Content 15 (1) June , 2013

Research Paper

Effect of elevated CO2 on growth and yield of rice crop in open top chamber in Sub humid climate of eastern India / S.S. SINGH, JOYDEEP MUKHERJEE, SANTOSH KUMAR and MOHD. IDRIS  

Increased arid and semi-arid areas in India with associated shifts during 1971-2004 / A.V.R. KESAVA RAO, SUHAS P. WANI, K.K.SINGH , M. IRSHAD AHMED, K. SRINIVAS, SNEHAL D. BAIRAGI and O.RAMADEVI  

Precipitation periodicities in Kurdistan – Iraqi region / MIRAN AKRAM OMAR  

Evaluation of FAO-56 Penman–Monteith and alternative methods for estimating reference evapotranspiration using limited climatic data at Pusa / SUDARSHAN PRASAD and VISHAL KUMAR  

Agro-climatic zonation of Uttarakhand using remote sensing and GIS / HIMANI BISHT, A.S. NAIN, SHWETA GAUTAM and HARSH VARDHAN PURANIK  

Spectral reflectance characteristics of healthy and yellow mosaic virus infected soybean (Glycine max L.) leaves in a semiarid environment / D K DAS, S. PRADHAN, V K SEHGAL, R N SAHOO, V K GUPTA and R SINGH  

Thermal requirements for flowering and fruit yield attainment in advance lines of okra / SK DHANKHAR and SURENDER SINGH  

Simulation of growth and yield of four wheat cultivars using WOFOST model under middle Gujarat region / S. K. MISHRA , A. M. SHEKH, S.B. YADAV, ANIL KUMAR, G.G. PATEL, V. PANDEY and H. R. PATEL  

Moisture extraction pattern and ET-yield models in wheat under different management practices in central Punjab / P K KINGRA and R K MAHEY  

Impact of climate change on safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L) in India and Mexico / P. PADMAVATHI and S. M. VIRMANI  

Calibration and validation of DSSAT model for kharif groundnut in north-Saurashtra agro-climatic zone of Gujarat / P. K. PARMAR, H.R. PATEL, S. B. YADAV and V. PANDEY  

Weather based forewarning model for Alternaria leaf spot of safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) in scarcity zone of Maharashtra / D.R. MURUMKAR , D.V. INDI , M.A. GUD , S.K. SHINDE , J.D. JADHAV , V.R. BAVDEKAR and J.R. KADAM  

Effect of abiotic factors on population of aphid and damage by shoot & fruit borer in okra during summer and kharif season at Anand in Gujarat / M. V. DABHI, D. J. KOSHIYA and D. M. KORAT  

Climate change and shifts in etiology of anthracnose disease of grapevines in India / INDU S. SAWANT, DINESH S. SHETTY, SHUBHANGI P. NARKAR, SHASHIKANT GHULE and S.D. SAWANT  

Short Communication

Influence of cane density on microclimate of canopy, growth, yield and quality of wine grapes / N. S. HARWADIKAR, P. R. JAYBHAYE and T. B. TAMBE  

Assessment of losses due to early blight (alternaria solani ell. And mart.) and influence of weather factors on disease development in tomato / POLY SAHA and SRIKANTA DAS  

Influence of weather parameters on powdery mildew disease of mustard under North Saurashtra agroclimatic zone / K.K.KANZARIA, I.U.DHRUJ and D.D.SAHU  

Forecast of rice (Oryza sativa L.) yield based on climatic parameters in Srinagar district of Kashmir Valley / S. SHERAZ MAHDI, SONUM LOTUS, GURDEEP SINGH, LATIEF AHMAD, K.N. SINGH, LATIF AHAMD DAR and AJAY BHAT