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Blast Disease: Historical Importance, Distribution, and Host Infectivity Across Cereal Crops
Globally, blast disease is an economically important disease, affecting production and productivity of many cereal hosts (rice, finger millet, pearl...
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Achieving Biodiversity Conservation, Livelihood Security and Sustainable Development Goals Through Agroforestry in Coastal and Island Regions of India and Southeast Asia
Coastal and island habitats are among the most fragile and climate-vulnerable ecosystems in the world which host around 2.4 billion people. This...
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Sacred groves of India: repositories of a rich heritage and tools for biodiversity conservation
Sacred groves preserve a rich religious and socio-cultural heritage of Indian biodiversity from primeval times, due to their values. They act as a...
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Water
Water forms the backbone for all future endeavors to achieve food security for ever-increasing population of our country. In the present context,...
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Population structure and genetic differentiation analyses reveal high level of diversity and allelic richness in crop wild relatives of AA genome species of rice (Oryza sativa L.) in India
Crop wild relatives (CWRs) are vital sources of variation for genetic improvement, but their populations are few in genebanks, eroded in natural...
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Improved Varieties of Spice Crops
Genetic variability is essential for any successful breeding program. In India, a rich genetic diversity exists for the spice crops like black...
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Sacred Groves in the Global South: A Panacea for Sustainable Biodiversity Conservation
Sacred groves retain pristine or secondary forest tracts with rich biodiversity protected for centuries due to their sociocultural and religious...
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Bat Fauna (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of Southern Odisha Along the Eastern Ghats, India
Bats have not received adequate attention in biodiversity research and conservation activities in India despite their ecological values. In the...
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Biodiversity of underutilized fruits of the Himalayas
Owing to the conducive agro-climatic conditions, the Himalayan region is home to a number of wild fruit species that are uncommon in other regions of...
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Cultivation and Utilization of Diosgenin-Contained Dioscorea Species
The genus Dioscorea, family DioscoreaceaeDioscoreaceae, has 633 species, all popularly known as yamYam, of which approximately 137 contain the...
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Paradigm Shift from Genetics to Genomics: Characterization of Diversity and Prospects of Molecular Markers
Food and nutritional security, agrarian sustainability, biotic and abiotic stress tolerance are the key requirements for sustainable agriculture. To...
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Establishing integrated agriculture-nutrition programmes to diversify household food and diets in rural India
Agriculture is the predominant livelihood for 70 % of the population living in rural India, and food expenses occupy a major proportion of their...
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Morpho-genetic divergence and population structure in Indian Santalum album L.
Key messageMorpho-genetic divergence study on Santalum album suggested maximum divergence is present in the south Indian populations with propagation...
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Traditional Uses of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Among the Tribes of India
Tribes of India are the centers of information on plant wealth and their different uses for the livelihood. They tend to use plants in various ways...
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Impact of soil physico-chemical properties on distribution of earthworm populations across different land use patterns in southern India
BackgroundThe distribution of earthworms is usually diverse and their population fluctuates in relation to the different physico-chemical properties...
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Ethnomedicinal Plants Used by Ethnic People in Eastern Ghats of Visakhapatnam District, Andhra Pradesh, India
An ethnomedicinal survey was carried out among the ethnic people of Khodu, Mali and Gadaba tribals inhabited in Visakhapatnam District, Andhra...
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Coffee (Coffea spp.)
Coffee farming regions on the globe along the equatorial zone between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn are generally called as the...
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Impact of Conservation Agriculture on Soil Properties and Crop Productivity Under Rice-Fallow Ecology in Eastern India
Opportunity to utilize the carry-over residual soil moisture to produce the post rainy season crops in rice-fallow production systems was one of...
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Butterfly diversity in agroforestry plantations of Eastern Ghats of southern Odisha, India
Agroforestry plays an important role in food security, sustainable development and biodiversity conservation. For understanding the role of...
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National and International Initiatives for the Maintenance of Traditional Multifunctional Cultural Landscapes
Traditional cultural landscapes throughout the world are well recognized in environmental policy and nature conservation practice. The multifaceted...