20)

Jatropha curcas L., an exotic introduced in to India by Portuguese about 500 years ago, was assessed for its genetic base in the country as a step to initiate breeding programmes. Genetic diversity of 56 accessions of ...
Influence of extension agents’ and farmers’ communications factors on the effectiveness poultry technology messages

Ofuoku, A.U. (Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2011-12-15)

This study was conducted in Delta State to determine the influence of extension agents’ and farmers’ communication factors on effectiveness of production technology messages. One hundred and eighty (180) poultry farmers ...
Influence of humidity and tribolium beetle food souce on the life history characteristics of predator, xylocoris flavipes (hemiptera: anthocoridae)

Saha, S.R.; Islam, W.; Parween, S. (Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2011-09-26)

Life history characteristics of the predator, Xylocoris flavipes reared under four regimes of RH (30, 50, 70 and 90%) on two hosts, Tribolium castaneum and T. confusum fed on three artificial diets, were studied. There ...

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