Woodwork and Artistic Tradition

This article emphasizes the concern about the endangered trend of rural arts in today's commercialised world. Modern products also face an endangered trend, like some rural crafts. Our comfort is that the international powers have not yet seized the patent for rural products such as soil products. It is conceivable that artifacts are the mirror of culture and how people's feelings, values, ideologies, aesthetics, etc. are expressed in the objects of artisans who have converted through artifacts. The persistence of traditional rural handicrafts and the social identity issues of the artisan castes who make them must be known in conjunction with the context of today's social change. Have Tamils lived with ecological thinking and classification of the materials into the art tradition, the purpose of this article is to examine

Psychology in kilaviyal – Kalithogai

Kilavi - individual word is combined to form a language. Communication took place even when language did not originate and develop. In the early days, he changed the information by making sounds, smoking and gestures. Language is still a tool to convey its opinion to others. The concept of a man's characteristic interests revolves among the community through the words he can speak.  Man is distinguished from other species by his ability to speak and discern. The thoughts in the heart take the form of sound and become the language. This language has many internal material concepts

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Not AvailableTomato production is limited by many biotic stresses of which root knot nematode (RKN, Meloidogyne incognita) is a major pest. The present study aimed to identify resistance sources in controlled conditions and compare molecular markers for efficient and rapid screening of M. incognita resistance. Among the ten genotypes evaluated, HAT-310 and HAT-311 were found immune to M. incognita infestation. Further, six crosses with these two resistant sources, (HAT-311 x Swarna Lalima, HAT-296 x HAT-311, EC-596747 x HAT-311, Swarna Lalima x HAT-310, EC-596743 x HAT-310 and Swarna Lalima x HAT-311), exhibited immune responses against M. incognita. Four molecular markers viz. JB-1, REX-1, PMi12 and Mi23 were employed in eighteen germplasm to characterise resistance and susceptibility of the genotypes against infestation by M. incognita. JB-1 yielded 420 bp in all the genotypes after digestion and hence could not be used to differentiate between nematode resistance and susceptibility. Marker PMi12 yielded additional DNA fragments in addition to the expected bands and did not give consistent results. REX-1 and Mi23 markers successfully differentiated between nematode resistant and susceptible genotypes. Moreover, Mi23 separated the homozygous and heterozygous resistance sources since the restriction enzyme analysis was not needed. The resistant genotypes identified from the present study may be used further in nematode resistance breeding programmes of tomato and the Mi23 marker can be used for rapid screening of the germplasm.Not Availabl