Some Quantitative Considerations in Iron Nutrition of Higher Plants

Role of the rhizosphere in iron nutrition of plants

Application of Medicinal Plants in Poultry Nutrition

Application of most antibiotic growth promoters as feed additives has been banned in a lot of countries due to cross-resistance against pathogens and residues in tissues. Therefore, scientists are searching for alternatives to antibiotics nowadays. Medicinal plant extracts are one of the alternatives that have anti-microbial and growth promoting effect on poultry. In this paper, the benefits of...

Women and Nutrition in India Some Practical Considerations

• Foundation News 8 • Reviews and Comments: Tamil Nadu's Initiative and Universal immunisation Programme Some Lessons: C. Gopalan 7 3. Women at risk: It can be computed, on the basis of available growth data, that today nearly 24 percent of adult women in the reproductive period have body weights less than 38 kg and 16 percent have heights less than 145 cm4 These women, according to generally a...

Chlorine Nutrition of Higher Plants: Progress and Perspectives

CHLORINE NUTRITION OF HIGHER PLANTS: PROGRESS AND PERSPECTIVES Wenrong Chen a; Zhenli L. He a; Xiao E. Yang b; Suren Mishra c;Peter J. Stoffella a a Indian River Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Fort Pierce, Florida, USA b Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Environmental Remediation and Ecosystem Health, College of Environme...

Haploid production technology in wheat and some selected higher plants

Haploid plants are very important in various realms of research disciplines such as plant biotechnology, molecular genetics and traditional plant breeding. They provide useful information regarding recombination and genetic control of chromosomal pairing. Haploidy expedites the breeding process thereby increasing the crop yield. Researchers have been working on the haploidy approach for more th...