and biochemistry of major hormone systems related to development under stressful circumstances and ultimately associated with productivity and yield of crops. The topics discussed are of utmost use to the undergraduate and postgraduate students of agriculture in all Indian universities.
Introduction to Agricultural Economics - Introduction to Agricultural Economics is the latest and comprehensive textbook for the students pursuing BSc (Hons) in agriculture under different agricultural universities in India. The book explains economic concepts and principles in an attractive, simple and interesting manner to evince students’ interest in the subject. The textbook, based on the syllabi of agricultural universities in India and as per the ICAR guidelines, is designed to meet the requirements of the students desirous of building sequential learning and preparing for various competitive examinations
New to this edition is detailed coverage of air conditioning and refrigeration including their proper management. Other important new topics include: wind and water erosion water use and energy consumption drying handling and storage of biological products soil erosion and erosion control. Introduction to Agricultural Engineering demonstrates key methods and techniques of problem solving including the algebraic approach and the units cancellation method. The book includes practice problems-along with necessary tables conversion values and equations-to aid understanding of complex topics.
It contains detailed chapters on conserving natural enemies through environmental management importation of new natural enemies for control of pests augmentation of natural enemies through rearing and release and the development and application of pathogens as biopesticides. The volume features a special chapter on techniques for evaluating the population effects of natural enemies on their target pests and new materials on frequently neglected aspect of biological control such as the influence of governmental policy the role of extension agents and the use of biological control for the conservation of native species and ecosystems. Biological Control is the only current text to provide students with a fundamental understanding of the subject along with the knowledge necessary for efficient implementation. It also offers environmentalists conservationists agriculturists and policy administrators an invaluable resource distinctive in its breadth of coverage and its integration of taxa.
Chapter authors are primarily university faculty members who are teaching or have taught a food analysis course and who are very familiar with the specific topic of the chapters by nature of their research programs.Each chapter has been reviewed by persons working in the food industry who are familiar with and utilize that technique. The book is not a laboratory manual but instead is designed to provide the lecture materials in an easy- to-follow outline format with a brief discussion for each section. It provides much of the information on techniques that students must possess before they are able to conduct those laboratory experiments that normally accompany a food analysis course. This book covers only the analysis of chemical properties of foods and not physical properties: It is not intended as a detailed reference but as a general introduction to the techniques used in food analysis. All topics include information on the basic principles procedures advantages limitations and applications of food analysis. All chapters have summaries and study questions and key words or phrases are identified.
disease management and biology of plant pathogens like fungi, bacteria, viruses, phytoplasma, nematodes, etc. To ensure easy understanding and clarity of the subject matter, the chapters are adequately illustrated. It is hoped that the book would be of immense use to teachers as well as students and generate enough interest to inspire the inquisitive mind.
Naturally, attention is focused mainly on the nature of hard parts belonging to each group of invertebrates represented among fossils.Invertebrate Fossils is a book intended to supplement instruction in the classroom and laboratory by providing a fairly complete description of each main group of fossil invertebrates, with illustrations of examples. It is planned as a textbook, not as a reference work. This means that the chapters undertake to explain in consecutive manner important features of structure, classification, reproduction and growth stages, characters of main divisions, evolutionary trends, and geological distribution. Condensed summaries of morphological features are given in illustrated form, accompanied by brief cross-indexed definitions of terms. Stratigraphical distribution is represented graphically, and in most chapters there are supplementary illustrations in which fossils are grouped by geologic systems.
Students of biology usually find it difficult to grasp the basic principles of these techniques owing to their mathematical bias. The book attempts to present a non-mathematical account of the underlying principles of a variety of experimental techniques including electron microscopy spectroscopy ultracentrifugation etc. and should be useful to all students of biology at graduate andpostgraduate levels.
Optimum crop production depends on inputs of manures, commercial fertilizer and pesticides. Today's technology-based agricultural practices have a huge effect on increased food production across the length and breadth of the country. This comprehensive book includes various aspects of inputs covering synthesis, formulation and chemistry written in a simple understandable language. It covers the courses aimed at the graduate and undergraduate students as per the recommendation of Fourth Deans Committee of ICAR on Agricutural Education in India. The text focuses on the majority of students and scientists working in the broad fields of soil science, agronomy, plant physiology, entomology and plant pathology who need to have a concise overview of organic and inorganic inputs with a comprehensive theoretical and practical exposure. An excellent text for the students studying soil, crop and environmental science and a handy reference for the scientists/researchers in these areas.
Sickle Cell Haemoglobinopathy is a genetically transmitted disease resulting from a defect in beta chain of haemoglobin where glutamic acid at position six is replaced by valine. Extensive research has revealed the aetiopathogenesis of the disease and made accurate laboratory diagnosis feasible. Sickle Cell Haemoglobinopathy is highly prevalent in Central India in the scheduled tribes and scheduled castes. This monogram is the culmination of the extensive research of last two and a half decades. It deals with the historical aspects aetiopathogenesis radiological features anthropological measurements and then in detail about individual skeletal involvement in Sickle Cell Haemoglobinopathy. This book will be of use to Orthopaedic Surgeons Physicians Paediatricians and Radiologists alike in recognising the patients understanding the disease process and in effective management. The main aim of the monogram is to present a precise and concise description of all aspects of the orthopaedic manifestations of the disease that will be of help to medical professionals to offer the patients of Sickle Cell Haemoglobinopathy a better prognosis.