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Covering a wide array of topics on the status and challenges of
organic farming, including production, nutrient management, plant
protection, processing methods, organic production, policy issues,
etc., in food crops, vegetable crops, and sugarcane, this new
volume addresses how organic farming is an attractive option toward
the reduction of toxic emissions produced from traditional
agriculture and how it can help mitigate the deleterious effects on
crops from climate change. With a focus primarily on India but with
application elsewhere in the agricultural world, the volume looks
at organic crop production in conjunction with ensuring rural
livelihood security, maintaining and enhancing soil health,
sugarcane productivity and sugar industry by-products, nutritional
management in system-based organic farming, the management of pests
in organic farming, the use of vermiculture as an important method
for organic farming, and much more. The volume also looks at the
issues and challenges in the marketing of organic produce.
This edited book is a compilation of tangible research findings and
actual experiences on various salt tolerant rice breeding
programmes, that have been successfully practiced and continuing to
do so by research centres in South East Asia, with major emphasis
in India, Bangladesh and Philippines. Rice being one of the most
important staple crops of the world, its production and
productivity have to be kept on increasing so as to feed the
burgeoning population. This is a very challenging task in the midst
of shrinking resource base and arable lands in the face of climate
change. Salt stress is the second major abiotic stress, next only
to drought, which greatly affects rice production. To overcome this
problem, development of improved salt tolerant rice cultivars
coupled with appropriate package of practices, an ecologically
sound and socially acceptable strategy should be developed which is
well within the reach of marginal farmers. With rapid advances in
molecular biology, mechanisms underlying the complexity of the
trait are better understood now than before. Selection of
appropriate parents, desired mapping populations, precise
phenotyping are the key components to underpin the mapping and
utilization of reliable QTLs. Understanding genetics of salt
tolerance, identifying the robust molecular markers and targeted
utilization of available molecular markers form the sound basis to
develop the commercial products with more precision and speed. This
book covers entire range of topics: starting from biophysical
characterization of salt stressed areas in different rice
ecologies, conventional and molecular breeding approaches for
mapping salt tolerance and subsequent development of improved rice
varieties for commercial cultivation and their societal impacts.
This book is of interest to scientists, faculty, policy makers and
administrators. It also serves as a resource guide to graduate
students of agriculture particularly plant breeding, plant
physiology, molecular biology and soil science.
While the use of database technology is ubiquitous throughout IT
(and health IT in particular), it is not generally appreciated
that, as a database increases in scope, certain designs are far
superior to others. In biomedical domains, new knowledge is being
generated continually, and the databases that must support areas
such as clinical care and research must also be able to evolve
while requiring minimal or no logical / physical redesign.
Appropriately designed metadata, and software designed to utilize
it effectively, can provide significant insulation against change.
Many of the larger EMR or clinical research database vendors have
realized this, but their designs are proprietary and not described
in the literature. Consequently, numerous misconceptions abound
among individuals who have not had to work with large-scale
biomedical systems, and graduates of a health or bioinformatics
program may find that they need to unlearn what they were taught in
database and software design classes in order to work productively
with such systems. A working knowledge of such systems is also
important for individuals who are not primarily software
developers, such as health informaticians, medical information
officers and data analysts. This book is, in a sense, intended to
prepare all of the above individuals for the real world.
While the use of database technology is ubiquitous throughout IT
(and health IT in particular), it is not generally appreciated
that, as a database increases in scope, certain designs are far
superior to others. In biomedical domains, new knowledge is being
generated continually, and the databases that must support areas
such as clinical care and research must also be able to evolve
while requiring minimal or no logical / physical redesign.
Appropriately designed metadata, and software designed to utilize
it effectively, can provide significant insulation against change.
Many of the larger EMR or clinical research database vendors have
realized this, but their designs are proprietary and not described
in the literature. Consequently, numerous misconceptions abound
among individuals who have not had to work with large-scale
biomedical systems, and graduates of a health or bioinformatics
program may find that they need to unlearn what they were taught in
database and software design classes in order to work productively
with such systems. A working knowledge of such systems is also
important for individuals who are not primarily software
developers, such as health informaticians, medical information
officers and data analysts. This book is, in a sense, intended to
prepare all of the above individuals for the real world.
Cowpea is an important warm-season grain legume. Cowpea has
received relatively little attention from a research standpoint.
Apart from improvement of specific traits, breaking the yield
plateau is the major task. Towards this direction, pooling of yield
contributing alleles has reached already saturation and hence
requires alternative approach. Recently, it has been realized that
morpho-physiological approach as an alternative to address such
tasks. The present book highlights the importance of physiological
traits such as photosynthetic rate, stomatal conductance,
transpiration rate and chlorophyll content in determining the yield
indirectly by manipulated sink and source relationship and further,
the scope of introgressive hybridization in development of new
plant type through transgressive segregants. And also gives
highlights regarding breeding approach by selection of parents,
generation of transgressive segregants based on heterosis of the
population and the selection parameters. This information is of
great useful to the researchers and breeders who are willing to
work on genetic improvement of crop species through conventional
breeding approach.
Meditation has emerged as a science in past couple of decades as
evidenced by hundreds of articles published in recent years. This
book takes this scientific exploration to the next level by
targeting a specific state of a meditation-inner light
perception(ILP). This book is about the studies conducted on the
meditators of Vihangam Yoga in various countries.Our interest in
this meditation began when we found that ILP of the meditators in
this sect far out-numbered meditators of other techniques. Our
first study, a qualitative study on this technique revealed several
mystical experiences of the meditators. To obtain an objective
marker for this experiene, we conducted the next study with 192
channel Electroenchephalogram (EEG)whose results not only provided
it's evidence but sparked interest in several scientists around the
globe leading to the use of a series of highly sophisticated
techniques like neuropsychology, neural networks and quantum
mechanics by investigators of different nations. All these
collaborative approaches have revealed unbelievable aspects of
Vihangam Yoga meditation and have been compiled here as chapters.
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