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Avtar Singh, Meenakshi Kaushal, Harmeet Singh
pp. 139-146 · 2012
Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is the world's number one cereal crop in all the six continents of the world. It is the staple food of billions of people and is widely treated as cash crop because it produce good yield per …
Short Communication
John Peter Paul J, Patric Raja D.
pp. 147-149 · 2012
The present report deals with the study of seasonal variation of some Enteromorpha species in Kanyakumari region, the southern coast of Tamil Nadu. Kanyakumari region was divided in to four stations namely Kanyakumari, C…
S.Chidambaram Pillai, N. Suresh, M. Padmasree
pp. 150-153 · 2012
A study on selected nutritional and antinutritional contents in the edible parts of ten domesticated underground storage organs was carried out. Their quantitative data obtained have been depicted and compared with other…
Original Article
K.V. Ramanaiah, G. Dhanalakshmi, G.Rajender Reddy, A.Krishna Murthy, M. Sudhakar
pp. 154-158 · 2012
Frontline demonstrations were conducted from 2007 to 2011 in irrigated domains of Kurnool district, Andhra Pradesh to know the usefulness and economic advantage of soil test based nutrient management technology in rice a…
Shrikant Gunaga, Rajeshwari N, Vasudeva R.
pp. 164-173 · 2012
The present study attempts to explore the traditionally managed Kaan forests in Sagar taluk of Central Western Ghats, Karnataka floristically. These Kaan forests are climax forest patches distributed along with agricultu…
Kashibu E, Ihesiulor G.U, Adeleke S. I, Tasabeeh M.H
pp. 174-177 · 2012
The study is associated with childhood septicemia and their antimicrobial susceptibility pattern. A total of 2446 samples of blood culture of patients age less than 12 years were cultured from patients admitted into paed…
Riyaz Alam Mansoori, Monika Gandhi
pp. 178-180 · 2012
Complement system is a part of innate immunity and plays a very active role in protecting against various infections and disorders. C4 component is an important part of complement. The great genetic diversity and quantit…
Gopal Chandra Mandal, Atanu Acharya, Kaushik Bose
pp. 181-185 · 2012
Nutrition during the first five years has not only an impact on growth and morbidity during childhood, but also acts as a determinant of nutritional status in adolescent and adult life. India has the highest occurrence o…
Adeleke, O.E., Onyenwe, N.E., Mbata, T.I.
pp. 186-190 · 2012
Typhoid fever appears to be a disease that has been associated with man since close to the first appearance of hominids. A total of twenty-five clinical isolates of Salmonella enterica serovars recovered between July-Sep…
Subramanyam Dasari, Raju Naidu DS, Rajendra Wudyagiri, Lokanatha Valluru
pp. 197-203 · 2012
Glycoproteins are end moieties of the carbohydrate chains are biologically important and essential for functions of glycoconjugates and are reported to be altered in cancer patients. The effect of chemotherapy and radiot…
Research Article
Manoj kumar Ahirwar, Q . J . Shammi, Salman Raouf Chalko, Gh. Nabi Lone
pp. 159-163 · 2012
During the present experiment, N. notopterus were exposed to lethal concentration (0.1 ppm) of malathion for a period of 03 hours in triplicates. A marked reduction in the opercular beat frequency (92.3 to 45.3) and tail…
Edinah Song'oro, Ann Muigai, Charles Kimwele, Erastus Gatebe, Mercy Mwaniki, Julius Kinuthia, Zipporah Osiemo
pp. 191-196 · 2012
PCR has been extensively used for amplification of DNAsequences. We conducted a study to obtain the best amplification conditions for cytochrome c oxidase I (COI) gene fragments of some of the targeted wildlife species i…
Isolation, Screening and Identification of Organophosphate Pesticide Degrading Bacterium, Kocuria sp
N. Nagavardhanam, Z. Vishnuvardhan
pp. 204-207 · 2012
Chlorpyrifos is an insecticide that has been one of the pesticides most used worldwide since 1965. Asoil bacterium capable of utilizing chlorpyrifos as sole carbon source was isolated by selective enrichment on mineral m…
N A Kamble, S B Kamble
pp. 208-212 · 2012
Freshwater snail Bellamya bengalensis was used for the toxicological study against copper sulphate in pre-determined LC50 concentrations (0.56ppm) up to 96 hrs. Histopathology was investigated by using standard H-E (Hema…
Mokula Md. Raffi, P.B.B.N. Charyulu
pp. 213-218 · 2012
Experiments were conducted to isolate Azospirillum spp. from the rhizosphere and non-rhizosphere soil of foxtail millet grown in native black loamy soils of Anantapur district. A total of 100 strains of Azospirillum were…
Prasad M. P., Shekhar Sushant, Rindhe Ganesh
pp. 219-222 · 2012
Pathogenic microorganisms currently resistant to drugs cause innumerable mortality in human population which creates need for searching new antibacterial agents from easily available unexplored natural sources such as se…
Rashmi Bhaval, Deepak Anap, Keerthi Rao, Chandra Iyer, S.M. Khatri
pp. 223-225 · 2012
The spinal muscles are the main proportion of human musculature and foundation of correct posture and are a huge group. Basically, back extensors play an important role in prevention and treatment of low back pain and ar…
Jagdish Chandra, Vardan Singh Rawat, Y. S. Rawat
pp. 226-232 · 2012
Shrub species richness, shrub density, shrubs diversity, shrub canopy cover and distribution pattern were investigation in low disturbance stands of temperate forest of West Pinder region of Garhwal Himalaya. Four sites …
K. Sathya, G. Prasanna
pp. 233-237 · 2012
Dodonaea viscosa is being used in Ayurvedic and Malay traditional medicine for the treatment of various diseases including gastric ulcer. Considering the above claims, the present work was undertaken to validate the anti…
Alex Ajeh Enuneku, Lawrence Ikechukwu Ezemonye
pp. 238-241 · 2012
The toxicity of cadmium and lead to Bufo maculatus were assessed using acute toxicity assays in the laboratory. Mortality and behavioral changes were used as measurement end points for acute toxicity. The Organization fo…