Potato virus Y (PVY) coat protein gene has been cloned from an Indian isolate of PVY. The coat protein gene from this isolate showed 93.2% nucleic acid sequence homology and more than 94% amino acid sequence homology compared to an American isolate. The coat protein gene has been sub-cloned into plant expression vector pBINPLUS and tobacco leaf discs were transformed using Agrobacterium tumefac...

The Government’s initiative to allow 51 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail has been a subject for debate for quite some time now. Indian retail sector has therefore attracted the attention of people from various fields including academia, industry, research organisations. The present study is undertaken to gain an insight about the present structure of Indian Retail ...

South Asia--comprising India, Pakistan, countries in the sub-Himalayan region and Myanmar--was one of the first geographical regions to have been peopled by modern humans. This region has served as a major route of dispersal to other geographical regions, including southeast Asia. The Indian society comprises tribal, ranked caste, and other populations that are largely endogamous. As a result o...

Isolated coral atolls are not immune from marine debris accumulation. We identified Southeast Asia, the Indian sub-continent, and the countries on the Arabian Sea as most probable source areas of 50 000 items on the shores of St. Brandon's Rock (SBR), Indian Ocean. 79% of the debris was plastics. Flip-flops, energy drink bottles, and compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) were notable item types. Th...

Neural model for multilingual web documents in Indian sub-continent is gaining prominence in day to day life. While translation and transliteration are gaining its importance on web pages, it becomes difficult for the common man to understand what the web page says about, especially when regional language is not known to the user. So, our effort here is a generic tool applied in Neural networks...

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a sub task of Information Extraction (IE) used to identify and classify the names in any given data. Earlier studies were mostly based on hand written rules where as now-a-days Machine Learning models such as Hidden Markov Model (HMM), Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt), Maximum Entropy Markov model (MEMM), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) a...

This paper explores the historical and social context of population genetic research conducted in India by focusing on a study by Reich et al which aimed to reconstruct Indian population history. The paper addresses two themes. First, it considers the agendas and modes of thinking about Indian populations and the caste system on which this study appears to be based. Second, it reflects on the m...

Understanding the seasonal movements and distribution patterns of migratory species over ocean basin scales is vital for appropriate conservation and management measures. However, assessing populations over remote regions is challenging, particularly if they are rare. Blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus spp) are an endangered species found in the Southern and Indian Oceans. Here two recognized s...

AIM The aim of the study was to establish the baseline hematology and serum biochemistry values for Indian leopards (Panthera pardus fusca), and to assess the possible variations in these parameters based on age and gender. MATERIALS AND METHODS Hemato-biochemical test reports from a total of 83 healthy leopards, carried out as part of routine health evaluation in Bannerghatta Biological Park...