Are there any fungal growth inhibitors other than fungicides?

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Ajwain (Trachyspermum ammi L.) seeds are small. I want to create pellets of 5-10 mm ? How to pelletize for increasing size? Suitable materials?

Ajwain seeds are very small. The seed rate per ha is 2.5 kg for row sowing with seed hopper. The seed should also needs shallow sowing. Usually fine sand or rice semolina mixed with seed and sown....

04 September 2020 4,706 1 View

What is the viability and time taken for turmeric seeds?

Turmeric is a polyploid. Mostly sterile. However, it sets seed occassionally. I have collected seed and kept in poretrays filled with cocopeat. I have not observed any germination even after 15...

28 August 2020 8,342 4 View

Can curcumin flourescence be used for detection and quantification of curcumin in live and extracted samples?

LMSC imaging used in many samples for flurescence of live animal samples. Can we use this technique for detection and distribution of curcumin in live plant tissues?

19 August 2018 4,316 4 View

Does anyone have any information on concentration ratios for monoclonal antibody against antigen for antigen capture?

Is there a standard ratio of concentration of monoclonal antibodies against a particular antigen for an antigen capture assay? To put it plainly how much monoclonal antibody is needed to bind to...

10 September 2014 7,365 8 View

Where can we get current hyperspectral remote sensing images?

We are planning to develop spectral signature library using hyper spectral remote sensing.

06 February 2014 5,658 6 View

Why is the sample moving in both sides in agarose gel electrophoresis?

The samples where - DNA isolation from liver, bacteria, cauliflower. The bacterial DNA sample are moving in the opposite direction to the liver and cauliflower samples.

19 December 2013 8,989 26 View

How do we estimate actual evapotranspiration from the given remote sensing image?

We are working on rainfall runoff modelling for Krishna river basin. We are interested to do the estimation of actual evapotranspiration from the remote sensing image using software.

13 September 2012 334 31 View

In M1V4 generation, selected a few mutatnts performing better than parents for yield? How to proceed to develop variety from this stage?

In 2016 I have developed a set of mutants in two varieties of turmeric-Mydukur and Prathibha. Now, in M1V4 evaluation, have identified a few are performing better than the parents. I am going to...

01 January 1970 4,130 4 View

Do turmeric rhizomes have dormancy?

I have observed, in India, in coastal humid tropics turmeric show sprouting around 2nd week of May which continues for another 45 days. Turmeric is usually harvested in this part during them...

01 January 1970 5,202 3 View

What are the countries most affected by extreme rainfall as a result of climate change?

Increased heat, drought and insect outbreaks, all associated to climate change, have increased wildfires. Decreasing water supplies, declined agricultural yields, health impacts in cities owing to...

01 March 2021 7,168 9 View

Isolates of Hymenoscyphus fraxineus?

Dear Dr. Cai, my name is Simone Prospero and I work in the team of Phytopathology at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research (WSL;...

01 March 2021 1,133 1 View

How to accurately quantify chitin?

Hi all, I have been working on the quantification of chitin in insect samples and feed for a while but I can notice that the quantification methods (e.g. exposure to HCl, NaOH, and weighing sample...

01 March 2021 1,843 2 View

How to eliminate Steady state error from Reinforcement learning genetic algorithm code?

The following code (see 1st 2 images attached) is used to produce PID controller values that are designed to control the system (G). The code finds the PID controller values (noted as k) by using...

28 February 2021 6,560 14 View

LEDs on Vis Light photo degradation of MB water sol via N doped TiO2 in a mini flume?

Good day to all, I have no experience with light emitting diodes. I am building a glass mini flume to demonstrate the photo degradation of Methylene Blue in water running over self cleaning...

26 February 2021 4,026 5 View

CGA 300 Regulator for CO2 cylinder?

Has anyone ever tried to deliver CO2 with a CGA 300 regulator? I know that a CGA 320 regulator is standard for CO2. The issue is that I currently do not have any free CGA 320 regulators. I also...

25 February 2021 3,292 3 View

How to interpolate from a time-series database ?

Hi, I am having trouble with a problem, in the field of Optimal Control and the generation of optimal time-series. Let's consider a system, whose dynamics are represented by dx/dt =...

24 February 2021 9,105 2 View

Please help in identification of this insect?

This insect is minute in size around 1 mm and not clearly visible with naked eye.

22 February 2021 5,907 11 View

Must a control group to be in the same semester that a experimental group for a study in education?

Hi everyone, I'm researching about mobile learning in higher education. Due to the small number of the students in the semesters, I cannot have a experimental and control group together. I'm...

22 February 2021 3,653 11 View

How to constrain genetic algorithm input u?

My real system (buck converter) can only take an input of 0 to 1 (duty ratio) and I need to constrain the system so the controller action keeps within this bounds. How can I do this? The code for...

22 February 2021 2,125 3 View

Hayat Essalmani

In vitro efficiency of some medicinal and aromatic plant extracts against the grey mould of tomato

October 2015

Conference: 3rd International Congress of Plant Diversity

Giorgia Pertile

There are pubblication elaborate the antifungal effect of essential oil (for example tea tree, eucalipto, etc..) and the natural substance chitin.

Giridhar Kalidasu

Essential oils are secondary metabolites present in almost all the plants. However, their action other than plant in which it produced is little known.