Antifungal Metabolites of Rhizobacteria for Sustainable Agriculture focuses on plant health in agro-ecosystems of various economically important cash and food crops with a concern to promote sustainable agriculture. They have emerged as a key organic tool for enhancing yields. In a natural environment the interactions between plants and phytopathogenic fungi are complex and survival requires a development of resistance to plant diseases. Diversity of Plant Growth ...

This edited book is focused on antioxidant compounds and their biosynthesis, up-regulation, mechanism of action for selective bioactivity, targeted role and the advancement of their bioactive potential during plant-microbe interaction and other stress conditions. This book also emphasizes on the role of antioxidants in recruiting beneficial microbes in plant surroundings. Antioxidants have multiple biological roles in plants especially in the signalling pathway. These compounds are seconda...

Goats are the predominant domestic livestock, and certainly the predominant small ruminant, in most of Asia, Africa and the warmer parts of Europe. Important for meat, milk, fibre and leather production, their widescale production and husbandry allows many opportunities for the spread of disease between livestock and their keepers. Taking a One Health approach to the issue, this book provides clear, accurate and comprehensive coverage of the zoonotic diseases of goats. Including informatio...

Summarises current research on optimising CA system practices and their ecological, economic and social benefits.Elaborates on how CA systems make efficient use of production inputs such as water, nutrients, energy and addresses challenges in such areas as weed, insect pest and disease management.Reviews the central issues of improvement in yield, profitability and ecosystem services as well as climate change adaptability and mitigation in CA systems.

The lime is an important fruit crop throughout the citrus producing regions of the world, with its own specific benefits and issues affecting successful cultivation and production. Limes: Botany, Production and Uses covers the breeding, genetics and biodiversity of the plants, and explains the processes for establishing a lime orchard, including propagation techniques, pruning and thinning of established trees, water requirements and irrigation systems. All the major problems of lime culti...

Not all minds learn the same way. Some absorb knowledge through numbers, others through images. Some read fast, others listen better. And then there are those who walk a different path altogether-slower, quieter, yet no less brilliant.This book, Brilliant Minds, Different Paths, is a celebration of such journeys. It brings together ten heart-touching stories of children and teenagers across South India who faced the invisible yet powerful barriers of learning disabilities....

Development of 'Self' is a journey not a destination in coherence with words that create our world here. Ila Singh a student at Earth school started 'A Journal for Self Discovery' learning as well as unlearning to be with 'My Vision is My Mission' to now gather the delicate threads of relearning from the magical reflections as 'Date @ Dal'; in alignment with the four main seasons in Nature and in the life of a human being.

Footprints and verses - poems of Journey, Adventure, and Resilience is a heartfelt collection of poems that captures the essence of personal growth, the thrill of exploration, and the strength found in overcoming life's challenges. Each poem takes the reader on a journey through time, emotions, and landscapes, weaving together experiences of self-discovery, adventure, and resilience.

Homo Sapiens are intellectual and knowledgeable species who have played different social roles at different point of times. They've been feminists to fight for the rights of women, and we have seen many of them come up to support men and speak on the wrong that's done to men. In this process , they have forgotten the real essence of being a human being. Humanity, which is one of the greatest qualities of every being which is considered a 'human', has been left on the parched land of life t...

In New York Times Bestselling author Nalini Singh's newest contemporary romance, passion ignites between a gorgeous, sinfully sexy man who built himself up from nothing and a shy woman who has a terrible secret in her past…Wealthy businessman Gabriel Bishop rules the boardroom with the same determination and ruthlessness that made him a rock star on the rugby field. He knows what he wants, and he'll go after it no-holds-barred.And what he wants is Charlotte B...

A PSY-CHANGELING NOVELLA BY THE AUTHOR OF SHARDS OF HOPE AND SHIELD OF WINTER... "THE ALPHA AUTHOR OF PARANORMAL ROMANCE" (Booklist)New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh returns to her phenomenal Psy-Changeling world as a woman in peril finds herself in the arms of a dangerously beautiful shapeshifter…San Francisco is under threat from a violent gang…a gang that has no idea who they’re challenging. The DarkRiver pack of leopard ch...

In a world that denies emotions, where the ruling Psy punish any sign of desire, Sascha Duncan must conceal the feelings that brand her as flawed. To reveal them would be to sentence herself to the horror of 'rehabilitation' - the complete psychic erasure of her personality ...Both human and animal, Lucas Hunter is a Changeling hungry for the very sensations the Psy disdain. After centuries of uneasy co-existence, these two races are now on the verge of war over the brutal murder o...