Pesticides are among the few toxic materials deliberately disbursed into the environment to preserve the agricultural produce. The growth of population is making increasing demands on the natural resources thus resulting ...

Nature has evolved a diverse set of antibiotics that bind to DNA in a variety of ways, but with the common ability to act as potent inhibitors of DNA transcription and replication. As a consequence, these natural products ...

There are vast stretches of wasteland all over the world due to high concentration of salts in the soil. The saline soil is wide spread in various parts of India as well. Salinity creates problems due to its effects on ...

The present state of environmental decision-making is often based on short-term analysis of an individual component of the system, and interpretation made on the basis of some set of general evaluation criteria, ...

A plasma membrane localized low molecular mass (26.3 Kd) adenosine 5'-monophosphatase (PM-AMPase) and a Golgi apparatus localized high molecular mass (52.4 Kd) adenosine 5'-monophosphatase (GA- AMPase), from cotyledons ...

A high performance fermentation process for the continuous production of citric acid from sugarcane molasses using the combination of submerged calcium alginate-immobilized and surface stabilized cultures of Aspergillus"niger ...

Fenvalerate, [1, cyano (3-phenoxyphenyl) methyl 4-chloro-a-(l-methylethyl) benzeneacetate, Pydrin insecticide], a synthetic pyrethroid is widely used now a days to control a range of pests. In the present study ...

The sperm produced in the testis are initially non functional, lacking the ability for forward progressive motility and fertilizing capacity. But they acquire these traits after spending considerable periods of time in ...

The present study is in two parts. Part I deals with biochemical, histopathological and structural changes induced by intramuscular administration of cumulative doses of NiS0..7H_0 in rat liver and kidney. Part II reports ...