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Initial evaluations of the System of Rice Intensification in India and elsewhere have mainly fo-cused on its impact on yield and income and have usually covered just one or two seasons. Re-searchers at the ICAR-Indian Institute of Rice Research conducted a more comprehensive evalua-tion of SRI methods over six years (six wet and six dry seasons), c...
ICSCI-2022 Keynote and lead lectures edited issue of Journal of Rice Research
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Drought stress during the reproductive stage is an evident limitation of rice grain yield. The present study aimed to assess the reproductive stage drought tolerance of eight promising backcross inbred lines (BILs) with complete fertility restoration in the genetic background of KMR-3R. Various stress indices based on grain yield under Non-stress (...
Aerobic rice needs 30% less total water for land preparation, 50% saving on labour requirement and 50% less GHG emission compared to transplanted rice. Energy use efficiency of aerobic rice cultivation also varies due to varieties. However, a detailed study on various energy inputs components of aerobic rice cultivation (variety, water management,...
Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is an emerging transboundary disease in India. In the recent past, Andhra Pradesh is experiencing outbreaks of LSD in several pockets with a severe economic impact on the farming community. The affected animals showed nodular lesions all over the body in severely affected cases, whereas the lesions were confined to the face...
DRR Dhan 55 [IET 26194(RP 5591-123-16-2)], an aerobic rice variety developed from MTU1010/ IR79915-B-83-4-3 cross combination. It was evaluated in AICRIP multi-location aerobic rice trials during wet seasons of 2016 to 2019. DRR Dhan 55 consistently out-performed the check varieties in Eastern Zone (Zone III) and Central Zone (Zone V) with a mean g...
DRR Dhan 54 [IET 25653 (RP 5943-421-16-1-1-B)] was released for aerobic system of cultivation in water limiting areas of Zone II (Haryana), III (Odisha, Bihar and Jharkhand), VI (Gujarat) and VII (Telangana) through Central Sub-committee on Crop Standards, Notification and Release of Varieties for Agricultural Crops vide S.O. 500(E) dated 29th Jan...
Marek's disease (MD) is one of the most significant neoplastic diseases of poultry caused by Marek's disease virus (MDV), an oncogenic avian herpesvirus which is responsible for great economic losses to the poultry industry worldwide. MD is being manifested as an acute disease with lymphomas in multiple visceral organs. In the present study, an out...
Background: Hyperlipidemia is the disorder of lipid metabolism, characterized by elevated serum total cholesterol (TC), triglycerides (TG), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) and very low-density lipoproteins cholesterol (VLDL-C) and decreased high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C). Atherosclerosis is a cardiovascular and fibroprolif...
Weed management in rice is important to prevent yield loss, decrease production costs, and preserve good grain quality. Weeds decrease yields by direct competition, especially for sunlight, nutrients and water. System of Rice Intensification (SRI) is a sustainable low-cost alternative to the conventional rice farming. This system ensures high yield...
This study aims to synthesise and evaluate the acaricidal activity of nanoscale zinc oxide piperine formulation (NZPF) against Rhipicephalus microplus ticks. NZPF was prepared by using zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnONPs) and piperine by employing encapsulation technique; characterised by UV spectroscopy, Fourier transformed infrared analysis, X-ray d...
Background: Atherosclerosis is diverse disease with heterogenous mechanisms of progression and is an oxidative, chronic inflammatory and thrombotic disease produced by elevated level of low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) in the blood. Initiation of atherosclerosis begins with the production of various inflammatory cytokines and adhesive mo...
Background and Aim: Flaxseeds are known to have varying antihypercholesterolemic and antiatherogenic activity due to its lignan secoisolariciresinol diglucoside, alpha-linolenic acid, and omega-3 fatty acids. The beneficial effect of whole grain dietary flaxseed was evaluated experimentally in high cholesterol diet (HCD)-fed Wistar albino rats.
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The present study was carried out to characterize beta-lactam resistance in Escherichia coli isolated from healthy and diarrhoeic dogs. A total of 93 E. coli were isolated from the rectal swabs of 136 dogs (60/92 of healthy dogs and 33/44 of diarrhoeic dogs). Predominant serotypes detected include rough (19 isolates), O141 (5), O9 (2), O126 (2), O1...
Marek's disease (MD) is one of the most important neoplastic diseases of poultry caused by Marek's disease virus (MDV), an oncogenic avian herpes virus, which is responsible for great economic losses to the poultry industry worldwide. Inspite of the usage of HVT and bivalent vaccines in the poultry flocks, MD continues to be a major threat to the p...
The present study aimed at the detection of suitable Lactobacillus species from dogs for usage as probiotic. A total of 67 rectal swabs from healthy pups were analyzed and 49 (73.1%) Lactobacillus isolates were identified based on morphological, biochemical characteristics and confirmed by genus specific PCR targeting 16S rRNA gene. A total of 20 i...
A set of 48 Lactobacillus isolates recovered from the faecal swabs of different dog breeds in Andhra Pradesh were genotyped by (GTG) 5 repetitive element PCR (rep-PCR). The genomic fingerprinting allowed us to differentiate five major clusters among the 48 canine faecal Lactobacillus isolates viz. cluster I (8 isolates), cluster II (6 isolates), cl...
Extended spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) production by animal pathogens is an emerging problem world-wide. E-test was performed for the detection of ESBL production in microbiota isolated from pyometra and otitis clinical cases of dogs presented to Veterinary clinics in Andhra Pradesh. Microbiota recovered from pyometra pus samples includes Escheric...
The study aimed at the detection of extended spectrum beta-lactam (ESBL) resistance in Pseudomonas species isolated from healthy and diarrhoeic dogs in Andhra Pradesh (India). Rectal swabs from healthy (92) and diarrhoeic (44) dogs were subjected for isolation of Pseudomonas species by conventional culture methods and screened for ESBL resistance b...
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The aim of this study was to characterize beta-lactamase antimicrobial resistance in Klebsiella and Enterobacter species isolated from healthy and diarrheic dogs in Andhra Pradesh.
Materials and Methods
A total of 136 rectal swabs were collected from healthy (92) and diarrheic (44) dogs, bacteriological cultured for Klebsiella and Enterobacter...
OvHv2 tegument protein partial sequences isolated from blood of sheep of Andhra Pradesh.
A set of forty-nine Lactobacillus isolates recovered from the faecal swabs of different dog breeds viz. Pomeranian (12), Labrador (15) and mongrel/indigenous dogs (22) were subjected to Lactobacillus group-specific multiplex PCR corresponding to the 16S-23S rRNA intergenic spacer region (ISR) and its flanking 23S rRNA gene. Twenty-three (46.9%) iso...
A total of 83 clinical samples encompassing diarrhoeic faeces (30), mastitis milk (25) and endometritis uterine fluid samples (28) were collected from cattle, buffaloes and sheep presented to Veterinary polyclinics of Chittoor and Gudivada, Andhra Pradesh. Out of 83 samples, 52 (62.6%) were found positive for E. coli based on cultural and biochemic...
CapriPox Virus P32 gene partial sequence from Goat Pox outbreaks.
Grain yield of rice can decline to the extent of 10% for each 1oC increase in growing
season minimum temperature above 32oC, which leads to severe water shortage
due to climate change, causing about 20% net decline in rice yield in India. Several
experiments were conducted in rice to reduce water requirement and enhance
nutrient use efficiency, in...
The experiment was conducted out at the Indian Institute of Rice Research, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad during dry season ( Rabi ) 2013-2014 andWet season ( Kharif ) 2014 crop seasons. The objective was to establish the nature of relation between grain yield and yield components by partitioning the correlation co-efficients between grain yield and its...
Infectious coryza is a respiratory disease of chicken primarily affecting upper respiratory tracts. Six outbreaks of infectious coryza were investigated from Andhra Pradesh. Three of them were in commercial chicken, two from native Aseel chicken and one from emu. Out of total 74 infra orbital sinus swabs tested, 27 (36.4%) gave isolates of Avibacte...
Soil quality is considered as a key element of sustainable agriculture. Several experiments have been conducted across the states of India to assess different crop establishment methods and management practices to enhance the productivity and to sustain the soil fertility. There is a need to manage the variability in indigenous nutrient supplies fo...
Rice ecosystems including irrigated rice in India is infested with complex weed flora including semiaquatic and aquatic weeds which cause yield losses from 15 to 76% in rice crop. ICAR-Indian Institute of Rice Research (IIRR) under All India Co-ordinated Rice Improvement Programme (AICRIP) has conducted experiments across India (11 locations) to ev...
Infectious coryza is a cosmopolitan disease of chicken which causes significant losses in the poultry industry all over the world including India. The epidemiological data regarding infectious coryza was collected for five years (from January, 2008 to September, 2012) from Regional Disease Diagnostic Laboratories of Srinivasa Hatcheries Private Lim...
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This study was carried out for the detection of Avibacterium paragallinarum from outbreaks of infectious coryza of poultry.
Materials and methods:
The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was standardized for the diagnosis of infectious coryza by using infectious coryza Killed vaccine, ventri biologicals, Pune as source of DNA of A. paragallinar...
An outbreak of sheep associated malignant catarrhal fever in crossbred cattle in a village of Andhra Pradesh, southern India, affected thirteen adult cows and two calves from a population of forty animals. All the affected animals were died between December and January 2013-14. The clinical and gross postmortem findings were typical of MCF in India...
A major constraint in the control of New castle Disease (ND) is the maintenance of cold chain during transport and administration of vaccines. This can be overcome by incorporating thermo resistant strains in the vaccine. Hence, the present report deals with the development of thermostable ND vaccine strains and testing the immunogenicity of these...
NewCastle disease (ND) is an infectious, highly contagious and destructive viral disease of poultry. As there is no treatment for the disease, vaccination serves as the best method to prevent its occurrence. In spite of vaccination, sporadic outbreaks has been reported in India, this is due to lack of cold chain during the transport and administrat...
The present study was aimed to develop thermostable New Castle disease vaccine strains by nano-encapsulated tablets. The results of the present study indicate that both the conventional and thermostable vaccines induce similar immune response. Vaccine tablet was found to be equally immunogenic when compared to the normal routes, it can be used succ...
The DS - CDMA is expected to be the major medium access technology in the future mobile systems owing to its potential capacity enhancement and the robustness against noise. The CDMA is uniquely featured by its spectrum-spreading randomization process employing a pseudo-noise (PN) sequence, thus is often called the spread spectrum multiple access (...
Universal Serial Bus (USB) is a new personal computer interconnection protocol, developed to make the connection of peripheral devices to a computer easier and more efficient. It reduces the cost for the end user, improves communication speed and supports simultaneous attachment of multiple devices (up to127)RS232, in another hand, was designed to...
Visual information transmitted in the form of digital images is becoming a major method of communication in the modern age, but the image obtained after transmission is often corrupted with noise. The received image needs processing before it can be used in the applications. Image denoising involves the manipulation of the image data to produce a v...
Biopsy samples (20) were collected from the prescapular lymphnodes of single intradermal tuberculin test positive cattle in an organized dairy farm. M. bovis was isolated from 4 samples. All the cultures were adopted to liquid media and extraction of DNA was carried out. Primers were designed for IS6110 element specific to M. tuberculosis complex g...
The present study was aimed to develop a qualitative NDV-ELISA kit for flock profiling the antibody levels without involvement of costly equipment and difficulties in interpretation of results. Initially a pencillinase ELISA Kit, using NDV antigen was evaluated in the field with a total of 403 serum samples. A single serum dilution of 1:100 was use...
Newcastle disease (ND) is causing navoc to poultry industry (e.g. immunosuppression, drop in egg production etc.,) due to the interaction of multiple etiological agents and hence the differential diagnosis has become difficult. A quick non-laboratory on-site test kit is required for unambiguous identification of these agents. Latex agglutination (L...