Copper and Zinc are essential micronutrients but at high levels could negatively affect plant growth. Long-term and residual effects of cattle manure application were studied on forage yield and Cu and Zn concentrations ...

Organic rice farming has gained increasing attention throughout the world in recent past. Therefore, best rice varieties needed to be identified to perform well under organic conditions for increasing rice grain yield.This ...

Indica rice varieties are highly recalcitrant to anther culture. Androgenesis results in homozygous progeny from a heterozygous parent in a single generation and provides excellent material for research, plant breeding ...

Reports on isolations of endophytic diazotrophic bacteria from wild rice indicate the potential use of such bacteria as alternative nitrogen sources for rice cultivation. Objectives of this study were to isolate local ...

Soil water repellency is a dynamic phenomenon, which is caused by low-energy surfaces where the attraction between solid and liquid phases is weak. Contact angle is one of the common ways to measure the wettability of a ...

The term "Gunma noi" refers to an ulcer in the lower esophagus, stomach, duodenum and in the jejunum. Clinical features are almost similar to peptic ulcer. The disease Gunmanoi is caused by untimely meals, use of excessive ...

Iron and manganese are the elements in the groundwater which are required in small amounts. If the amounts of these elements are higher than the Sri Lankan Standard of (SLS) permissible level, removal is necessary. In ...

With the aim of understanding the yield and yield components of some traditional rice cultivars which are having different days to maturity, a field experiment was carried out. Fifty traditional rice cultivars were planted ...

Knowledge about the drought responses of different turf grasses would be of great importance in developing water-use-efficient landscapes. This study was designed to evaluate the drought resistant characteristics of three ...

The correct type of solvent in the extraction method is specific in the natural materials. It is important to have quality of pigments, and therefore, optimum quality beneficial to the society can be produced. The five ...