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BiotechnologyNovember 2010Medicinal Plant Biotechnology
by Suman Chandra, M Georgiev, Aakash Goyal, Renu Goyal, S Dutta Gupta, Suvi T Häkkinen, Ionkova Iliana, Harish C Joshi, Amit C Kharkwal, Hemant Lata, A K Mathur, Archana Mathur, Pradeep Kumar Naik, Rofina Yasmin Othman, Kenneth E Palmer, John R Porter, R S Sangwan, Tetsuya Sakurai, Ashok Sharma, P C Sharma, Bikram Singh, Rajeshwar Verma, Heribert Warzecha, Christoph Wawrosch, Feroz Khan. Edited by Rajesh Arora.
There have been rapid advances in the field of plant biotechnology in recent years, increasing the potential for medical application. Covering the latest advances in the use of plants to produce medicinal drugs and vaccines, this volume examines topics including plant tissue culture, secondary metabolite production, metabolomics and metabolic engineering, bioinformatics, molecular farming and future biotechnological directions, with contributors from key researchers in the field. Medicinal Plant Biotechnology is an essential text for researchers in plant biology and biotechnology, medical sciences and pharmacology.
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Be Better Bit by Bit
The Ultimate Guide to Unlock the Best Phase of Your Life
by Nishith Goyal
If you are looking to cook a super-productive life but miss the right ingredients or the recipe, the good news is that you have picked up the right book. In Be Better Bit-By-Bit, Nishith Goyal lays in front of you the age-old wisdom of small and consistent improvements delivered in his sharp and provocative style. Through this book’s elegantly simple approach, you could uncover the secret philosophy of success and kick-start the best phase of your life. Drawing from his own experience as a marathon runner and balancing a busy corporate job with running the Be-Better-Bit-By-Bit Club, Nishith delivers a compelling argument for a new way of life - a better life. This book is both empowering and at the same time liberating, with elements like self-awareness resulting in positive results, mindfulness and its connection with daily exercising, journalling as a self-improvement tool, and ways to harness your true potential and achieve big. Be Better Bit-By-Bit will have a revolutionary effect on your career, your relationships, your finances, and your overall life.
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Agriculture & farmingOctober 2019Engineering Properties of Agricultural Produce
by Suresh Chandra, Samsher, Suneel Kumar Goyal & Durvesh Kumari
In any agricultural country, various types of agricultural commodities are produced in large quantities and to handle such quantities during harvest, post-harvest, processing and transportation, various types of equipment are required. To design particular equipment or determining the behaviour of the product for its handling, physical properties such as size, shape, surface area, volume, density, porosity are very important. Various types of cleaning, grading and separation equipment are designed on the basis of physical properties of seeds such as size, shape, specific gravity etc. The book will provide a fundamental understanding of engineering properties of agricultural produce and the knowledge of engineering properties are combined with engineering knowledge. Each chapter in the book will be helpful for the students to understand the relationship between engineering properties of raw, semi-finished and processed food to obtain products with desired shelf-life and quality. This book discusses basic definitions, principles of engineering properties and their measurement methods with research findings. It will be helpful to the students for their self-study and to gain information how to analyze experimental data to generate practical information. It will also be helpful for students who deal with engineering properties in their research. Methods to measure these properties are also explained in details.
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January 2020History and Reflections of Mahabharata Era
by Dr. M. R. Goyal
This book is an extract from the three sacred texts viz. Mahābhārata, Bhāgavata Purāna and Harivansha Purāna; after dovetailing them, in chronological order. The mythology part and illogical interpolations have been purged. It gives a glimpse of the ancient Indian History, which had been camouflaged by lots of nasty interpolations. It also contains the philosophy and reflections of the era, and indications of highly developed Science and Technology in ancient India. The reader will find some very interesting episodes from History, interspersed in the book.
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Global warmingMarch 2017Climate Change and Agroforestry
Adaptation, Mitigation and Livelihood Security
by C.B.Pandey, Mahesh Kumar Gaur & R.K.Goyal
Natural change in climate is slow and takes millions of years; and it is known to have made our planet hospitable to live. The climate change is not limited to one country or a continent. It is occurring across the globe as evident from droughts in Texas and flooding along the Missouri River in the United States and along the Red River in Canada. Climate change drives many stressors and interacts with many non-climatic stressors which make it difficult to forecast outcomes in any general way other than existing threats to agriculture. Agroforestry increases a high level of diversity within agricultural lands which supports numerous ecological and production services that bring resilience to the impact of climate change mitigation and adaptation. Climate change risk management is difficult in annual cropping systems due to increasing uncertainty of inter-annual variability in rainfall and temperature. Mixing of woody trees with crops, forage and livestock operations provides greater resilience to the inter-annual variability through crop diversification and increased resource use efficiency. Deep rooted trees allow better access to nutrients and water during droughts and when appropriately integrated into annual cropping systems and extract from different resource pools that would otherwise be lost from systems. Agroforestry increases soil porosity, reduces runoff and increases soil cover, which improve water infiltration and reduces moisture stress in low rainfall years. During periods of excessive soil moisture, tree based systems keep soils aerated by pumping out excess water and offer an economic return. The book contains 36 chapters mainly on agroforestry practices found in India and its role in climate change mitigation and adaptation.
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BiochemistryJuly 2019Biochemistry and Human Nutrition
by Manvesh Kumar Sihag
The book will be helpful for those students, who study biochemistry and/or human nutrition as one of the subjects in Food Technology, Food Science and Technology, Food and Nutrition and other allied streams of under-graduate levels. This book is mainly divided into two sections: 1) Biochemistry; 2) Human Nutrition. First section comprises eight chapters based on metabolism of macronutrients (carbohydrates, proteins and lipids), basics of vitamins, enzymes, hormones and nucleic acids. Second section deals with the digestion & absorption of macronutrients, nutritional requirements of different age groups, analytical methods for qualitative & quantitative determination of nutrients, milk intolerance & hypersensitivity, safety aspects of food additives, toxic elements and radionuclides and various nutritional polices.
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Numerical analysisAugust 2019Numerical Methods
by Atul Goel
The book is designed as an introductory undergraduate and graduate course for engineering, science and mathematics students of all desciplines. The Numerical Methods book covers all the major aaspects such as numerical computation; linear system of equations; solutions of algenric and transcendental equations; numerical differentiation; finite differences and interpolation; curve fitting, regression and correlation; numerical integration; and solutions of ordinay and partial differential equations. This book is written in simple and easy language, in systematic manner, student-friendly and numerical problem solving orientation. Balance is maintained between theory and its examples. Each concept can be justified with the help of examples (which is unavailable in other books) as student may come dilemma to find the solution of the concept from other books. So learning is with the help of examples, as examples are the best source to learn and remember that particular problem. At the end of chapters, excercise questions are given.
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Geographical information systems (GIS) & remote sensingSeptember 2017Soil Resources and Its Mapping Through Geostatistics Using R and QGIS
by Priyabrata Santra, Mahesh Kumar, N.R. Panwar & C.B. Pandey
This book will provide an exposure to recent developments in the field of geostatistical modeling, spatial variability of soil resources, and preparation of digital soil maps using R and GIS and potential application of it in agricultural resource management. Specifically following major areas are covered in the book.
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HorticultureSeptember 2021Postharvest Management Fruits and Vegetables (Completes in 2 Parts)
by V.K.Joshi
The book is the culmination of the efforts of contributions by eminent scientists. A lot of textual matter with illustrative practical exercises have been added to make the book more useful. Broadly the book has been divided into 8 sections: Section 01: Postharvest Management of Fruits and Vegetables Section 02: Preservation and Processing Technology Section 03: Production of Health Foods Section 04: Fermented Foods Section 05: Fruits and Vegetables Waste Utilization Section 06: Production of Additives Section 07: Quality, Safety and Marketing of Fruits and Vegetable Products Section 08: Practicals Chapters on different aspects of the subject matter covered include postharvest losses, loss reduction technology, handling, maturity indices, postharvest treatments, fruit and vegetable processing aspects, juice processing, drying, extrusion cooking, osmotic dehydration, technology for production of mushroom products, technology for production of health foods, indigenously fermented food products, flavour production technology, fermentation technology for wine production, lactic fermented beverages, latest technique of analysis, application of enzymes in food processing, biotechnology in food processing, juice concentration technology, sensory evaluation of food, processing waste utilization technology, oil extraction methodology, ready – to- eat product preparation, confectionary preparation, quality assurance, food safety and standard authority of India, project preparation, e-marketing of processed products, etc. The book in short has something for everybody related to the fields of Handling, Packaging, Processing, Preservation of Fruits and Vegetables
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Agriculture & farmingJune 2022Solid and Hazardous Waste Management
by Sunil Kumar
Solid Waste Management has been a major challenge for the Urban local bodies in developing countries like India. It is one of the major concerns for the environmental managers, industry personnel and policymakers. It has been one of the areas on which the research community focused the greatest energy in the last couple of decades. This book offers readers methodical and technological aspects of solid and hazardous waste management, Challenges associated with waste management in developing countries, Techno-economic assessment of waste management systems in the Indian context. Special emphasis is given on applying advanced technologies coupled with novel tactics used for sustainable solid waste management, and various environmental impacts caused due to improper waste management practices are also discussed in detail. Environmental education and communication as a foundation in sustainable development, an essential aspect for strict enforcement of various environmental policies, is also explicated in the present book.
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Agriculture & farmingJanuary 2013Cereal Grains
Evaluation,Value Addition and Quality Management
by Saxena, D.C., C.S.Rair,,S.Singh & Naveen Jindal
The book contains articles contributed by experts from various parts of the country from research institutes like CFTRI, DRFL, SLIET, CIPET, ICAR, PAU etc.. This book will be a valuable addition to the literature on food grains that has been designed systematically to include basis and advanced knowledge on quality management in addition to the collection of articles in the fields of: Quality Strategies, Approaches and Management, Quality Evaluation of Grains and its Constituents, Value Addition, Post Harvest Plant Operations and Quality Management, Product Development Status and New Strategies, Storage and Handling, Grading and Trends of Milling Industries
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Agriculture & farmingMay 2016Engineering Hydrology
by Balram Panigrahi & Kajal Panigrahi
The book is written in a simple and lucid style that can help students who do not have sufficient knowledge and exposure to the subject before. The book contains a lot of basic knowledge in the field of hydrology. A number of sample calculations in each chapter are presented in the book which will help the students to understand the subject matter very easily. The various chapters of the book are well designed, written in systematic way and are prepared from the class notes prepared for the students besides utilizing long practical field experiences of the authors. Book will also help students in the streams of Meteorology, forestry, environmental engineering, geology and earth sciences. Besides serving as a text book, the book is intended to be very helpful for persons dealing in the areas of Agriculture, Agricultural and Civil Engineering. It will serve as an invaluable resource for all academicians, planners, designers, practicing and field engineers in the area of water resources evaluation, development and management. The book contains 102 sample calculations, 105 tables and 154 figures and more than 145 references and several field experimental results which will be of immense help to the students and practitioners.
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HorticultureSeptember 2020Biointenstive Integreated Pest Management for Horticultural Crops
by Anil Kumar, Swati Saha & Jagipal Singh Coudhary
The book has covered recent techniques on bio-intensive integrated approaches of horticultural pests management. An attempt to compile information on non-chemical ways of pest management strategies including agronomic approaches to physical, mechanical, biopesticides, biocontrol agents, biorational pesticides etc. which are non harmful to environment and economically viable has been made. This book is a useful reference material for organic product producing farmers, researchers and students who are involved in bio-intensive pest management strategies.
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Agronomy & crop productionNovember 2020Advances in Crop Production and Climate Change
by A.S. Yadav, Narendra Kumar, Sanjay Arora, D.S. Srivastava & Hemlata Pant
In recent years India has made notable advances in the fisheries. Progresses made in refinements of vessels, new line materials and line-handling systems, preserving the catch, the availability of oceanographic-sensor equipments and the utilization of satellite technology to locate potential fishing grounds have greatly improved the fishing power of longline vessels. Post harvest technology of fish has evolved in the last one decade to a more energy-efficient, cost-effective, and quality upgrading technology. Since fresh fish can get spoiled very quickly, the development of technology for post-harvest preservation and methodology to convert fish to value added products have also become popular in recent times. Value addition helps in getting high price for the fishery products. There is a need to develop competent human resources in the field of post harvest management of fish and production of value added products from them. It is required to inculcate vocational and entrepreneurial skills in order to widen employment opportunities, particularly among rural youth and the disadvantaged sections of the society as well as to enable self employment.
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Sustainable agricultureJuly 2018Water management for sustainable agriculture
by Theib Oweis
There is increasing competition for water resources in the face of declining aquifer reserves and increasing risk in many areas of drought related to climate change. At the same time poor water management is damaging agriculture with problems such as salinization, waterlogging, erosion and run-off. This volume summarises the wealth of research on understanding and better management of water resources for agriculture.Part 1 reviews fundamental issues such as plant water use and soil water retention. Part 2 discusses ways of mapping and monitoring groundwater and surface water resources whilst Part 3 covers other sources such as rain and floodwater, waste and brackish water. Part 4 surveys developments in irrigation techniques such as drip irrigation and fertigation. The final sections in the book discuss ways of using water resources more efficiently such as site-specific and deficit irrigation techniques.With its distinguished editor and international team of expert authors, this wlll be a standard reference for agronomists, scientists involved in water and irrigation science as well as government and non-governmental organisations responsible for agriculture and water resource management.
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Agriculture & farmingSeptember 2018Utilization of Agricultural Waste for The Production of High Valued Products (Co-Published With Crc Press,Uk)
by Renu Agarwal
The present book deals with the research work carried out in the past related to conversion and utilization of agricultural waste into useful products and to increase their economic values. The book mainly aims in analysing the various application and research carried in the fields of potential utilization of agricultural wastes. The recycling and utilization of agricultural wastes is an important step forward towards environmental protection, energy structure and agricultural development. The recycling and utilization pathway of agricultural wastes have also been discussed. The book also deals with the laws and regulations and strengthening of rural market. It will provide more comprehensive fundamental information for the recycling and utilization of agricultural wastes during the modernization and urbanization around the globe.
