Why there should not be nobel prize initiated in the field of agriculture?

Agriculture is a complex system, and understanding of the system's behavior is too complex and involves biotic and abiotic interaction. Significant work in the past have been reported, which...

07 August 2016 4,240 7 View

Simple relationship for deriving available water, field capacity and wilting point in soils from soil texture and organic carbon?

pedo-transfer function for computing soil moisture retention from soil texture are reported in literature, but the coefficient of prediction from independent datasets is very poor. Our interest is...

01 February 2016 8,586 9 View

Products / technologies developed are more effective than advisory services for increase of agri-production. Can we debate on this imp topic?

Examples of products/technologies- fertilizer types (customized, fortified, foliar, organic, PGP), newer pesticides, new cultivars, agri-implements, reource conservation technologies. Few Examples...

01 February 2016 6,805 20 View

Quantification of nitrogen fixation efficiency and N-fertilization by important leguminous plants and non-leguminous plants?

N-fixation by various leguminous and non-leguminous plants is important and its quantification as function of nature of crop, crop growing condition, soil environment, soil N availability and...

01 February 2016 7,080 5 View

What is the fate of soil organic carbon with crop residues incorporation in tropical and sub-tropical environments?

Tropical and sub-tropical regions- higher temperatures, rate of OC degradation faster Residue incorporation- provides benefit to the current ongoing crop, may be next crop in rotation??? question...

01 February 2016 9,192 27 View

How can I quantify the yield reduction associated with simultaneous occurrence of several nutrients stresses?

In soil, there may be deficiency of N/P/K/Ca/S/Zn/Fe/Mn etc, everyone looks into one's compartment and gives excellent recommendation, which may not be application over space and time as many...

01 February 2016 6,117 20 View

Efficient methods for meeting the challenges of Boron deficiency in plants?

Boron deficiency is becoming a concern n south asian environments. There is a need to identify suitable inorganic/organic materials, understand the interaction between various nutrients for...

01 February 2016 2,986 4 View

Is there any empirical relation to deduce mineral N in the soil layer on the basis of Available nitrogen?

Mineral N (nitrate and ammonical form) is highly dynamic, and is generally not measured by most of the researchers, who most of the time take total N or available N in consideration for evaluating...

31 December 2015 1,835 6 View

Several soil quality indices reported in literature, but effective operational soil health service missing. Please suggest the ways.

1. Lot of information on soil test values (spatio-temporal)) available 2. Soil quality indices e.g. SQI by Ratan Lal et al, Cornell soil health index, STCR network ar Indian Institute of Soil...

31 December 2015 8,491 28 View

Any crop model for assessing growth and yield under saline/sodic conditions?

The concern of salinity/sodicity development makes us to identify alternate land use and management options for sustainable agricultural production. We are interested to specifically develop...

31 December 2015 6,879 6 View

Chlorinated organic formation in odor control scrubbers using hypochlorite?

I'm involved in a study of odor control technologies for municipal wastewater treatment plant. One of the control options involves a chemical 2-stage (acid/alkaline) packed bed scrubber. The...

03 March 2021 3,661 2 View

Ester cleavage conditions?

Hi all, I need to cleave the ester in Ethyl 2-amino-1H-imidazole-5-carboxylate to make the carboxylic acid and retrieve the product from solution to use in downstream applications of linking to...

01 March 2021 8,766 3 View

How to quantify carbon deposition on CuZnAl catalyst?

Dear All, I want to quantify carbon deposition on the surface of the CuZnAl catalyst. I have tried thermogravimetric analysis, but I've got weight gain as the active Cu- get oxidised. Does anyone...

01 March 2021 1,907 3 View

Why Trivalent chromium start precipitating above PH 5 ? Moreover discuss difference between adsorption of chromium and precipitation of chromium ?

I am a student of MS Environmental Engineering and started my research phase. I am working on metal removal ( chromium iii ) by using activated carbon prepared from the agricultural feedstock. So...

01 March 2021 5,475 2 View

Where to find data on trees in tropical agroforestry?

Hi, I'm looking for data (mainly related to management: growth rate, canopy size, soil and climate preferences, etc.) about tropical trees used in tropical agroforestry. Have you ever heard about...

28 February 2021 7,356 8 View

How can I assign a velocity along one direction to CO2 molecules in a molecular dynamics simulation using GROMACS?

Dear all, I am trying to perform a MD simulation about the interaction between CO2 and a polymer. I create my model, solvate it and perform the NVT and NPT equilibration. Now I am not able to...

26 February 2021 10,014 3 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 can we theoretically calculate Elemental analysis(percentage) of atoms in covalent organic framework?

For example in one research article the Elemental analysis values of COF-TpPa-1 ( Triformylphloroglucinol (Tp) (63 mg, 0.3 mmol), Paraphenylenediamine (Pa-1) (48 mg, 0.45 mmol) are as follows...

24 February 2021 1,265 6 View

What are the methods used for CNT..?

Respected Professor's i hope you are doing well and happy. i need some information about carbon Nanotubes. before blending the CNT with the matrix the CNT has been introducing in some treatments....

24 February 2021 5,383 5 View

How to Control Whiteflies in coconut leaves?

24 February 2021 1,005 1 View