Model villages: A pathway towards inclusive development

Model Villages can serve as miniature self-sufficient, sustainable and equitable units.One village can inspire other villages and if in this way, the developmental Sensor Block-Offs efforts cover whole of rural India, then India can set example of inclusive development in global charts.Not only food and nutritional security through scientific farmi

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Extracts from Field Margin Weeds Provide Economically Viable and Environmentally Benign Pest Control Compared to Synthetic Pesticides.

Plants with pesticidal properties have been investigated for decades as alternatives to synthetics, but most progress has been shown in the laboratory.Consequently, research on pesticidal plants is failing to address gaps in our knowledge that constrain their uptake.Some of these gaps are their evaluation of their efficacy under field conditions, t

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Admixture of evolutionary rates across a butterfly hybrid zone

Hybridization is a major evolutionary force that can erode genetic differentiation between species, whereas reproductive isolation maintains such differentiation.In studying a hybrid zone between the swallowtail butterflies Papilio syfanius and Papilio maackii (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae), we made the unexpected discovery that genomic substitution r

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