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Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52348#.VJJGRcnQrzE Author(s) Maciej Buśko 1 , Tomasz Góral 2 , Anna Ostrowska 1 , Anna Matysiak 1 , Dorota Walentyn-Góral 2 , Juliusz Perkowski 1 Affiliation(s) 1 Department of Chemistry, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poznan, Poland . 2 Department of Plant Pathology, Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute—NRI, Blonie, Poland . ABSTRACT Grain of 30 winter wheat cultivars was screened for the content of seven flavonoids (apigenin, kaempferol, luteolin, naringenin, quercetin, rutin, vitexin). In total, 90 samples were analyzed, belonging to three combinations: the control, samples inoculated with Fusarium culmorum, an...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50998#.VFHTtVfHRK0 Author(s)   Regina W. Mwanauta , Kelvin A. Mtei , Patrick A. Ndakidemi Affiliation(s) School of Life Sciences and Bioengineering, The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology,Arusha, Tanzania . ABSTRACT Synthetic insecticides are widely known to control insect pest, but due to high operational cost, environmental pollution, toxicity to humans, harmful effect on non-target organisms and the development of insect resistance to this products, have created the need for developing alternative such as those involving the use of botanical pesticides to control insect pest. Bioactive compounds d...