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The variety of life the Planet Earth flowers with is a wonderful culmination of natural evolution. All natural ecosystems and cultivated lands blossoming with biodiversity set out the preconditions for a healthy, vibrant, and sustainable biosphere. Authored by an eminent academician, expert, and celebrated author, the book on Biodiversity: Concepts, Crises and Conservation embraces all dimensions of the biological diversity we need to conceive, understand, recognize, discover, and practically protect, conserve, and augment for posterity, sustainability, and happiness. Emerging concepts, ongoing crises, and potential conservation tactics of biodiversity have been ecstatically explained. The book is composed in a textbook flavor setting out mental agility exercises for students belonging to multiple disciplines and comes out with renewed, enriched, and innovation-disrupting academic content. Apart from the students and their teachers in the life sciences/ biological sciences, environmental sciences, agricultural sciences, geography, and natural resource management streams, the book will also serve as a useful guide for planners, policy-makers, environmental activists, government, and non-government organizations.FEATURES· Provides diverse concepts, crises, and conservation strategies· Elaborates on a wide range of biodiversity values· Presents magnificent scenarios of agrobiodiversity (biodiversity in agriculture), pedo-biodiversity (biodiversity in soils), biodiversity in the chemosynthesis-based communities· Examines biodiversity-climate links· Discusses the vital biodiversity-sustainability relationships· Elucidates biodiversity-based sustainability principles and operationalization techniques

India has an enormous wealth of cattle and buffalo, which is crucial to the development of the socioeconomic status of millions of rural households as well as the country's economy. Dairying has developed into a full-fledged industry in the nation, positively enhancing the lives of those involved in the industry. With expanding population, growing urbanization and increasing purchasing power, the demand for milk and milk products is expected to go up. We need to catch up with the daunting challenge to produce more milk and to generate sufficient value added products. To meet the domestic demand of milk and to generate sufficient exportable surplus, the growth rate in our milk production needs to be accelerated. The major challenges which require urgent attention are, low productivity, breed improvement, shortage of feed and fodder, emerging new disease, poor penetration of technologies at farmers door etc.This book will be of great use and help to the students, dairy farmers & entrepreneurs, dairy industry personnel, academicians, researchers and stake holders in Indian dairy sector.

The purpose of this book is to aid veterinary students and practitioners in the diagnosis and surgical management of cataract in dogs. Although this book is written primarily for cataract in dogs but the procedure can be applied for other pet and farm animals too with slight modifications. This book is consisting of 11 chapters viz; Introduction, Anatomy of lens, Definition of Cataract, Incidence of Cataract, Causes of Cataract, Pathogenesis of Cataract, Classification of Cataract, Diagnosis of Cataract, Selection of patient for surgery, Surgical management of cataract, and Complications of Cataract surgery. Each chapter provides a brief and practical knowledge in easily understandable text. The color photographs of procedure and instruments will certainly aid practitioners in diagnosis and surgical management of cataract.

In this book the author has selected important topics like global warming, e-wastes management, solid waste management, organic farming, vermicomposting and alternatives to fossil fuels. Lot of information and data are included for the benefit of science and engineering students as well as research scholars working on these lines. Hope this book will be useful to them as reference book and will be a priced collection for their own library. All the topics are debatable, some say in favour while other say against of it while the author has tried to analyze all topics from scientific background. Global warming, though not agreed by many people, has already started showing its symptoms by irregular rains, hot summer in some places while cold winter somewhere else indicating the imbalance of nature. A systematic, low cost and employment generating approach has been discussed to manage the solid waste menace of the urban locality. Easy vermicomposting technique and its prospects and problems are discussed in detail for the benefit of people. The necessity of alternatives to petroleum fuel for keeping the wheels of nations progress always in dynamic speed has also been narrated with facts and figures. Hope, all these will attract the readers to refer the book in different perspective

This book covers most of the topics with updated information of modern diagnostic laparoscopy, laparoscopic surgery, laparoscopic guided organ biopsy and laparoscopic ancillary diagnostic techniques employed in small animal in a very concise from. The book is divided into twelve chapters covering all modern diagnostic and laparoscopic surgical techniques used in small animal practices. The main objective of the book is to provide the latest information to meet the requirements of not only undergraduate and postgraduate students but also to the teachers and veterinarians involved in laparoscopic diagnosis and surgery. The book contains more than 100 good quality colour photographs of laparoscopic diagnosis, laparoscopic surgery and laparoscopic ancillary techniques.

The book consists of 19 chapters on different subjects and in different dimensions, with particular emphasis on the post-harvest handling and processing of fruits and vegetables, including mushrooms. Scope for the technology on fruits and vegetables, non-destructive methods to evaluate fresh quality, radiation preservation, chemistry of pectin and pigments and their applications, nutraceutical compounds, membrane processing of liquid fruits, dehydrated and intermediate moisture products,importance of bamboo and mushrooms as food, influence of process conditions on product quality, food additives in product preparation, packaging aspects, microbiological safety concerns, relevant analytical methods, mushroom nutraceuticals and bio-technological interventions for improvement of banana with a final note on conclusions in the last .

This book covers most of the areas of plant propagation including from traditional to recent advances. The emphasis has not only laid on plant propagation techniques and nursery management practices, but also on the ideas and their applications. The book will help the students to understand various techniques of plant propagation and nursery management and their utility in a very simple way.

Abiotic stresses have become an integral part of crop production. One or other persist either in soil, water or in atmosphere. The information in the areas of injury and tolerant mechanisms, variability for tolerance, breeding and biotechnology for improvement of crop plants against abiotic stresses are lying unorganized in different articles of journals and edited books. This information is presented in this book in organized way with up-to-date citations, which will provide comprehensive literatures of recent advances. More emphasis has been given to elaborate the injury and tolerance mechanisms, and development of improved genotypes against stress environments. This book also deals with the plants' symptoms of particular abiotic stress, reclamation of soil and crop/cropping pattern to over come the effect of adverse condition(s). Each has been laid out with systematic approaches to develop abiotic stress tolerant genotypes using biotechnological tools. Use of molecular markers in stress tolerance and development of transgenic also have been detailed. Air pollution and climate change are the hot topic of the days. Thus, the effect of air pollution and climate change on crop plants have been detailed in the final three s of this book. Under abiotic stress, plant produces a large quantity of free radicals (oxidants), which have been elaborated in a separate 'Oxidative Stress'. This book has been divided into seven major parts- physical stress (salt), water stresses (drought and waterlogging), temperature stresses (heat and cold), metal toxicities (aluminium, iron, cadmium, lead, nickel, chromium, copper, zinc etc) and non-metal toxicities (boron and arsenic), oxidative stress, and finally atmospheric stresses (air pollution, radiation and climate change). Hope, this book will be of greater use for the students and researchers, particularly Plant Breeders and Biotechnologists as well as the Botanists, to understand the injury and tolerance mechanisms, and subsequently improvement of crop genotypes for abiotic stresses.

This book is an attempt to enlighten the learners and to inculcate, among them and other concerned persons, the importance and influence of cropping system on sustainable crop production. The smooth order, clear explanation and simple presentation are expected to help the readers understanding the subject in a better way.

The present book entitled "Physiological Disorders of Horticultural Crops: Causes and Management" provides a comprehensive knowledge of cause, symptoms and management of different physiological disorders in fruits, vegetables, flowers, spices, condiments and plantation crops. The book contains adequate symptoms along with appropriate photographs about the physiological disorders of important horticultural crops and their adequate management practices. This book addresses the current issues that are divided in six sections:Section 1: Introduction to physiological disorders and its impact on horticultural crops; Section 2: Major physiological disorders of vegetable crops; Section 3: Major physiological disorders of fruit crops; Section 4: Major physiological disorders of flowers; Section 5: Major physiological disorders of plantation crops; Section 6: Major physiological disorders of spices and condiments.The above sections covered the comprehensive information on causes, symptoms and recent remedial measures of major physiological disorders of horticultural crops along with multiple choice questions answers and relevant appendices for better understanding.The book will serve as a useful guide for students, scientists, extension workers, farmers and others associated with the discipline of Horticulture.

The book deals with some of the important techniques of recombinant DNA technology including ; isolation of plasmids and transformation of bacteria, isolation and characterization of nucleic acids, construction and screening of gene libraries, DNA sequencing, RFLP and RAPD gene mapping, genetic transformation and molecular analysis of the transgenic plants.The book includes protocols of some the important techniques currently in use in the field of plant biotechnology. The book also includes methods used in RFPL and RAPD analysis and a practical example of actual research problem in the field of plant genetic engineering. A glossary of important terms is also included which will be helpful to understand the subject matter. The preparation of common buffers and reagents used in the different protocols is included in the appendix.

Among the leading fruit producing countries in the world, India ranks second only after China. Fruits play pivotal role in mitigating nutritional requirement of the society as well as providing employment opportunity, especially in the agriculture dominated rural agrarian economy of the developing countries like India. In the age of Hi-tech Horticulture, introduction of new fruit crops resulted in the paradigm shift in fruit crop cultivation. Climatic chnages and increment in cropping intensity reflected in a remarkable and rapid shift of fruit ecosystem. Biotic stresses like insect, mite and nematode pests etc. have also been increasing day by day. These pest problems in fruit crop cultivation are now changing in a dynamic fashion in close association with the change in cropping system and the environment. To protect the fruit crops from insect pest devastation, synthetic poisonous chemicals are the quick and easy solution which are being used indiscriminately. Considering the ill effects of these hard-to-degrade synthetic chemical pesticides, integrated approaches are the only answer to combat such a complex and dreaded problem. The integrated approach comprises cultural, mechanical, biological and ecological management strategies in association with need based and safe pesticidal chemicals. Some pesticides have also been banned for using in horticultural crop cultivation, some others are withdrawn. But information with regard to these phenomena are scattered. In this compilation, an exhaustive effort has been undertaken to compile them. In addition to elaborating the host range, distribution, marks of identification, mode of feeding and symptoms of infestation, bionomics of the pests, biological control, pesticide residue problem and measures to mitigate it have been presented by the experts from different Institutes of repute from all over India.The book has been designed for the UG and PG students of horticulture, crop protection, pomological acarology as well as nematology. This will also serve as guide to respected Professors and Teachers of Agricultural Universities, progressive farmers, extension workers, plant protection specialists as well as policy makers.

The book is intended as a text book for undergraduate students of agriculture and post graduates specializing on Nematology, Plant Pathology and Agricultural Entomology.This book covers all aspects of Plant Nematology which includes an introduction covering the importance of nematodes in Agriculture and Horticulture, estimated loss due to the damage of nematodes.The book provides a brief account of historical background including the developments in India and abroad. Morphology and taxonomy are dealt in detail covering general morphology, structural and functional aspects of nematode morphology with vivid diagrams. Nematological techniques are dealt in detail with suitable diagrams.Anatomy and Physiology of plant parasitic nematodes have been elaborately covered with details of digestive, reproductive, excretory and nervous system with appropriate diagrams.The nematode classification based on their feeding habits and interactions of nematodes with microorganisms viz., fungus, bacteria and virus has been provided. Nematode management in important agricultural and horticultural crops with photographs of root and foliar symptoms are dealt in detail.Exclusive chapter on all the methods of management like regulatory, physical, chemical, cultural, biological and host plant resistance are provided. The book also provides a brief account of Entamopathogenic nematode and also on the nematode Caenorhabitis elegans which is being used as a biological model in most of the biological research as on today.Appropriate examples schematic diagrams, pictorial keys and glossary are used to describe nematode taxonomy, biology and life cycle. In this revised edition all the information have been updated with appropriate information with suitable pictures.

Interest in medicinal plants as a re-emerging health aid has been fuelled by the rising costs of prescription drugs in the maintenance of personal health and well-being. Herbal-based traditional medicine has become popular in developed countries in recent years, and its use is likely to increase in the coming years. This system has advantages over the modern medicine as it is prophylactic. Therefore, it would be a wise step if most of medicinal plants, which are lesser known to mankind but have immense potential, particularly those which are in high demand and rare should be cultivated and brought into limelight.The basis for this book originally have been stemmed from the passion of both the authors in order to develop better methods of conveying and spreading the cultivation aspects of many crops and its uses by compiling the information available. As the world moves further into the advanced age, along with generating vast amount of information, there will be a greater need to access legacy plant materials with technology available. Thus this book helps in accessing the information on rare medicinal plants and thereby breaking down barriers of accessibility of limited information. The information provided has been compiled from various books, bulletins, write ups and journals.Hope this book provides, the readers a comprehensive data and knowledge on cultivation and the uses of lesser known medicinal plants.

The text book entitled "Fundamentals of Veterinary Anatomy" has been prepared for the benefit of B.V.Sc & A.H students as per the Veterinary Council of India (MSVE 2016) syllabus. Previously, the Veterinary Anatomy course was used to be taught system wise to the BVSc & A.H students in first and second academic years. But in the MSVE 2016 regulations the students have to study the entire Anatomy course in the first professional year only on Regional approach. This prompted us to prepare a book as per the MSVE 2016 syllabus to meet the requirements of the students and Faculty.The material available in the this book has been prepared based on our previous experiences in practical classes and also some information was collected from the standard text books of Veterinary Anatomy and also Madras Veterinary College Lecture Notes prepared by Faculty of Madras Veterinary College, Chennai. In this book every topic is supported by hand drawn diagrams and photographs of original specimens available in the department.

The book fulfills the need for a comprehensive text and reference book on livestock production, health, nutrition and crop mixed farming. Though many foreign books are available, they are way too expensive for the student and written in a complex way. In this scenario, this book is very handy as well as written as per the requirements of teachers, scientists, students and industry personnel working in the area of animal production and in general animal health management and crop mixed farming for nutritional security.The authors of this book are eminent researchers and professors from various veterinary and agriculture colleges and ICAR research institutes across the country. It is a compilation of many topics of importance as far as livestock farming, health and production is concerned. Some insights in to the crop mixed farming and aquaculture will be a treat to the readers. This book is unique in its kind in meeting the requirements of its reader community and it will be a solution for many problems related to livestock farming, and agriculture.

The major objective of this book is to provide recent developments and updated comprehensive information on various aspects of 'Plant Biosecurity and Biosafety'. This book fulfils the need for a comprehensive book on the fundamental and advanced aspects of 'Plant Biosecurity and Biosafety'.The book explicates essential aspects related to 'Plant Biosecurity and Biosafety' and is conveniently divided into sixteen unique chapters, covering all the updated information and latest developments. The chapters covered include Introduction ; Invasive Alien Species ; Biowarfare, Bioterrorism and Bioethics ; Early Warning and Forecasting System ; Emerging Resurgence of Pests and Diseases ; National Regulatory Mechanism and International Agreements Conventions ; International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures ; Pest Risk Analysis, Risk Management Models and Pest Information System ; Global Positioning System and Geographic Information System for Plant Biosecurity ; Pest, Disease and Epidemic Management ; Agroterrorism and Biosecurity ; Mitigation Planning and Integrated Approach for Biosecurity ; Biosafety, History, Policies and Regulatory Mechanism ; Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and Its Implications ; Issues related to the Genetically Modified Crops ; Operational Biosafety Practices and Procedures. In addition, 'Glossary of terms' is also furnished to present a list of frequently terms used in 'Plant Biosecurity and Biosafety'.The contents of this book, reflecting an extensive literature search, will be useful particularly for the students, teaching & research faculty and extension personnel in Agricultural and Horticultural Universities, the State Departments of Agriculture, Horticulture, Forestry, Sericulture & Fisheries, Plant Protection Organizations, Plant Quarantine Units, Administrators & Policy makers and all those who are interested and concerned with plant biosecurity and biosafety.

Though different titles of plant protection books are available, no book is as much illustrative as the present book of Plant Health Medicines. The book ''A Handbook on Plant Health Medicines" is prepared with an objective to make available the scientific as well as working knowledge of useful and recommended plant protection and plant health medicines to the personnel associated with agriculture in different capacities and at different levels, and to the end users, i.e. farmers.The book contains three sections viz. chemical molecules for control of plant diseases, chemical molecules to control plant physiological process and physiological disorders, and Pesticides for management of plant insect pests. These three sections are divided into 30 chapters. The respective section has got images of all the representative diseases, pests, as well as mineral deficiencies symptoms for the identification of the cause and different molecules for their control and rectification, thus making the book more practical use oriented to all personnel associated with agriculture sector. With its availability particularly, to pesticide shop dealers and farmers, the proper plant protection and plant health medicines will be applied in the agricultural ecosystem to manage the problem associated with plant health.

The book with a title of "Wildlife Medicine and Health Management" has been prepared primarily with an idea of satisfying the criteria of the wildlife related syllabus for the veterinary students undertaking their degree programme in various veterinary institutions of this country. However, this book has additional information with regard to the catering of wildlife veterinarians serving in various zoos or wildlife regions of this country as well as in other countries. Different photographs pertaining to the health and disease management in wild fauna have been duly presented in places where they are required and the requirements pertaining to carrying out the therapeutic approaches in wild animals are also concurrently presented. Understanding about the various species of wild animals is the basis for exercising the wildlife medicine at any zoo or zoological park or zoological garden. In this manner, this book has incorporations with regard to the identification of various parasitic fauna in captive wild animals. Various features pertaining to the captive breeding of wild animals, housing and feeding are being dealt in this book, carefully. To name the few special information, the technical features with regard to the management of health and diseases in elephants, reptilian features and clinical examination procedures to be adapted with regard to the aviary species have also been incorporated in this book. Gadgets with regard to the physical as well as the chemical restraint of wild animals that are frequently encountered by the veterinarians in the field condition are also detailed elaborately, in addition to the dose rates of various drugs useful for the chemical control of wild animals.Different sampling procedures including the ones in crocodiles and elephants are presented in a good manner, so that the readers esp. the veterinary students doing their undergraduate degree in veterinary sciences and animal husbandry can understand about this subject in a clarified manner.

Subtropical regions are the areas experiencing hot summer and cold or frosty winters. Such regions lie between the temperate and tropical latitudes on the south and north of the equator. Under the NW sub-Himalayan conditions and in the adjoining plains, frost is a serious threat, especially for fruit crop cultivation. The cultivation of evergreen subtropical plants always remains under the threat of frost damage. Agricultural research has made significant advances in crop production practices but the technology for effective frost protection is still lacking. Scientists worldwide are working with enthusiasm, tenacity and dedication to keep up with this threat.This book is a collection of information developed by the author and by others across the globe on the management of frosty situations. It is an initiative for developing understanding amongst the masses about frost, frost-induced freezing and options which can be explored for mitigating its ill effects. Besides giving an overview of frost and its impact on subtropical fruit plantations, this book is an attempt to convey a simplified version of the information on orchard energy balance, mechanism of damage to plant tissues and biomolecular aspects of plant defence. Keeping growers' perspectives in mind, the practical aspects and elaborations derived from open field studies have been duly considered while describing the frost sensitivity of crops, damage symptoms, frost prediction, delineation of frost-prone areas, and frost impact mitigation. The book is therefore a comprehensive narrative of theoretical and practical aspects of frost and its impact mitigation.

The Economic and Heritage Plants of Kashmir Himalaya is a ready reference source book, contains Botanical, English, Hindi /Urdu, Ladakhi and Kashmiri names of plants of Economic importance in Kashmir and Ladakh, with brief notes on their habit and habitat, morphology and utility. It largely reflects the region's existing Plant Genetic Resources for Food & Agriculture. Approximately, 1300 economic plant species and 500 crop varieties, existing in its agro-ecosystems, in wild as well as cultivated forms, arelisted in the book. Every possible effort has been made to give the latest nomenclature of plants together with their synonyms. Indices of English, Hindi, Kashmiri and Ladakhi names of the plants are appended at the end.The book should be useful to the students of Botany, Agriculture, Horticulture, Pharmacy and those interested in the Cultural Heritage of the region. It can also be helpful to researchers and planners working on the management and conservation of biodiversity of Indian Himalayan regions.

The cutting-edge technologies have impacted the library and its operations in an immense way. The technology has impacted and resolves the crucial issues related with information generation, storage, retrieval and management. The overall working pattern and service delivery pattern of library and information centres have totally been changed with the rapid innovations in technology and its implementation in libraries and its activities. The application of information and communication technology has provided great opportunities for information distributed them the way and form the user preferred. Therefore, it is high time that the libraries have to adopt the cutting-edge technologies in the libraries for the fulfillment of the users need on their satisfaction level. The primary aim of this book is to assist and inform the users as well as library & information science professionals about the various issues and concerns related with the cutting-edge technologies and its impact on library and information services. This book contains papers on various issues related with the theme of the present book written by well-known library and information science professionals as well as academicians, which may be useful for the entire library and information science professionals as well as other academicians.

Intercropping system is an age-old cropping system where two or more crops coexist for a significant time of their growth period. In the present context of negative impacts on crop productivity and soil fertility, a system approach in cropping has become more relevant. The book 'Intercropping System' is divided into nine chapters that deal with the theory and practices of the intercropping system including recent research evidence. The first two chapters describe the overview of the intercropping system and complexity as well as the competitive relationship among component crops. The third chapter narrates the management options in the intercropping systems, while the fourth chapter highlights the multifaceted benefits of an intercropping system. Chapter 5 tells the suitability for the adoption of the intercropping system in organic agriculture. The sixth chapter describes how an intercropping system can ensure agricultural sustainability and some of the sustainable development Goals (SDGs). Chapter 7 illustrates the practice of alley cropping, a form of agroforestry, in resource-poor conditions. Legumes are considered an automatic choice in the intercropping system and hence, in the eighth chapter, the benefits of the inclusion of legumes as components have been described. Finally, in the ninth chapter, the performance of important crops in the intercropping system has been highlighted.

This book entitled "Objective Agriculture Statistics - 2nd Revised Edition is an enlarged version of the previously published book in year 2011. This book comes with additional topics on "Sample Survey" which is included in the book as "Supplementary Part".New to This Edition, 94 pages covering(1) Sampling on Successive Occasions(2) Non- Sampling Errors(3) National Sample Surveys(4) Agricultural Statistics system in India.(5) 10 Model PapersIt will provide better coverage to the students and will help them appear in various competitive examinations as cited in first edition.