It is estimated that less than 1% of all known environmental bacteria are culturable. It is currently believed that the uses of genetic approaches including metagenomics can bypass culturing of microorganisms and allow ...

Microbiological profiles and safety of street-vended food collected from vendors in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia were determined in 1998 and 1999. The 150 samples of foods investigated consisted of sambllssa (legume-based), ...

The tree species Moringa stenopetala belongs to the family Moringaceae and represented only by a single genus Moringa. M. stenopetala is a native tree in Southern Ethiopia, North Kenya and Eastern Somalia. It plays a ...

Ethiopia lies within the earliest geographic center for the dispersal of livestock into the African continent. It therefore comprises a unique repository of livestock genetic diversity in the continent. However, information ...

Studies on molluscicidal activity of plants have drawn increasing attention due to such issues as environmental preservation, high cost, and concern over emerging of resistance in snails to synthetic molluscicides. In ...

Drug resistance is the most serious problem in achieving control of malaria. The spread of Plasmodium falciparum resistance to almost all available affordable mono-therapy, in many malaria endemic regions, is a serious ...

Fifty grasspea populations that were selected based on administrative regions and different altitude classes were used in tins study. A total of 1199 entries were evaluated for 14 qualitative and quantitative morphological ...

The diversity and ecology of fungi in general and macrofungi in particular, have been largely neglected in Ethiopia. In this context, this research aimed at providing documentation and analysis of wild mushroom diversity ...

Seventy landrace accessions and eleven genotypes were used for morphological and ISSR diversity study. The plant materials were grown in a simple lattice design of two replications for morphological diversity study at ...

Anchote (Coccinia abyssinica), is a perennial climbing, monoecious root crop, endemic and indigenous to Ethiopia. It is distributed over a wide range of agro-ecologies adapted to various altitudinal ranges. The root of ...