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ABSTRACTS PUBLISHED

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and Abstract Book, National Seminar on Botanical Researches: Present

Scenario and Future Prospects, Government College of Science,

Raipur, January 29-30, 2008.

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jamun (Syzygium cuminii (L.) Skeels) seeds: AOS metabolism. In:

Programme and Abstract Book, International Congress on Plant

Science in Post Genomic Era, Sambalpur University, Orissa, February

17-19, 2011.

3. Jyoti Bakshi and SC Naithani - The Oxidative stress - A rising problem

in recalcitrant seeds. In: Programme and Abstract Book, National

Conferences on Advances in Biological Sciences School of Life

Sciences, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, November 5-7,

2011.