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Open AccessLong-term conservation agriculture and best nutrient management improves productivity and profitability coupled with soil properties of a maize–chickpea rotation
Conservation agriculture (CA)-based practices have been promoted and recouped, as they hold the potential to enhance farm profits besides a consistent improvement in soil properties. A 7 years' field experimen...
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Timing Potassium Applications to Synchronize with Plant Demand
Potassium (K) demand by crops is almost as high as that of nitrogen (N) and plays a crucial role in many plant metabolic processes. Insufficient K application results in soil K mining, deficiency symptoms in c...
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Effects of high frequency vibratory finishing of aerospace components
Vibratory finishing is extensively utilized for surface engineering applications particularly in the aerospace industry. Commercial vibratory finishing operations occur at a frequency range of 15 Hz to 50 Hz. ...
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In vitro differentiation and plant regeneration of Albizia chinesis (Osb.) Merr
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Sex specific chromosome polymorphisms in the common Indian Krait, Bungarus caeruleus Schneider (Ophidia, Elapidae)
Chromosome analyses of common Indian Krait, B. caeuleus from three geographical regions of India have revealed variable diploid numbers of 43, 44 and 45 in different female individuals but a constant diploid numb...
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Phosphate Uptake and Photophosphorylation in the Blue-Green Alga Anacystis nidulans
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The Arc Spectrum of Chlorine
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The Application of the Irregular Doublet Law to Complex Spectra
PROF. M. N. SAHA and Mr. P. K. Kichlu have recently (NATURE, Feb. 18, p. 244) shown that the irregular doublet law, which has been applied by Millikan and Bowen to locate approximately the spectra of elements ...
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Spectrum of Ionised Sodium
FOLLOWING the extension of the irregular doublet law given by Messrs. Saha and Kichlu [NATURE, Feb. 18, p. 244], I have tried to analyse the spectrum of Na+, proceeding from the spectrum of neon. I have been able...
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Regularities in the Spark Spectrum of Silver
ACC0RDING to the theory of Hund, the fundamental terms of the spark spectrum of silver would consist of a deep 1S0-term (combination d10) with metastable triplet and singlet D-terms (d9 s1). These would combine w...