Intense knowledge on seed banks is prerequisite for ensuring seed banking and the associated traditional knowledge in tribal areas. Hence, it was thought necessary to construct a test for the purpose and an attempt has been made to develop a test for measuring knowledge of tribal...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v35i230173
Climate variability has been and continues to be, the principal source of fluctuations in global food production in countries of the developing world and is of serious concern. Process-based models use simplified functions to express the interactions between crop growth and the m...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v35i130166
The study was designed to provide evidence of microplastic ingestion, abundance and composition in the catches of Pseudotolithus senegalensis, Pseudotolithus typus and Ethmalosa fimbriata in the dockyard of Londji and Mboa-manga on the Southern Coastline of Cameroon. The methodol...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v35i130165
Pearl millet is one of the major food crops in most of the arid and semi arid cropping region of India. Being the fourth most important cereal crop, pearl millet gives more nutrients and minerals to the rural people. The main purpose of the present study was to carry out an analy...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v35i130160
The purpose of this article is to encourage students and teachers to use a simple technique for finding feasible solution of an LP. This technique is very simple but unfortunately not much practiced in the textbook literature yet. This article discusses an overview, advantages, c...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v35i130163
In this work we have reported an investigation on Hibiscus sabdariffa and Delonix regia dye extracts and their mixture as natural sensitizers for TiO2/DSCs. A shift in the absorption maximum toward the lower energy of the ultraviolet-visible spectrum was observed for the dye mixt...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v35i130161
The antioxidant activities of four genotypes of basil species were selected for biochemical studies, viz., Ocimum sanctum L. (Rama Tulsi), Ocimum tenuiflorum L. (Krishna Tulsi), Ocimum gratissimum L. (Van Tulsi), and Ocimum basilicum L. (Babui Tulsi) for the antioxidant propertie...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v35i130162
The present investigation was carried out with an objective to study genetic divergence based on morpho-agronomical traits and isozyme pattern in eight maize inbreds. These inbreds were evaluated in randomized block design with three replication for ten morph-agronomical traits....
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v35i130164
Bioflocculants of microbial origin have the advantage of being safe, biodegradable and harmless to the environment. Production of bioflocculant by two fungi isolates and the factors affecting its production were investigated in this study. Primary screening of fungi for the produ...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v34i630159
In branch and bound algorithm for integer linear programming the usual approach is incorporating dual simplex method to achieve feasibility for each sub-problem. Although one can also employ the phase 1 simplex method but the simplicity and easy implementation of the dual simplex...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v34i630155