Kumar B Rajan

Effect of irrigation and mechanical weeding on rice under SRI

The present experiment conducted during kharif season of 2008 and 2010 at AICRP on Water Management field, R.A.U, Pusa, Samastipur, (Bihar) with the rice variety Proagro (Arize) 6444 (hybrid) to find out the effect of irrigation and mechanical weeding on growth, yield and quality of rice under syste...

Diversity of Lower Plants

Biodiversity is the variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome or for the entire earth. Biodiversity is often used as a measure of the health of biological system. Biodiversity or biological diversity is the sum of all the different species of animals, plants, fungi, and microbial organ...

Missing Data: A Practical Approach

Advances in Applied Phycology

Soil Microflora

When we are standing on the ground, we are really standing on roof-top of other world. Soil might look “dirt” but it is far more interestings; living in the soil or plant roots, bacteria, fungi, actinomycetes, algae, lichens, protozoan, nematodes etc. These exist in great diversity among various mic...

Glimpses of CYANOBACTERIA

The present book is compendium of recent research on cyanobacterial studies. It is an assemblage of the up-to-date information of rapid advances and developments taking place in the field of cyanobacteriology. The book is a unique compliation of 20 Chapters which discusses exhaustive studies on cyan...

Biodiversity An Overview

India s phytodiversity is one of the most significant in the world. India is one of the twelve mega-biodiversity centers in the world and also an important center of origin of agrobiodiversity. It is therefore, very important to study, document and conserve the plant wealth of India and also of the ...

Ethnicity, Nationalism and Conflict Resolution

"The concluding chapter focuses on the issues of conflictresolution in Chechnya. Here, I have reasserted my faith indemocratic federalism as the most viable solution of the conflictin Chechnya."