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Scope for genetic manipulation of mineral acquisition in chickpea
Nutrient acquisition in chickpea needs to be efficient, because it is mainly grown as a post-rainy season, rainfed crop, and generally on soils inferior in physical characteristics and poor in fertility. Nutri...
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Scope for genetic manipulation of mineral acquisition in chickpea
Nutrient acquisition in chickpea needs to be efficient, because it is mainly grown as a post-rainy season, rainfed crop, and generally on soils inferior in physical characteristics and poor in fertility. Nutri...
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Towards the More Efficient Use of Water and Nutrients in Food Legume Crop**
Nutrient imbalance and soil moisture stress are the major abiotic constraints limiting productivity of cool season food legumes. These constraints are more pronounced in the semi-arid tropics and sub-tropics w...
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Diagnosis and alleviation of boron deficiency causing flower and pod abortion in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) in Nepal
Symptoms of flower abortion and failure of pod set in chickpea in Chitwan, Nawalparasi and Makwanpur districts of Nepal suggested a nutrient disorder as a prime cause of the problem. Thus, a diagnostic nutrien...
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Root form and function in relation to crop productivity in cool season food legumes
Legumes have a tap root with lateral branches, but there is substantial genetic variation in root characters. The proportion of total plant dry weight found in the root systems of most cool season legumes is t...
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Screening techniques and sources of tolerance to salinity and mineral nutrient imbalances in cool season food legumes
A large global land area is affected by saline, alkali (sodic), and acid soil conditions. Cool season food legumes are important crops in many countries with such adverse soils. Tolerant genotypes have been id...
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Iron deficiency in lentil: Yield loss and geographic distribution in a germplasm collection
Iron deficiency symptoms are observed on some genotypes of lentil (Lens culinaris Medikus) grown in calcareous soil. A germplasm collection of 3512 accessions originating from 18 countries was characterized for i...
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Screening techniques and sources of tolerance to salinity and mineral nutrient imbalances in cool season food legumes
A large global land area is affected by saline, alkali (sodic), and acid soil conditions. Cool season food legumes are important crops in many countries with such adverse soils. Tolerant genotypes have been id...
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High temperature stress
Of the common abiotic stresses to which cool season food legumes are subjected, heat stress is by far the most common. Heat stress is often encountered during the reproductive phase of crop development in each...
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Studies in the family saxifragaceae
The flowers are pentamerous. The staminal bundles arise conjointly with the sepal medians and the petal bundle with adjacent sepal laterals. The dorsal bundles of the carpel remain indistinct although. The ant...
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Studies in the family saxifragaceae—IV
1. The anther at maturity shows characteristic fibrous thickening of the endothecium expending to the other parts as well. The pollen is shed at 2-celled stage.
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Studies in the family saxifragaceae
1. The ovules ofParnassia nubicola are bitegmic and anatropous. They are tenuinucellate.
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Studies in the family Saxifragaceae
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Morphological studies in the Gramineae
The present paper deals with the vascular anatomy of the spike and spikelets of twenty species of Andropogoneae. The vascular anatomy of the spikelet indicates that there has been an abbreviation of the axes i...