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      • Botany & plant sciences
        September 2018

        Abiotic and Biotic Stress Management in Plants

        Volume 01: Abiotic Stress

        by Bhav Kumar Sinha & Reena

        This book deals with an array of topics in the broad area of abiotic stress responses in plants focusing problems and their management by selecting some of the widely investigated themes.

      • Agriculture & farming
        January 2015

        Biological Sciences

        Innovations and Dynamics

        by Rajeshwar P. Sinha, Richa & Rajesh Prasad Rastogi

        The objective of this book is to provide state-of-the-art knowledge, and highlight the current developments taking place in biological sciences. The book encompasses topics on prokaryotic cyanobacteria to higher plants, distributed in fourteen chapters for the benefit of graduate and post-graduate students as well as young researchers and scientists. Subjects covered include molecular and biochemical diversity of microbes, stress biology, cyanotoxins, antimicrobial activity of drugs originated from plants, natural bioactive compounds of microbial origin, detection approaches for genetically modified crops, genomics and proteomics. The book provides an insight for future perspectives in particular field with extensive bibliographies at the end of each . With all these, this book becomes highly useful and must-read for students, researchers and professionals in botany, biotechnology, bioinformatics, environmental sciences, agriculture, molecular biology and other streams of biological sciences.

      • Aquaculture & fish-farming: practice & techniques
        February 2021

        Breeding and Culture of Freshwater Ornamental Fish

        by Archana Sinha & Pramod Kumar Pandey

        The Book Breeding and Culture of Freshwater Ornamental Fish deals with recent scenario and technology of freshwater ornamental fish. The book contains 15 chapters including FAQ and suggested readings. The book covers in depth subjects such as status, breeding techniques, food and health management and marketing of freshwater ornamental fishes. There is a separate chapter on breeding of indigenous freshwater ornamental fishes. Emphasis is given on national and international legislation related to ornamental fish export and import. The book contains a useful chapter on the importance and role of ornamental plants and accessories. Aquarium making and decoration is well explained for a hobbyist. Water quality management and maintenance of aquarium have been dealt in great detail by the author as those are the important components of aquarium keeping. Packaging and transport of these fishes are dealt with proper explanation with view to promote proper trade of the ornamental fishes. Author has highlighted the behaviour and biology of important fishes and tried to link these aspects with captive management practices. FAQ and Suggested readings addvalues to the book, as they address many curiosities of the readers. The way chapters are presented in the book, it makes it quite interesng and relevant to the present scenario. Photographs are very aracve.Students, sciensts, academicians, hobbyists and entrepreneurs will certainly enjoy and would be greatly bene?ted and enriched by reading this interesng and well wrien book as it addresses the concerns of each of them.

      • Botany & plant sciences
        September 2018

        Abiotic and Biotic Stress Management in Plants

        Volume 02: Biotic Stress

        by Bhav Kumar Sinha, Reena & Surendra Prasad

        This book deals with an array of topics in the broad area of biotic stress responses in plants focusing problems and their management by selecting some of the widely investigated themes.

      • Agronomy & crop production
        October 2021

        Botany and Breeding of Spice Crops

        by Sharangi, A.B., Md. Nasim Ali & Syandan Sinha Ray

        The book throws insights on the concepts of origin and domestication of spice crops. There are elaborative description regarding different modes of reproduction of plants along with crop specific techniques regarding emasculation and pollination techniques. Conventional plant breeding methods has categorically been explained as these concepts would help spice breeders to choose the appropriate breeding tool. Detailed idea from tissue culture to genomics assisted breeding especially the theory and applications of various omics viz., metabolomics, genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, etc., has been elaborated. Finally, different spice breeding information has been comprehensively documented in this book with some useful references to future directions of spice breeding throughout the world. The book shall pave the way for new age researchers, faculties, plant breeders, policy makers and amateur readers towards theoretical and empirical studies as well.

      • Biography & True Stories

        BRAJA KISHORE PRASAD

        by Sachidanand Sinha

        This full length biography of Babu Braja Kishore Prasad, one of the most eminent national movement leaders from Bihar, especially highlights the seminal role played by Prasad in the Champaran movement even before the coming of Mahatma Gandhi on the scene, and thereafter as the key leader of Gandhi’s Champaran team. It seeks to introduce to the readers and researchers alike to the various legal-social-political battles that Prasad waged including his seminal role in the ‘Bihar movement’.

      • Literature & Literary Studies

        Shadows on Snow-Dear Suzannah in Prison Talkies

        by Pankhuri Sinha

        This book is a collection of selected poems from Pankhuri’s preceeding books of poems, ‘Prison Talkies’ and ‘Dear Suzannah’, translated in several European languages like Serbian, Romanian, Czech, Swedish, German, French, Polish, Russian, Greek, Macedonian, Croatian, Slovakian, Bulgarian, Uzbek, Arabic, Hebrew, Bangla and many other languages, along with the translations. Translation has been done by acclaimed International poets writing/translating in these languages. Like most of her work, these are poems political in nature, based on Pankhuri’s own encounter with Immigration in the USA, and Canada. Yet, these are poems fragrant with her love for that continent, its people, nature, topography, and shaped by her desire to understand the so-called cultural difference better, in a time of a global, cosmopolitan culture, where so much is shared and festivals being celebrated by people of other religions. These poems thus are poems celebrating peace, tolerance, humanity, and universal love.

      • Health & Personal Development
        October 2021

        COVID-19 AND NUTRACEUTICALS, A GUIDEBOOK

        by Chandan Prasad, PhD and Güler Öztürk, PhD

        The rapid rise in Covid-19 infection to a pandemic stage in the face of lack of few choices for treatment, prevention has taken a special purpose in this battle. The 1918 Spanish Flu with no vaccine to protect against the infection and no antibiotics to treat secondary bacterial infections associated with influenza infections, control efforts worldwide were limited to non-pharmaceutical interventions including, isolation, quarantine, good personal hygiene, use of disinfectants, and limitations of public gatherings, which were applied unevenly. These same measures hold good for Covid-19 pandemic today.Nutraceuticals and Functional foods for many reasons, largely its perceived safety, have gained popularity in disease prevention. Also, in the last 2-3 decades there have been well designed and controlled basic and clinical investigations that have steadily added credence to nutraceuticals for disease prevention.This book is a compilation of reviews of data on different nutraceuticals that may be of relevance to Covid-19 pandemic. These include, probiotics, melatonin, plant bioactives, lipoic acid, curcumin, selenium, zinc, magnesium and boron to name some.

      • Children's & YA
        2018

        Right Arm Over

        by Moti Nandy (Translated by Arunava Sinha)

        An unforgettable story of cricket and friendship from a master of sports fiction. Jibon and Ananto are best friends and promising cricketers—Jibon a stylish batsman, and Ananto a gifted fast bowler. But one day they have an accident and Jibon loses half his right arm. Considered the more talented of the two, his cricket career is over. Not one to give up, he makes it his mission to see that his friend plays for India. Meanwhile, the Indian cricket team is in turmoil as it heads into a Test series against Australia. Jibon is determined that Ananto will find his opportunity and shine at the international level. But even if he gets his chance, will Ananto be able to deliver? With its fascinating descriptions of playing cricket for the country, the workings of a cricket team, the politics of selection committees and the life of sportspeople, Right Arm Over is not just a novel about sports. It is also about the grit and determination needed to succeed, about friendship, and about sacrifices that are made out of love and commitment.

      • A Textbook of Environmental Studies and Sustainability

        by Dr. Shradha Sinha • Dr. Meet Kamal • Dr. Vandana Grover

        This book is intended to meet the academic requirements of the subject Environmental Science for graduate and postgraduate students of various Indian Universities. This book covers the syllabus of M.Sc. Environmental Chemistry, Environmental science of graduate, postgraduate and also of MBA classes. This book has a holistic approach to the subject for easy and logical comprehension. A comprehensive and balanced coverage of the entire syllabus is the speciality of this book.

      • Agricultural science
        September 2020

        Approaches for Incorporating Drought and Salinity Resistance in Crop Plants

        by V.L.Chopra & R.S.Paroda

        Crop growth and productivity is limited by a large number of adverse conditions of ambient environment and soil composition. Among these, drought and soil salinity are most prevalent stresses. In view of shrinking land resources and continuing pressures of growing population in most developing countries, it has become imperative that crop yields are not allowed to suffer on any type of cultivable land. Breeding crop varieties resistant to drought and salinity stress, therefore, assumes great importance. Major limitations to exploiting genetic resistance have been the lack of (i) definition of the level of stress that is relevant to crop productivity, (ii) screening procedures that can be reliably employed for identifying genotypes possessing attributes governing stability of performance under stress conditions, and (iii) Understanding of the processes that have direct as well as indirect relevance to conferment of resistance. This book presents the much-needed information on drought and salinity stress under one cover. s have been contributed by a leading authority and practitioner of his own field of specialization. The book will be an indispensable source of information for students and researchers interested in the subject of drought and salinity stresses and breeding approaches for achieving resistance to these stresses.

      • Botany & plant sciences
        June 2020

        Plant Health Management

        by Gireesh Chand

        The book carries documents contributed by faculty members from all across the country on emerging disease threat, design effective management strategies through various conventional and modern approaches. The chapters in the book provide a current and detailed account of biotic and abiotic constraints that affect the crops, with comprehensive coverage of occurrence, distribution, economic importance, symptoms of biotic and abiotic constraints, disease cycle, epidemiology and sustainable disease management strategies.

      • Physiology
        October 2011

        Physio-Biochemistry and Biotechnology of Vegetable Crops

        by M.K. Rana

        This book is aimed at providing systematic information on nutritional importance of vegetables in human nutrition, physiology, post-harvest technology, biochemistry and biotechnology of vegetables at a single source. The book contains very concise and precise information on physio-biochemical and biotechnological aspects of vegetable crops and also covers areas like resistance against diseases and herbicides and tolerance against drought and salinity and the physical aspects of quality, i.e., shape, size, texture, colour, tenderness, etc. It also contains the information on best possible solutions of problems faced by the students, scientists, growers and trade. The information given in this book is truly based on scientific records of scientists working on vegetables in various institutes. The book on physio-biochemical and biotechnological aspects of vegetable crops compiled for the students of postgraduate and postdoctoral programs is one such attempt to make them learn and understand the subject more precisely and motivate them o improve their knowledge in the field of physio-biochemistry and biotechnology of vegetables crops to meet the future needs. In addition, this book may be user-friendly to others who have the concern to expand their knowledge in the field of physio-biochemistry and biotechnology of vegetable crops and wish to fetch more remuneration from vegetable crops.

      • Agriculture & farming
        June 2020

        Medicinal and Aromatic Plants

        Utilization and Conservation Techniques

        by Gopal Shukla ,Bidhan Roy, Vineeta & Sumit Chakravarty

        Medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) are invaluable natural resources of use to human race, without which the survival of human/ animal race is incredible. There is an enormous diversity of plants which are put into medicinal, beauty care and culinary purposes. Cultivation of commercially important medicinal plants is in high demand as the global community is growing towards a green and herbal oriented approach. India as a country has thousands of years old traditional medicinal systems which rely solely on medicinal plants. There is a gradual loss of medicinal plants with the increasing demand of plant derived drugs. Majority of medicinal plants are still collected from the wild. This doesnt meet the demand and thereby pave ways to adulterants. The over extraction and ignorant activities cause biodiversity loss. Farm production of MAPs in these days is extremely vulnerable to underlying climate risk. Sustainable management of these resources requires urgent attention for environmental stability and improvement of livelihood. New income generating opportunities are opening up for rural populations and in particular for small-scale farmers as well as marginal farmers through MAPs cultivation. New generation are not well aware of the various uses of many plants to which it was put before. Thus there is an urgent need to spread the knowledge and conserve the wild populations of medicinal plant diversity in various forest areas of India. Considering the importance of the MAPs, an attempt was taken in this edited book to understand and highlight the role of MAPs in livelihood improvement and income generation through cultivation, conservation and utilisation. Most of the chapters in this book dealt with individual medicinal plants in detail. Two chapters have also been included on pests and diseases management of MAPs. Nowadays, IPR issues are more important. One chapter has been included on IPR issues on medicinal plants. A chapter also devoted on value addition of the medicinal plant products.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        August 2013

        National Patterns of R&D Resources

        Future Directions for Content and Methods: Summary of a Workshop

        by Michael L. Cohen and Esha Sinha, Rapporteurs; Committee on National Statistics; Division on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; National Research Council

        National Patterns of R&D Resources is an annual report issued by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) of the National Science Foundation, which provides a national view of current 'patterns' in funding of R&D activities in government, industry, academia, federally funded research and development centers, and non-profits. Total R&D funds are broken out at the national level by type of provider, type of recipient, and whether the R&D is basic, applied, or developmental. These patterns are compared both longitudinally versus historical R&D amounts, and internationally. This report series, which is based on input from several censuses and surveys, is used to formulate policies that, e.g., might increase incentives to support different types, sources, or recipients of R&D than is currently the case. To communicate these R&D patterns, each report is composed of a set of tabulations of national R&D disaggregated by type of donor, type of recipient, and type of R&D. While this satisfies many key user groups, the question was whether some modifications of the report could attract a wider user community and at the same time provide more useful information for current users. National Patterns of R&D Resources: Future Directions for Content and Methods addresses the following questions: (1) what additional topics and tabulations could be presented without modifying the current portfolio of R&D censuses and surveys, (2) what additional topics and tabulations might be presented by expanding these current data collections, (3) what could be done to enhance international comparability of the tabulations, (4) since much of the information on non-profit R&D providers and recipients is estimated from 15 year-old data, what impact might this be having on the quality of the associated National Patterns tabulations, (5) what statistical models could be used to support the issuance R&D estimates at state-level and geographic regions below the national level, (6) what use could be made from the recent development of administrative sources of R&D information, and finally, (7) what graphical tools could be added to the current tabulations to enhance the communication of R&D patterns to the users of this series of publications.

      • Food & Drink
        January 2022

        Small Millets and Pseudo Cereals for Nutritional and Health Security

        by Gopal Kumar Sharma, Anil Dutt Semwal,Pal Murugan Muthaiah & Janifer Raj Xavier

        The prime focus of this book titled Small Millets and Pseudo Cereals for Nutritional and Health Security is to present systematically the importance as well as critical research carried out across the world on these climate complaint crops, their origin, cultivation methods, pre and post-harvest information, processing, chemical composition nutritional composition, physico-chemical characteristics, processing technology, health promoting attributes, traditional and modern foods to scientific fraternity, student community and general public. The book will be highly useful to common consumer also for making nutritious food of choice. The 20 chapters in this book have been authored by reputed contributors having in-depth knowledge of their specialization from government, industry and academia. This book will be an essential reference for researchers, academicians, students for research and development activities as well as government officials and policy makers to address the issue of malnutrition in rural areas. This book will certainly drive future research in unexplored areas of traditional foods based on nutri cereals and pseudo cereals.

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