SUGAR BEET CROPS:GROWTH, FERTILIZATION & YIELD -- SUGAR BEET CROPS:GROWTH, FERTILIZATION & YIELD -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- OLIGOSACCHARIDES ACT AS ELICITORS TOPROTECT PLANT AGAINST CROP DISEASE BASED ONKNOWLEDGE OF PLANT DEFENSE RESPONSEMECHANISM -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. MECHANISM OF PLANT DEFENSE RESPONSES -- 2.1. Plant Defense Response to Microbial Infection -- 2.2. Perception of Plant Cell on Microbial Invaders -- 2.3. Receptors in Plant Cell for Oligosaccharide Elicitors -- 2.4. Signal Transduction in Plant Defense Response Systems -- 2.5. Resistance Genes and Its Products for Plant Defense Response -- 2.6. Reactive Oxygen Species -- 3. OLIGOSACCHARIDES ACT AS ELICITORS TO PROTECTAGAINST SUGAR CROP DISEASE -- 3.1. Elicitor Activity of Oligosaccharides against Invading Pathogens -- 3.2. Structure and Elicitor-Activity of Oligosaccharides -- 3.3. Well-known Oligosaccharides -- 4. PREPARATION OF ELICITOR-ACTIVE OLIGOSACCHARIDES -- 5. APPLICATION OF PLANT DEFENSE RESISTANCE IN PROTECTIONAGAINST SUGAR CROP DISEASE -- 6. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- PRODUCTION OF DIETARY FIBER FROM SUGAR BEETCROPS FOR APPLICATION IN FOOD INDUSTRY -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. MATERIALS AND METHODS -- 2.1. Materials -- 2.2. Physico-Chemical Characteristics of Sugar Beet Fibers -- 2.3. Antioxidant Properties of Sugar Beet Fibers -- 2.4. Baking Procedure of the Bread -- 2.5. Baking Procedure of the Biscuits -- 2.6. Statistical Analysis -- 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- 3.1. Influence of pH on Fiber Characteristics During the Treatment withPeroxide Ions -- 3.2. Influence of pH on Fiber Characteristics during the Treatment withSulfite Ions -- 3.3. Influence of Temperature on Fiber Characteristics During theTreatment with Peroxide and Sulfite Ions -- 3.4. Physico-Chemical Characteristics of Nontreated and Treated Sugar BeetFibers.

3.5. Antioxidant Properties of Nontreated and Treated Sugar Beet Fibers -- 3.6. Aplication of Sugar Beet Fibers in Bakery Production -- 3.7. Application of Nontreated and Treated Sugar Beet Fiber inConfectionary Products -- 4. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- ORGANIC NUTRITION FOR SUSTAINING SOILHEALTH, IMPROVING RHIZOSPHERICENVIRONMENT AND SUGARCANE YIELD IN INDIA -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. INTEGRATION OF ORGANICS WITH FERTILIZERS -- 3. NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT THROUGH LEGUMESINCLUDING GREEN MANURING -- (i) Green Manure -- (ii) Rotation Crop -- (iii) Legume Intercropping -- (iv) Green Leaf Manuring -- 4. CROP RESIDUE RECYCLING WITH AN ACCENT ON INPUTECONOMY -- 4.1. Constraints in Crop Residue Recycling -- 4.2. Biodegradation Process -- 4.3. Factors Controlling Biodegradation -- 4.4. Groups of Organism Involved in Biodegradation of Crop Debris -- 4.5. Crop Residue Recycling in Sugarcane based Cropping Systems -- 4.6. Recyclable waste from Crop and Soil C Reserve -- 5. BIO-MANURING INTEGRATING BIO-FERTILIZERSWITH ORGANICS -- 6. UTILIZING SUGARCANE AND SUGAR FACTORY BYPRODUCTS/WASTES TO SUPPLY PLANT NUTRIENTS -- 6.1. Sugarcane residues -- 7. CONCLUSION -- 8. FUTURE RESEARCH NEEDS -- REFERENCES -- REMOVAL OF COLORED COMPOUNDS IN SUGARBEET JUICES BY ION EXCHANGE RESINS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. DECOLORIZATION PROCESSES IN SUGAR BEET FACTORIES:A REVIEW -- 2.1. Colored Substances in Sugar Beet Juices -- 2.2. Decolorization Processes -- 3. EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF DECOLORIZATION OF SUGAR BEETJUICES BY ION EXCHANGE PROCESS -- 3.1. Experimental Procedure -- 3.2. Experimental Results -- 4. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- SUGARCANE CROPS: PLANT GROWTH PROMOTINGBACTERIA IN GROWTH, YIELD AND PRODUCTIVITY -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. SUGARCANE PRODUCTION IN THE WORLD -- 3. MAJOR PGPR FOR SUGARCANE -- Azotobacter and Azospirillum.

Pseudomonas spp. -- Bacillus and Other Bacteria -- Gluconacetobacter -- 4. MECHANISMS OF PLANT GROWTH PROMOTION -- Direct Mechanisms -- Indirect Mechanism -- 5. CONCLUSION AND FUTURE STRATEGIES -- REFERENCES -- AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK APPROACH TOPREDICTION OF SUGAR BEET YIELD AND QUALITYIN SERBIA -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- 2. SERBIAN SUGAR INDUSTRY -- 3. FUNDAMENTALS OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS -- 4. CROP YIELD AND GROWTH MODELS -- 5.MATERIALS AND METHODS -- 6. RESULTS AND DISSCUSION -- 7. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CALLUS FORMING AND REGENERATIVEABILITIES OF SUGAR BEET PSEUDOMONASRESISTANTCELLULAR LINES -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. METHODS AND MATERIALS -- 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- FEATURES MICROCLONAL REPRODUCTION OFO-TYPES OF SUGAR BEET (BETA VULGARIS L.) -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. TECHNIQUE -- 3. RESULTS OF RESEARCHES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.