Seed Testing

Seed Testing

Author: Sabry Gobran Elias

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9781611860399

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An essential reference for students, seed technologists, researchers, and seed industry personnel, this comprehensive guide outlines the most widely performed modern seed quality tests, explores the principles behind them, the history of seed testing, why seeds are tested and when, and sampling, sub-sampling, seed laboratory management, accreditation, and seed quality assurance programs. The authors describe statistical applications to seed testing and tolerances, and they provide a detailed morphological and structural description of seed formation and development. The book examines the testing of genetic traits and transgenic seeds, including DNA and protein genetic purity tests, and cultivar purity identification for conventional seeds. In addition to the most common seed purity and viability tests, tests for seed and seedling vigor, seed-borne diseases and seed moisture determination are also discussed.


The Portrait of a Lady

The Portrait of a Lady

Author: Khushwant Singh

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2009-02-20

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 8184759045

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‘A Khushwant Singh short story is not flamboyant but modest, restrained, well-crafted...Perhaps his greatest gift as a writer is a wonderful particularity of description’—London Magazine Khushwant Singh first established his reputation as a writer through the short story. His stories—wry, poignant, erotic and, above all, human—bear testimony to Khushwant Singh’s remarkable range and his ability to create an unforgettable PBI - World. Spanning over half a century, this volume contains all the short stories Khushwant Singh has ever written, including the delightfully tongue-in-cheek ‘The Maharani of Chootiapuram’, written in 2008. ‘Khushwant’s stories enthrall...[He has]an ability akin to that of Somerset Maugham...the ability to entertain intelligently’—PBI - India Today ‘His stories are better than [those of] any PBI - Indian writing in English—Times of PBI - India ‘The Collected Short Stories leaves the reader in a delightful, inebriated trance’—Sunday Chronicle ‘He is not an ordinary short story writer...[Collected Stories] is delightful reading’—Hindustan Times


We Indians

We Indians

Author: Khushwant Singh

Publisher: Juggernaut Books

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 8193284135

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A sharp and funny dissection of different aspects of the Indian character, from our attitude to sex, religion and women to our views on corruption and the English language. Irreverent and full of witty observations, this is a Khushwant Singh classic!


Little Snake and Little Frog

Little Snake and Little Frog

Author: Gabriel Okara

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 16

ISBN-13: 9789781299056

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Tells children a story about friendship. The locale is Nama-ama, the town where all of the animals lived.