The domesticated silkworm, Bombyx mori, has moved from a sericultural resource to an engineered production host for recombinant proteins, virus-like particles, functional silk, and, more recently, heterologous biosynthetic products. Its appeal is biologically distinctive: larvae...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2026/v29i94375
Background: Ginger rhizome rot, caused predominantly by Pythium aphanidermatum, is a destructive soil-borne disease that can substantially reduce ginger productivity under favourable conditions. Biological control using native Trichoderma isolates offers a potentially sustainable...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2026/v29i94376
Tecomella undulata is an important timber-yielding tree species of Rajasthan. This species is valuable for its high-quality wood and plays an important role in desert ecosystems and biodiversity conservation. The decline in the population of this species has led to the non-availa...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2026/v29i94377
Nutrient-based organic formulations occupy an expanding but conceptually unsettled position between bulk organic amendments and manufactured mineral fertilisers. The category now includes enriched and fortified composts, vermicomposts, organomineral granules, biochar-based compos...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2026/v29i94368
Pratiksha Raj, C. l. Maurya, Ravisankar Dubey, Shalini Dixit, Arun Pratap, Shivam Chaturvedi, Sarvendra Kumar, Ravindra Kumar & PK Singh·Journal of Advances in Biology & Biotechnology·2026
Mungbean (Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek) is an important pulse crop belonging to the family Fabaceae, known for its nutritional value and its ability to improve soil fertility through biological nitrogen fixation. The present investigation was carried out to evaluate the effects of...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2026/v29i94369
Silicon is not classified as an essential plant nutrient, yet supplying it lowers the severity of many fungal diseases in cultivated species, and the mechanistic explanation for that effect remains contested after more than three decades of experimental work. Two traditions domin...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2026/v29i94370
Oryza sativa L. (rice) is a staple food crop whose productivity is increasingly constrained by soil salinity, a stress that disrupts ionic balance and limits growth and yield. Basic helix–loop–helix (bHLH) transcription factors are known regulators of plant abiotic stress respons...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2026/v29i94371
Background: Rice productivity in red and lateritic soils can be constrained by limited nutrient availability, making coordinated varietal selection and nutrient management important for improving crop performance. Aims: To evaluate the effects of rice varieties and integrated nut...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2026/v29i94372
A field experiment was carried out during the rabi season of 2025-26 at the Agricultural Research Farm, School of Agricultural Sciences, Jaipur National University, Jaipur, Rajasthan. The experiment was laid out in a factorial randomised block design with three replications. The...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2026/v29i94373
Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) synthesised using the valued medicinal plant Hyssopus officinalis were applied as elicitors to callus cultures of two medicinal species, Hyoscyamus muticus and Datura innoxia, to investigate their effects on callus proliferation and secondary metaboli...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2026/v29i94363