Isolated fungal soft-tissue infections are uncommon but may cause severe morbidity or mortality, especially among immunosuppressed patients. In this study, a total of 56 soft-tissue specimens from patients with clinical suspicion of fungal infection collected at a tertiary care centre in Chennai during the period December 2005 to May 2007 were evaluated. Among the culture positives, majority were from diabetic patients. Among the 34 culture positives, the isolates consisted of Candida 12, Fusarium 4, Rhizopus 1 and Aspergillus 3 one each of Absidia corymbifera and Apophysomyces elegans. Treatment of fungal soft-tissue infection requires a team approach of surgeons, pathologists and microbiologists.

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In a field experiment conducted during 2002 to 2004 in silty clay loam soil at Pantnagar, India, treatment of trash burning þ Sesbania aculeata green manure (GM) incorporation gave the highest increases of 50.6 and 17.7% in ratoon cane yield and 15.0 and 19.4% in wheat grain yield over trash removal and trash burning treatments, respectively. Soil organic C and available N after ratoon and wheat crops were highest with trash removal þ GM incorporation and available P and K with trash removal þ GM mulch. The different treatments of trash and GM management were also superior to trash removal and trash burning in organic C and available N and P in soil at termination of the study. Soil microbial biomass C and dehydrogenase activity at the end were at a maximum with trash burning þ GM mulch and trash removal þ GM mulch treatments, respectively. Compared to trash removal and trash burning, counts of bacteria in soil after ratoon and wheat crops were significantly more only with different GM treatments; however, all GM and trash application treatments recorded significantly higher counts of fungi and actinomycetes. Irrespective of the treatments, population of total bacteria in soil decreased, while that of fungi and actinomycetes increased as compared to their initial counts following sugarcane-ratoon-wheat sequence.

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Considering the effect of green revolution technologies in rice wheat system and prospects of maize cultivation, studies on INM in maize (Zea mays. L) in upper gangetic plains region were conducted on sandy loam soil, low in organic carbon and available N, medium available P and K with 9.1 kg S ha -1 , 0.82 g Zn ha -1 , 0.6 g B ha -1 and slightly alkaline in reaction during kharif 2015 at SVPUAT, Meerut to observe the effect of nutrient management practices on (Plant height, Number of functional leaves per plant, plant population at maturity,initial plant population), yield attributes (Cob length, Number of grain rows per cob, Number of grains per row, Number of grains per cob, Grain weight per cob, Test weight etc.) Crop fertilized with 75% NPK + FYM @ 7.5 t + Zn + B + S registered best growth and consequently highest (48.8 q ha -1 ) grain yield and attributes. Favorable effect of Zn by Lui et al. (1993), B by Hosseini et al. (2007 and S by Channabasamma et al. (2013) [2] on growth and yield of maize have also been obtained.