Earlier only Pleurotus spp., Agaricus bisporus, Volvariella volvacea and Calocybe indica were cultivated by the growers in India. The sequence of whole year mushroom production breaks due to unavailability of mushroom for production during summer season except Calocybe indica and...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45990
Conventionally litchi is propagated by vegetative means mainly by air layering or marcottage, grafting and budding. Although for large-scale production of elite litchi clones, micropropagation can be used as a potential alternative to conventional means of propagation. The presen...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45992
Wheat is one of the worlds most commonly consumed cereal grains. With the rapid increase in world population, the production of wheat will play a pivotal role in food security and the global economy. Conventional breeding programme for crop improvement involves hybridisation, sel...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45994
An investigation was carried out in diallel fashion with the main objectives to evaluate the general combining ability of parents, specific combining ability of crosses and breeding values of genotypes for population improvement. Forty-five F1's along with ten parents and two che...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45996
Twenty-eight crosses generated from eight diverse parents of linseed (Linum usitatissimum L.) in diallel mating design (excluding reciprocal) were evaluated against Shekhar as check-in randomized block design for nine quantitative traits, to estimate the general combining ability...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45998
Chilli is one of the most important commercial crops in India. It is grown almost throughout the country. Chilli yield is a complex quantitative character controlled by several genes, and its improvement depends on the functioning and interaction of several components that vary f...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45999
Gerbera (Gerbera jamesonii) widely used as a decorative garden plant, is a member of the Compositae family. Due to high temperatures and humidity, the post-harvest vase-life of gerbera is very less. Keeping quality is an important parameter for evaluation of cut flower quality so...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45861
Tissue culture techniques are being widely used for the production of large-scale disease-free planting material aseptically on artificial media within a lesser span of time and space. This technique has gained tremendous popularity in recent days for the commercial production of...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2018/45978
The Government of Ghana has introduced into its energy mix many thermal generation plants, which utilize natural gas and light crude oil to augment the electric power need of the country. However, these come with high fueling cost and frequent interruption in the supply chain. On...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45224
Aims: To determine the type of microorganisms growing on mobile phones of health care workers and the possibility of mobile phones being vectors for transmission of hospital-acquired infections. Methodology and Results: 50 random participants were chosen from health care workers...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/42329
The present study on gender differences on body image perceptions of tribal adolescents was conducted in and around Adilabad district of Telangana state. Ex post- facto design was adapted with a sample of 180 adolescents. Tribal adolescents from tribal schools and tribal colleges...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/42652
Aim: The below ground biota in forest ecosystems determine and regulate the availability of nutrients in soil and is likely to indicate variation in population and metabolism with respect to the soil quality. Therefore, the present study was undertaken to study the physico-chemic...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/44697
Climatic changes have led to adverse effects on agriculture in recent years; therefore extension workers would require unimpeded access to information on climate change if they are to contribute their quota in the current global fight against the menace of climate change to human...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/38263
The present investigation in aromatic rice (Oryza sativa L.) was undertaken for studying the magnitude of heterosis in 28 hybrids (F1s) made by following 8x8 one way diallel mating design for yields and quality traits. Twenty eight hybrids were measured as per cent increase or de...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/44706
The study concentrates on the cyclic behaviour of concrete grade M25 with the addition of nanosilica powder and equal amounts of waste coir fibres and human hair. The results indicate that the improvement of cyclic flexural and number of cycles to failure, other than compressive,...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45417