INTRODUCTION Banana (Musa paradisiaca) is the most popular commercial fruit crop grown worldwide and serves as a staple food in many countries [1]. Banana production and export worldwide are affected by many viral diseases such as banana bunchy top disease…
Introduction Common bean is one of the most important pulse crops, especially in Brazil, China, the Indian sub-continent, and Sub-Saharan Africa, with about half of bean production, occurring in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America followed by South and South-East Asia…
Introduction Mastitis is a complex multi-etiological disease that has emerged as a major challenge impacting the welfare of dairy cattle across the globe. It accounts for about 40% of the total direct costs of the common production diseases [1]. Mastitis…
1.Introduction At the beginning of the 2000s, the Indian seed sector has been exposed to intellectual property rights (IPRs). Before the IPR period, public sector technologies and variants were generally in the public domain and could be accessed by anyone….
Introduction Soybean (Glycine max L. Merrill) is a self-pollinated crop with a natural outcrossing rate of 0.03-6.32 percent [1].The soybean is indigenous to northeast Asia, particularly China.World soybean production was estimated as 385.527 million tonnes. Brazil ranks first in soybean…
Introduction Rice is the most extensively studied crop among cereals because of its global significance as a food crop being the main staple food for more than half of the world’s population. In Asia, 60% of the earth’s people live…
INTRODUCTION The checker keel back is also known as Asiatic water snake and it is non venomous snake. The snake is endemic to Asia. They are limbless reptiles. They move their body by lateral undulation. The Assamese name of this…
Introduction Seeds available in the market are often very poor in quality in respect of germination, varietal purity, seed viability etc. The scarcity of quality seeds of crops in India during growing season is important issue till now due to…