The Niger Delta is a mature basin in Nigeria with petroleum reserve of about 40 billion barrels.
The onshore Niger Delta Paleogene-Neogene, where exploration commenced and was
concentrated before activities shifted to ...
Treatment of skin infections is of global concern due to contraindications, microbial resistance to conventional creams and their associated high cost. Saps from leaves of Dacryodes edulis (De) and Anacardium occidentale ...
Since its introduction in Nigeria in the 1970s, Tithonia diversifolia (Td),an invasive species has posed increasing threats to crop production and native species diversity. However, the autecology of Td which plays a key ...
Groundnut cake (Kulikuli) is a common snack in Nigeria prepared from groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.). Food contamination by aflatoxin-producing fungi remains a major health challenge in Nigeria. Fungal contamination in ...
Drought-induced stress in plants is associated with excessive production of radicals resulting in oxidative damage. Digitaria exilis (DE) locally known as Acha is a drought tolerant food crop cultivated mainly in semiarid ...
Solanum lycopersicum (tomato) is an essential vegetable crop consumed worldwide. Major limiting factors in its production include fungal foliar diseases. Phytotoxic fungi play critical roles in the pathogenesis and expression ...
The genus Phyllanthus (Phyllanthaceae) is of economic importance in herbal medicine
and owing to its diversity, grows in similar habitats and shares common local names in
Nigeria. These common local names give rise to ...
Heavy Metal (HM) pollution of soil is of global concern in view of the great risk HMs pose to human and animal health through the food chain. Remediation by plants has become an attractive means of HM removal because of ...
Severe destruction of cocoa pods in fields by Black Pod Disease (BPD) caused by Phytophthoramegakarya (Pm) is a major challenge to cocoa growing farmers. The inability of cocoa farmers in Nigeria to predict BPD outbreak ...
Soil pollution is a major anthropogenic problem which affects global food security and human health. Many bioremediation mechanisms have been used to ameliorate the problem, but there is dearth of knowledge on the use of ...
Maize is a crop that harbours diverse groups of rhizosphere microorganisms, among which are beneficial rhizobacteria known to enhance maize growth. However, there is limited information on their use in southwestern Nigeria ...