Indra Asil

Plant Improvement and Somatic Cell Genetics

• Author(s): Indra Asil

• Categories: Science

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2012-12-02
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• Publisher: Elsevier

Plant Improvement and Somatic Cell Genetics includes all but one of the papers presented at two symposia held during the XIII International Botanical Congress in Sydney, Australia, on August 21-28, 1981. ""Frontiers in Plant Breeding"" and ""Cell Culture and Somatic Cell Genetics in Plant Biology"" highlight the ways in which plant breeding techniques can improve crops. The book explores the potentials as well as the limitations of plant breeding, and cellular and molecular techniques in plant improvement. Comprised of 14 chapters, this volume begins with an overview of the potential applications of exotic germplasm for tomato and cereal crop improvement. It continues with a discussion of mu...

Rig-veda Sanhita

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1857
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Ṛig-Veda-Sanhitá. A Collection of Ancient Hindu Hymns, Constituting the First Ashtaka, Or Book, of the Ṛig-Veda; the Oldest Authority for the Religious and Social Institutions of the Hindus. Translated from the Original Sanskrit. By H. H. Wilson ... Published Under the Patronage of the Court of Directors of the East-India Company

• Author(s): Rgvedasahita

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1857
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• Publisher: Unknown

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The R̥g-Veda

• Categories: Vedas

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2002
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• Publisher: Unknown

Translation based on the commentary of Sāyaṇacārya.

Cincinnati Cemeteries

• Author(s): Kevin Grace, Tom White

• Categories: History

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2004
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• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Cincinnati Cemeteries is not only a history of graveyards and their occupants. It also investigates the culture of death and dying in Cincinnati: from the infamous Pearl Bryan murder and the 19th-century cholera epidemics, to the body snatchers who stole the corpse of Benjamin Harrison's father and the notorious "resurrection men." In a city teeming with immigrants and transients these "sack 'em up" grave robbers had ample opportunities to supply cadavers to Cincinnati's medical schools. And if fresh graves weren't available, they lurked for victims in the saloons and the dark alleys of Vine Street and the West End.