Drought stress is one of the major abiotic stress that can causes huge loss to the world food production. It remains a major contributor to severe food shortage and famine. With a consistent increase in world population, pressure will continue to mount on the existing yet limited...
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Research Article10.9734/arrb/2019/v31i230042
Mealybug (Paracoccus marginatus) belonging to the family Pseudococcideae, is a devastating pest of grapevine in different parts of the world including India. Due to its piercing sucking type feeding behaviour, it injures the vines mechanically and induces several physiological &a...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/44028
Accumulation of sugars is an important metabolic process that occurs during grape berry development. Sugars are transported into the berry mainly in the form of sucrose and are broken down into glucose and fructose by the enzymes invertase and sucrose synthase. Changes in activit...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2017/38532
Low temperature stress adversely affects plant growth and development and it directly affects the yield and quality of tomato. Phenolic compounds have been implicated to mitigate cold stress. Therefore an experiment was conducted to find out suitable concentration of phenolic com...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/32889