A growing body of research points to a positive interplay between viruses and plants.Tomato yellow curl virus (TYLCV) is able to protect tomato host plants against extreme drought.To envisage the use of virus protective capacity in agriculture, TYLCV-resistant tomato lines have to be infected first with the virus before planting.Such virus-resistan
The northern Eastern Ghats is an area with significant biodiversity value but remains poorly explored except for a few charismatic taxa such as birds, mammals and reptiles.Very few studies have looked at the invertebrate diversity of these hill ranges, particularly butterflies.We present the first peer-reviewed checklist of butterflies from the nor
Seeds of Abrus precatorius L.(Fabaceae) were used as weight measure by Indigenous people.Where, the seeds were referred as Ratti; a traditional Indian unit of mass measurement.Seed weight fluctuates depending upon age, moisture, storage-period/conditions.Therefore, use of seeds as Swaging Punch Set a weighing unit become dubious and need to be vali
The systematics of the cophyline microhylid frog genera Plethodontohyla and Rhombophryne have long been Above Ground Product (Lighting) intertwined, and their relationships have only recently started to become clear.While Rhombophryne has received a lot of recent taxonomic attention, Plethodontohyla has been largely neglected.Our study is a showcas