The growing human population has put enormous pressure on agriculture to increase production and productivity, which has resulted in the widespread usage of agrochemicals. The indiscriminate use of agrochemicals has harmed soil fertility and resulted in significant environmental...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2021/v33i1530506
Thirty well-characterized pseudomonad isolates for plant growth-promoting traits were screened for their antagonistic activities against 20 isolates of Sclerotium rolfsii. Out of the 30 pseudomonad isolates, PUR46 was found to be best against all 20 isolates of Sclerotium rolfsii...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v35i530202
White rot or stem rot caused by the polyphagous fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (Lib.) de Bary is a serious threat to production and productivity of rajmash (Phaseolus vulgaris). The regular incidence of Sclerotinia blight in different states of India has been recorded as a limit...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45982
Arsenic poisoning negatively impacts plants, soil, water, and human health, posing a serious threat to sustainable agriculture. Pesticides, fertilizers, and industrial processes that contain arsenic are widely used, which leads to soil contamination and reduces soil fertility and...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2023/v45i122276
Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik) is also known as "massoor". A member of the Leguminaceae family is known for their high protein and nutrient content. Wilt incited by Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. lentis can result in significant yield losses upto 50% for lentil farmers. Chemical managem...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2023/v35i22752
Sustainable agriculture demands the use of our natural resources to enhance production and productivity without depleting the natural base along with a vision to preserve them for our future generation. The effect of modern agriculture driven by agrochemicals has raised serious c...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i2730921
Chickpea (Cicer arietinum) is one of the world’s major legume crops and suffers substantial damage from wilt disease caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceri( Padwick) with yield loss over 60 per cent. It is an important soil borne plant pathogen and is difficult to manage by a...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i730572
Yellow mosaic disease (YMD) caused by Mungbean yellow mosaic virus (MYMV) is one of the most destructive biotic production constraints in urdbean. Development and introduction of resistant cultivars with high seed yield are considered as the most economical and eco-friendly optio...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i130485
Chickpea (Cicer arietinum) is one of the world’s major legume crops and suffers substantial damage from wilt disease incited by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceri (Padwick) with yield loss over 60 per cent. The screening for new resistance chickpea genotypes against this disease is...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v38i630409
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are the small ubiquitous self-defence products which are extensively distributed in plants. They can be classified into several groups, including thionins, defensins, snakins, lipid transfer proteins, glycine-rich proteins, cyclotides, and hevein-ty...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v36i330236
A total of nine pseudomonad isolates from different rhizosphere were isolated and screened for their antagonistic activities against F. oxysporum f.sp. ciceri. All nine isolates exhibited the ammonification property, produced HCN (Cyanide) and IAA (Indole acetic acid) and positiv...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45976
In recent decades, a large number of crop types have been developed using mutation breeding. In present investigation, gamma irradiated indica rice cultivar Rajendra Mahsuri 1 were morphologically analysed for identify candidate mutants. M3 mutant lines were screened using eleven...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2023/v35i22755
The current work sought to investigate the impact of two chemicals (NaCl and Brassinolide) on growth parameters, chlorophyll pigments in stevia shoots cultured under in vitro condition. For this, nodal explants of stevia were cultured for four weeks on MS medium supplemented with...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i2131250
Soil has immense capacity to function as a vital living ecosystem that not only support plants and animals but also acknowledges survival of people, as a result there has been renewed interest in soil health but due to the environmental repercussions of poor management, such as s...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i2031126
Four different concentrations of chitosan and four mungbean genotypes were studied to determine the optimum concentration of chitosan seed priming. The experiment results revealed that germination percentage, shoot length, root length, fresh weight, dry weight, and seedling vigor...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i1931100
Rice is a model crop for studying host - pathogen interaction with one of the most devastating pathogens viz. Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo). In the present investigation, an attempt was made to isolate a virulent strain of Xathomonas oryzae from infected rice leaves and pro...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i430533
Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) is a powerful reverse genetics technology used to unravel the functions of genes. It uses viruses as vectors to carry targeted plant genes. The virus vector is used to induce RNA-mediated silencing of a gene or genes in the host plant. The proc...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v35i530197
A variety of biotic and abiotic stress conditions result in the production and accumulation of pathogenesis related (PR) proteins in plant. Transcriptional regulation of PR genes plays a vital role in defense response in plant. In rice, the role of the PR1 gene in defense respons...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i2031161
Mungbean (Vigna radiate L.) is one of the most important legume crops of Asiatic region. The average yield of mungbean is quite low due to its susceptibility against mungbean yellow mosaic virus (MYMV). Mungbean yellow mosaic virus disease (MYMD) is caused by MYMV, which is trans...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i1831081
COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) has recently emerged as an ongoing pandemic disease or probably syndemic and became the latest threat to global health. The main route of transmission of virus droplet start with respiratory problems coughing, sneezing, fever during infection period, which m...
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Research Article10.9734/jpri/2020/v32i4431083
The present study was performed to analyze molecular diversity among different varieties of rice using SSR markers, which are effective and reliable tools for this type of analysis. A total of 34 different alleles were generated using 17 SSR primers. Out of these 33 alleles were...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i630880