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Subject: Horticulture × End date: 2016 × Start date: 2010 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Introduction and screening of carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus L.) varieties under field and polyhouse conditions
    (CCSHAU, 2010) Santosh Kumar; Sultan Singh
    The performance of carnation varieties under field and polyhouse conditions was carried out in the experimental orchard of the Department of Horticulture, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana during 2008-09. Fifteen carnation varieties viz., Baltico, Charment, Dark Rendeous, Dover, Farida, Firato, Kazhuca, Madras, Malga, Master, Pink Diamante, Tabor, Tasman, Tiker and Varna were selected for evaluation. The cuttings with well developed roots were planted at 25 cm x25 cm spacing in the month of December, 2008 and the observations on vegetative and floral characters were recorded. There were significant variation in plant growth and flower quality parameters of different varieties of carnation. In field conditions, maximum plant height (57.27 cm), number of leaves (174.53), and number of flower per plant were recorded in variety Varna whereas, in polyhouse conditions, maximum plant height (86.27 cm), number of leaves (196.93) and number of flower per plant was recorded in variety Charment. Dark Rendeous, Baltico, Madras, Firato and Tasman were found to take minimum number of days for bud initiation under field and polyhouse conditions. In field conditions, the longest primary flower stalk length was observed in variety Varna (54.27cm) followed by Malga (50.00cm) and secondary flower stalk length in variety Tabor (25.00cm) which was significantly higher over other varieties. Variety Varna produced primary flower of maximum diameter (6.10cm) followed by varieties Baltico (6.07cm) and Malga (6.03cm). The diameter of secondary flower was maximum in Baltico (6.02cm). In polyhouse conditions, the significantly longest primary flower stalk length was observed in variety Charment (82.13cm) followed by Malga (77.67cm), Dover (75.67cm) and Varna (75.33cm) and secondary stalk length in Dark Rendeous (29.00 cm). The maximum diameter of primary flower was recorded in Charment (6.78 cm) followed by Malga (6.73cm) whereas, the secondary flower diameter was maximum in Malga (6.34cm) which were significantly superior over other varieties. Maximum calyx splitting was recorded in variety Baltico under field conditions while under polyhouse conditions, maximum calyx splitting was also recorded in variety Baltico.
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    Studies on cultivation of gladiolus in open and protected conditions
    (CCSHAU, 2010) Saaie, Mohd. Saalim; Ahlawat, V.P.
    A field experiment entitled ` Studies on cultivation of gladiolus in open and protected conditions” was carried out during the year 2009-10 in the Department of Horticulture, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar with a view to standardize the time of planting of gladiolus under open, low-cost polyhouse and Hi-tech greenhouse. Studies on the effect of different growing conditions and sowing dates on growth and yield attributes of gladiolus revealed that the planting during August to November recorded with minimum number of days and significantly highest percentage of sprouting ,leaf area and number of leaves per plant , plant height, number of days taken to emergence, number of days taken opening of basal and last floret , number of florets/spike, diameter florets, number of cormels per plant ,weight of corms and cormels and size of corms during studies in comparison to six planting dates in all growing conditions. Among the various growing conditions (open field, low-cost polyhouse and Hi-tech greenhouse) tested, the open field exhibited significantly highest performances till November planting , low-cost polyhouse was low in all objectives particularly in floral parts and greenhouse gave best result during November planting.
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    Tissue culture studies in gladiolus (Gladiolus x grandiflorus L.) varieties
    (CCSHAU, 2010) Datta, Koushik; Rana, G.S.
    The present investigation was carried out to optimized regeneration protocol in gladiolus varieties. Corm apical bud, corm axillary bud and cormel tip explants were used for shoot regeneration on different media supplemented with different plant growth regulators. Response for shoot regeneration was observed within four weeks on all the media tested for different explants. Cormel tips and corm apical bud explants gave best shoot regeneration (55.6 and 54.4 per cent respectively) on MS medium supplemented with BAP (4.0 mg/l) and kinetin (4.0 mg/l) and the maximum number of shoot was observed on the same media. The earliest shoot regeneration response was observed on 4th day on MS media supplemented with BAP (4.0 mg/l) and kinetin (3.0 mg/l). The longest shoot was recorded from MS medium supplemented with BAP (2.5 mg/l) and kinetin (2.5, 3.5 mg/l). Maximum (54.8 per cent) rooting of shoots, longest root and earliest (on 7th day) root formation was observed on ½ MS medium supplemented with 4.0 mg/l NAA. Healthy and strong rooting was observed on all the media tested within 15 days of culturing. Survival rate of regenerated plantlets was observed to be more than 80 per cent on transplantation to pots. The best performance of cv. Amsterdam was observed in respect to shoot and root length. Fidelio perform better with respect to minimum time taken for shoot regeneration and root formation. However, the cv. Friendship performed best in respect to per cent shoot regeneration and root formation. The survival per cent is best in cv. Fidelio both after 15 and 30 days of transfer to the potting mixture.
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    Performance of vegetative propagation methods in guava under open and protected conditions
    (CCSHAU, 2010) Shalu Rani; Sindhu, S S.
    The present investigation was carried out at the experimental orchard of the Department of Horticulture CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar. In the experiments, performance of different method viz. (patch budding, wedge grafting and inarching) and different time viz. first fortnight of June , July, August and September on (propagation) in guava and to see the comparison of patch budding and wedge grafting under open and protected condition in guava cv. Hisar Safeda were studied. During the investigation maximum survival percentage (90.00%) was found when inarching was performed during the first fortnight of July and minimum in wedge grafting (10.00%) was recorded when the wedge grafting done during the first fortnight of June and July. Minimum number of days(20.06) taken for bud sprouting when the wedge grafting was performed during the first fortnight of September whereas, maximum number of days(69.90) for bud sprouting was taken when inarching was done in the first fortnight of September. In second experiment, Wedge grafting took minimum days (12.33) in protected condition and maximum time took by patch budding (44.86) in open condition in the second fortnight of February. Wedge grafting gave maximum length of sprout ( 13.93 cm) in protected condition in second fortnight of February and after that it continue to decrease and minimum length of sprout was found in open condition in first fortnight of April (6.90 cm). The maximum diameter (9.03mm) was found in wedge grafting when it done in second fortnight of February in protected shaded condition and minimum diameter (5.06 mm) in open condition was performed in first fortnight of April. Maximum increase percent in girth of rootstock (91.87%) was found in patch budding in first fortnight of March and minimum (82.27%) was found in wedge grafting in first fortnight of March in open condition. The maximum survival percentage was recorded in open condition (46.66 %) followed by protected shaded condition (43.33 %) in the second fortnight of February. The height of sprouted shoot in wedge grafting was recorded maximum in protected condition (45.80cm) in second fortnight of February and minimum in open condition (37.23cm) in first fortnight of April and plant spread was maximum (16.67cm) in protected condition at the first fortnight of April whereas; minimum plant spread was found in second fortnight of February (13.33cm) in open condition.
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    Tissue culture studies in gladiolus (Gladiolus x grandiflorus L.) varieties
    (CCSHAU, 2010) Datta, Koushik; Rana, G. S.
    The present investigation was carried out to optimized regeneration protocol in gladiolus varieties. Corm apical bud, corm axillary bud and cormel tip explants were used for shoot regeneration on different media supplemented with different plant growth regulators. Response for shoot regeneration was observed within four weeks on all the media tested for different explants. Cormel tips and corm apical bud explants gave best shoot regeneration (55.6 and 54.4 per cent respectively) on MS medium supplemented with BAP (4.0 mg/l) and kinetin (4.0 mg/l) and the maximum number of shoot was observed on the same media. The earliest shoot regeneration response was observed on 4th day on MS media supplemented with BAP (4.0 mg/l) and kinetin (3.0 mg/l). The longest shoot was recorded from MS medium supplemented with BAP (2.5 mg/l) and kinetin (2.5, 3.5 mg/l). Maximum (54.8 per cent) rooting of shoots, longest root and earliest (on 7th day) root formation was observed on ½ MS medium supplemented with 4.0 mg/l NAA. Healthy and strong rooting was observed on all the media tested within 15 days of culturing. Survival rate of regenerated plantlets was observed to be more than 80 per cent on transplantation to pots. The best performance of cv. Amsterdam was observed in respect to shoot and root length. Fidelio perform better with respect to minimum time taken for shoot regeneration and root formation. However, the cv. Friendship performed best in respect to per cent shoot regeneration and root formation. The survival per cent is best in cv. Fidelio both after 15 and 30 days of transfer to the potting mixture.
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    Studies on kinnow decline in relation to soil-plant nutritional status
    (CCSHAU, 2010) Praveen Kumar; Sharma, Suneel
    The present investigation entitled “Studies on Kinnow decline in relation to soil-plant nutritional status”, was carried out on the fourteen year old Kinnow mandarin trees budded on rough lemon planted at a spacing of 6 x 6m in a sandy loam soil at the Department of Horticulture, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar during the year 2009-10. There were no differences between the soil pH, electrical conductivity and calcium carbonate of healthy and declining trees. The soil under the healthy trees had significantly higher organic carbon (0.46%) than that under declining trees (0.35%). The nutrients viz., N, P, Zn, Cu, Mn and Fe in the soil under healthy and declining trees did not differ significantly except K. Leaf N, Zn, Cu, Mn and Fe were significantly more in the healthy trees. The deficiency of N, P, Zn and Mn in the leaves of both categories of trees could be attributed to low contents of these nutrients in the soil under healthy and declining trees. Growth, yield and fruit quality were better in healthy trees as compared to declining trees. The yield on kg per tree basis in declining trees reduced (8.43 kg/tree) as compared to that in healthy trees (20.74 kg/tree). Low organic carbon, soil N, Zn and Mn content could be associated with the declining problem of Kinnow.
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    In vitro multiplication of strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa duch.), cultivars chandler and ofra
    (CCSHAU, 2010) Rai, Krishna Madhav; Goyal, R.K.
    Shoot tip of strawberry gave rise to multiple shoots when cultured on MS medium supplemented with different concentration of kinetin and BAP with IAA and TDZ. The highest response of shoot multiplication was obtained in MS media containing 2.0 mg/l kinetin + 0.5 mg/l IAA and 1.5mg/l TDZ for Ofra and Chandler cultivar respectively. The regenerated shoots were rooted on MS basal medium with IBA, NAA and control (without growth regulator). The highest root length and number of roots was produced on MS medium containing 1.0 mg/l IBA. The plantlets, thus developed were hardened and successfully established in soil medium. The plants raised through tissue culture exhibited normal growth and fruit setting.
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    Studies on the effect of pulsing and packaging on the vase life of chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum morifolium ramat)
    (CCSHAU, 2010) Suresh Kumar; Beniwal, B.S.
    Studies on the effect of pulsing solution and packaging on the vase life of chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum morifolium Ramat.) was carried out in the department of Horticulture, CCS HAU, Hisar, Haryana during 2008-09. Vase life was maximum in all cut flower in a pulsing solution with 2% sugar + 200 ppm 8-Hydroxyquinoline citrate. Because it maintained maximum flower diameter and fresh weight and water uptake. pH of control solution was maximum as compared to other pulsing solution (except 2% sugar + 200 ppm 8-Hydroxyquinoline citrate). The proximal end browning was minimum with 2% sugar + 200 ppm 8-Hydroxyquinoline citrate. The total, reducing and non reducing sugars was maximum in flower kept in 2% sugar + 200 ppm 8-Hydroxyquinoline citrate. The flower stored diameter was maximum when flowers packed in polyethylene stored in cold storage at 10ºC. The flower fresh weight was maximum when flower packed in polyethylene stored in cold storage (at 10ºC). The physiological loss in weight was minimum when flower packed in polyethylene and stored in cold storage at 10ºC. The abscised petals and proximal end browning was minimum when flower packed in polyethylene and stored in cold storage at 10ºC. The total, reducing and non reducing sugars were maximum when flowers packed in polyethylene and stored in cold storage at 10ºC.
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    Adoption level of package of practices in kinnow orchards of Haryana
    (CCSHAU, 2011) Gora, Jagan Singh; Sultan Singh
    The present investigation entitled Adoption level of package of practices of kinnow orchards of Haryana , was carried out in the blocks of Hisar, Sirsa and Fatehabad districts during the year 2010- 11. A total number of 20 farmers were selected for purpose of investigation. An interview schedule was developed on the basis of recommended package of practices for kinnow production. The adoption score of the farmers ranged from 11 to 32 out of maximum score of 40. The mean adoption score was moderate (21.65). The adoption level of time of planting, planting distance, land preparation and training and pruning practices was comparatively high. Important practices like drip irrigation (40%), plant protection measures (45%), weed control (45%) and intercropping (45%) had very low adoption level. The maximum adoption gap was observed in planting of wind break , post harvest treatment and fruit packaging. The fruit yield and quality were maximum with higher adoption levels . The nutrient status in soil had positive but non significant effect with adoption of package of practices whereas in plant, the nutrient status was significant with adoption level. With higher adoption level of package of practices, the farmers were able to get maximum gross income, benefit and benefit cost ratio. The most serious constraint hampering the kinnow production was citrus decline.