The study was conducted to standardise protocol for sterilisation of different explants of chrysanthemum cvs. “Candid and “Flirt”. Different explants tried were shoot tips, petals, nodal segments and leaf. Carbendazim 200 ppm for 30 minutes + mercuric chloride (0.1%) dip for 2 mi...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45143
Publishing in scholarly journals is not an easy task. It needs patience and a huge effort in order to find your manuscript published in scholarly journals. From our point of view, this mini-review explains the most significant tips that may facilitate this difficult task. Althoug...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45525
Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.), an important cash crop of India, is prone to many diseases and amongst these, late blight [Phytophthora infestans (Mont) de-Bary] is one of the highly destructive diseases and a major constraint in the profitable cultivation of potato. After realizi...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45896
India is one of the twelve mega biodiversity countries in the world with two hotspots at Himalayan Region and Western Ghat. Besides, north-eastern hilly region; Andaman and Nicobar Islands are also carrying huge diversity for biological resources. Phytobiodiversity and species ri...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45897
With the objective of searching suitable and practically applicable solution to the problems of low productivity due to fungal diseases in rice, this study was conducted at the farmers participatory on-farm trial on Rice var. MTU 7029 in the Sheikhpura district of Bihar during Kh...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45898
The field experiment was conducted at Horticultural Research Farm of the Department of Applied Plant Science (Horticulture), Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (A Central University), Vidya-Vihar, Rai-Bareli Road, Lucknow (U.P.) – 226025, India during Rabi season of 2016-17. T...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45899
Cape gooseberry is an important minor fruit crop of India. In the present study, genetic diversity of 12 genotypes of Cape gooseberry was analysed using Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers. For this purpose, twenty RAPD primers were employed to screen out the polymorp...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45900
Garlic contains several important constituents like garlicin and allistatin. Besides it is used as spices it has several medicinal properties. Despite high demand of the crop, there is a huge gap between production and uses because of low yield potentiality. Therefore to identify...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45901
The present investigation was conducted to develop an effective micropropagation protocol of apple cultivar Golden Delicious and Red Fuji. The nodal segment was used as explants of both the apple (Malus × domestica. Borkh) cultivar Golden Delicious and Red Fuji, cultured on Muras...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45902
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