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Role of Microbial Diversity for Soil, Health and Plant Nutrition
Soil provides the medium for root development, and with the exception of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and some nitrogen, plants depend on soil for all other nutrients and water. Soils develop by the disintegration...
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The In Vivo Synthesis and Accumulation of Lectin in Develo** Seeds of Black Gram (Vigna mungo L. Hepper)
Black gram (Vigna mungo L. Hepper) seed contains two D-galactose-specific lectin species, BGL-I and BGL-II, identified on the basis of elution from ion exchange column and immunochemical cross-reactivity. BGL-I c...
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Mutations affecting nodulation in grain legumes and their potential in sustainable crop** systems
Many spontaneous and a large number of induced mutants that show altered nodulation pattern have been isolated in pea, soybean, common bean, faba bean, chickpea, groundnut and pigeonpea. Available information ...
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Mutations affecting nodulation in grain legumes and their potential in sustainable crop** systems
Many spontaneous and a large number of induced mutants that show altered nodulation pattern have been isolated in pea, soybean, common bean, faba bean, chickpea, groundnut and pigeonpea. Available information ...
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RAPD analysis of induced mutants of groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.)
Radiation-induced mutants of groundnut cv. Spanish Improved showing distinct morphological differences and the parent were screened for RAPD variability. The analysis revealed characteristic band differences a...
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Characteristics of two major lectins from mungbean (Vigna radiata) seeds
Two major lectins, MBL-I and MBL-II, were purified fromVigna radiata L. seeds using ion-exchange and gel filtration chromatography techniques. MBL-I was found to be a tetramer with native M.W. of 132 kDa and subu...
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Genome map**, molecular markers and marker-assisted selection in crop plants
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Inheritance of powdery mildew (Erysiphe polygoni DC) resistance in mungbean (Vigna radiata L. Wilczek)
Detached mungbean (Vigna radiata L.Wilczek) leaves were inoculated with a conidial suspension of a local isolate (TI-1) of the powdery mildew pathogen (Erysiphe polygoni DC) under controlled environment condition...
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Bioenergetic Limitations to Breeding Better Brassicas
Crop production is an energy conversion process in which the incident light energy is trapped and converted to chemical bond energy during photosynthesis. This energy is used for growth and maintenance of diff...
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Alteration of reproductive effort by a monogenic, recessive mutation in jute (Corchorus capsularis L.)
Reproductive effort (RE) of a day-length neutral mutant TCJ-5, its parent, and two other cultivars of jute (Corchorus capsularis) was estimated as reproductive biomass/aerial biomass. Plant height at flowering an...
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In memoriam Ernest Robert Sears
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Inheritance of polypetalous corolla mutation in sesame
A true breeding mutant having free corolla lobes, designated as polypetalous mutant was obtained in sesame (Sesamum indicum Linn.), after irradiating seeds of cv N62-32 with 1·6 kr fast neutrons. The inheritance ...
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Seed coat and hypocotyl pigments in greengram and blackgram
Three anthocyanins were found inVigna radiata (greengram) accessions with black seed coat, but were absent in cultivars having green seed coat.Vigna mungo (blackgram) had only one of them. The same 3 anthocyanins...
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Yield and oil content of doubled haploids of mustard (Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. and Coss.)
Progenies of androgenetic doubled haploid plants of mustard cv TM-4 in A4−A6 generations were evaluated for their seed yield and oil content. Eight progenies in the A5 generation out of the 97 (8%) A1 plants rege...
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Screening for powdery mildew (Erysiphae polygoni DC.) resistance in mungbean (Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek) using excised leaves
A simple, reliable method for assessing powdery mildew reaction on excised mungbean leaves has been developed and used for screening germplasm accessions. Third trifoliate leaves from 21–25 day old field-grown...
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Purification and characterization of variant alcohol dehydrogenase isozymes from durum wheat
Three alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) isozymes from embryos of the durum wheat cultivar Bijaga Yellow having the variantAdh-Alb allele were purified using (NH4)2SO4 precipitation, gel filtration, and ion-exchange chr...
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Monohybrid and dihybrid segregations in the progenies of tobacco transformed for kanamycin resistance with a Ti-vector system
A chimeric DNA construction having nopaline synthase promoter, coding sequences of neomycin phosphotransferase gene conferring resistance to antibiotic kanamycin and OCS (octopine synthase) polyadenylation seq...
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Transformation ofBrassica juncea byAgrobacterium tumefaciens harbouring plasmid pTiT37 and its ‘rooty’ mutant pTiT37.14a/a
Indian mustard (Brassica juncea Linn., Czern and Coss) plants were inoculated withAgrobacterium tumefaciens strain A208 harbouring either plasmid pTiT37 or pTiT37.14a/a. The latter carries an insertion at the ‘ro...
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Genetic transformation of plants
Current status of the molecular approaches for integrative genetic transformation of plants is reviewed.Agrobacterium-mediated and direct DNA transformation of protoplasts are considered. Elucidation of the molec...
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γ-Protein, a sulphur amino acid rich protein from pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.)
A globulin protein comparatively rich in sulphur amino acids has been isolated from the seeds of pigeon pea. This protein termed γ-protein has a sedimentation coefficients of 7S and a molecular weight of about...
