ABSTRACT In the context of climate change, sweet potato (Ipomea batatas) production has the ability to increase ecosystem resilience and alleviate food insecurity and malnutrition. However, sustainable production of the ...

The amaranth vegetable has been shown to be rich in micronutrients as well as many bioactive compounds. The crop, however, has different species and varieties which possess different nutritional attributes. Though the ...

Coffee is the most valued commodity among the stimulant crops. Its production is important in over 80 increasing countries including Burundi, for which it is the key foreign currency earner. The present study sought to ...

The honey bee, Apis mellifera Linnaeus (Hymenoptera: Apidae) is a major pollinator of agricultural crops. However, this role has been threatened by the small hive beetle (SHB) Aethina tumida Murray (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae), ...

Baobab (Adansonia digitata L.) is one of the underutilized fruit trees which have continued to provide more non-timber benefits to the people. These trees are mostly used traditionally for their oil, food and medicinal ...

The majority of the world's poor people live in rural areas of low-income countries, and their main source of income is subsistence farming. Low productivity in agriculture and limited access to non-farm income sources, ...

The inappropriate use of antibiotics has resulted in an increase in drug-resistant pathogenic bacteria. The global problem calls for alternative novel antimicrobial agents with a wide range of clinical significance. ...

Leafy Amaranthus is an important food crop due to its high nutritional value, healthy benefits and improvement of farmers’ livelihoods mostly in Sub-Sahara Africa. The green peach aphid, Myzus persicae (Sulzer) is a major ...

Rebuilding up soil organic carbon (SOC) and by extension nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) fertility is a way to mitigating climate change. Push-pull technology could mitigate climate change through sequestering carbon in ...

The cholesterol secosterol aldehydes, namely 3β-hydroxy-5-oxo-5, 6-secocholestan-6-al (secosterol A) and its aldolization product 3β-hydroxy-5β-hydroxy-B-norcholestane-6β-carboxaldehyde (secosterol B) are highly bioactive ...