For sustainable agriculture, conventional practices which involve heavy fertilizer input are undesirable owing to their long lasting impact on the soil quality. Alternatively to ensure increased productivity is, input of vermicompost along with bioinoculants as biofertilisers. In this endeavour, arbuscular mycorrhiza is well established as potential stimulator of plant secondary metabolism attracts considerable attentions and research efforts. Andrographis paniculata is an annual herb belonging to the family Acanthaceae that produces commercial metabolite andrographolide used in cancer...

The success of distance learning depends on the quality of the instructional material developed for that particular programme. For imparting science education equal weightage needs to be given for acquiring the practical skills. Hence a criteria should be developed to provide hands on experience to the individual distant learner for improving the laboratory skills. The present study is carried out with an aim to prepare self instructional material for selected topic of Biotechnology and introducing the concept of laboratory kit for effective learning of Biotechnology through distance...