The study was taken up with the objective of testing whether the endophytic organisms isolated from crops that are normally non-hosts to the bacterial wilt pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum possessed pathogen-antagonistic activity and to evaluate the selected isolates for the alleviation of wilt disease in the target tomato crop through horizontal movement of promising organisms. Sixteen endophyt...

BACKGROUND Deceased donor kidneys for transplantation are in most countries allocated preferentially to recipients who have limited co-morbidities. Little is known about the incremental health and economic gain from transplanting those with co-morbidities compared to remaining on dialysis. The aim of our study is to estimate the average and incremental survival benefits and health care costs of...

Ehretia asperula’s physiological responses to growth performance following oak-wood biochar application under water stress conditions (WSC) and no (non-WSC) were investigated in a pot experiment. Biochar (WB) was incorporated into the soil at concentrations of 0, 5, 10, 15, 20 tons ha?1 before transplanting asperula pots. One month after transplanting, plants put by withholding for ten days. Wa...

Sorghum seedling transplanting is an essential agricultural activity in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, conventional manual of sorghum a time-consuming, labour-intensive, costly with low rate, uneven plant distribution, and degree accuracy. In order to realize rapid precise seedlings transplanting, duckbill-type mechanism has been designed. This five-bar linkage consisting two crankshafts, connect...

a paper-pot transplanter was designed, developed and evaluated in the field by transplanting sugar beet seedlings grown in paper pots. a ground-driven counter wheel equipped with an infra-red sensor measures the traveled distance and sends the corresponding signals to a micro-controller. a step motor controlled by the micro-controller turns the driving shaft of the paper-pot metering mechanism ...

The present study was carried out during kharif 2016–18 at Agronomy Farm, Rajasthan College of Agriculture, MPUAT, Udaipur. Perilla leaf moth, Pyrausta panopealis Walker (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) is an important and major insect pest sweet basil, therefore, ecofriendly bio-rational insecticides were evaluated against perilla moth in the experiment. experiment laid uniformly sized plots measuring...