Abstract The aim of this study was to induce balanced anesthesia characterized by good hypnosis, analgesia and reducing the side effects of the drugs at the same time, so that, the effect of ketamine administration with both morphine and aspirin was studied in 90 chicks at 10-21 day-old and compare Read more
Abstract The current study was conducted in poultry farm which belong to department of animal production, college of Agriculture, University of Kufa during the period from 11/3/2018 to 15/4/2018. The study included 3 standard treatment groups respectively containing 1, 2, 3 gm of Dill / kg of feed in addition Read more
Abstract The current study was conducted in the middle of Iraq during the period of 21/8/2017 to 30/4/2018 to determine the most important problems that faced buffalo breeding. Ninety questionnaires forms including 21 important questions were distributed to the best 90 breeders selected from buffalo breeders in two locations, 1st Read more
Abstract The species of Eurytomidae family and their trophic associations with different plants were studied in two provinces of Iran (Hamedan and Lorestan). Seed-feeding Eurytomid wasps were reared from different plant seeds collected during 2008-2012. Totally 600 specimens of Eurytomid wasps were collected. Among them, 6 Eurytomid wasp species were Read more
Abstract This study was conducted in the laboratories of the Plant Protection Department/College of Agriculture/University of Basra between 2016 and 2017.The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficiency of Chaetomium globosum and some other saprophytic fungi to control of tomato leaf spot caused by Alternaria alternata. The result of this study Read more
Abstract The study was carried out, in the laboratory of Plant Virology, Plant Protection Department, College of Agriculture, University of Kerbala, to isolate and identify six isolates of the fungus Cladosporium sphaerospermum isolated from different environments (seeds, air, plant residues, and soil) in Al-Najaf province, Iraq. The fungal isolates were identified using Read more
Abstract The khapra beetle, Trogoderma granarium is an important pest of stored wheat worldwide. The current study was carried out to evaluate the lethal and the sublethal three concentrations of neem oil on T. granarium. We also assessed the effect of neem oil on the growth of fungal species associated with T. granarium infected wheat grains. The Read more
Abstract Soybean sudden death syndrome (SDS) caused by Fusarium virguliforme is a common and widespread disease across soybean-growing regions worldwide. Experiments were conducted in temperature-controlled water baths in the greenhouse to test the effects of some genes from syntaxin group (SYP22-3 and SYP22-4) on F.virguliforme and the combination of SDS and soybean cyst nematode Read more
Abstract Field dodder (Cuscuta pentagona) is a predominant plan parasite on Solanaceous vegetables in Iraq. Series of field experiments were carried out in Najaf province during 2018 season to evaluate the efficiency of Bonanza to control C. pentagona parasitizing on eggplant. Results highlighted that there were significant differences in all studied indicators Read more
Abstract This study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of some neonicotinoid insecticides including, Actara 25 WDG (foliar and soil treatment), Confidor 200 SL, Calypso 480 SC, Polo, Confidor 5 G against cotton whitefly Bemisia tabaci on Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) during the growing season of 2018. The results revealed that the highest Read more
