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Winter Productivity in the Arabian Sea
IIT Delhi has created a biophysical model to explain the influences of the Indian Ocean Dipole and El-Niño on the algal blooms in the Arabian sea. Simulations can now help predict algal bloom in the area – a boon for fishers to identify potential fishing sites.
Tamarind and Jackfruit Seeds: Improving vegetable shelf life
R Santhosh and Preetam Sarkar from the National Institute of Technology Rourkela have come up with a recipe for making films to increase shelf life of vegetables and fruits. The ingredients: carbohydrates from jackfruit seeds, xyloglucan from tamarind seeds and zinc oxide nanoparticles. Read about the process here.
Transparent Metallic Electrodes: for flexible digital devices
Scientists from NIT Warangal, DMRL Hyderabad, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, and ARCI Hyderabad have now come out with a super thin, transparent and flexible metallic electrode for optoelectronics and wearable digital devices. Read the report here:
Rice Plant Disease: Automatic identification
Some diseases of rice can destroy 80% of the crop. Timely detection of the diseases can save farmers from economic ruin. Researchers from Tamil Nadu and Karnataka have now developed a method to automatically detect three common rice diseases. Read on for details.
Rice and Fodder Intercropping: Improving yield and income sustainability
Marginal farmers cultivating rice in rainfed areas of Odisha will have better yield and income stability if they intercrop rice with leguminous crops such as cowpea or ricebean, say researchers in Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology. Read more for details.
No Tilling, No Burning: For sustainable soil health
In the rice-wheat cycle practiced by farmers in North-West India, crop residue is burnt, creating pollution and reducing soil productivity. It is possible to have three crops per year if conservation agriculture is practiced by farmers in the region, say ICAR scientists.
Detecting Road Damage: Using smartphone images
A smartphone on a vehicle windshield picks up an image of damaged road, geotags and sends them to cloud storage. An algorithm classifies the damage, alerts authorities to take action. Future of road maintenance technology from IIT Roorkee.
Research Round Up 1: COVID-19
What are Indian researchers doing about COVID-19? Sileesh Mullasseri, KUFOS, Kochi investigates the publications between 15th and 31st January.
Detecting Bismuth Pollution: A fluorescent chemosensor
Bismuth is a highly useful metal for engineers. And bismuth compounds abound in medicine. Yet high doses can dangerous. So we need a method to detect it in food, water and environment. Researchers from Coimbatore have now come up with one.
Mercury and Methylmercury: detect and discriminate
Mercury in the environment is dangerous to human health. Methyl mercury is even more so. Nilanjan Dey from BITS Pilani, Hyderabad has designed a cost effective and highly sensitive method to detect both.
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