IMPACT : International Journal of Research in Applied, Natural and Social Sciences

5-14

Authors: KHALED A. M. AHMED, AHMED ATIA & ABDULLAH M. ALHAMDAN

In order to maintain favorites quality of Barhi dates to the consumers at the khalal stage with its yellow color and crunchiness firmness. Controlled atmospheric storage has the ability to keep Barhi fruits for three months. But the main problem remains to maintain the same quality fruits in the markets. So the aim of the current study is the application of immersion Barhi fruits after CA storage in calcium chloride solution at concentrations (1%, 2%) for (3-5 minutes) and then left to dry at room temperature and then save them in cooled stores (5 oC) for a period of two weeks and in room temperature (23±2 oC) for a week and also develop a set without treatment to study the effect of different solutions on the product. Samples were taken each week for measurements and sensory evaluation tests. The best result was to use calcium chloride concentration (2%) after storage in a controlled atmosphere in terms of maintaining the texture, color, taste, and loss rate in fruits

21-30

Authors: MONSOON KHEMUNDU & S. R. KOTESWARA RAO

During storage, maize grains are severely destroyed by insects and other pests. One of the most important causes of grain loss in stored maize is the damage caused by Angoumois grain moth, Sitotroga cereallela (Olivier). A study was conducted to evaluate the effect of carbon dioxide treatment against Angoumois grain moth Sitotroga cerealella (Olivier) in maize at Seed Research and Technology Centre (S.R.T.C), Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, Telangana during February 2015 to September 2015. The effect of different concentrations of CO2 viz., 20, 40, 60 and 80 per cent against the Angoumois grain moth Sitotroga cerealella in maize seed stored for a period of six months was observed. The result revealed that the percentage of seed damage was found to be nil in 60 and 80 per cent concentrations of CO2 up to six months of storage. Exposure of seeds at 20 and 40 per cent CO2 concentrations could able to protect the seed from infestation and development of the moth up to four months of treatment but the infestation and progeny development were noticed after five months of treatment. Higher CO2 concentrations viz., 60 and 80 per cent not only protected the seed from infestation and development but also maintain good storability.

39-42

Authors: BHUVANESWARI S1, K. HIMA BINDU2 & KUSUMA D.K3

Betel leaves (Piper betle. L) Popularly called as paan is consumed by people in Asian countries. The harvested betel leaves were sorted, packaged in bundles (100leaves/bundle) in thermocol box, Corrugated Fibre Board (CFB) box and bamboo basket (control) and stored at ambient condition. Betel leaves in different packages were observed every day for weight loss (%), spoilage (%), freshness and yellowing of leaves... The leaves were also analysed for phenols, flavonioids and antioxidants at the end of the storage period. The shelf life of the betel leaver was higher (4 days) in thermocol box and bamboo basket at ambient condition. With great freshness, no yellowing and with higher retention of antioxidants.

57-60

Authors: PITAMBARA; PRACHI SINGH & POONAM KANANI

Exome refers to entire protein coding sequence in an organism i.e. exon. Although exome represent almost a hundredth of whole genome. It don’t provide complete picture of gene regulation they represent all sequences that code for proteins and regulate phenotype. It has advantages of producing sequencing data in a quicker way, since exome comprises only a small portion of genome. It is usually used to identify mutations in protein coding genes. Exome sequencing data are now becoming widely available for secondary uses. Many of the functional elements located outside exonic region is not sequenced (about 50% of SNPs are located in the intronic region). Exomics plays an important role in exploring biodiversity, to understand host pathogen interaction and investigating evolution of cereals

73-84

Authors: BACHI KARIMA & ALI AHMED SADOUDI DJAMILA

The fight against pests of fruit crops remains essentially chemical. Currently, we realized that it has harmful effects on the environment and on humans. A new perspective of biological control through the use of biological agents such as fungi gives promising results. In the laboratory, we tested the insecticidal activity of four doses of the conidial suspension of Penicillium roqueforti (class of Eurotiomycetes) on the third larval stage of Ceratitis capitata. The results reveal that the rate of larval mortality increases after 24 hours of inoculation up to 21.25% at the dose d4 (5.106 spores / ml). Similarly, the rate of larvae transformed in pupae has reached 77.5% with dose d3 (4.106spores / ml). The rate of malformed pupae, increases to 71.25% for the higher dose represented by d4 (5.106 spores / ml). The adult emergence rate of C. capitata decreases with increasing dose to be canceled dose d4. This rate decreases for adults formed from larvae placed in the soil contaminated with P. roqueforti to 12.5% at the dose d2 (3,2. 106 spores / ml). We conclude that this biological test showed that P. roqueforti presents a biopesticidal potential against larvae and pupae of C.capitata.

93-98

Authors: POONAM KANANI, PITAMBARA & Y. M. SHUKLA

Bacterial artificial chromosomes (BAC) are one of the most important research tools being significantly proven to efficiently hold up to 350 kb of DNA to be cloned. The development of BAC has been proven an ambitious success story for human genome project, in genomic DNA libraries and physical map construction for genomic sequencing. The salient feature of Escherichia coli derived F-factor is most basic requirement for BAC, which helps in maintenance of DNA clones and easy manipulation of cloned DNA. The following paper accounts details on BAC.

105-110

Authors: JYOTIRAJ PATHAK

The North East India is one of the most diverse areas of India. The diversity makes the whole area more interesting and unique. Because of the remoteness and communication hurdles, ethnic conflicts, migration, and other continuous problems in the area, it leads to human rights violation and low level of human development attainment among the masses. The paper is a humble attempt to look into the issues of deprivation of human development and human rights especially among the children. Of late, there has been a renewed emphasis on the issues of human development and human rights and to linked both of them as a matter of attainment or deprivation of basic needs. It is in this context that the paper will try to raise the twin issue of rights and development, present status and future course of action in the line of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in North East India. Issues like primary education and health status of children are mainly discussed in the paper. While preparing the paper, government data and report especially human development reports of respective states are analysed. Although significant progress has been made in the area of primary education but regarding health related issues much progress has to be made. Again it is found that there is large diversity among the states and between rural and urban area.

121-128

Authors: KULDEEP SINGH, KAVITA SINGH & CBS DANGI

Many of the endophyte have been show potential de-novo synthesis of different bioactive metabolites that are used directly or indirectly as therapeutic agent and several ailments. Diabetes Mellitus is a metabolic disorder caused due to defect in insulin secretion, insulin action or both. Diabetes mellitus is causing serious health problem and due cause of some inheritance or changed lifestyle and food habit. Mycelia extract of Penicillum, Streptomyces, Rhizopus, Cladosporium, Nigrospora oryze and Alternaria species isolates were reported best inhibition ranging 15 to 38% α- amylase and sucrose. Isolated endophytes have good potency in anti-diabetic ailment.