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Effectiveness of Lr34 gene in reducing leaf rust severity in wheat cultivar BRW 934 transferred through marker-assisted backcross
Leaf rust caused by Puccinia triticina Eriks. is one of the yield constraining diseases of wheat. It is prevalent in almost all wheat growing areas of the world. Durable leaf rust resistance conferred by integrat...
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Response of elite biofortified wheat genotypes for grain zinc and iron concentration with and without zinc application
Malnutrition is a serious health concern worldwide prevalent among the children and women in the develo** nations. Biofortification of the staple food crops can improve the daily dietary intake of micronutri...
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Insights into Wheat Blast: Its Epidemiology, Recent Advances and Management Strategies
The Wheat blast (WB) causing fungus Magnaporthe oryzae pathotype Triticum (MoT) is still a major challenge to researchers, despite its discovery in the 1980s in Brazil. The disease single-handedly compromised the...
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The role of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act on women empowerment in selected districts of West Bengal, India
Women’s participation in employment sectors is significantly lower than men, besides most women are actively engaged in domestic household work without pay. The current study focuses on the role of Mahatma Gan...
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Tropical cyclone intensity forecasting in the Bay of Bengal using a biologically inspired computational model
Effective management of tropical cyclone (TC) emergencies largely depends on accurate forecasting of TC intensity. Despite being essential for successful disaster warning/management, accurate forecasting of TC...
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Investigating the physico-chemical properties of drinking water: a case study of South Twenty-Four Parganas, West Bengal
The availability of safe and clean drinking water is very limited across the world. However, it is essential to have access to safe and quality drinking water to lead a healthy life and achieve Sustainable Dev...
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Patterns and drivers of internal migration: insights from Jharkhand, India
Rural out-migration is a common phenomenon in Jharkhand and it has become a way of life for the people living in the region. The people have been migrating not just for seeking diverse avenues of employment, b...
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Bio-demographical determinants of diabetes among women in reproductive age group (15–49) in India: Evidence from National Family Health Survey (NFHS) of India, 2019–2021
Diabetes is a non-communicable disease, and the prevalence of diabetes is higher in low and middle-income countries. In India, diabetes prevalence has been observed, with some regional variations across the st...
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Evolution of Public Policies for Empowering the Women in Self Help Groups in West Bengal, India
This chapter determines the empowerment level of SHG women residing in North Bengal and analyzes the evolution of public policies concerning this. Given the comparative backwardness of this region, the role of...
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Land Use Transformation in Active Delta
Bangladesh’s coast is vulnerable due to its increasing high man-land/natural resource ratio, fragile process of delta formation, and increasing threat from climate instability. The result is visible from faste...
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Open AccessGenomic selection for spot blotch in bread wheat breeding panels, full-sibs and half-sibs and index-based selection for spot blotch, heading and plant height
Genomic selection is a promising tool to select for spot blotch resistance and index-based selection can simultaneously select for spot blotch resistance, heading and plant height.
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Globally Important Non-rust Diseases of Wheat
While the three rusts are the most predominant wheat diseases in the global scale, various other diseases dominate in different geographical regions. In this chapter, some major non-rust diseases of wheat with...
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Single Failure Recovery in Distributed Social Network
This paper aims to propose a single failure recovery for a distributed social network. Single node and multi-node recovery are both non-trivial tasks. We have considered that a user is treated as a single inde...
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Single-Feed Dual-Polarized High Gain Microstrip Antenna
In this work, a novel single-feed stacked microstrip antenna is proposed for high gain and dual polarization application. The designed antenna is useful at two purposes. In one hand, its lower operating freque...
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Inheritance and relationships of flowering time and seed size in kabuli chickpea
Flowering time and seed size are the important traits for adaptation in chickpea. Early phenology (time of flowering, podding and maturity) enhance chickpea adaptation to short season environments. Along with ...
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An Integrated Approach to Environmental Management in Bangladesh
Bangladesh is subject to a variety of environmental stressors and is characterized by large imbalances in the distribution of natural resources due to poor environmental management or a lack thereof. In additi...
