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Anand Agricultural University, Anand

Anand Agricultural University (AAU) was established in 2004 at Anand with the support of the Government of Gujarat, Act No.(Guj 5 of 2004) dated April 29, 2004. Caved out of the erstwhile Gujarat Agricultural University (GAU), the dream institution of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Dr. K. M. Munshi, the AAU was set up to provide support to the farming community in three facets namely education, research and extension activities in Agriculture, Horticulture Engineering, product Processing and Home Science. At present there seven Colleges, seventeen Research Centers and six Extension Education Institute working in nine districts of Gujarat namely Ahmedabad, Anand, Dahod, Kheda, Panchmahal, Vadodara, Mahisagar, Botad and Chhotaudepur AAU's activities have expanded to span newer commodity sectors such as soil health card, bio-diesel, medicinal plants apart from the mandatory ones like rice, maize, tobacco, vegetable crops, fruit crops, forage crops, animal breeding, nutrition and dairy products etc. the core of AAU's operating philosophy however, continues to create the partnership between the rural people and committed academic as the basic for sustainable rural development. In pursuing its various programmes AAU's overall mission is to promote sustainable growth and economic independence in rural society. AAU aims to do this through education, research and extension education. Thus, AAU works towards the empowerment of the farmers.

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    IRON KINETICS AND ITS UPTAKE EFFICIENCY OF PIGEONPEA CULTIVARS GROWN ON Fe-DEFICIENT SOIL
    (Anand Agricultural University, Anand, 2011) AMIN VIRENKUMAR RAJESHKUMAR; Dr. V. P. Ramani
    Adequate supply of nutrients to plant roots is not merely a function of total amount of a particular nutrient in the soil, but it depends on the rate of replenishment of nutrient from the soil solution also. Eventhough the nutrients are dissolved in soil solution, the nutrients like Fe is not very mobile because of its entrapment in the water filled fraction of the tortuous pore system of the soil. In order to study the kinetics and uptake efficiency of Fe, many mathematical models are being used to have a better understanding of fundamental principles involved in the process of nutrient uptake by plant roots growing in soil. These models are based on ion transport from soil to roots by means of mass flow or diffusion as well as on nutrient uptake kinetics, mostly following Michaelis-Menten kinetics. Mechanistic models are useful tools for evaluating the significance of