An investigation on air layering in guava as influenced by growth regulators and Azospirillum was carried out in the mother plants block of guava at the Silver Jubilee Orchard (SJO), Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad during 2010-11. The study aimed to find out suitable root inducing treatment and it...

The present investigation entitled “Assessment of parthenocarpic cultivars of cucumber for horticultural traits under NVPH” was carried out at Regional Horticultural Research Station (RHRS), Aspee College of Horticulture and Forestry (ACHF), Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari, Gujarat during kharif, 2014 and 2015. The experiment comprising sixteen different p...

Maize is one of the world‟s most important cereal and occupies third rank after rice and wheat. Carbohydrates such as sugars (sucrose, glucose, maltose and sorbitol) and starch are the major nutritional component of the major kernel. Sweet corn varieties accumulate high sugars content due to presence of mutants like sh, su etc. Although the biochemical effect of th...

CRISPR-Cas9 system is one of the most used genome editing techniques in the recent time. In spite of its high potentiality to modify the specific target genes and region of the genome which are complementary of the designed guide RNA (or sgRNA), still it suffers from the off-target effect. Here, in this study, an attempt has been made to develop models based on...

The present investigation was undertaken in sponge gourd in order to estimate heterosis, combining ability and nature of gene action involved in the inheritance of fruit yield and its component characters, viz., days to open first female flower, node to first female flower, node to first male flower, days to first picking, length of vine (m), number of primary bran...