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Title: It should be short, specific and informative
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Introduction: A brief introductory paragraph without heading and explaining the objective of the paper with pertinent review of research work should be provided.
Materials and methods: It should provide adequate information on the materials used, techniques followed, year and location of experiment and design and statistical methods employed for the collection and analysis of data.
Results and discussion: It should be combined to avoid repetitions. The significance of the results in relation to other relevant published works should be highlighted in the discussion. Same data should not be presented in table and figure simultaneously. The article should end with definite conclusion drawn from the results obtained.
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Acknowledgement: If any, should be brief.
References: An article should not be referred as “in press’’ unless it has been accepted for publication. The reference should be cited in alphabetical order. The following examples may be followed.
- Journal : Ziv, M., Helevy, A.H. and Shilo, R. 1970. Organ and plantlet regeneration of gladiolus through tissue culture. Ann. Bot., 34 : 671-76
- Book : Jeswani, L.M. and Baldev, B. 1997. Advances in pulse Production Technology. ICAR. New Delhi, pp. 190-95.
- Chapter in a book : Kozai, T. 1991. Micropropagation under photo autotropic conditions. In. Micropropagation : Technology andApplication (Eds.) Kluwer Academic Pub., Dordrecht, pp. 447-69
- Thesis : Jeyalakshi, C. 1998. Studies on fruit rot of (Capsicum annuum). M.Sc (Ag) Thesis, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbator, pp. 120-25.
- Proceedings : Von Uexkul, H.R. 1985. Potassium nutrition of some tropical plantation crops. Proc. Intl. Symp. on Potassium in April.7-10 July, 1985, Atlanta. pp. 929-24.