Plasma is a partially ionized gas composed of positive and negative ions, electrons, neutrals, molecules, photons and UV-light. It is the “fourth state of matter”. There are number of pre-sowing treatments that are employed to enhance seed quality viz., seed priming, coating and...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/36703
Rohit Thirumdas, Anjineyulu Kothakota, K. Ch. S. Sai Kiran, R. Pandiselvam & V. Uday Bhanu Prakash·Advances in Research·2017
Cold plasma is an emerging nonthermal technology primarily used for microbial disinfection and surface modification. Nowadays, the principle of plasma surface modification is exploited in food and agriculture. The aim of the present review is to give some insights on cold plasma...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/38044
Biomass is the alternative source for generation of energy for the masses. Biomass residues from our common surroundings and other fields mainly agriculture are produced in abundance in continuation. Such a large quantity needs to be managed in order to refrain from solid waste p...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/37630
Field experiments were carried out in Indian Institute of Soil Science, Bhopal, India to identify the most suitable variety, appropriate sowing time and their subsequent interaction on nutrient uptake and yield performance in chickpea under rainfed conditions i...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/37624
Amit M. Pujar, Mallikarjun G. Handiganoor & Raghavendra Hadora·Advances in Research·2017
Worldwide growth in population, increase in demand of global food production and environmental damage causing problems in agriculture yield are major concerns. These problems may soon cause insufficiency to feed all of the world population. Adding up in to the above mentioned con...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/37479
E. Vadkerti, P. Putnoky, G. Hoffmann, F. Antal, M. Boros, K. Götzer, P. Kisfali, I. Mészáros, K. Nyárády, S. Stranczinger, A. Szloboda, S. Farkas, T. Karches, I. Matrai, Z. Varga & K. Pecsenye·Advances in Research·2017
Novel gene specific primers were designed for coding sequences of a part of 16S ribosomal RNA encoding gene and a piece of ND1 gene, separated by a short stretch of DNA that encodes a tRNA-Leu gene for Isophya species.
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/37016
Maureen Fonji Atemkeng, Gonne Sobda, Ousmane Bouka, Mitchell R. Lucas, Cisse Ndiaga & Pangirayi Bernard Tongoona·Advances in Research·2017
Aims: The aim of the study was to analyze quantitative trait loci for pod number per plant in cowpea under different phosphorus environments. Study Design: On the field, the experimental design was a split-plot with two replicates. The main plots were two phosphate levels: 0 P an...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/37672
Poultry is one of the most important source of animal protein for humans and now a days poultry production system is highly advanced and in context of nutritional advances a number of feed additives are now used to improve the efficiency of birds e.g. prebiotics, probiotics, orga...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/37878
The objective of this study was to calculate the optimum conditions for extraction of starch from fresh cassava tubers using response surface methodology (RSM). In this study, Box-Behnken response surface design (BBD) was used to optimize the extraction process conditions (3 inde...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/37317
The yield and quality of flower is greatly influenced by the quantity and type of fertilizers used. Because of the hazards of long-term chemical fertilizer, more and more farmers all over the world are shifting to organic fertilizers for ensuring sustainable flower production. Ke...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/37034
In our daily life, we often come across various problems related to the high dimensionality of data. In such type of problems irrelevant and superfluous data along with useful data is also present. Thus, dimensionality reduction has found wide applications in data analysis and ma...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/36960
Background: Segmental defects in long bones from any cause often present significant challenge to trauma reconstruction and orthopaedic surgeons. Various options for bridging extensive segmental bone defects have been tried in attempt to find the best method to achieve that. In d...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/34728
Anusheela Varadaraju, Bharathi Raja Ramadoss, John Joel, Kulandaivelu Ganesamurthy & Sundaram Ganesh Ram·Advances in Research·2017
The present study investigated the effects of EMS on crop phenotypes on four mungbean varieties viz., Co (6), Co (7), VRM and VBM. The germination percentage was affected by EMS treatment with increase in dose or concentration of mutagen. The doses can be determined by establishi...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/37248
Deepranjan Sarkar, Shikha ., S. Rakesh, Sabuj Ganguly & Amitava Rakshit·Advances in Research·2017
The present paper is a mini review of the increasing soil pollution in the environment and the possible handy options available, to curb its rate. Soil being a non-renewable resource, must be protected from all types of pollutants. The health of all life forms is associated with...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/36622
Leather processing is one of the hazardous red listed industry which produce large quantity of effluent with high organic load and bulk quantity of solid wastes. The wastes generated from the tannery industry are most concerned and management of this waste should be in ecofriendl...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/36197