The present investigation entitled "QTL analysis for blast resistance in rice ( Oryza sativa L.)" was carried out with the objective to identify marker(s) linked to blast resistance in rice. Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is one of the staple foods in the world, belonging to the family Poaceae. One of the !imitating factors in the production of rice is the attack of ...

Common bread wheat (2n=AABBDD) ranks among the primary cereal crop throughout the world and is an allohexaploid evolved from two spontaneous hybridization events followed by spontaneous chromosome doubling. The D-genome of this polyploidy is the least diverse among the three constituting wheat genomes and is unarguably less diverse than that of diploid progenito...

The present investigation entitled “Quantitative trait loci mapping for agronomic traits in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)” was carried out with the object to identify the QTLs linked to growth, yield and yield components in chickpea germplasm. Chickpea is a self pollinated diploid grain legume. It is second most important pulse crop worldwide in terms of area u...

The present investigation on “REGENERATION STUDY IN BRINJAL (Solanum melongena L.)” was undertaken to identify suitable explants and media for micropropagation. The seeds of Solanum melongena were collected from Vegetable project, Department of Horticulture, MPKV, Rahuri, Dist. Ahmednagar. Various experiments were conducted to study different aspects of m...

Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), a cool season annual self-pollinated diploid (2n=2x=16) legume crop with genome size of ∼740 Mbp, is believed to be originated in South-East Turkey and contributes maximum production among the pulses under Mediterranean type environment. Although, chickpea is known for its better drought tolerance than other legumes, terminal drought ...

Picrorhiza kurroa Royle ex Benth is one among human and animal health associated valuable herbs. Several iridoid glycosides, as well as their derivatives with diverse pharmacophore, have been documented in this plant which have been undertaken for detail studies for their potential in a variety of modern and traditional healthcare systems toward managing a variety ...

Anther culture based double haploid (DH) production is a technology which, can significantly reduce the time period require for development of new crop variety. In the present investigation, on attempt is made to develop DHs using anther culture in rice (Oryza sativa L.). two crosses Swarna sub 1 x IR 90019-17-159-B and MTU1010 x Dagaddeshi were subject for the st...

The oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel) is serious pest infesting important fruits and vegetables throughout the world. In Punjab, it infests damage of 70-80 per cent each in peach and Kinnow, 60-80 per cent in pear, 50 per cent in jamun, 30-40 per cent each in loquat, fig, plum and mango, and 100 per cent in guava fruits during rainy season and thus, ...

Okra is an important vegetable crop of Malvaceae family and grown widely in tropical and subtropical areas of the world. Yellow vein, leaf curl and mosaic diseases caused by begomoviruses have emerged as most devastating viral diseases of okra. In the present investigation, RNA interference (RNAi) strategy was employed to control okra-infecting begomoviruses. F...