Soft wheat flour (SWF) is a low-moisture food ingredient in many ready-to-eat foods. Foodborne illnesses and outbreaks from consumption of multiple low-moisture foods heightened the importance of its microbiological safety. Traditional thermal processing methods take a long time...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i3231004
The scarcity of water can have harmful effects on human life. In addition, one noticeable issue humanity is faced with is managing water resources. This study aims at selecting the most suitable areas for groundwater artificial recharge using multi-criteria analysis. The fundamen...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i3231002
Agriculture intensification through indiscriminate and irrational use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides has resulted in reduction of crop productivity, lowered fertilizer use efficiency, accelerated environmental degradation and soil heath thus posing serious threat to the s...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i3230998
Production, quality evaluation and postprandial effect of high fibre fructose sweetened confectionery snacks (cookies) as functional diet was investigated. It was to establish the chemical, sensory evaluation and postprandial effects of the products, cookie ingredients were purch...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i3230999
A field experiment was conducted at Agro Climate Research Center, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, India during post monsoon season of 2019-20 with an objective to optimize the nitrogen dose under varied degrees of water stress environment. The experiment was laid out in split plot desi...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i3231000
Tobacco has been widely used as a model plant for stable and non-stable gene function analysis. Successful Agrobacterium-mediated transformation mainly depends on in vitro regeneration of tobacco plant. However, a reliable and standard regeneration protocol of tobacco using multi...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i3230996
A field experiment was carried out during rabi season of three consecutive years of 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20 at Field Experimental Block, RRTTS, Keonjhar, Odisha to study the effect of heat and thermal unit use of chickpea cultivars under various dates of sowing. The exp...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i3130997
Geological Information System plays vital protagonist in watershed management particularly in mining areas in hilly terrain .Though GIS cannot be a resource for analytical resources but can be efficiently used for mapping and related engineering activities within the watershed. P...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i3130995
Pearl millet is a climate-resilient crop which is most widely grown in the arid and semi-arid tropics of Asia and Africa over 26 mha. It is a highly nutritious cereal crop and rightly termed as nutricereal. This crop requires low inputs and delivers high cost-effective benefits....
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i3130994
A field experiment was carried out during the rabi seasons of 2016-17 and 2017-18 at Agronomy Farm, S.K.N. Agriculture University, Jobner, Jaipur, Rajasthan, to evaluate the effect of sowing at different thermal regimes and foliar sprays of bio-regulators on growth and yield of w...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i3130993