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African Journal of Agricultural Research Volume 10 Number 12 26 March 2015 ISSN 1991-637X ABOUT AJAR The African Journal of Agricultural Research (AJAR) is published weekly (one volume per year) by Academic Journals. African Journal of Agricultural Research (AJAR) is an open access journal that publishes high-quality solicited and unsolicited articles, in English, in all areas of agriculture including arid soil research and rehabilitation, agricultural genomics, stored products research, tree fruit production, pesticide science, post harvest biology and technology, seed science research, irrigation, agricultural engineering, water resources management, marine sciences, agronomy, animal science, physiology and morphology, aquaculture, crop science, dairy science, entomology, fish and fisheries, forestry, freshwater science, horticulture, poultry science, soil science, systematic biology, veterinary, virology, viticulture, weed biology, agricultural economics and agribusiness. 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Dr. Seyed Mohammad Ali Razavi University of Ferdowsi, Dr. E. Nicholas Odongo, Department of Food Science and Technology, 27 Cole Road, Guelph, Mashhad, Ontario. N1G 4S3 Iran. Canada. Dr. Yasemin Kavdir Dr. D. K. Singh Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Scientist Irrigation and Drainage Engineering Division, Department of Soil Sciences, Central Institute of Agricultural Engineeinrg Terzioglu Campus 17100 Bhopal- 462038, M.P. Canakkale India. Turkey. Prof. Hezhong Dong Prof. Giovanni Dinelli Professor of Agronomy, Department of Agroenvironmental Science and Cotton Research Center, Technology Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Viale Fanin 44 40100, Jinan 250100 Bologna China. Italy. Dr. Ousmane Youm Prof. Huanmin Zhou Assistant Director of Research & Leader, College of Biotechnology at Inner Mongolia Integrated Rice Productions Systems Program Agricultural University, Africa Rice Center (WARDA) 01BP 2031, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Cotonou, No. 306# Zhao Wu Da Street, Benin. Hohhot 010018, P. R. China, China. African Journal of Agricultural Research Table of Contents: Volume 10 Number 13 2 6 March, 2015 ARTICLES Comparative fungal profile of tea leaves from highland and lowland in Nigeria 1531 Adedeji A. R. and Adeniyi D. O. The pattern of pathogen diversity and abundance in Lentil (Lens culinaris) fields in Constantine region, Algeria 1536 Hiba Almi, Laid Dehimat and Noreddine Kacem Chaouche Persistence and retention towards degree completion of BS agriculture students in selected State Universities in Region IV-A, Philippines 1543 Ruth A. Ortega-Dela Cruz Cellulases produced by the endophytic fungus Pycnoporus sanguineus (L.) Murrill 1557 Sideney B. Onofre, Zípora M. Q. Santos, Francini Y. Kagimura and Shaiana P. Mattiello Respiratory activity, intensity of processes of ammonification and nitrification in soil subjected to the effect of chemical preparates Reglone 200 SL and Elastiq 550 EC 1565 Stefania Jezierska-Tys and Agata Rutkowska Glycerin effluent from the biodiesel industry as potassium source to fertilize soybean crop 1572 Enilson de Barros Silva, Elton Nobuyuki Hizuka, Paulo Henrique Grazziotti, José Domingos Fabris and Alessandro Torres Campos Water relations and gas exchange in castor bean irrigated with saline water of distinct cationic nature 1581 Geovani Soares de Lima, Hans Raj Gheyi, Reginaldo Gomes Nobre, Lauriane Almeida dos Anjos Soares, Diego Azevedo Xavier and José Amilton dos Santos Júnior African Journal of Agricultural Research Table of Contents: Volume 10 Number 13 2 6 March, 2015 ARTICLES Land suitability evaluation in Wadla Delanta Massif of north central highlands of Ethiopia for rainfed crop production 1595 Nahusenay A. and Kibebew K. Development of cotton leaf curls virus tolerance varieties through interspecific hybridization 1612 Z. I. Anjum, K. Hayat, S. Chalkin, T. M. Azhar, U. Shehzad, F. Ashraf, M. Tariq, H. T. Mehmood and M. Azam Socio-economic determinants of tomato retail marketing in Ibadan Southwest Local Government area of Oyo State, Nigeria 1619 S. A. Adewuyi and C. P. Adekunle Influence of temperature on the reproductive success of a fig wasp and its host plant 1625 A. Al Khalaf, R. J. Quinnell and S. G. Compton Studies on garlic production in Egypt using conventional and organic agricultural conditions 1631 Mai Raslan, Sameh AbouZid, Mamdouh Abdallah and Mohamed Hifnawy Foliar tissue, grain yield and economic return by surface application of gypsum and different number of soybean plants in precision seed drill 1636 Leandro Rampim, Augustinho Borsoi, Paulo Vitor Dal Molin, Marcos Vinícius Mansano Sarto, Jean Sérgio Rosset, Maria do Carmo Lana, Paulo Ricardo Lima, Vandeir Francisco Guimarães, Tatiane Ohland and Jeferson Klein African Journal of Agricultural Research Table of Contents: Volume 10 Number 13 2 6 March, 2015 ARTICLES Spacial and temporal characterization of water quality in the Cuiabá River Basin of Central Brazil 1647 Sérgio Batista de Figueiredo, Ricardo Santos Silva Amorim and Carolina Lourencetti Vol. 10(13), pp. 1531-1535, 26 March, 2015 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR2014.8965 Article Number: 4F8DDA051970 African Journal of Agricultural ISSN 1991-637X Copyright ©2015 Research Author(s) retain the copyright of this article http://www.academicjournals.org/AJAR Full Length Research Paper Comparative fungal profile of tea leaves from highland and lowland in Nigeria Adedeji A. R.* and Adeniyi D. O. Plant Pathology Section, Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, P. M. B. 5244, Ibadan, Nigeria. Received 2 September, 2014; Accepted 18 March, 2015 A study to determine the fungal profile in leaves of both highland and lowland tea in Nigeria was performed. Healthy leaves were harvested from nineteen tea clones: T-14, T-19, T-33, T-35, T-61, T-68, T- 74, T-108, T-143, T-228, T-229, T-236, T-238, T-318, T-354, T-355, T-367, T-368 and T-369 on the highland and lowland areas. Potato dextrose agar (PDA) was used as the growth medium to culture associated mycoflora from the tea leaves in five replications. The healthy tea leaves of the clones from the highland and