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Dahanayake, N.; Xiao-Lu Chen; Fu-Cheng Zhao; Yue-Sheng Yang; Hong Wu(Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2010-04-07)
An efficient in vitro propagation culture system was developed for purple coneflower. In the system,
adventitious buds were first regenerated from leaf, petiole and root explants of aseptic seedlings on MS
medium with ...
Ferdous, J.; Islam, W.; Parween, S.(Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2010-04-27)
Insect growth regulators (IGRs), triflumuron at concentrations of 0.001, 0.05 and 0.1ppm, and
diflubenzuron at concentrations of 0.005, 0.05 and 0.01ppm in presence of 2-, 4- and 8 pairs of a preda tor Xylocoris flavipes ...
Walpola, B.C.; Arunakumara, K.K.I.U.(Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2010-02-05)
Crop residues, as a reliable source of nutrients in many agro-ecosystems could minimize the dependen cy on commercial fertilizers. The particle size of crop residues is a matter of concern as it determines
the accessibility ...
Abeywickrama, W.S.S.; Jayasooriya, M.C.N.(Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2010-02-06)
Kirala (Sonneratia caseolaris) is one of the tropical fruits that has received less attention from the food
industry. A large number of ripen fruits are wasted during the fruiting-season. The modern preserva tion ...
Dahanayake, N.; Chen, Xiao-Lu; Zhao, Fu-Cheng; Yang, Yue-Sheng; Wu, Hong(Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2010-02-09)
Doubling the chromosome number of diploid and haploid Echinacea purpurea plants have high applica ble values for genetic improvements of the crop. Field experiments have shown that the tetraploid
plants grow vigorously ...
Leelamanie, D.A.L.(Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2010-02-11)
Changes in soil water content with increasing ambient relative humidity was examined using model
soils prepared by mixing silica sand with different types of organic matter and different types and con tents of clays. In ...
Motha, K.F.; Abeysekara, R.; Kottearachchi, N.S.(Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2010-02-19)
A study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of Pseudomonas fluorescens and Trichoderma
viride and two botanicals; ground neem seed and tobacco waste dust for the control of Root-Knot Nematodes (RKN) in Tobacco. ...
Gunasekara, G.K.D.S.(Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2009-10-07)
The Granary Area Programme (GAP) was designed to enhance the productivity of rice farming in areas with high potential for rice cultivation in Sri Lanka. The purpose of this study was to assess the impacts of the programme ...
Pushpakumari, H.W.L.; Samarasinghe, W.L.G.; Senanayake, S.G.J.N.(Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2009-09-28)
Fourteen Kolikuttu accessions showing morphological variation and Fusarium wilt tolerance were col lected. Extracted DNA was subjected to PCR using six SSR primers. PCR products were separated by
PAGE and bands were ...
Delina Felix, E.; Mahendran, T.(Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2009-10-08)
A study was undertaken to investigate the effect of pectin as an edible coating on the postharvest quality of mature green tomatoes at 30°C. The tomatoes were dipped in the concentrations of 1, 3 and 5%
(w/v) pectin ...
De Alwis, A.E.N.; Edirisinghe, J.C.; Athauda, A.M.T.P.(Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2009-10-06)
This study focused on analysing the consumer attitudes, demographic and economic factors that affect ing fresh milk consumption among the mid-country consumers of Sri Lanka. Data were collected
through a consumer survey ...
De Silva, A.L.C.; De Costa, W.A.J.M.(Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2009-10-06)
The study was conducted to evaluate some physiological characters of commercial sugarcane varieties
under different growing conditions in Sri Lanka. A field experiment was conducted at the Sugarcane
Research Institute, ...
Mutucumarana, R.K.; Samarasinghe, K.; Vidanarachchi, J.K.; Ranjith, G.W.H.A.A.; Wijeratne, A.W.(Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2009-09-29)
The effects of substitution of poultry offal meal (POM) for soybean meal (SBM) and the effect of sup plementation of POM by a mixture of solid state fermentation enzymes (SSF) and Lipase on egg quality
traits of Japanese ...
Prabhaharan, M.; Rakshit, S.K.(Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2009)
High phosphatide containing oils like soybean oil, have two types of phosphatide (gum) namely, the hydratable and non-hydratable. Simple water degumming will not remove non-hydratable gums. Water
degumming alone is not ...
Sandika, A.L.(Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2009-10-01)
Wholesale prices as well as retail prices of rice increased sharply towards the end of 2007 and 2008. The
year 2008/09 rice prices of Samba, Kakulu and Nadu rice have reached Rs 70, Rs 65 and Rs 50 respectively. Therefore, ...
Warakagoda, P.S.; Subasinghe, S.(Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2009-09-30)
Jatropha curcas seeds (immature, mature, fully mature) were collected and surface sterilized using dif ferent concentrations of Clorox (5.25% sodium hypochlorite –NaOCl) with different exposure times
followed by dipping ...
Sandika, A.L.; Dushani, S.N.(Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2009-10-01)
The Sri Lanka government is promoting the development of agriculture sector with the slogan of “Let
us grow more to uplift the nation”. Therefore, this study was carried out to analyse the growth perfor mance of rice ...
Senavirathna, M.D.H.J.; Weerasinghe, K.D.N.; Maier, M.; Rosemann, H.(Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2009-09-29)
Solar distillation is one of the appropriate methods which could be used to reduce cost of power in the
process of water purification. The commonly used single basin solar distillation systems are not efficient
in the ...
Banureka, V.D.; Mahendran, T(Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2009-10-11)
A research study was conducted to evaluate the quality characteristics of protein enriched biscuits
which could be used as a protein supplemented cereal snack food. The use of soy flour to substitute it
with wheat flour ...
Piyaratne, M.K.D.K.; Atapattu, N.S.B.M.; Mendis, A.P.S.; Amarasinghe, A.G.C.(Faculty of Agriculture-University of Ruhuna, 2009-09-30)
Objective of this study was to determine whether the adverse effects associated with high dietary rice
bran (RB) inclusion levels in broiler diets could be corrected by balancing diets for higher number of
amino acids ...