Date palm cultivation in India: An overview of activities

Ancient Gold Mining Activities in India - An Overview

Gold was obtained through washing or panning of the river sands during initial periods of civilisation. With the advent of knowledge of metallurgical processing of ores it was recovered through mining of in-situ quartz reefs, and then from auriferous sulphide ores. The metal mining activities are evidenced in the form of large number of ‘ancient metal mines’ or ‘old workings’ and ‘placer mining...

Cullus induction in shahani date-palm embryo

Genetic Stability of Micropropagated Plantlets in Date Palm

Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers were used to analyze genetic stability of the somatic embryogenesis-derived regenerants (R1-6) and mother plant in Iranian date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) cultivar Khanizi. Total genomic DNA extracted from in vitro fresh leaves of regenerated plants and mother plant was amplified using 10-mer oligonucleotide Fermantas primers. Four primers of...

DRDB: An Online Date Palm Genomic Resource Database

Background: Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) is a cultivated woody plant with agricultural and economic importance in many countries around the world. With the advantages of next generation sequencing technologies, genome sequences for many date palm cultivars have been released recently. Short sequence repeat (SSR) and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) can be identified from these genomic...

Tea in India: An overview

Tea is grown in India in a wide amplitude of climatic variables, at latitudes from 8° 12' to 32° 13' N. Currently, an area of about 579,000 ha is under tea, the major tea growing states being Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Other states such as Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Orissa, Tripura and Uttaranchal also grow tea in small areas. Tea plantations in India are traditionally ...