Nagpur mandarin {Citrus reticulata Blanco) orchards under hot sub-humid tropical climate of Central India were surveyed with a view to diagnose the nutrient constraints through leaf and soil analysis, to understand ...

Crop plants are shown to have high photosynthetic rate at elevated C 0 2 concentrations. Experiments were conducted with an objective to study the influence of elevated C 0 2 concentration and relative humidity (RH) on ...

The effect of the origin of explants from different zones of the source plants on in vitro axillary bud growth in rubber (Hevea brasiliensis Muell Arg.) was investigated. Both juvenile (seedling) and mature (clonal) plants ...

Food legumes are an important component in upland cropping systems of subsistence farmers in Sri Lanka. The objective of this study was to understand the factors responsible for the gap between potential yield and farmer ...

A post- emergence disease of rain-fed wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) encountered in Ibadan, South-Western Nigeria was investigated. The incidence of disease was 13.07% in 1993,20.81% in 1994 and 11.95% in 1995 on six wheat ...

Tomato cultures are under the constant threat of geminiviruses transmitted by the whitefly Bemisia tabaci. In the affected regions, yield losses often reach 100%. In Southeast and East Asia, as well as in many countries ...

The quanti-qualitative nature of bacteria in the gut and casts of Lampito mauritii and Eudrilus eugeniae as influenced by different feeding substrates like soil, sawdust, pressmud and pressmud-sawdust mixture have been ...

Disease pressure in a cowpea screening field in Kano, a Sudan Savanna region of Nigeria, was increased by early planting of spreader lines of cowpea varieties susceptible to bacterial blight incited by Xanthomonas vignicola. ...

To identify variability in Neovossia indica in the fourteen isolates collected from different agroclimatic areas of Punjab, pathogenecity tests and isozyme analysis based on starch-gel electrophoresis were carried ...