Human activities, such as agriculture and shrimp farming, have influenced the Huizache-Caimanero lagoon system, modifying the landscape and diminishing its natural productivity. Four Landsat MSS (multi-spectral scanner) and TM (thematic mapper) sub-images, taken between 1973 and 1997, were analysed to evaluate trends of changes in the lagoon, saltmarsh, mangrove, agriculture, secondary successi...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Photosynthetic thermotolerance (PT) is important for plant survival in tropical and sub-tropical savannas. However, little is known about thermotolerance of tropical and sub-tropical wild plants and its association with leaf phenology and persistence. Longer-lived leaves of savanna plants may experience a higher risk of heat stress. Foliar Ca is related to cell integrity of ...

Microfluidics applications can benefit from a dry film approach in multiple ways – particularly in the preparation of multi-layer, multi-level fluidic channels and structures on patternable substrates and covers [1,2,3,4]. Of special benefit is the extreme simplicity in the use of the dry film sheets. A standard lamination approach allows one to apply the resist sheets as well as image them wit...

A field experiment was conducted during Rabi season of 2012-13 at Regional Agricultural Research Station, Lam, Guntur, with an aim to find out the effect of foliar nutrition on water potential, photosynthetic rate, dry matter production and yield of mung bean under receding soil moisture conditions in split plot design with irrigation and no irrigation as main treatments and foliar sprays as su...

In the area where the high quality water is not available, unconventional water sources are used to irrigate. Household leachate is one of the sources which are used in dry and semi dry areas in order to water the barer trees and plants. It meets the plants needs and also has some effects on the soil, but at the same time it might cause some problems as well. This study in order to evaluate the...

*Correspondence: Rachel Honnert, Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques, Groupe d’Etudes de l’Atmophère Météorologique, Météo France/CNRS, GMAP 42, avenue Gaspard Coriolis, 31100 Toulouse, France e-mail: [email protected] In numerical weather prediction (NWP) models, at mesoscale, the sub-grid convective boundary-layer turbulence is dominated by the uni-dimensional (1D) vertical th...

Malaria in eastern Sudan is characterised by limited seasonal transmission, with the majority of the year remaining transmission-free. Some inhabitants who contract malaria during the transmission season retain long-lasting sub-patent infections, which probably initiate transmission the following year. Here we have monitored Plasmodium falciparum infection prevalence and gametocyte production d...

A study was conducted to evaluate the uptake and accumulation of waterborne lead (Pb) in various tissues of Catla catla when exposed to lower doses. Single breed fingerlings (6-8 cm) of C. catla were obtained from a commercial fish seed hatchery. Six groups (in duplicate) of fish (40 each) were maintained at 22 C, pH 7.0, hardness 140 mg/l and DO 7.0 mg/l in 90 liters of water in glass tanks. E...

Introduction: The conditions on Mars are thought to have been more conducive for life during its early history, about 3 billion years ago. If life ever evolved on Mars, would it be possible to see the remnants of a long-extinct biosphere today? Or even more interesting, would it be possible to find Martian bacterial spores that survived for billions of years on Mars? Bacterial spores exhibit a ...