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Use of meteorological data for identification of agricultural drought in Kumaon region of Uttarakhand
Agriculture in hill and mountain ecosystems is predominantly rainfed with common occurrence of moisture stress. It is a natural disaster which evolves in time and its impacts last for a long time. In the prese...
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Open AccessChemiRs: a web application for microRNAs and chemicals
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are about 22 nucleotides, non-coding RNAs that affect various cellular functions, and play a regulatory role in different organisms including human. Until now, more than 2500 mature miRNAs i...
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The Indian Himalayan Ecosystem as Source for Survival
The Indian Himalayan Region (IHR) covers ~95 districts of the Indian union, which starts from the foothills in the south (Siwalik); the region extends to the Tibetan Pla...
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Conservation Agriculture and Climate Change: An Overview
Conservation agriculture (CA) is the integrated management of the available natural resources such as soil, water, flora, and fauna with partial outside inputs which increases the efficiency of natural resourc...
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Productivity of rainfed wheat as affected by climate change scenario in northeastern Punjab, India
Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is grown as a rainfed crop in the sub-mountainous region of the Punjab state of India, with low crop and water productivity. The present study aims to assess the effect of climate cha...
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Quality Evaluation of Perilla frutescens L. Cultivated in Doon Valley Climatic Conditions of Uttarakhand: A Source of Perillaketone
Perilla frutescens L., known as “Bhanjira” is a high value plant used in flavoring foods by local villagers of Uttarakhand. The seeds were sown at 25 days intervals in the month of May, June and ...
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Toxicokinetics/toxicodynamics with damage feedback improves risk assessment for tilapia and freshwater clam exposed to arsenic
It has been proposed that irreversible responses of organisms exposed to contaminants are due to a systems-level feedback. Here we tested this hypothesis by reanalyzing the published data on toxicokinetics and...
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Open AccessA feeder-free culture using autogeneic conditioned medium for undifferentiated growth of human embryonic stem cells: Comparative expression profiles of mRNAs, microRNAs and proteins among different feeders and conditioned media
Human embryonic stem (hES) cell lines were derived from the inner cell mass of human blastocysts, and were cultured on mouse embryonic fibroblast (MEF) feeder to maintain undifferentiated growth, extensive ren...
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Neutron diffraction study of quasi-one-dimensional spin-chain compounds Ca3Co2–x Fe x O6
We report the results of the DC magnetization, neutron powder diffraction and neutron depolarization studies on the spin-chain compounds Ca3Co2–x Fe x O6 ...
