To combat China's water crisis tremendous research efforts are undertaken aiming at the
improvement of water management in cotton production, which is the major consumer of the …

The assessment of relationships between satellite-derived vegetation indices and
meteorological drought improves our understanding of how these indices respond to …

Seed is the basic input for agriculture. Seed is treated to enhance seed longevity, establish
optimum and uniform plant population of healthy plants with reduced seed rate. Seed …

The present investigations were carried out to study the effect of seed hardening on
morphophysiological and yield parameters in black gram. The black gram var. GU-1 was …

Hemocyanin, the predominant protein in the hemolymph of crustaceans, was isolated from
the plasma of the giant freshwater prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii (De Man, 1879) and …

Rice is one of the main staple food of man and is grown in almost all the tropical and
subtropical regions of the world. An experiment was carried out to investigate the effect of …

Pre-sowing hardening or priming of seeds is one of the best methods for altering the
biochemical and physiological process of seeds for favourable condition to induce drought …

A study was carried out to investigate the effect of pre-sowing seed hardening treatment with
different chemicals such as 1% CaCl 2, 1% KCl, 1% KNO 3 and 1% NaCl and organics such …

Rice cv. IR 36 seeds were given chemical and organic seed hardening treatment with 1%
CaCl2, l% KCl, 1% KNO3, l% NaCl, 10% Cow dung and 3% Panchakavya of seed. The …

Seed is a crucial element for growers, and they expect it to be of the highest quality and
genetically pure. To meet these expectations, seed companies have implemented quality …