Agarwood is a highly valuable resin mainly used as incense and perfume manufacturing and therefore a considerable foreign income can be obtained by the exports. Rubber, one of the main foreign income generating crops in ...

Tree cavities play a critical role in the life history of cavity-using species and thus are an important structural feature of forests. This is the first study to address cavity resources in tropical montane cloud forests ...

Panel industry is growing at 20.25% largely due to shift in consumer’s preference for Medium Density Fibre board (MDF). Medium-Density Fibreboard Market estimates that the market for MDF reached a value of more than US$ ...

Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) is a dynamic and evolving concept, which aims to maintain and enhance the economic, social and environmental values of all types of forests, for the benefit of present and future ...

Active metabolites and functional ingredients of seaweeds have valuable beneficial health effects. Sulfated polysaccharides in seaweeds have been increasingly studied over the years in the pharmaceutical field, given ...

Iron toxicity is recognized as one of the most widespread soil constraints for rice production, particularly in the Low Country Wet Zone (LCWZ) of Sri Lanka. Underwater logged conditions, soluble iron present in the soil ...

Seaweeds contain high amount of carbohydrates approximating to 10% of the total nutritional composition. Detailed analysis of brown algae has exposed complex combinations of monosaccharides. Such found sugars are components ...

Wild relatives of rice are an important genetic resources in rice breeding. Oryza rufipogon is a diploid perennial species belongs to AA genome group and sexually compatible with cultivated rice. The putative ancestor ...

Schizoporella errata is a marine bryozoan native to Mediterranean ocean and known to be highly invasive to many countries throughout the world. S. errata in Sri Lanka was recorded in Colombo port and the species can be ...

Dendrocalamus latiflorus is one of the most popular edible bamboo species in the world and recently introduced to Sri Lanka. One of the main concerns of cultivation is to get extra income by selling the edible shoots ...