Contents: Preface. 1. Alternative agricultural practices: a sustainable approach for conserving biodiversity as well as developing an eco-friendly environment/Arvind Kumar. 2. Biological nitrogen fixation in rice: a review/M. Senthil Kumar and S.P. Sundaram. 3. Indirect organogenesis through pseudostem callus in turmeric variety suguna of Curcuma Longa L./M.C. Gayatri, V. Roopadarshini and R. Kavyashree. 4. Resource productivity and allocation efficiency in the production of sunflower and groundnut in Andhra Pradesh/Y. Sudhakar Reddy and G.P. Reddy. 5. Identification of Radish (Raphanus sativus L.) and tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill) varieties by Gel electrophoresis and isozyme analysis/Adarsh Pal Vig and Navneet Kaur. 6. Effect of different levels of NPK on the growth behaviour of Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de wit and yield of Zea mays L. in Mizoram/U.K. Sahoo, P.C. Vanlahluna and R. Mohan. 7. Correlation of physiological and biochemical characters in seed conservation studies of cucumber and watermelon/C. Vanniarajan, Sanjeev Saxena and T. Nepolean. 8. Integrated weed management in soybean (Glycine max.)/Pardeep Kumar and Sat Paul Mehra. 9. Response of Eugenia bracteata (Wild.) Roxb. to VAM, Rhizobium and molybdenum source/Ramesh H. Ratageri and H.C. Lakshman. 10. Seasonal variation in population of microtermes obesi Holmgren in rose plantations of M.J.P. Rohilkhand University, Bareilly (Uttar Pradesh) (Insecta: isoptera)/Sachin Srivastava, Sudhakar Gupta, Pushpa Singh and Kamna Singh. 11. Management of brinjal shoot and fruit borer through insecticidal application and varietal resistance/Rabindra Prasad, Muneshwar Prasad, Rajesh Kumar and Devendra Prasad. 12. Medicinal plants of ethnobotanical importance curing diabetes from Namakkal District (Tamil Nadu), India/M. Rajasekara Pandian, G. Sharmila Banu, G. Kumar and K.H. Smila. 13. Consumptive use, WUE and moisture extraction pattern by rapeseed and greengram as influenced by fertility levels and straw mulch/B. Mitra, P. Bose, B.K. Mandal and S.K. Hansda. 14. Relative salt tolerance of selected perennial tree species/B.R. Gurumurthy, M.B. Shivanna Naryan S. Mavarkar and H.V. Rudramurthy. 15. Effect of fly ash-soil amendment on the cultivation of root crops: a case study/N. Tripathi, R.S. Singh, P.K. Mishra and P.S.M. Tripathi. 16. Distribution and uses of Euryale ferox salisbury in Manipur/P.K. Singh. 17. Evaluation of basmati rice based crop sequences for productivity, economic returns and soil health/M.S. Sidhu and R. Sikka. 18. Assessment of phytotoxicity of SO2 and NH3 of Poaceae and Fabaceae crop plants/Nirmala Babu Rao, Amena and I. Sobha Rani. 19. A note on air pollution tolerance index of some plants growing at Hyderabad/Nirmal Babu Rao, Amena and I. Sobha. 20. Genetic diversity studies in introgressed lines of Gossypium hirsutum cotton using cluster analysis/J.S.V. Samba Murthy and N. Chamundeswari. 21. Seed borne fungi of celastrus paniculatus, willd. and their control/R.K. Aher, L.S. Gund, A.A. Kulkarni and R.R. Saswade. 22. Effects of neem leaf extract on growth characteristics and organic constituents of trigonella foenum-graceum, L./S.L. Khapke, R.K. Aher, D.A. Bandal, G.V. Vyavahare, Y.B. Agre, D.B. Shelake and R.K. Shaikh. 23. Study of important medicinal plants from Parner Tahasil, Dist. Ahmednagar, India/S.K. Aher, V.S. Shinde, R.B. Ghogare, A.R. Thube, Y.P. Date, S.R. Paimode and A.R. Kale. 24. Phytochemical studies of ethnobotanically significant plant, evolvulus alsinoides, Linn. from, the tribal region of Deoghar District of santal paraganas/B.N. Jha and S.K. Chaudhury. 25. Physicochemical parameters and elemental analysis of the soils of sugarcane fields with and without red rot disease incidence/S. Velmurugan, R. Narayanaswamy and S. Ravi. 26. Inhibitory effect of hemidesmus indicus R.Br. on calcium oxalate crystal growth in vitro/T. Vimala, S. Gopalakrishnan and Y.M. Fazil Marickar. 27. Effect of saline irrigation on chlorophyll and proline contents in selected tree species/B.R. Gurumurthy, S.P. Nataraja, Naryan S. Mavarkar and M.B. Shivanna. 28. Interaction studies on bioinoculant and inorganic fertilizers on growth performance of cole crops/N.S. Kulkarni, J.V. Jaiswal and M.G. Bodhankar. 29. Sol-gel synthesis and photoelectrochemical behaviour of Si-doped a-Fe2O3/Anshul Agrawal, Yatendra S. Chaudhary, Vibha R. Satsangi, Sahab Dass and Rohit Shrivastav. 30. Assessment of relative efficacy and economics of chemical and bioinsecticides for management of fruit borer of Okra/Rabindra Prasad, Muneshwar Prasad, Rajesh Kumar and Devendra Prasad. 31. Fertilizer and spacing affect cabbage quality/Devesh Trripathi and Rakesh Kumar Upadhyay. 32. Effect of fertilizer and spacing on days taken to head formation and yield of cabbage/Devesh Tripathi and Rakesh Kumar Upadhyay. 33. Yield and quality of gossypium arboreum Hybrid (AKDH-7) as influenced by plant density and nitrogen levels/P.V. Mahatale, T.K. Tiwari and A.V. Patil. 34. A comparative study of leaf architecture of three plants species of family solanaceae/Archana Nigam. 35. Association of stability parameters in Pigeon Pea/C. Vanniarajan, P. Rangasamy and T. Nepolean. 36. Woody vegetation structure in a sacred grove of Pudukottai District, Tamil Nadu, South India/B. Muthukumar, S. Dhanasekar, S. Soosairaj, N. Nagamurugan and B. Balaguru. 37. Diversity, relative and rank abundances of predatory coccinellids in an irrigated rice ecosystem, Madurai, Tamil Nadu/M. Kandibane, S. Rahuraman and N. Ganapathy. 38. Storability of corcyra cephalonica stainton (Galleridae: lepidoptera) eggs for Trichogrammtid production/J.R. Kadam, S.R. Parate, A.P. Chavan, D.B. Kadam and B.M. Mhaske. 39. Stability analysis in Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench]/S.P. Patil, M.R. Manjare, S.R. Kamdi and A.M. Dethe. 40. Effect of salinity on the growth of Rhizobium and their interrelationship between different osmotica like aspartate, Calcium chloride and trehalose/S. Manju, K. Vijayalakshmi and C. Sheela Sasikumar. 41. Integrated weed management in Kharif groundnut (Arachis Hypogaea L.)/A.P. Chaudhari, T.K. Tiwari, C.B. Gaikwad and A.V. Solanke. 42. Response of rice (Oryza sativa L.) crop to integrated nutrient management/K. Hema, G. Swarajya Lakshmi, B.V. Seshaiah and B. Venkateshwarlu. 43. Effect of Lactational order on the physico-chemical properties of milk in Deccani sheep/A.S. Hulge, A.P. Chavan, S.P. Kalhapure, S.V. Kale and R.B. Walujkar. 44. Efficacy of different insecticides against brinjal shoot and fruit borer (Leucinodes orbonalis Gn.)/B.M. Mhaske, A.P. Chavan, D.B. Kadam and V.C. Girhe. 45. Somatic embryogenesis in Bamboo (Bambusa arundinacea)/M.P. Meshram, Priti A. Sonkamble, A.M. Sonkamble and D.A. Joshi. 46. Stability of yield and its components in urdbean (vigna mungo L. Hepper)/Ch. Mallikarjuna Rao, Md. Mujeeb Khan and Y. Koteswara Rao. 47. Detection of tomato virus on cucumber/Rama Murthy, D.M. Sawant and G.P. Deshmukh. 48. Variation in the morphological characters of brachiaria mutica due to urban sewage water irrigation/S.T. Girisha and S. Umesha. 49. Relationship of mosaic disease of chilli with its aphid vectors/C. Reddy, D.M. Sawant and G.P. Deshmukh. 50. Regional agricultural land use in Bihar: a sectoral analysis/Tara Shankar. Index.
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