The preparation of dye powder from natural dyes is to study the preparation methods of dye powder and comparison of color fastness. The natural dyes were used in this study containing of Lac Ebony heart wood Sappan heart wood and Turmeric. were selected in this work to prepare dye powder drying salt adsorption and salt precipitation methods were selected in this work. And dye powder was dyed on silk fabric. The result showed that the dye powder from drying and salt precipitation methods showed higher K/S than salt adsorption method. The dye powder of turmeric from drying method showed highest K/S. The dye powders of Lac Ebony heart wood Sappan heart wood from salt precipitation method showed highest K/S. And the washing fastness showed that the preparation methods were not significant. The dye powder of Lac Ebony heart wood Sappan heart wood showed good light fastness and the dye powder from Turmeric showed poor light fastness.

The potential of extracts of the Ficus hispida Linn to inhibit germination and growth of barnyardgrass (Echinochloa crus-galli) a common weed in rice. The bark leaves and fruit of F. hispida isolated by the Maceration and extracted by the polarity of the solvent (Sequential Extraction) with organic solvents such as hexane ethyl acetate and methanol when each part of the crude extract was tested the type of phytochemical tested for germinate inhibition root length inhibition stem length inhibition and dry weight inhibition of barnyardgrass and selected extracts with highest inhibition to separation using column chromatography the fractions tested repeating. The results showed that 1. Crude methanolic extracts from the bark leaves and fruit of barnyardgrass at a concentration of 3000 ppm showed highest inhibited percentage of germinate inhibition root length inhibition stem length inhibition and dry weight inhibition. 2. Fractions methanolic extracts from the bark leaves and fruit of barnyardgrass on a separate with column chromatography found that fractions extracts F5 F8 and F2 showed highest inhibited percentage of germinate inhibition root length inhibition stem length inhibition and dry weight inhibition.

A study on Dragon fruit variety and effects of fertilizer on yield and quality of Dragon fruit (Hylocereus undatus) was conducted at Rajamangala University of Technology Suvarnabhumi Huntra Ayutthaya from October 2008 to October 2012. The soil type condition was a clayey type (59% clay) containing very low amount of organic matter (0.79%) low phosphorus (3 ppm) but very high potassium (230 ppm). There were 12 varieties of Dragon fruit collected from all over Thailand for growth study and yield trial. It was found that the variety from Rayong Province which originally introduced from Vietnam gave the maximum yield (4164.25 kg/rai/year). Application of chemical fertilizer at the rate of 0 300 600 and 900 g/trellis/year was carried out to study the effects of fertilizer on growth and yield of Dragon fruit. The results have shown that the application of chemical fertilizer at the rate of 900 and 600 g/trellis/year gave better growth more flowers and fruits per trellis which resulted in maximum yield; 4230.75 and 4185.50 kg/rai/year respectively. The fertilizer application resulted in decreasing the texture firmness and total soluble solids but increasing the vitamin C content.