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ABSTRACT: This study was conducted to develop a protocol for rapid callus induction and subsequent shoot regeneration in Bougainvillea (B. ×buttiana, B. spectabilis and B. glabra). The best results of callus induction response (92.86%) in whole area of node explant was observed on WPM medium of B. × buttiana compared with B. × buttiana when cultured on MS medium gave (85.71). The lowest callus induction response (71.00%) was observed on WPM medium from B. glabra followed by MS medium (71.43%) callus was formed from B. glabra. While the maximum number of shoot induced from callus, maximum shoots length and highest number of leaves per culture were obtained on WPM was 12.14 shoots/ culture, 2.14 cm and 20.71 leaves/ culture respectively from B.× buttiana after 6 weeks of culture inoculation compared with all characterized for B.× buttiana when cultured on MS medium was give number of shoot induced from callus, maximum shoots length and highest number of leaves per culture (11.43shoot induced/ callus, 17.14 cm, 1.96number of leaves/ culture) respectively.
Key words: In vitro, Bougainvillea, callus induction, different media, WPM and MS medium.
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ABSTRACT: In order to study the effect of seed soaking on seed germination and growth of bitter gourd cultivars an experiment was conducted at Vegetable Research Farm Singri, Bhimber Azad Kashmir, during March, 2012. Three cultivars of bitter gourd Faisalabad Long, Jaunpuri and Palee were soaked in water for various soaking durations (4, 8, 12 and 16 hours) along with control to determine the optimal soaking duration and find out the best growing cultivar. The highest germination percentage (85.18%), number of branches plant-1 (8.64), fruits plant-1 (20.70) were obtained when the bitter gourd seeds soaked for 12 hours. Earlier emergence (6.28) and earlier flowering (39.40) were recorded in plants where seeds soaked for 16 hours. Cultivar Palee significantly enhanced the germination percentage (85.56%), days to flowering (39.55), numbers of branches plant-1 (8.86), fruits plant-1 (21.09). Seed soaking in water for 12 hours has the potential to improve germination, seedling growth of bitter gourd cultivars. It was concluded that the seed soaking of cultivar Palee for 12 hours showed best results regarding maximum germination and enhanced growth under the agro-climatic conditions of district Bhimber, Azad Kashmir. Pakistan.
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ABSTRACT: The paper presents the application of artificial neural network (ANN) in predicting some mechanical properties of Melon fruits. There is no established numerical relation between the physical properties and the mechanical properties of melon fruits. The physical data were obtained experimentally for 120 melon fruits. A feedforward backward propagation (ff-BP) architecture was developed and used to estimate the mechanical properties of the Melon fruits from the measured physical properties. A Levenberg-Marquoardt (LM) optimization was used to train the 4-5-5-1 Multi-layer Perceptron (MLP) network and root mean square error (RMSE) was used as performance criteria. The physical properties were trained using MATLAB Neural Network Toolbox and the results compared with experimental values. It was observed that the ANN's predicted values and the experimental results agreed upto 95%. The network predicts a maximum shear force of 400.76N and a minimum 206.48N. and a best evaluation performance was reached after t epoch three (3).
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ABSTRACT: This research was conducted at the teaching and research farm of the Department of Crop Production and Landscape Management, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, from 2006 to 2012 cropping seasons to develop maize populations of increase protein, oil, amylose and amylopectin contents. Total of eight (8) maize varieties were used for the study and were grouped into two populations, A and B. Population A was coded A1, A2, A3 and A4 while population B was coded B1, B2, B3 and B4. These two populations were genetically variable based on the time of maturity, percentage protein, oil, amylose and amylopectin. The mean protein content of the parents was 8.74% while their progenies after second cycle had percentage protein content of 13.27%, showing an increase of 4.53% with mid parent heterosis of 52%. The oil content of the open-pollinated maize varieties was pushed towards increasing order from 6.19% for population A and 4.19% for population B of the original populations to 5.61% and 5.62% for populations A and B respectively of the first cycle populations. These were further pushed up to 8.08% and 8.46% of the second cycle populations A and B respectively. The mean amylose content of the original population was 24.25% and the mean amylose content of the progenies after the first cycle was 22.02%. The second cycle synthetics had mean amylose content of 19.72%, showing a decrease of 4.53%. The mid parent heterosis was -9.2%. The mean amylopectin content of the original population was 75.75% and the mean amylopectin content of the selected high amylopectin was 82.13%, showing an increase of 6.38% over the mean amylopectin content of the original population. The breeding programme seems to be very effective in improving both the high, medium and low protein, oil, amylose and amylopectin contents of the original maize populations to all high protein, oil and amylopectin contents, except amylose, after the second cycle. In all, this method offers definite promise. Further progress in improving chemical constituents as well as other characters is theoretically possible in future cycles.
Key words: Maize, Protein, Oil, Amylose and Amylopectin, Selection.
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Paper Type | : | Research Paper |
Title | : | Ergo-Economical Analysis of Different Paddy Transplanting Operations in Eastern India |
Country | : | India |
Authors | : | S. Pradhan, S. K. Mohanty |
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ABSTRACT: Transplanting of paddy is very tedious job mostly done by female workers during Kharif season and by 2020 there would be 50 percent women against 42 percent at present. Manual hand transplanting consumes a lot of energy and time and full of fatigue, but the poor socio-economic condition of the farmers does not allow them to adopt power operated transplanter. Transplanting operation by different research centres have been developed as 2 row, 3 row, 4 row paddy transplanter. Keeping this in view fifteen female subjects were selected in the age group 18-45years in the central farm of OUAT. The mean value of age, weight, height, VO2 max and Body surface area were found to be 31.1 years, 51.7 Kg, 153 cm, 1.71 l/min and 1.52 m2 .Physiological parameters like Heart rate, Oxygen consumption rate and Relative cost of workload were measured in different transplanting operations. The mean value of working heart rate was observed to be maximum 137.4 beats/min in 4 row paddy transplanter followed by 130.8 beats/min in 3 row transplanter and 127.7 beats/min in 2 row transplanter and 113.4 beats/min in local transplanting . The Oxygen consumption rate and Relative cost of workload were observed to be maximum 1.10 l/min and 64.3 percent in 4 row transplanter followed by 1.02 l/min and 59.6 percent in 3 row transplanter followed by 0.9 l/min and 57.8 percent in 2 row transplanter and lowest in local practices,i.e.0.5 l/min and 33.4 percent. The field capacity was observed to be maximum 0.016 ha/h in 4 row transplanting followed by 0.014, 0.011, 0.009 ha/h in 3 row, 2 row and local method of transplanting. The cost of operation was observed to be Rs.2237 per ha in 4 row, Rs.2346 per ha in 3 row, Rs.2484 per ha in 2 row paddy transplanter and Rs.2550 per ha in local practice of transplanting. The 3 row paddy transplanter was observed to be the best among all manual operated paddy transplanters.
Key words: Transplanter, Working Heart Rate, Oxygen Consumption Rate, Rest pause, Relative cost of workload.
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ABSTRACT: The perception of farmers towards a technology influences the farmer's uptake of that technology. This study examines the perception of smallholder farmers towards a fertilizer and certified seed subsidy program. Data from fifty two respondents was collected using a structured questionnaire and analysed using summation, median and mode. Results showed that the farmers perceived the subsidy program positively. The study recommends a further study on the factors that influenced the perception.
Key words: Perception, farmer, subsidy, fertilizer, certified seed.
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Title | : | Communication Strategies and Attitude: Interactive Concepts in Adult Literacy Teaching |
Country | : | Nigeria |
Authors | : | E. Oluwakemi Augustus |
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ABSTRACT: This paper examined two important concepts: communication or instructional strategies and attitude of adult learners in a successful adult literacy teaching/learning situation. A 3x2x2 quasi-experimental, pre-test, post-test control group design was employed. The subjects for the study were three hundred and four (304) intermediate class adult learners purposively selected from sixteen (16) adult literacy centres in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. Three hypotheses were generated and tested at 0.05 Alpha level. The instruments used for the study were (a) A recorded cassette containing teachings on the selected concepts. (b) Learners' Achievement Test (LAT) in civic literacy education (c) Learners' Attitude towards Civic Literacy Education Questionnaire (LATCLEQ).
Key words: Communication strategies, Literacy teaching and Attitude.
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Title | : | Seed-Borne Fungi of Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) and their Impact on Oil Quality |
Country | : | Egypt |
Authors | : | El-Wakil, D. A. |
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ABSTRACT:The deteriorating in sunflower oil due to seed-borne fungi is of a great importance. In the present study ten seed-borne fungi were isolated from abnormal sunflower seeds collected from different locations in Egypt i.e. Aspergillus flavus, A. niger, Alternaria alternata, Curvularia lunata ,Fusarium moniliforme, F. oxysporum, F . semitectum, Penicillum digitatum, Stemphylium sp., and Trichoderma spp. A noticeable variation was recorded in sunflower oil samples such as chemical properties i.e. saponification number, fatty acid value, iodine number, peroxide value also, physical properties i.e. moisture content ,gravity, odor absorbent, absorbance (470nm) and oil colour ,these differences are due to the secondary metabolites produced by storage fungi. Some of the tested fungi gave a remarkable differences in both of absorbance and odor i.e. with F. semitectum and Stemphylium sp. treatments.
Key words: Sunflower seed-borne fungi, oil deterioration, chemical and physical properties, biochemical changes of oil samples.
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ABSTRACT: This study focused on the application of Remote Sensing & Geographic Information System in Development of Crop Information System (CIS) for sustainable rice production in Jamalpur block which is located (23°04′N,87°59'E & 23°07′N,87°98′E) in Burdwan district of West Bengal, India. There rice fields were identified through Remote Sensing (RS) techniques. Aus, Aman and Boro, this three types of paddy (rice) distribution were shown using Landsat TM satellite data. The secondary data were collected from the Assistant Director's office of Agriculture, Jamalpur block. The cultivated area of different types of rice is calculated from each Gram Panchayet. The both data of rice area one which has been calculated by Remote Sensing method and another one which has been collected from ADA office are compared. Field data is used to generate the variation curve of different types of rice production in the block. It is also shown the gradually changing of rice cultivated area in this block. Finally, it is observed that all the geographic queries carried out in this research are as a result of the available dataset. So that, the decision making bodies can access to information on rice growth and management in the study area.
Key words: Remote Sensing, Spatial distribution, Rice Information System.
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Title | : | Thermostability of chlorophylls in some native species of xerophytes |
Country | : | K.S.A. |
Authors | : | K. A. Farghali, Abeer A. El-Aidarous |
: | 10.9790/2380-0665265 |
ABSTRACT: This study was carried out on eight wild species inhabited the tributaries of wadi Al Noman, at Holey Mecca in the western Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The plant samples were collected at different locations, where laboratory analyses were included: the water content, chlorophyll content and its stability (CSI), , Mg ions, water soluble sugars and soluble proteins. The results showed that, the chlorophyll a content was higher than the chlorophyll b in the studied species. The maximum value of chlorophylls existed in C. colocyanthis and R. viscarius, whereas C. russeliana had low content of chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b. The chlorophyll a/b ratio was balanced by the chlorophyll stability to heat. The CSI of chlorophyll a was compensated by CSI of chlorophyll b and vice versa. The maximum values of total chlorophyll stability (a + b) was found in annuals C. colocynthis and D. innoxia, whereas C. russeliana had low CSI. The different chlorophyll parameters were mainly affected by the interaction between wadi and species, and the species factor played the subsidiary role on the chlorophyll content and chlorophyll a/b ratio in most floristic groups, except in case of chlorophyll a of dominant species the wadi factor was subsidiary. There was no significant effect of single factor on CSI of different groups. The correlation of Mg ions, soluble sugars and soluble proteins with total chlorophyll content and CSI were discussed.
Key words: Chlorophyll, thermostability, wild species, water content, Mg ions, soluble proteins, soluble sugars.
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