Dr P C Sharma: 4 books

One lifetime. Two lives. Puzzling, isn’t it? For Vishal, this is reality. An energetic smart youngster with his life laid out before him, Vishal has dreams in his eyes. But a chance encounter after meeting a friend, while on the way back home, sets things running in a completely different stream....

This is the story of a perennial stream. The water (students) keeps on flowing by forward but, the stream - the institutional life - remains the same. Thus, this is the story of every student, of every youth aspiring for high goals of life. Most of the events are from my own life and those of my erstwhile class-fellows, albeit attributed in the story to its characters.

Reviews key developments in understanding crop physiology and genetic diversity and how they have informed advances in breeding new varieties Coverage of advances across the value chain for grain legume cultivation, from variety selection to post-harvest storage Discusses the latest trends in disease, insect pest and weed management

Discusses ways of ensuring genetic diversity, advances in wheat breeding and their use to improve properties such as drought resistance and cold tolerance; Summarises research on factors affecting nutritional and other aspects of wheat quality; Reviews advances in understanding wheat pests and diseases...