Volume 39 Issue 3

Published: 2025-06-25

Contents


Article
ESTIMATION OF LEAD AND CADMIUM LEVELS IN MUSCLES, LIVERS AND KIDNEYS OF SLAUGHTERED CATTLE IN MOSUL CITY

Hiba S. Al-naemi,

Lead and cadmium levels were estimated in 225 samples of muscles, livers and kidneys of slaughtered cattle (75 samples of each). The samples were collected from butcher shops in Mosul City and they...

Pages: 8-15
INFLUENCE OF SOIL MOISTURE AND SEED DEPTH ON GERMINATION AND SPEED RATE OF SOME FORAGE SHRUBS OF Chenopodiaceae

Ghufran Kattach,

This study was carried out in a protected area at Rangeland and Dry Environment Research Station, belongs to ACSAD and Aleppo university in the Muslumieh, Aleppo, during 2005, by cultivating 9...

Pages: 167-175
THE ECONOMIC USEFULNESS OF PRODUCING MEDICAL PLANTS PROJECT IN THE CITY OF MOSUL

Kays Nadhim Ghazal,

The research aims at studying the economic usefulness of producing medical plants project un the city of Mosul bu using economic evaluation criteria. A sample of medical plants was chosen including...

Pages: 10-18
EFFECT OF FEED WITHDRAWAL TO REDUCE THE NEGATIVE EFFECT OF HEAT STRESS ON SOME PHYSIOLOGICAL TRAITS AND PRODUCTIVE PERFORMANCE OF BROILER CHICKEN

I Ibrahim, S. AbdulRahman, D. Younus

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of feed withdrawal in reducing the negative effect of heat stress in broilers subjected to cyclic heat stress (25-36-25) 5C on some productive...

Pages: 84-93
EFFECT OF SOME MECHANICAL LIFTING TYPES ON THE QUALITATIVE & QUANTITATIVE LOSS OF POTATO CROP IN NINEVAH GOVERNORATE

Arkan M.A. Siddiq,

This research aimed to study some of the technical and economical effects including the use of two kinds of potato lifters with one stage of suspended type, the first foreigner made (Finnish) type...

Pages: 197-205
GENETIC COMBINING ABILITY OF YIELD AND ITS COMBONENTS BY RECIPROCAL EFFECT IN FIELD PEA (Pisum sativum L.).

Wiam Y. Rasheed Al-Shakarchy,

The experiment has carried out in the Field Crop Dept. College of Agriculture and Forestry, Mosul University by using Randomized Complete Block Design R.C.B.D with three replications, during two...

Pages: 156-166
EFFECT OF TIRES INFLATION PRESSURE , TILLAGE DEPTH AND FORWARD SPEED ON SOME FIELD PERFORMANCE CRITERIA OF TRACTOR

Mothana A. Al - Jarrah,

The research was conducted to investigate the effect of two inflation pressures for the rear tires of tractor 80 and 130 kpa with two plowing depths by using the moldboard plow 15 - 20 and 20 25...

Pages: 188-197
A STUDY OF SOME NON GENETIC FACTORS AND GENETIC PARAMETERS OF BODY WEIGHTS, DIMENSIONS AND FAT TAIL DIMENSIONS OF AWASSI SHEEP

Faris Y.Abdul-Rahman,

The study included 276 Awassi lambs born during the lambing season 2007 and 2008 and were maintained at College of Agriculture and Forestry Station, University of Mosul, and Animal Breeding...

Pages: 62-74
BIOLOGICAL AND ECOLOGICAL STUDY OF IRAQI BEETLE

Ismail Najim Almaroof,

The life cycle of Adoretus irakanus Ohs. Which attack poplar species was studied in Iraq in 2007under laboratory conditions ( 30.5 C and 25.5% ). The study showed that the mean length of incubation...

Pages: 216-224
EFFECT OF Rosemarinus officinalis PLANT AND H2O2 1% ON SOME PHYSIOLOGICAL , HISTOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS IN MALE Mus musculus

Raja Mustafa Al-Annaz,

This study was conducted to investigate the effect of Rosemarinus officinalis powder 10g/kg food against the oxidative stress induced by 1% H2O2 in drinking water in mature male mouse two month...

Pages: 102-111
UTILIZE OF WATER QUALITY INDEX TO ASSESSMENT WATER WELLS IN DEBAGH-MAKHUMAR PLAIN N-E OF IRAQ

Umar N. Abdul Qader,

Water quality index (WQI) has been used as a geometric mean method to evaluate and classify 13 wells water, six of them are shallow wells and penetrate quaternary aquifer, the rest are deep wells...

Pages: 45-54
EFFECT OF ALKOHOLIC EXTRACTS OF CHAMOMILE (Matricaria chamomilla L.) CALLUS IN INITIATION, GROWTH AND PROTEIN CONTENT OF BLACK BEAN (Nigella sativa L.)STEMS CALLUS

Rana T.Y. Altaee,

The study was carried out to know the effect of alkoholic extracts of chamomile (Matricaria chamomilla L.) in callus initiation and growth of explants of black bean (Nigella sativa L.) ,apart from...

Pages: 28-36
THE LEVEL OF RURAL WOMAN KNOWLEDGE IN DOMAIN ANIMALS BREEDING AND ITS RELATION WITH SOME VARIABLES FIELD STUDY IN THE TWO VILLAGES OF

Zeki H. AL-Leela,

The present study aims basically at an assessment of the knowledge of rural area women , the animals breeding domain. Also it aims at specifying the relationship and difference between rural women...

Pages: 1-9
KINETIC APPROACH OF CALCIUM CARBONATE SOLUBILITY AFFECTED BY IONIC STRENGTH OF WATER IN SOME CALCAREOUS SOILS OF NORTHERN IRAQ

M.A. Al-Obaidi, A.W. Abdel-Kareem, H.M. Ahmed

This study reveal four locations from north Iraq having different soils orders classified to series level namely: Zawaita - 653CEE - Mollisols. Batail 452CCW Vertisols. Nineveh forest 432 CCF...

Pages: 37-44
EFFECT OF USING LOCAL UNTREATED BLACK BARLEY OR TREATED WITH B-GLUCANASE ENZYME OR GERMINATED INSTEAD OF YELLOW CRON IN LAYING HENS NUTRITION

Ibrahim Said Ibrahim,

This study was conducted in the fields of the College of Veterinary Medicine / Mosul University , for five months duration . A total of 210 hens (Hubbard breed) were distributed in seven...

Pages: 55-61
EFFECT 0F HIGH AND COLD TEMPERATURE STORAGE PERIOD AND KIND OF WATER ON SUSPENSION STABILTY OF MALATHION AND METHOMYL INSECTICIDES

Nazar M .Al-Mallah,

The Results of studying the effect of tropical and cold storage periods and kind of water (hard water.tap water. river water. Well water).on suspension stability of Malathion and Methomyl showed...

Pages: 206-215
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FRUIT CONTENT OF Ca, N AND

Nameer Najeeb Fadhil,

The study carried out in Jordan University, College of Agriculture to investigate the relationship between apple fruit disorders and mineral content of N, Ca and Mg of apple fruits cvs. Fuji and...

Pages: 25-31
EFFECT OF AQUEOUS AND ALCOHOLIC EXTRACTS OF SOME SPICES ON GROWING OF Asperigillus flavus AND A. parasiticus AND AFLATOXIN PRODUCTION

Salah Omer Ahmad,

The effect of aqueous and alcoholic extracts of thyme, ginger and rosemary (garland) on growing of Asperigillus flavus and A. parasiticus and their production of aflatoxins B1 and G1 in solid and...

Pages: 112-122
EFFECT OF SOIL AND FOLIAR APPLICATION OF IRON CHELATE ON NUTRIENT BALANCE IN LENTIL (Lens esculenta L.) BY USING MODIFIED DRIS EQUATION

Dalshad .A.Darwesh,

A pot experiment was conducted to investigate the influence of two different Fe sources (Fe-EDTA and Fe-EDDHA) were sprayed on to the leaves and applied to the soil in levels were involved 0, 10,...

Pages: 39-49
STUDY OF SOME GENETIC AND NON GENETIC FACTORS AFFECTING MILK YEILD AND SOME OF IT ̉S PHYSICAL PROPERTIES IN AWASSI AND HAMDANI SHEEP

Sameem F. Al-Dabbagh,

This study was conducted on two flocks of Awassi and Hamdani ewes belongs to the animal resources department College of Agriculture and Forestry at Mosul University, and another flock of Awassi...

Pages: 94-101
A STUDY OF SOME NON GENETIC FACTORS AND GENETIC PARAMETERS OF BODY WEIGHTS, DIMENSIONS AND FAT TAIL DIMENSIONS OF AWASSI SHEEP

Faris Y.Abdul-Rahman

The study included 276 records of Awassi lambs born in two flocks during the lambing season 2007 and 2008 and were maintained at College of Agriculture and Forestry Station, University of Mosul,...

Pages: 75-83
EFFECT OF COMPRESSION WOOD ON SOME CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF Pinus brutia Ten. LEANING TREES

Abdulrazak R. S. Almalah,

This study was conducted to show the effect of compression wood on some chemical characteristics of brutia pine Pinus brutia Ten. trees growing naturally at Dohuk provenance and to compare it with...

Pages: 135-144
KINETICS OF POTASSIUM DESORPTION FROM ENTISOL, VERTISOL AND MOLLISOL USING MISCIBLE DISPLACEMENT TECHNIQUE IN SULAMANI GOVERNORATE.

Ghafoor A. Mam Rasul,

Kinetics of desorption were conducted on soil samples previously examined for adsorption characteristics from the surface horizon of seven soils of Sulaimani governorate in Kurdistan region of Iraq...

Pages: 32-38
PRODUTION OF LOW FAT PROCESSED CHEESE FROM SHEEP MILK CHEESE AND DRIED SKIM MILK

S. KH. Badawi, A.K. Hassan, Z. N. Taher

Full cream sheep milk cheese was used as main part in the processing of processed cheese .This product was mixed with dried skim milk to produce three types of low, medium and high fat level (20,30...

Pages: 123-134
CALLUS INITIATION AND SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS FROM CULTURED LEAF EXPLANTS OF Gladiolus hybrid

Alaa Hashem. Y. Altaee, Bashar. Z. Kassab bashi

The present study was carried out in Plant Tissue Culture laboratory, from August . ( 2008 ) to February ( 2009 ), of Gladiolus plants " White prosperity " cv. Medium and base parts of leaves...

Pages: 19-27
EFFECT OF DIFFERENT LEVELS AND TIMING OF BORON FOLIAR APPLICATION ON GROWTH, YIELD AND QUALITY OF SUNFLOWER GENOTYPES (Helianthus annuus L.)

Ayad T. Shaker,

Two field experiments were conducted at AL-Rashidia Location, west north Mosul city , Nineveh province, during two successive growing of 2008 : spring and autumn, in a sandy Loam soil to study the...

Pages: 16-24
ROLE OF FUNGI ON THE SOLUBILIZATION OF ROCKPHOSPHATE AND ON GROWTH OF CORN (Zea mays )

Ghiath M.Kassim,

A pot experiment was conducted to study the role of different genera of fungi on the solubilization of rock phosphate using a loamy clay calcareous soil , classified as typic claciorthid . A pure...

Pages: 50-57
COMBINING ABILITY AND RECIPROCAL EFFECT FOR YIELD AND ITS COMBONENTS IN F2 FABA BEAN(Vicia faba L.)

Wiam Y. Rasheed Al-Shakarchy,

The experiment was carried out in the Field of the college of Agriculture and Forestry , Mosul University during growing season of 2009/2010 , General and specific combining abilities were...

Pages: 145-155
EFFECT OF BODY CONDITION SCORE OF HAMDANI AND KARADI EWES ON THEIR REPRODUCTIVE AND MEAT PRODUCTIVITY OF THEIR LAMBS

Imad Al-Deen M. Dahal

Eighty five Hamdani (H) and 41 Karadi (K) ewes were included in four body condition score (BCS) groups, to study the effect of ewe BCS at tapping on their fertility, lambing percentage, milk...

Pages: 1-7