@Editorial from Editor-in-Chief <#LINE#>prof. Dipak Sharma<#LINE#>1<#LINE#>Editoreal Form Editor.pdf<#LINE#> @Research Paper <#LINE#>Anthelmintic effect of Natural Plant (Carica papaya) extract against the Gastrointestinal nematode, Ancylostoma caninum in Mice<#LINE#>Shaziya@Bi,P.K.@Goyal<#LINE#>2-6<#LINE#>1.ISCA-JBS-2012-005.pdf<#LINE#> School of Studies in Zoology and Biotechnology, Vikram University, Ujjain, MP, INDIA <#LINE#>2/4/2012<#LINE#>20/4/2012<#LINE#> Infection with gastrointestinal nematode have severe consequences for the health of millions of people worldwide, and cause serious economic losses in live stock farming. Synthetic drug have been considered the most effective way of controlling parasite infections. But these drugs are expensive and sometime unavailable to people and show the side effect hence anthelmintic offer a simple, cheap, cost effective method of controlling parasites with no side effect. The purpose of this experiment was to study the anthelmintic activity of Carica papaya extract against Ancylostoma caninum in infection in mice. Two experiments were setup for this study, in experiment no. 1, two groups (A and B) and experiment no. 2, three groups (A, B and C) of mice were taken for larval recovery and mast cell & eosinophil counts respectively. Group A mice were treated with plant extract (Carica papaya) 0.2 ml/ mouse, on day -14 and -7 day before challenge infection and on day 0 mice were challenge with 500 A. caninum larvae. Group B mice were challenge only with dose of 500 Ancylostoma caninum larvae. Group C served as a non treated control. Results of plant extract treated mice clearly demonstrated a reduction of larvae in group (A) when compared with group (B) of mice. Large number of mucosal mast cell observed on day 16 in all groups. Eosinophil levels were markedly reduced in 24 days after challenge infection in all groups. 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The metals content in soil were 0.24 for Cd, 41.59 for Cr, 16253 for Fe, 22.08 for Pb, 47.06 for Zn, and 3.74 for As with 24.19, 4159.2, 34802.99, 1840.03, 3619.62 and 113.24 times magnification respectively over the respective value in water. The metal content in vegetation were 1.01 for Cd, 5.76 for Cr, 1096.80 for Fe, 4.01 for Pb, 104.88 for Zn and 4.2 for As with a magnification of 101.3, 575.9, 2348.61, 334.50, 8067.69, 127.30 respectively over the respective values in water. Flesh and Bone samples of amphibians also showed bioaccumulation in various range, in some cases more than the vegetation. The data reveals that although most of these pollutants are present in negligible quantity in water sources, the extent of biomagnification in quite visible particularly in respect to soil, vegetation, flesh and bone. 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A total of five indigenous fungal strains were isolated from the effluents collected around the discharge site of textile industry situated in Panipat. Effluent samples were also analyzed for their physiochemical properties. Aspergillus allhabadii, A. niger and A. sulphureus were successfully identified using macroscopic and microscopic study referring relevant literature. Decolorization capabilities of these fungal species were evaluated for reactive blue MR dye (100-300mg/L) in carbon limited Czapek Dox broth (0.5%), carried out under static in vitro condition. It was found that A. allhabadii and A. sulphureus showed higher decolorization capabilities (95.130.11%), (93.010.25%) with 200mg/L dye, but A. niger showed higher decolorization (83.140.19%) with 100 mg/L after ten days of incubation. Decolorization efficiency was also investigated in different carbon sources and found sucrose was the best carbon for all the fungal strains. 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Technol., 77, 3-95 (2001) @No $ @ @ @No <#LINE#>Study on Zooplankton of Fresh Water Reservoir Nyari II Rajkot district,Gujarat, India<#LINE#>A.P.@Goswami,P.C.@Mankodi<#LINE#>30-34<#LINE#>4.ISCA-JBS-2012-012.pdf<#LINE#>Department of Biology, M.V.M. Science and Home Science College, Rajkot, Gujarat, INDIA @ Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, The M.S. University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, INDIA<#LINE#>10/4/2012<#LINE#>18/4/2012<#LINE#> Zooplankton are the grazers on the phytoplankton and a food base for the carnivorous as well as omnivorous fishes, have been reported in percentage composition of different groups. The diversity of various types of zooplankton was studied of fresh water reservoir Nyari – II Rajkot district, Gujarat. The planktonic forms were collected from the surface of the reservoir water with plankton net of 20 mesh size nylon cloth. The plankton samples were preserved for laboratory analysis. The collected samples were identified using standard references. The result revealed that the zooplankton were represented by various phyla like, protozoa, helminthes, rotifera, annelida, arthropoda etc. Arthropods have been reported maximum in number of varieties and percentage amount in the total zooplankton followed by Rotifer in general. The range of zooplankton between 174 to 769 n/l, and average was 378.42 n/l, the minimum zooplankton was in March and maximum were in the month of October. The annual percentage composition of various representative groups of zooplankton revealed 7.90% protozoa, 35.32% Rotifer, 5.41% Arthropoda and Miscellaneous 2.64%. The detailed aspect of monthly variation, percentage composition and diversity of zooplankton is discussed herein. <#LINE#> @ @ Anonymous, Statistical atlas of Gujarat, Vol. I and II, Bureau of Statistics and Economics, Government of Gujarat (1982) @No $ @ @ Anonymous, State environmental action programme, Gujarat Ecological Commission, Vadodara (2000) @No $ @ @ Davis C., The marine and fresh water plankton, Michigan State University Press, Chicago (1955) @No $ @ @ Pillai N.K., Introduction to planktonology, Himalaya Publishing House, Bombay (1986) @No $ @ @ Sugunan V.V. Reservoir fisheries of India, Daya Publishing House, Delhi, 423 (1997b) @No $ @ @ Bhandarkar S.V. and Gaupale D.T., Correlation Coefficient of physico-chemical properties with zooplankton population in Sagar lake Bhandara, Maharashtra, J. Curr. 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Present study was undertaken to analyze the physical and chemical characteristics such as pH , NPK organic carbon, organic matter, moisture content etc. of raw pressmud as well as pressmud from which the wax is extracted by solvent recovery, and also water holding capacity of Loam soil by applying different percentage of waxed and wax extracted pressmud. It was found that the water holding capacity of soil containing dewaxed pressmud was high as compared to waxed pressmud and in the range of 58.39 to 92.43 % in the dewaxed pressmud where as for wax containing pressmud it was 49.39 to 86.63 %. The C: N ratio of dewaxed pressmud was high, and was 18.54 % as compared to that of waxed pressmud. The composting processes improve the physical structure and lower the C: N ratio of the pressmud and leads to reduction in C: N ratio i.e. 16.53 % of dewaxed pressmud after composting. However the physico- chemical parameters of the composted waxed pressmud were not significantly higher than those of composted dewaxed pressmud. So it can be conclude that dewaxed pressmud are used as fertilizer in agriculture field. <#LINE#> @ @ Yadav D.V., Utilization of pressmud cake in Indian agriculture, Indian J. 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Sugar Techn, 3, 92-96 (2001) @No $ @ @ Parthasarathi K., Aging of pressmud vermicasts of Lampito mauritii (Kinberg) and Eudrilus eugeniae (Kinberg) Reduction in microbial population and activity, Journal of Environmental Biology, 27(2), 221-223 (2006) @No $ @ @ Bernhardt H.W. and Notcutt P., Composting of filter cake from a sugar factory, Proceedings of The South African Sugar Technologists' Association, Sugar Milling Research Institute, Durban, 185-187 (1993) @No $ @ @ Khwairakpam M. and Kalamdhad A.S., Vermicomposting of vegetable wastes amended with cattle manure,Research journal of chemical sciences, 1(8) 49-56 (2012) @No $ @ @ Howard A.J. and Hamer D., The extraction and constitution of peat wax. Chromatographic fractionation of wax, Journal of The American Oil Chemists' Society, 39(5), 250-255 (1961) @No $ @ @ Mane T.T. and Raskar S.S., Management of agriculture waste from market yard through vermicomposting, Research journal of recent sciences, 1(ISC–2011) , 289-296 (2012) @No $ @ @ Bokhtiar S.M., Paul G.C., Rashid M.A. and Rahman A.B., Effect of pressmud and organic nitrogen on soil fertility and yield of sugarcane grown in high Ganges river flood plain soils of Bangladesh, Indian Sugar L1, 235-240 (2001) @No $ @ @ Razzaq A., Assessing sugarcane filter cake as crop nutrients and soil health ameliorant, Pak. Sug. J., 21(3), 15-18 (2001) @No $ @ @ Tandon, Waste recycling on Agriculture, Fertilizer Development Consultation Organization, New Delhi, (1995) @No $ @ @ Kuo.S, Ortiz-Escobar M.E , Hue N.V and Hummel R.L., Composting and composting utillization for agronomic and container crops, Recent Developments in Environmental Biology, 1-60 (2004) @No $ @ @ Munnoli P. and Bhosale S., Water holding capacity of earth worms vermicompost made of sugar industry waste (pressmud) in mono and Poly culture vermin reactors, The environmentalist, 31(4), 394-400 (2011) @No $ @ @ Goyal S.K., Nema P., and Devotta S., Sustainable Industrial Development and Environment Protection, An Emerging Perspective, Environmental Progress, 27(1), (2008) @No $ @ @ @No <#LINE#>Structural Studies on Mitogen Activated Protein Kinase from Plasmodium Falciparum<#LINE#>T.K.@Bhatt<#LINE#>42-46<#LINE#>6.ISCA-JBS-2012-016.pdf<#LINE#> Department of Biotechnology, Central University of Rajasthan, Kishangarh, INDIA <#LINE#>16/4/2012<#LINE#>20/4/2012<#LINE#> Human malaria is caused by the apicomplexan, Plasmodium falciparum. Malaria causes the major health problems in most of the developing countries, including India. In addition, increased resistant against existing drugs of malaria, impose the identification of novel drug targets. Plasmodium kinome has been studied in detail so far, providing key insight into the major differences between human and malaria parasite kinases. Few kinases are essential in asexual life stage of the parasite and do not club together with human counterparts in phylogenetic tree. Mitogen-activated protein kinase-2 (Pfmap-2) is one of the two MAP kinases found in Plasmodium and essential for the asexual growth. In this study, we have structurally characterized the Pfmap-2 using in-silico homology modeling. Also the structural comparison was performed between parasite and human counterparts. In addition, active site of Pfmap-2 was identified using online tool. Together, we think that present study will definitely hasten the process of development of new and effective anti-malaria drugs. <#LINE#> @ @ Cohen P., The role of protein phosphorylation in human health and disease, Eur J Biochem, 268, 5001–5010 (2001) @No $ @ @ Anamika X., Srinivasan N. and Krupa A., A genomic perspective of protein kinases in Plasmodium falciparum, Proteins, 58, 180–189 (2005) @No $ @ @ Ward P., Equinet L., Packer J. and Doerig C., Protein kinases of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum: the kinome of a divergent eukaryote, BMC Genomics, 5, 79 (2004) @No $ @ @ Doerig C. and Meijer L., Antimalarial drug discovery: targeting protein kinases, Expert Opin Ther Targets, 11, 279–290 (2007) @No $ @ @ Doerig C.M., Parzy D., Langsley G., Horrocks P., Carter R. and Doerig C.D., A MAP kinase homologue from the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, Gene, 177, 1–6 (1996) @No $ @ @ Graeser R., Kury P., Franklin R.M. and Kappes B., Characterization of a mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase from Plasmodium falciparum, Mol Microbiol, 23, 151–159 (1997) @No $ @ @ Graves P.M., Carter R. and McNeill K.M., Gametocyte production in cloned lines of Plasmodium falciparum, Am J Trop Med Hyg, 33, 1045–1050 (1984) @No $ @ @ Dorin D., et al., An atypical mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) homologue expressed in gametocytes of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. 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Garhwal University (a Central University), SRT Campus, Badshahithaul, Tehri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, INDIA <#LINE#>21/4/2012<#LINE#>27/4/2012<#LINE#>The present study aims to compare the vegetation of Chirpine forest and study the regeneration status of Chirpine in relationto their disturbances in block Nowshera, district Rajouri, J and K, India. Whole area was divided into five sites ((I=Chowki;II=Nowshera; III=Rajal Kote and Gharan Kaun; IV=Bhatta; V=Andhrooth)). The present study showed that, diversity index was invariably higher for trees followed by herbs, shrubs. 58 species were reported from the studied forest, out which 23 were trees, 13 were shrubs and 22 were herbs. Recruitment of shrubs and herbs in some sites showed the open type ofcanopy is highly disturbed site and investigated data also shows heavy deforestation and over grazing.<#LINE#> @ @ Gurarni D., Arya N., Yadava A. and Ram J., Studies on plant biodiversity of pure Pinus Roxburghii Sarg, Forest and mixed pine oak forest in Uttarakhand Himalaya, New York Science Journal, 3(8), 1-5 (2010) @No $ @ @ Kharkwal G. and Rawat Y.S., Structure and composition of vegetation in subtropical forest of Kumaun Himalaya, African Journal of Plant Science, 4(4), 116-121 (2010) @No $ @ @ Dhar U., Rawal R.S. and Samant S.S., Structural diversity and representatives of forest vegetation in a protected area of Kumaun Himalaya, India, implication for conservation, Biodiversity and Conservation, 6, 995-1006 (1997) @No $ @ @ Kumar A., Plant biodiversity in forests of middle Central Himalaya in relation to various disturbances, Ph.D. thesis, Kumaun University, Nainital, unpublished (2000) @No $ @ @ Silori C.S., Status and distribution of anthropogenic pressure in the buffer zone of Nanda Devi Biosphere in Western Himalaya, India, Biodiversity and Conservation, 10, 1113-1130 (2001) @No $ @ @ Khera N., Kumar N., Ram J. and Tewari A., Plant biodiversity of assessment in relation to disturbances in mid-elevational forest of Central Himalaya, India, Journal of Tropical Ecology, 42(1), 83-95 (2001) @No $ @ @ Ahmed M. 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Malik, Present status of subtropical Chirpine vegetation of Kotli Hills, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Journal of Research (Science), Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan,15(01), 85-90 (2004) @No $ @ @ @No <#LINE#>Decolorization of Reactive Black HFGR by Aspergillus sulphureus<#LINE#>RajKumar@Salar,SureshKumar@Rohilla,JitenderKumar@ Rohilla <#LINE#>55-61<#LINE#>8.ISCA-JBS-2012-020.pdf<#LINE#> Department of Biotechnology, Chaudhary Devi Lal University, Sirsa, INDIA @ Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, CCS HAU, Hisar, INDIA <#LINE#>25/1/2012<#LINE#>27/4/2012<#LINE#> The strain Aspergillus sulphureus was evaluated for its ability to decolorize a textile dye, Reactive Black HFGR. The effect of physiochemical parameters (shaking vs static, pH, dye concentration and different carbon source) on the degradation of textile dye was studied in C-limited Czapek Dox broth. It was found that shaking favored to dye decolorization efficiency of fungal strain showed highest decolorization (93.041.86%). Effect of different concentration of Reactive Black HFGR dyes ranging from 50 to 300 mg/L had a significant effect on decolorization (69.941.09 - 93.041.86%) their maximal limits at 200 mg/L and increase in concentration of dye showed a negative effect on the decolorization percentage of the tested fungal strain. There was significant decolorization by the fungal strain with different pH ranging from 4 to 8. However, optimum pH was found to be pH 5. There was an influence of carbon source on decolorization as the fungus showed considerable variation in decolorization activity in the carbon supplemented medium. The fungal strain showed maximum activity with sucrose (93.041.86%) followed by glucose (85.310.59%) and fructose (78.711.44%). Therefore, Aspergillus sulphureus is an efficient strain for the decolorization of reactive textile dyes, and it might be a practical alternative in the dyeing wastewater treatment. <#LINE#> @ @ Zollinger H., Color chemistry syntheses, properties and application of organic dyes and pigments, (1st Edn), VCH Publishers, New York (1987) @No $ @ @ Campos R., Kandelbauer A., Robra K.H., Artur C.P. and Gubitz G.M., Indigo degradation with purified laccases from Trametes hirsuta and Sclerotim rolfsii. J. Biotechnol., 8, 131-139 (2001) @No $ @ @ Selvam K., Swaminathan K. and Chae K.S., Decolourization of azo dyes and a dye industry effluent by a white rot fungus Thelephora sp., Bioresour. 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Bioeng., 5(88), 577-581 (1999) @No $ @ @ @No <#LINE#>Comparison of the effect of Vitamin B1 and Acupuncture on Treatment of Primary Dysmenorrhea<#LINE#>M.@TofighiNiaki,M.@Zafari,A.@Aghamohammady<#LINE#>62-66<#LINE#>9.ISCA-JBS-2012-022.pdf<#LINE#> Midwifery Department, Islamic Azad university Sari Branch, Sari IRAN <#LINE#>25/4/2012<#LINE#>27/4/2012<#LINE#> Dysmenorrhea is a common gynecological disorder as the most common pelvis cyclic pain through that more than half of the women in the age would experience it. It is divided in to two groups of primary and secondary. The aim of this study is to compare the acupuncture effect, vitamin B1 and Ibuprofen on pain treatment of Primary dysmenorrhea. This study is a kind of clinical trial study which students have done is 2010 on the students of Islamic Azad University Sari Branch. The provided definite multi-dimensional speech system of collecting data using Spss version software, Fisher's tests k, Duncan's test and variation analysis. The results showed that there was significant difference related to pain tension before and after treatment (P=0/000). There is also equal need for extra pain reliever only in ibuprofen and vitamin B group (P=0/000). Vitamin B is a medicine with similar effect to ibuprofen with much less complication and more acceptability and the acupuncture has less acceptability and efficiency comparing with these two. <#LINE#> @ @ Salahi M., Obstetrics and Gynecology and Medical-Surgical Puran Pazhohesh Publication (2003) @No $ @ @ Leon Speroff Robert H., Class Menstrual disorder, Clinical Gynecologic and Endocrinology and Infertility, 557 – 575 (1999) @No $ @ @ Rayan Kent J. et al, Health Conditions of women kystner 7th edition, (2001) @No $ @ @ Hillen T.I., Grbavac S.L., Johnston P.J., Primary dysmenorrheal in young western Australian Women, Prevalence, Impact and Knowledge of treatment, Journal Adolescent Health 25, 40 (2008) @No $ @ @ Juli A., Jolin, Pelvic pain and Dysmenorrheal Jana Thais Bereh NoVaks,s Gynecology, 351 – 421 (2003) @No $ @ @ Nasiri M., Comparing the effect of pressure on Vtb ibuprofen treatment of primary dysmenorrheal, Education Research Center of Tehran (2008) @No $ @ @ Jida J.A., Aspects of Student health adolescent gynecology, British Medical, J /1 (6053) – a Jan – 28 (1999) @No $ @ @ Regidor P.A., Regidor M. and Rows S., Prospective Ran domized, Study Compairing GnRH agonist and Lynesternol in treatment Sever dysmenorrheal, Gynecology Endocrynology, 15(3), 202 -9 (2001) @No $ @ @ Merrison B.W., Daniels S.E., Rafe Coxibe Aspecific Cyclioxygens–2 in hibitor in primary Dysmenorhea obs 8 Gyn, 94(4), 504 -8 (1999) @No $ @ @ Chang W.Y. and Liwan A., Effecacy of minor analgesic primary Dysmenorrhea 1999 Br .obs and Gyn, 105(7), 280 – 9 (1998) @No $ @ @ Bernard N.D. and Scillia A.R., Diet and sex Hormon binding glubin for Dysmenorrhea and pms, obs and Gyn, 95(2), 245-50 (2000) @No $ @ @ Sidani M. and Campbll J., Primary care clinic in office practice Gynecology select to picol, 27(2), 247 327 (2002) @No $ @ @ Kastap K.E., Nutrients and Nutrition agent Drug factors and comparisons, (2000) @No $ @ @ Milson J. and Hendner N.A. Comparative Study of The effect of high intensity trans Cutaneas nerve stimulation and Naproxen in primary Dysmenorrhea American J obs and Gyn, 70, 193 – 9 (1999) @No $ @ @ Wilson M.L. and Mrrphy P.A., Herbal and diatary Thrapies for primary dysmenorrheal Review, (3), 0021 (2001) @No $ @ @ Navidi and Ali Asghar et al., Clinical and basic principles of acupuncture, Tehran, First Printing, Tabib Publication (2002) @No $ @ @ LI wang M, et al., Vitamin K acupuncture point injection for sever primary dysmenorrheal, an international pilot study, Obstetrics and gynecology hospital, Fudan University shanghai, peoples republic of china (2004) @No $ @ @ Jafary A., The effect of vitamin B1 on the primary Dysmenorrheal MS Thesis, Midwifery, Ahwaz Jondi Shapur University of Medical Sciences, (2004) @No $ @ @ Gokhal L.B., Curative treatment of primary dysmenorrheal Indian J med Res, (103), 207- 31 (1996) @No $ @ @ An Drews coco M.D., Primary dysmenorrheal Am, Family physicians (1999) @No $ @ @ Sekhavat Lilly et al, Comparison of the effect of Vitamin B1and Ibuprofen on treatment of primary Dysmenorrheal in the young girls of Yazd, Shahi Sadoughi Journal of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Spring 13(1), 51-47 (2005) @No $ @ @ Wilkinson J. and Harger H.C., Is thiamin deficiency in elderly people related to age or Comobidity, Age–Aging, (29), 111–6 (2000) @No $ @ @ Ziaki S., Randomizad placebo controlled trial to determine the effect of vit E in treatment primary Dysmenorrhea, Br. J. os (108), 1181 – 3 (2001) @No $ @ @ Ismailpor Z. and Ebrahim-Zadeh R., Comparison of acupressure and ibuprofen on the severity of primary dysmenorrhea in girl's high school students in Tehran, Journal of traditional Chinese Medicire, 22(3), 205 – 10 (2002) @No $ @ @ Bastani Khalesi Z., Abedinzade M. and Safari A., Comparison of Acupressure effect on Sanyinjiao Point with that of vitamin E on primary dysmenorrheal, www.SID.ir (2009) @No $ @ @ Sohrabi Z., Tadayon M. and Javadifar N., Comparison of Acupressure effect on Sanyinjiao Point with that of Ibuprofen on primary dysmenorrheal, Journal of Ilam University of Medical Sciences, summer 14(20) (2006) @No $ @ @ Rakhshaei R., Comparing of the effect of relaxation and Ibuprofen on treatment of primary dysmenorrheal, Master of Thesis, Jondi Shapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahwaz (2004) @No $ @ @ @No @Short Communication <#LINE#>Quality Assessment of Guar Gum (Endosperm) of Guar (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba)<#LINE#>SabahelkheirMurwan@ K.,AbdelwahabH.@Abdalla,H.@NouriSulafa<#LINE#>67-70<#LINE#>10.ISCA-JBS-2012-001.pdf<#LINE#>Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Al Neelain University, SUDAN @ Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Khartoum, SUDAN <#LINE#>29/3/2012<#LINE#>5/4/2012<#LINE#>This experiment was conducted in lLab. of Department of Biochemistry and Food Science Faculty of Agriculture, University of Khartoum, Sudan. Six guar genotypes were used for this study The results revealed chemical compositions of endosperm of the guar seed are as : 4.8-8.7 % moisture, 3.5-5.5 % protein, 0.5-0.9 % fat, 0.5- 1.3 % ash, 1.4- 2.0 .% fiber and 83.3-87.5% carbohydrates. While physical characters are:1.2337 refractive indices, 0.20-0.47 relative viscosity (H2O as solvent),0.37-.56 relative viscosity (4% NaCl as solvent), 5.0-7.0 pH, 0.035-.0.050 optical density and +28 to +76 specific rotation ash compositions of endosperm are potassium: 57 79 mg/Kg, sodium 242 755 mg/Kg, calcium 11 24 mg/Kg, iron 49 287 mg/Kg, magnesium 0.2 0.09% and phosphorus 15 - 22 % . The total available carbohydrates as mannose and galactose were ranged 67-73% and 28-33%, respectively. Ratio of mannose to galactose is 2:1.<#LINE#> @ @ Murwan K.S. and Abdalla A.H., Yield and Yield Components of Forty Five Guar (Cyamopsis tetragonoba) Genotypes Grown in Sudan, Nile Basin Research Journal, 11(4), 48 -54 (2008) @No $ @ @ John H.M., William G.C. and Herman F.W., The Role of the Endosperm in the Germination of Legumes: Galactomannan, Nitrogen, Phosphorus Change in the Germination of Guar (Cyamopsis tetragonoba; Leguminosae), American Journal of Botany, 63(6), 790 – 797 (1976) @No $ @ @ Marten J.J. and Brunstedt J., In vivo - modification of the cell wall polysaccharide galactomannan of guar transformed with a glycosidase gene from Senna, Molecular Breeding 7, 211 – 219 (2001) @No $ @ @ Marina N., Jerez I.T., J.ihe S., Zhao P.X., Dixon RA and May GD, Analysis of cDNA libraries from developing seeds of guar (Cyamopsis tetragonoba (L.) Taub), BMC Plant Biology 7, 62 (2007) @No $ @ @ Edwards M.E., Scot C., Gidley M.J. and Reid J.S., Control of mannose/galactose during galactomannan formation in developing legume Seeds, Planta, 187, 67 -74 (1992) @No $ @ @ Noble O., Perez D., Rochas C. and Travel F., Optical rotation of branched polysaccharides, Polymer Bulletin, 16, 175 -180 (1989) @No $ @ @ Yoko K., Guar Gum, Chemical Technical Assessment (CTA), 1 – 4 Ph.D. Thesis, 69TH JECFA (2008) @No $ @ @ Association of Official and Analytical Chemists, (A.OAC), Official Methods of Analysis 15th ed., Washington, D.C. (1990) @No $ @ @ Patil M.M., Kalse S.B. and Jain S.K., OSMO-Convective drying of Onion Slices, Res. J. 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Agric, 7, 40 (1958) @No $ @ @ Price M.L. and Butler L.C., Tannin and Nutrition, Adriculture Experiment Station, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indian (1980) @No $ @ @ Gomez T.P. and Gomez A.A., Statistical Procedure for Agriculture Research, John Wiley and Sons Inc., New York, USA (1984) @No $ @ @ Thomas T.A., Dabas BS and Chopra D.D., Guar gum has many uses, Indian Farming, 32(4), 7 – 10 (1980) @No $ @ @ Stein and Hall Co., Jaguar guar gum Stein, Hall and Co, New York (1962) @No $ @ @ Whistler R.L., Guar gum, Locust bean, and others, In: Natural Plant Hydrocolloids, 45 – 50 (1954) @No $ @ @ Majed B.A., Rashed A.H., Mohamed E.A., Amro B.H. and Elfadil E.B., Proximate Composition, Ant-nutritional Factors and Protein Fractions of Guar Gum Seeds as influenced by Processing Treatment, Pakistan Journal of Nutrition, 5(5), 481 -484 (2006) @No $ @ @ @No <#LINE#>Status of Cat Fish Diversity of River Kelo and Mand in Raigarh District, CG, India<#LINE#>R.K.@Tamboli,Y.N.@Jha<#LINE#>71-73<#LINE#>11.ISCA-JBS-2012-002.pdf<#LINE#>Department of zoology, K. Govt. Arts and Science College, Raigarh, CG, INDIA @ Govt. Niranjan Kesherwani College, Kota, Bilaspur, CG, INDIA <#LINE#>30/3/2012<#LINE#>5/4/2012<#LINE#> Fishes are one of the most significant aquatic fauna which is directly or indirectly related with human health and wealth. Hence biodiversity and its conservation are regarded as one of the major issue of enabling sustainable use of natural resources. It is necessary and need of the day to protect icthyofaunal diversity in their natural habitat. Raigarh district is blessed with two main rivers Kelo and Mand and are the left tributaries of the Mahanadi river. Our freshwater fish diversity is poorly studied and some areas are still untouched and there is no proper documentation on freshwater fish resources of Raigarh district. Due to irrational fishing practices, industrial discharge, sewage discharge, deforestation, mining activities and other anthropogenic activities over the year this captive fish diversity is on a decline. The study area includes river Mand from Tarapur to Chandrapur and river Kelo from Lakha (dam constructing site) to Padigaon area, about twenty five kilometer down stream is supported with few number of economically important species of cat fishes. Higher cat fish diversity is observed after mansoon season. River Mand and Kelo of Raigarh district is rich in fish fauna but the status of cat fishes is the most average. We presently recorded 17 species of cat fishes from 12 genera and 6 families during the period of July 2010 to March 2011 when rivers has sufficient water. Diversity index was lowest in March and highest in October in the year. <#LINE#> @ @ Day F., Fishes of India, Willium Dawson’s, London U. K. reprint edition, Today and Tomorrow Book agency, Delhi, 1(2) (1878) @No $ @ @ Talwar P.K. and Jhingran K.C., Inland fishes of India and adjacent countries, 3 (1 and 2) Oxford and IBH Co. Pvt. 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Gour University, Sagar, MP, INDIA <#LINE#>2/4/2012<#LINE#>5/4/2012<#LINE#> The hydroalcoholic extracts of Withania sominifera (Ws) and Ocimum sanctum (Os) were assayed against adult earthworms (Pheretima posthuma) for the evaluation of anthelmintic activity. Various concentrations of both extracts were tested and results were expressed in terms of time for paralysis and time for death of worms. Piperazine citrate (10 mg/ml) was used as a reference standard. The result showed that in both of the extracts (i.e. Os and Ws) dose of 40 mg/ml possesses more wormicidal activity. The time of paralysis was 2.50.6 and 2.80.8 whereas the time of death was 6.50.7and 7.10.9 in the case of Os and Ws respectively. The comparative study showed that out of the two, Os proves to be a better anthelmintic remedy. <#LINE#> @ @ Dhar D.N., Sharma R.L. and Bansal G.C., Gastrointestinal nematodes in sheep in Kashmir, Vet. 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Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi (1976) @No $ @ @ Lewis W.H. and Elvin-Lewis M.P.H., Medicinal Botany Plants Affecting Man’s Health, John Wiley and Sons, New York (1977) @No $ @ @ Nadkarni A.K., Indian Materia Medica, 3rd Ed. Popular Prakashan, Bombay, India (1954) @No $ @ @ Chopra R.N., Chopra I.C., Handa K.L. and Kapur L.D., Chopra’s Indigenous Drugs of India, U.N. Dhur and Sons (P) Ltd., Calcutta, India, 303 (1958) @No $ @ @ Akhtar M.S., Iqbal Z., Khan M.N. and Lateef M., Anthelmintic activity of medicinal plants with particular reference to their use in animals in Indo–Pakistan subcontinent, Small Rumin. Res., 38, 99–107 (2000) @No $ @ @ Mishra L.C., Singh B.B., Dagenais S., Scientific Basis for the Therapeutic Use of Withania somnifera (Ashwagandha): A review. 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Research Chem., 2(2), 181-182 (2009) @No $ @ @ @No <#LINE#>Antibiotic sensitivity of common Bacterial Pathogens against selected Quinolones<#LINE#>DhanrajB.@Nakade<#LINE#>77-79<#LINE#>13.ISCA-JBS-2012-011.pdf<#LINE#> Department of Microbiology, Govt. of Maharashtra, Rajaram college, Kolhapur, MS, INDIA <#LINE#>9/4/2012<#LINE#>13/4/2012<#LINE#> Five different quinolones group of antibiotics viz ciprofloxacin, norfloxacin, sparfloxacin, ofloxacin, levofloxacin were tested against four different common bacterial pathogens, Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Eschericia coli, Klebsiella pneumonia isolated from clinical samples of patients from Kolhapur city of Maharashtra,India. Results indicated that all the four pathogens except E. coli and Pseudomonas found to be highly sensitive to ciprofloxacin, norfloxacin, sparfloxacin, ofloxacin, and levofloxacin. However, Escherichia coli found to be resistant to ofloxacin and moderately sensitive to Levofloxacin and Pseudomonas aeruginosa was found to be resistant to Sparfloxacin and moderately sensitive to norfloxacin and ofloxacin. <#LINE#> @ @ Ivanav D.V. and Budanov S.V., Ciprofloxacin and antibacterial therapy of respiratory tract infections, Antibiot.Khimioter, 51(5), 29-37, (2006) @No $ @ @ Dennesen P.J. and Bonten N.J., Multiresistant bacteria as hospital epidemic problem, Ann.med., 30, 179-185 (1998) @No $ @ @ Modi H.A., Textbook of elementary microbiology, Akta prakashan 1(1) (1995) @No $ @ @ Bearden D.T. and Danziger L.H., Mechanism of action and resistance to Quinolones, Pharmacotherapy, 21(10), 224-232 (2001) @No $ @ @ Fish D.N., Gatifloxacin, an advanced 8-methoxy fluoroquinolone, Pharmacotherapy, 21(1), 35-59 (2001) @No $ @ @ Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute performance standards (CSLI) for antimicrobial discs tests: approved guidelines, 31(1) (2011) @No $ @ @ Anantnarayan R. and Paniker, Textbook of microbiology, 8th edition, Orient longman, ltd., 186-307 (2009) @No $ @ @ Bauer A.W., Kirby W.M., Sherris J.C. and Truck M., Antibiotic susceptibility testing by a standardized single disc method, J. clin.path.,45,493-496,(1996) @No $ @ @ Muller H.J. and Hinton J., Proc.soc.Expt. 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College, Kota, Raj., INDIA <#LINE#>10/4/2012<#LINE#>20/4/2012<#LINE#> The field studies were carried out for identification of various insect pests of soybean at Lambapeepal village agriculture farm in Kota region. Study of insect pest complex was done from July 2010 to October 2010 by direct visual counting method. The investigations reveal that maximum population of green semilooper was observed on vegetative stage of Glycine max, while tobacco caterpillar was most frequent on flowering and pod stages. The order of frequency of pests at vegetative stage was green semilooper (1.2) � tobacco caterpillar (0.8) � grass hoppers (0.4) �, girdle beetle and Heliothis sp. (0.2 each) � white fly (0.1). The order of frequency of pests of flowering stage was, tobacco caterpillar (3.25) � green semilooper, Heliothis sp. and grass hopper (0.8 each) � girdle beetle (0.6) � white fly (0.4) � Bihar hairy caterpillar (0.3) � pollen feeder (0.2), while the frequency order at pod stages was tobacco caterpillar (2.75) � Heliothis sp. and grasshoppers (0.8 each) � girdle beetle and hairy caterpillar (0.5 each) � pollen feeder (0.4) � white fly (0.2). <#LINE#> @ @ Singh H.B., Soybean, Pulse Crops in India, (1970) @No $ @ @ Gangrade G.A., Assessment of effect on yield and quality of soybean caused by major arthropod pest, Terminals Technical Report on the project, J.N.K.V.V., Jabalpur, MP, 143 (1976) @No $ @ @ Kumawat, Present scenario of insect pests of soybean in mewar-vagar region of rajasthan and their management Ph. D thesis submitted to Rajasthan College of Agriculture, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur (2007) @No $ @ @ Bhattacharjee N.S., Control of soybean Agronomy, Entomologist’s news letter, 6(4/5), 36 (1976) @No $ @ @ Gangrade G.A. and Kapoor K.N., Outbreak and new records, Food and Agriculture organization Bulletin, F.A.O. 21(5), 115-118 (1973) @No $ @ @ Genung W.G. and Green V.E., Some stem boring insects associated with soybean in Florida, Fla. Entom., 48, 9-33 (1965) @No $ @ @ @No <#LINE#>Operation and Maintenance of Water Treatment Plant at BNP Campus Dewas, India: A Case Study<#LINE#>Mamta@Baroniya,SanjaySingh@Baroniya,Monica@Jain<#LINE#>83-86<#LINE#>15.ISCA-JBS-2012-027.pdf<#LINE#> School of studies in Botany, Vikram University Ujjain, MP, INDIA @ Shri Krishnaji Rao Pawar P. G. College Dewas, MP, INDIA @ Maharaja Ranjit Singh College of Professional Sciences, Indore MP, INDIA <#LINE#>26/4/2012<#LINE#>28/4/2012<#LINE#> The trend of urbanization in India is exerting stress on civic authorities to provide basic requirement such as safe drinking water, sanitation and infrastructure. The rapid growth of population has exerted the portable water demand, which requires exploration of raw water sources, developing treatment and distribution systems. There is a need to study the water treatment plants for their operational status and to explore the best feasible mechanism to ensure proper drinking water production with least possible rejects and its management. A case study has been conducted to evaluate the process of treatment and to find out the problems of drinking water treatment process in the unit situated at Bank Note Press Dewas MP, India. In general, conventional treatment is provided having a sequence of alum addition, coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, filtration and disinfection by chlorination. Water treatment plants are playing an important role in purifying and supplying the pure water to the people. The overall processing and management of water treatment plant located in BNP campus, Dewas, MP, India, fulfils the requirements of the people in the campus. The operation and maintenance needs to be updated for the current requirements of people and to match up with some other plants at national and international level. <#LINE#> @ @ www.iwtc.info/2003_pdf/07-5.pdf (2003) @No $ @ @ El Dib, M. A., Reports on water treatment plants performance evaluation, Academy of Science and Technology, Cairo, Egypt (2001) @No $ @ @ Goel P.K., Water Pollution: Causes Effects and Control, Published by New Age International, New Delhi (2006) @No $ @ @ Status of water treatment plants in India, CPCB report (2007) @No $ @ @ Lack T.J., Environmental Protection Standards Compliances and Costs, Published for the Water Research Centre, U.K., Water Research Centre/Ellis Harwood Limited (1984) @No $ @ @ Michael Price, Introducing Ground Water, (British Geological Survey), Published by George Allen and Unvin Publishers Ltd., 40, Museum Street, London, WCIA ILU, U.K. (2004) @No $ @ @ CPHEEO, Manual on Water Supply and Treatment, Third Edition published by Ministry of Urban Development, (1999) @No $ @ @ @No