Chitosan augments bioactive properties and drought resilience in drought-induced red kidney beans.

Application of 0.25% chitosan during seed priming or its foliage spray on Phaseolus vulgaris L. grown under restricted irrigations was assessed for its role in the enhancement of bioactive properties like antioxidant potential of dry seed.

Metabolic footprints of chitosan primed red kidney bean under restricted irrigation.

Climate change has led to long term shift in temperature and weather regimes leading to unprecedented drought conditions. In this study varying degree of drought stress was imposed by restricting irrigation in red kidney bean along with application of chitosan as seed and foliar prime. LC-MS/MS was used to study the metabolic footprints (flavonoids and anthocyanin) in the red kidney bean varieties (BR 104 and VL Rajma 63).

Feasibility of using distributed Wireless Mesh Networks for medical emergency response.

Achieving reliable, efficient data communications networks at disaster site is a difficult task. Network paradigms such as Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) architectures are one paradigm for providing high bandwidth scalable data communication. WMNs are formed by self-organized wireless nodes that use multi-hop wireless relaying for data communications.