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Advances in Plant Physiology
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Ramesh Umrani
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The science of plant physiology has been changing rapidly and specialists continue to probe their field in-depth, much of the modern biological science is intimately intertwined with the rest of the science. The profound impact of molecular genetics is clearly evident in plant physiology as well as the whole of biology. The book “Advances in Plant Physiology” takes into account the vast increase in physiological knowledge and the evolution of fundamental concepts that are uniquely associated with plant physiology.
To help students understand the scientific approach and develop an attitude of critical understanding, some of the fundamental laboratory terms are included. Each chapter is vividly illustrated to make it more understandable to students, research and extension workers, planners, administrators and other end users citing pertinent references.
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Advances in Plant Science
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Dewasish Choudhary
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Plant, any member of the plant kingdom, comprising about 260,000 known species of mosses, liverworts, ferns, herbaceous and woody plants, bushes, vines, trees, and various other forms that mantle the Earth and are also found in its waters. Plants range in size and complexity from small, nonvascular mosses, which depend on direct contact with surface water, to giant sequoia trees, which can draw water and minerals through their vascular systems to elevations of more than 100 m.
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Animal Husbandry
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Gyan Deep Singh
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Animal Husbandry is intended primarily as a text for the basic course in animal industries and farm animals, as the case may be. It should prove useful as a reference book for those involved in livestock production. It is a concise and upto- date collection of those facts and judgments that can give, a beginning student, a well-rounded and clear picture of the scope, importance and operations of our great livestock, the diary industries. Every effort has been made to confine the material to the essential facts and to maintain student’s interest by the liberal use of pictures, tables and charts.
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Basics of Agricultural Chemistry
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Dewasish Choudhary
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Chemical analyses of Soil, Plant material, Fertilizer, Irrigation water, etc. are a part of basic work in Agricultural Chemistry. The main aim of this book is to facilitate the students in the field of Soils, Plants, Irrigation, Water and Fertilizers etc. It has been compiled for the practicing chemists in research laboratories and students.
In case of soils, methods described are for nutrients considered as immediately available for providing an assessment of the available nutrient status. These plant analyses are valuable for students, researchers and plant analysis laboratories for advisory purposes. This book has been prepared to meet the needs of Teaching, Research, Fertilizer production, Advisory services, Soil, Plant, and Water testing laboratories. This book will be useful for Educational Institutions interested in Soil science, Plant analysis, water management, and fertilizers.
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Basics of Biotechnology
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Sitakanta Behera
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The complexity of the ethical dilemmas posed by biotechnology is such that we are still trying to identify what questions should be asked. The volume recognizes that the first step in making the types of ethical decisions which are increasingly demanded of us is searching for the right questions. The chapters vary greatly in both length and orientation.
The Human Genome Project is generating fundamental genetic information at a breathtaking rate; basic research findings are being applied in medicine, agriculture, and the environment; and a variety of new biotechnology products are moving into production. Behind each of these accomplishments are teams of scientists and technicians whose everyday work makes such achievements possible.
This will make it useable by a wide range of groups — from students in the classroom, to professionals such as scientists, medical doctors, business people, lawyers, and ethicists, as well as environmental and other socially active groups. What becomes obvious from the book here is that the issues arising from biotechnology are dramatic and will impact all of us and thus are in need of wide-ranging public debate. It is hoped that this book will contribute to that debate.
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Basics of Biotechnology in Agriculture
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Uma Shankar Singh
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Anmol Publications
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The application of modern techniques of Biotechnology to Agriculture, Breeders can make precise Genetic changes that impart beneficial properties to the Crop plants, trees, fish and animals which provide us with food and fiber. Agricultural Biotechnology helps farmers increase yields, enabling them to produce more food per acre and reduce the need for chemicals, pesticides, and water tilling, thereby providing benefits to the environment as well as to the health and livelihood of farmers. Through specific design, biotechnology also can be used to enhance the nutritive value of staple foods to improve overall Nutrition and Health.
Agricultural Biotechnology holds great promise to boost food production in both the developed and the developing nation and to reduce Agricultural vulnerability to the impact of Pests, Viruses and Drought. It is, as a result, one of the primary ingredients in the worlds' efforts to combat Food insecurity and Malnutrition. This book sums up information about agricultural bio-technology and is a valuable tool for Students as well as Teachers of all Universities.
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Basics of Economic Botany
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Ramesh Umrani
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Animals have to depend directly or indirectly upon plants. Even increasing population sizes have been made us think about ways to feed large numbers of people, most of whom live under substandard conditions. At the same time, the Natural or Organic food movement has necessitated that individuals become educated consumers of Plant products. As a consequence, interest in studying plants of actual or potential use in Feeding, Clothing, Housing, and Warming human kind has arisen. This book provides a detailed coverage of the major uses of plants. To keep the text readable and relevant, efforts have been made to provide a balanced treatment of the plants discussed by including aspects of History, Morphology, Chemistry and Modern usage.
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Basics of Environmental Chemistry
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C.K. Choudhary
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Environmental Chemistry is the scientific study of the chemical and biochemical phenomena that occur in natural places. It should not be confused with green chemistry, which seeks to reduce potential pollution at source. It can be defined as the study of the sources, reactions, transport, effects, and fates of chemical species in the air, soil, and water environments; and the effect of human activity on these. Environmental chemistry is an interdisciplinary science that includes atmospheric, aquatic and soil chemistry, as well as heavily relying on analytical chemistry and being related to environmental and other areas of science.Environmental chemists draw on a range of concepts from chemistry and various environmental sciences to assist in their study of what is happening to a chemical species in the environment. Important general concepts from chemistry include understanding chemical reactions and equations, solutions, units, sampling, and analytical techniques.
The two components of nature, the organism and the environment, are not only much complex and dynamic but also interdependent, mutually reactive and interrelated. So, environment is very much important for our sustainable development.Therefore, a new environmental behaviour and management is necessary to cope with various trenchant challenges of the environment, in which quantitative demands and confrontation must be replaced by qualitative appreciation and co-ordination. This will certainly lead us into a new era of harmony where all care for the well being of the life on watery planet.
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Basics of Morphology
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Ramesh Umrani
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“The present title “Basics of Morphology” has been written mainly to meet the need of undergraduate and post graduate students who require a knowledge of a wide field in morphology in an interesting an understandable manner. The book presents a broad survey of the trees and forests. A special feature of the book is that the text is copiously illustrated with superably accurate, beautiful and well labelled diagrams. The subject matter has been dealt in a simple and lucid style and also included maximum of recent information available up-to-date.
This textbook represents a group effort, rather than product of any single individual. Foremost on the list stand the reviewers whose advice, comments and collective wisdom helped to shape this text into a final form. Their interest in the subject, their concern for the accuracy and method of presentation, and their experience with students of widely varying abilities and background made the review process an educational experience. To these individuals, who carefully recorded their comments, opinions, and sources. The author would like to express her sincere thanks.
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Biocontrol of Plant Diseases
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Mangat Rai
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The advance of a science as large and diverse as plant pathology appears smooth and steady overall. Within the science, however, individual areas and sub disciplines are obviously advancing much more rapidly than others. An area may exist relatively dormant for years and then suddenly make enormous growth, as have phytobacteriology and biological control of plant pathogens. Rapid and extensive advances in just two or three areas can significantly change the overall stature and make-up of our science in a relatively short period. The rare breakthroughs such as discovery of viroids and MLOs as agents of disease and the development of new recombinant DNA technology can totally change the direction of our science. Perhaps the most significant development with implications for plant pathology is the recent use of plant pathogens to vector genes into plants. Intense interest in plant pathogens can now be found throughout the plant and microbiological sciences and no longer just in plant pathology.
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Crop Diseases and their Control
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Mangat Rai
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This volume presents comprehensive coverage of the cultivation of an improved cultivar possessing the needed disease and insect resistances does not necessarily result in higher sustainable yields if inappropriate management is used. In concert with breeding efforts is the need to invest more research resources in developing better crop, tillage and water management. It is important to rebuild or maintain a production base that allows maximum sustainable yield and optimum use of inputs whether they are fertilizer, water, land or time. Currently, there is information available on practices that can potentially improve the efficiency of nitrogen fertilizer use in irrigated wheat areas in developing countries. Some of this information, such as better synchronization of nitrogen supply and demand, could be transferred readily to different regions of the world. wheat seed production technologies to be used by developing countries. Apart from good agronomic management of the crop, seed production differs from grain production in land requirement, isolation, rouging and prevention of contamination, and must meet specific quality standards prescribed by the national seed regulations. The private sector can, however, ill afford to focus on wheat seed, due to its characteristic low-profitability. Furthermore, in many countries there has been no ongoing effort to promote the use of improved seed by wheat farmers, and no significant breeding developments have recently taken place. It is, therefore, expected that in the future the large majority of resource-poor, small-scale farmers in many developing countries will have to rely on seed saved from the previous harvest.
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Dairy Farming
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Uma Shankar Singh
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In many countries a dairy is a facility for the extraction and processing of animal milk (mostly from cows, sometimes from buffaloes or goats) for human consumption. The end product of such processes is known as dairy products. In India a dairy is also a shop or company that sells dairy products. A dairy farm produces milk and a dairy factory processes it.
Many advances have recently taken place in dairy science and this book provides timely reviews of a number of such key topics. The book represents an important update of the literature for research workers, lecturers, advisers and advanced students in many areas of animal science as well as veterinarians concerned with bovine medicine.
The book on Dairy Farming is a complete resource for researchers, students and practitioners involved in all aspects of dairy science. Extensively cross referenced, it covers the core theories, methods, and techniques employed by dairy scientists. It enables readers to access basic information on topics peripheral to their own areas, provides a repository of the core information in the area that can be used to refresh the researcher’s own memory, and aids teachers in directing students to areas relevant to their course work. The book that has been distilled organised and presented as a complete reference tool to the user.
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Dictionary of Medicinal Plants
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Vijay Verma
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Abaxial:- That surface of any structure which is remote or turned away from the axis, such as the lower surface of a leaf.
A:- Abbreviation for adenine.
Aadaan kala the first half of the year:- According to Ayurveda, a year is divided into two periods or kalas: adaan and visarga. Aaadan kala is also called utarayana (northern solstice). During this period the sun and wind become strong and take away the cooling properties of the earth. It starts from mid January to mid July. Ritus (seasons) included are Sisra (cold and dewy season); Vasanta (spring season) and Grisma ritu (summer season).
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Elements of Diet and Nutrition
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Bharat Singh
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We are what we think. We think what we eat and drink. This is an undeniable fact that our thoughts are determined by the kind of food we take. Food not only serves as a source of energy, it also plays a significant role in the making of a personality.
For a healthy life, a healthy diet is a must. Our body mechanism is controlled by a number of elements, called vitamins, proteins, enzymes, carbohydrates and other simple and complex chemical phenomena. All these elements find their origin in various food articles, such as, milk, meat, egg, vegetable, cereal, etc. Each has its own characteristics. For a healthy diet, different nutrients have to be taken in a proper proportion, because excess of any of these may result in disturbing the system and affecting the health.
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Elements of Food Science
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Udai Veer
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We are what we think. We think what we eat and drink. This is an undeniable fact that our thoughts are determined by the kind of food we take. Food not only serves as a source of energy, it also plays a significant role in the making of a personality.
For a healthy life, a healthy diet is a must. Our body mechanism is controlled by a number of elements, called vitamins, proteins, enzymes, carbohydrates and other simple and complex chemical phenomena. All these elements find their origin in various food articles, such as, milk, meat, egg, vegetable, cereal, etc. Each has its own characteristics. For a healthy diet, different nutrients have to be taken in a proper proportion, because excess of any of these may result in disturbing the system and affecting the health.
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Encyclopaedia of Biochemistry
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Bethany J. Mathews
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For some time there has existed a widespread consciousness of the need for the interpretation of the biochemistry terms to the layman. The average reader is deluged continually with a quantity of facts in the field that we call biochemistry. A possible aid to the solution of this problem is the compilation of a volume, which endeavors to explain to the ordinary reader terms which are new to him and which have not yet become part of his general vocabulary. Existing contributions of the kind are limited in scope to some such field as biochemistry. This volume attempts in brief compass to cover broadly the whole realm of biochemistry.
The aim of this volume is to fill the need for definitions of many new terms that have come into usage during recent years and also to include many of the old terms that are used in current literature. Many words from fields closely related to biochemistry are included because of their wide usage in biochemistry literature.
Clarification of the meaning of terms, precision in their use, and uniformity in usage among workers in biochemistry and related fields are essential in the growth of a science. When a concept or process can be expressed precisely in ordinary language it appears unnecessary, and indeed detrimental to the growth of a science, to coin a new term. It is worth while to make biochemistry literature intelligible to as wide a field of readers as possible.
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This publication entitled “Encyclopaedia of Environmentally Sustainable Green Science & Technology” attempts towards creating a holistic understanding of environment and sustainable development in its totality. It defines environment and sustainable development in all its dimensions. The concepts and methodologies of ecology, environment and sustainable development have been discussed in detail. The ecosystem perspective and environmental concept of sustainable development have been highlighted, so has been the environmental methodology. An effort has been made towards defining green science and its manifestations for understanding pollution. The relevance and importance of environment impact assessment (EIA) for environmental sustainability has been analyzed. Also, the elements and dimensions of green technology have been covered in detail. The relationship among ecomovements, ecodynamics and sustainable development has been discussed in detail. Similarly, the environmental and social aspects of sustainable development, in particular, aspects related to training of people to meet the global environmental needs have been covered. The issues related to green energy, its sources, tools and technologies have been reflected upon briefly. The environmentally sustainable science and technology has been presented in brief with special reflection on climate change and global warming. Current issues and options regarding sustainability aspects of environmental management, corporate management and environmental responsibility have been covered. The aim is to develop a policy perspective.
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