Rice is the main coping strategy for rural livelihood in Sri Lanka. However, rice cultivation is confronted by diverse biotic and abiotic stress conditions limiting its production and productivity. Moreover, continuation ...

Sri Lanka exported tea to more than 40 countries in 2012 that are categorized into five major destination regions. Tea exports are also identified in three different forms. The industry and national policy indulges in a ...

Endophytic fungi isolated from Cyperaceae family plants are known to assist the host against biotic stresses including microbial attacks. Accordingly, endophytic fungi of Cyperus species are a judicious target for ...

Student assignments are a major part of the teaching and learning process in most universities and higher educational institutes. Similar to the other universities, many assignments are carried out by students attached ...

The giant planet Jupiter is the telescope-user’s delight with interesting cloud belts, cyclones, anti-cyclones and other fascinating features. This paper describes an inexpensive and accurate automatic technique developed ...

Detailed overstorey and understorey floristic structure and floristic composition of an upper montane rain forest, Thotupolakanda was investigated during this study. Due to floristic heterogeneity, vegetation was studied ...

The world market for cinnamon comprises true cinnamon and cassia. Produce originating from Cinnamomum verum / Cinnamomum zeylanicum is considered as true cinnamon while cassia is a collective name for Cinnamomum cassia, ...

Rice is a staple food for people of many Asian countries. The rice genome is already mapped and characterized, and it is the smallest of the major cereal crop genomes. DNA extraction is a very important step nowadays in ...

Pogostemon heyneanus Benth.(Lamiaceae) is an industrially important, medicinal plant cultivated for essential oils used in modern perfumery and cosmetic industries. Therefore, the present study was undertaken to determine ...