Debosree MUKHERJEE, Indranath GHOSAL, Csaba HANCZ, Suman Bhusan CHAKRABORTY

Dietary Administration of Plant Extracts for Production of Monosex Tilapia: Searching A Suitable Alternative to Synthetic Steroids in Tilapia Culture

Study was aimed to evaluate the efficacy of Mucuna pruriens seeds and Asparagus racemosus roots for induction ofmasculinisation in tilapia. Plant materials were extracted with water, ethanol, methanol and successive methanol and mixedsex juveniles of Nile tilapia were subjected to dietary treatment with the extracts at the concentration of 0.1, 0.15 and 0.2 g/kgfeed. All treatments produced significantly higher (P

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