Earlier only Pleurotus spp., Agaricus bisporus, Volvariella volvacea and Calocybe indica were cultivated by the growers in India. The sequence of whole year mushroom production breaks due to unavailability of mushroom for production during summer season except Calocybe indica and...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45990
Conventionally litchi is propagated by vegetative means mainly by air layering or marcottage, grafting and budding. Although for large-scale production of elite litchi clones, micropropagation can be used as a potential alternative to conventional means of propagation. The presen...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45992
Wheat is one of the worlds most commonly consumed cereal grains. With the rapid increase in world population, the production of wheat will play a pivotal role in food security and the global economy. Conventional breeding programme for crop improvement involves hybridisation, sel...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45994
An investigation was carried out in diallel fashion with the main objectives to evaluate the general combining ability of parents, specific combining ability of crosses and breeding values of genotypes for population improvement. Forty-five F1's along with ten parents and two che...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45996
Twenty-eight crosses generated from eight diverse parents of linseed (Linum usitatissimum L.) in diallel mating design (excluding reciprocal) were evaluated against Shekhar as check-in randomized block design for nine quantitative traits, to estimate the general combining ability...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45998
Chilli is one of the most important commercial crops in India. It is grown almost throughout the country. Chilli yield is a complex quantitative character controlled by several genes, and its improvement depends on the functioning and interaction of several components that vary f...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45999
Gerbera (Gerbera jamesonii) widely used as a decorative garden plant, is a member of the Compositae family. Due to high temperatures and humidity, the post-harvest vase-life of gerbera is very less. Keeping quality is an important parameter for evaluation of cut flower quality so...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45861
Tissue culture techniques are being widely used for the production of large-scale disease-free planting material aseptically on artificial media within a lesser span of time and space. This technique has gained tremendous popularity in recent days for the commercial production of...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2018/45978
The Government of Ghana has introduced into its energy mix many thermal generation plants, which utilize natural gas and light crude oil to augment the electric power need of the country. However, these come with high fueling cost and frequent interruption in the supply chain. On...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45224
Aims: To determine the type of microorganisms growing on mobile phones of health care workers and the possibility of mobile phones being vectors for transmission of hospital-acquired infections. Methodology and Results: 50 random participants were chosen from health care workers...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/42329