Field experiment was conducted for 2 seasons to study the influence of drip fertigation in combination with or without bio fertilizers on yield, plant uptake and soil fertility of Bt cotton. The treatments comprised of four levels of drip fertigation viz., 75, 100, 125 and 150 per cent of recommended dose of fertilizers (RDF, NPK) combined with and without bio fertilizers, drip irrigation w...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Health literacy on tuberculosis (TB) is an understanding about TB to perform activities with regard to prevention, diagnosis and treatment. We undertook a study to assess the health literacy on TB among one of the vulnerable tribal groups (Saharia) in central India. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, 2721 individuals aged >15 yr from two districts of Madhya Pradesh...

Wheat is an important crop of India. Precise estimates of evapotranspiration can be obtained by multiplying crop coefficients to reference evapotranspiration using readily available climatic data. PenmanMonteith equation is adopted world wide as the most reliable and accurate method for computing reference evapotranspiration. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) presented crop coefficien...

The aim of the present study was to examine whether changes in temperature alter the effects of halothane and isoflurane on isolated left atria. Concentration-response curves for inotropic effects at different temperatures (30 degrees C, 37 degrees C, 40 degrees C) on electrically stimulated left atria of the rat were obtained. The change of temperature modified the maximal negative inotropic r...

Dianthus caryophyllus L. is an important floricultural crop species throughout the world, specially in Eurasia. The present study was conducted to evaluate the nine Dianthus genotypes, including normal and mutagen treated, to assess the magnitude of variability and to pick up the heritable component of variation present in the quantitative traits. The analysis of variance revealed highly signif...