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Evaluation of the repellent properties of indigenous essential oils against the rodent species
(CCSHAU, Hisar, 2021-07-25) Varsha; Ravikant
Rodents are one of the most persistent and ubiquitous vertebrate pests that affect the human population. It is an indoor pest, and various rodenticides are used for its management. Studies of the repellent effect of botanically extracted essential oils of plants citronella & cinnamon were conducted on Mus musculus in the Department of Zoology & Aquaculture. Among different concentrations (5, 10, 20%), the 20% concentration carries the maximum repellent effect on house mice (Mus musculus). There were different modes of application of essential oils. Still, among the four observed during the study (direct application on coarse wheat grains, application on gunny bags containing coarse wheat grains, mixing of essential oil with wax and coating it on gunny bags filled with wheat grains, wax blocks made using the essential oil, paraffin wax and coarse wheat grains); direct application of essential oil on coarse wheat grains has more effect as repellent meanwhile essential oil mixed with wax and wheat grains has longer lasting impact along with maintaining the efficient repellent property. There can be different frequencies of application and out of which three were used during the experiment (daily, alternate days, once a week), out of which daily application was comparatively more efficient than the remaining two. Still, when it comes to per cent repellency and overall efficiency, the weekly application was best. Overall, 20% concentration treatment of essential oil in wax blocks weekly has the best results. When comparing mean food consumption and weight gain between males and females, males consumed more food than females, and weight gain was also higher in males, but females were more active throughout. The overall effect of essential oil treatment on both gender, female mice were comparatively more repelled than male.
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Evaluation of okra cultivars for growth, yield and quality under different dates of sowing
(CCSHAU, Hisar, 2021-09) Sunil Kumar; Kuldeep Kumar
The experiment entitled “Evaluation of okra cultivars for growth, yield and quality under different dates of sowing” was conducted at Vegetable Research Farm of the Department of Vegetable Science, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, during the rainy season 2020-21 with five different dates of sowing S1 (15th June), S2 (30th June), S3 (15th July), S4 (30th July) and S5 (14th August) and three varieties V1 (Varsha Uphar), V2 (Hisar Naveen) and V3 (Hisar Unnat). Maximum plant stand after 15 days, plant height, number of fruit pickings, fruit length, number of fruits per plant, average fruit weight, fruit yield per plant, yield, dry matter, ash content, acidity and B:C ratio were recorded from 15th July date of sowing in the cultivar Hisar Naveen. However, minimum number of days to 50% flowering and days to first fruit picking were recorded from 14th August date of sowing in the cultivar Hisar Naveen. Maximum number of branches, internodal length, crop duration, incidence of YVMV and severity of disease were recorded minimum from 15th June date of sowing in the cultivar Hisar Naveen. Based on the study, it was found that higher fruit yield with better quality of fruits and minimum incidence of disease was obtained from Hisar Naveen sown on 15th July which was statistically at par with 30th July date of sowing under prevailing Haryana climatic conditions.
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Status of macro and micro nutrient in soils of Kaithal and Siwan blocks, district Kaithal
(CCSHAU, Hisar, 2021-09) Shabnam; Rohtas Kumar
In order to evaluate soil fertility status of Kaithal and Siwan of district Kaithal, Haryana. hundred surface soil samples (fifty from each block) were randomly collected using GPS technique. In addition to this, plant samples (10% of soil samples) were also collected from the existing cropping pattern of both the blocks. The results revealed that the soils of both the blocks were normal to alkaline in nature, non-saline in nature, low to medium in organic carbon and sandy loam to loam in texture. The content of available N, P, K and S in Kaithal block was ranged from 109-249, 6-28, 85-415 and 8-660 kg ha-1 with mean value of 190.66, 14.86, 223.80 and 195.14 kg ha-1, respectively. The content of available N, P, K and S in Siwan block was ranged from 90-247, 6-29, 122-412 and 35-250 kg ha-1 with mean value of 191.40, 16.22., 259.72 and 146.44 kg ha-1, respectively. All the soils samples were found deficient in nitrogen and 14% of the soil samples were found deficient in phosphorous in both the blocks. In Kaithal block, 6% of the soil samples were found deficient in potassium whereas, in Siwan block only 2% soil samples were found deficient in potassium. In Kaithal block only14% samples for sulphur were found under deficient category.The DTPA extractable Zn, Fe, Cu, Mn content in Kaithal block was ranged from 0.39-4.32, 0.90-15.40, 0.23-1.90 and 2.10-7.00 mg kg-1 with a mean value of 1.48, 7.10, 1.08 and 3.92 mg kg-1, respectively. The DTPA extractable Zn, Fe, Cu, Mn content in Siwan block was ranged from 0.15-2.83, 1.30-17.50, 0.16-3.45 and 2.00-6.80 mg kg-1 with a mean value of 1.27, 7.75, 1.17 and 3.39 mg kg-1, respectively. The total N, P, K and S in soils of Kaithal and Siwan blocks was varied from 0.06-0.17 and 0.06-0.18% 187-720 and 187-688 mg kg-1, 1.01-2.10 and 1.02-2.10 % and 108-937 and 110-718 mg kg-1 with mean value of 0.11and 0.12 %, 504.19 and 413.32 mg kg-1, 1.50 and 1.43% and 330.22 and 359.38 mg kg-, respectively. The content of total Zn, Fe, Cu, Mn in Kaithal and Siwan blocks ranged from 53.10-101.65and 60.00-100.53, 771.25-1450.00 and 670.00-1425.00, 10.88-24.75 and 11.13-20.00 and 283.63-440.00 and 360.00-428.00 with mean value of 79.833 and 84.37, 1155.88 and 1053.76, 14.95 and 14.33 and 372.46 and 385.75 mg kg-1, respectively. The mean content of N, P, K, S, Zn, Fe, Cu and Mn in plant sample was 1.72, 0.42, 0.95, 0.081, 35.4, 82.3, 7.5 and 83.1 %, respectively. A significant positive correlation was observed between the soil organic carbon and available nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium content of soil.
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Screening of wheat genotypes for multiple fungal resistance using functional markers
(CCSHAU, Hisar, 2021-09) Garg, Bharat; Yashveer, Shikha
In the present study, 58 wheat genotypes were characterized for grain yield, biochemical traits and functional markers. The wheat genotypes were sown in RBD (Randomized Block Design) design in two replications in the field of Wheat and Barley Section, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana (India) during Rabi, 2019-2020 for the evaluation of ten yield and its component characters viz. plant height, number of tiller per meter, spike length, number of grain per spike, number of spikelet per spike, grain yield per meter, biological yield per meter, harvest index and 1000-grain weight. In this study 58 wheat genotypes were screened for morphological and biochemical traits, showed varied mean range signifying ample amount of variability present in the wheat genotypes Genetic variability of genotypes was assessed by PCV, GCV, heritability and genetic advance over mean. The values of GCV were lower than their corresponding PCV for all the characters studied, indicated the negligible effect of environment on the development of plants. The maximum value of the GCV & PCV was observed for the grain yield per meter (11.87) and number of spikelet per spike (16.65). Highest broad sense heritability was recorded for biological yield per meter (80.92) The positive and significant genotypic correlation for grain yield per meter was found with number of tillers per meter (0.503), spike length (0.217), number of grains per spike (0.332), biological yield per meter (0.864), harvest index (0.616). Thus, these component traits may be used in wheat breeding programme for further improvement in grain yield. For characterization of quality traits, various biochemical attributes were analyzed viz. total phenolic content, total flavonoids, proline content, glycine betaine, phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) and tyrosine ammonia lyase (TAL) at vegetative and maturity stages. Total phenolic content range for vegetative stage is 0.41 to 4.74 mg CE/g and 1.07 to 6.17 mg CE/g in the maturity stage. Total flavonoids range for the vegetative stage, is 0.30 to 0.97 mg QE/g and 1.07 to 9.18 mg QE/g in the maturity stage. Proline content range for vegetative stage is 0.07 to 0.45 mg /g and 0.08 to 0.55 mg /g in maturity stage. Glycine betaine range for vegetative stage is 0.59 to 9.59 mg /g DW and 2.67 to 4.24 mg /g DW in the maturity stage. PAL activity range for vegetative stage is 4.15 to 6.23 μmole/h/g and 4.99 to 6.51 μmole/h/g in the maturity stage. TAL activity range for vegetative stage is 1.45 to 12.43 μmole/h/g and 1.74 to 12.10 μmole/h/g in the maturity stage. Total flavonoids content had high GCV and PCV in biochemical traits. On heritability analysis, Tyrosine ammonia lyase (TAL) had higher heritability. High heritability coupled with high genetic advance was found in characters such as total phenolic content, total flavonoids content, proline content, glycine betaine and TAL. These characters are recommended in selecting genotypes for screening for biotic and abiotic stress. For functional marker analysis, a total of 24 functional markers were used showed amplification. These selected primers are linked with specific fungal disease resistance gene and amplification of specific primer on wheat genotypes gave the idea of presence of that allele.
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Spatio-temporal trend analysis of evapotranspiration in different agro-climatic zones of Haryana
(Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, 2021-09-21) Punia, Rahual; Anurag
Evapotranspiration is the integrated process of evaporation and transpiration and is affected by meteorological variables, crop characteristics, and management practices, as well as environmental characteristics. There have been many studies in the estimation of ETo around the world. Evapotranspiration plays an important role in maintaining water balance of terrestrial ecosystem and for irrigation scheduling in crop production. The present study was carried out at Deptt. of Agricultural Meteorology, CCS HAU Hisar, to compute spatio-temporal trend analysis of evapotranspiration at different location of Haryanaviz. Ambala, Karnal, Bawal, Hisar and Sirsa that are evenly distributed in two agro-climatic zones of Haryana. The study was based on PET calculation by maximum and minimum temperature using Thornthwaite method. The calculated values were interpreted on monthly as well as seasonal scales. Highest normal annual PET was at Sirsa with 5.5 mm/day followed by Bawal (4.72 mm/day), Hisar (4.55 mm/day), Ambala (4.34 mm/day) and Karnal (4.14 mm/day). The annual PET had an increasing trend as per MK test at all locations. Sirsa and Ambala had significant +ve trends. In Kharif season, Sirsa had highest PET while in Rabi, Ambala showed highest value of normal PET. An increasing trend was observed at all locations during Kharif and Rabi seasons but significant trends were revealed at Sirsa and Ambala in Kharif, and Bawal and Ambala in Rabi seasons. In winter season (January-February) all stations had a decreasing trend of PET with significant decreasing trends at Karnal location. On monthly scale, June had the highest and January had the lowest value of PET in Haryana as observed at all five locations.Month of October observed with significantly increasing trends in PET at all locations expect for Karnal. January and December months observed with decreasing trends at all location. Overall, for the state of Haryana as a whole, 4.56 mm/day was found as a normal annual potential evapotranspiration, likewise seasonal normal were 7.6 mm/day in Kharif, 1.5 mm/day in Rabi, 0.6 mm/day in winter, 5.5 mm/day in pre monsoon, 7.8 mm/day in monsoon and 1.9 mm/day in post monsoon period.
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Screening and evaluation of Arbuscular Mycorrhiza for management of damping-off of onion incited by Fusarium sp.
(CCSHAU, Hisar, 2021-09) Pavitra P. Yaranal; Rakesh Kumar
The present study entitled, ―Screening and evaluation of Arbuscular mycorrhiza on management of damping-off of onion incited by Fusarium sp.‖ was conducted under screen house conditions to study the role of mycorrhiza on growth and mycorrhizal parameters, biochemical constituents and influence on rhizosphere population of different microbes and to work out the integrated management of damping-off incited by Fusarium oxysporum. The pathogen is a soil inhabitant, facultative parasite and having wide host range. Fusarium oxysporum causes pre-emergence and post-emergence damping-off. Pathogenicity of Fusarium oxysporum was tested under screen house conditions. Maximum growth (plant height, root length, bulb weight), mycorrhizal parameters (per cent root colonization and sporocarp number per 100g of soil), SPAD-chlorophyll, biochemical constituents (total phenols, P content in roots) were observed in the onion plants inoculated with Glomus mosseae. All the AM fungi used viz., Glomus hoi, Glomus fasciculatum, Glomus intraradices and Glomus mosseae had positive influence on population of azotobacter, actinomycetes and bacteria, while significantly reduced the population of fungi compared to control. Maximum disease control (92.5%) was observed in seed treatment with Thiram @ 2g/kg of seeds. Among the biologicals, maximum disease control (81.25%) was observed in treatment with combined use of Glomus mosseae, Trichoderma harzianum and Pseudomonas fluorescens. Mycorrhiza was comparatively effective in managing the disease with a disease control of 48.75-70 per cent when inoculated alone or in combination with other treatments. Suitable symbiont for a host can improve plant growth and provide protection against diseases. The application of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in our study reflected a significant growth improvement of onion and comparable level of protection against the damping-off pathogen.
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Study the effect of weather parameter on bacterial blight in cluster bean [Cyamopsis tetragonoloba (L.) Taub.]
(Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, 2021-09) Bharti, Rahul Raj; Bharti, Rahul Raj; Khichar, M.L; M.L Khichar, M.L
Field studies on“Study the effect of weather parameter on bacterial blight in Cluster bean [Cyamopsis tetragonoloba (L.) Taub.]”was conducted at dry land research area of department of Plant Pathology,CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar during Kharif 2020. The main plot treatments consisted of three date of sowing viz., 1st week of July (D1), 2nd week of July (D2) and 4th week of July (D3) and the sub-plot treatments consisted of three varieties viz., HG 365, HG 563, HG 2-20.Nine treatment combinations were tested in randomized block design in three replications. The 1st week of July sown crop had highest agrometeorological indices, followed by 2nd week of July and 4th week of July. All growth parameters, yield and yield attributes were found highest in 1st week of July sown crop. Among different varieties, HG 563 consumed highest heat units, heliothermal units and photothermal units followed by HG 2-20 and HG 365 under different growing environments. Heat use efficiency were highest in variety HG 365.Progression of bacterial blight was found highest in variety HG 365 followed by HG 2-20 and HG 563 in all three date of sowings.Among different sowing dates crop sown on 1st week of July were recorded lowest progression of bacterial blight followed by 2nd week of July and 4th week of July.The correlation analysis were carried out to study the relationship between bacterial blight and microclimate of cluster bean varieties. Temperature minimum, relative humidity evening highly significant negatively correlated in all date of sowings and in all varieties. Relative humidity morning positively correlated in all date of sowings and in all varieties. Maximum AUDPC were recorded in 4th week of July sown crop in all varieties. Minimum AUDPC were recorded in 1st week of July sown crop in all varieties.
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Entrepreneurship Competencies among Students of Project Based Learning in CCS HAU, Hisar
(CCSHAU, Hisar, 2021-09) Raveena; Seema Rani
A study on “Entrepreneurship Competencies among Students of Project Based Learning in CCS HAU, Hisar” was undertaken in the year 2020-2021 with a sample size of 150 where 120 students were from experimental group who had exposure towards Project Based Learning/ Experiential Learning and 30 students were from control group who did not have exposure towards PBL. The data was collected on entrepreneurship competencies, attitude towards PBL, performance difference and learning ability among students groups with the help of the interview schedule. All the students had high level of various entrepreneurial personal, venture- initiation and management competencies followed by medium level and favorable attitude towards entrepreneurship and objectives, programme, skills, learning and outcomes of PBL while students of control group had medium level of entrepreneurial competencies followed by low level and neutral attitude followed by unfavorable. The highly significant difference was observed among both groups in terms of competencies and attitude where mean score of experimental were observed higher than control group. The various competency components as their proficiency level were also observed in students of experimental group to find the performance level and observed that majority of the students were able to do more task (82.5%), to cope with unfavorable circumstances (81.7%), prioritize the plan actions (72.5%), confident about their knowledge and skills (70.8%), uses of e-business (71.7%), intends to do business with limited resources (88.3%), define the causes and consequences of problem (81.7%), able to investigate and do experiments with innovative approach (78.3%) and treats his/ her partners with respect and shares positivity (84.2%). For the perceived changes in performance, most of the students reported that participation in PBL has impacted their professional choices in future, provided them the learning experience/ hands on experience that helped them in execution of entrepreneurship based activities and allowed the students to apply their gained knowledge and skills to their life/ real world situation for innovative ideas/ entrepreneurial activities. Majority of the students (40.0%) in experimental group had high level of performance difference while half of the students (50.0%) among control group had medium level of performance difference. Majority of the students (70.0%) had high level of learning ability in experimental group while 46.6 per cent students of control group had medium learning ability and highly significant difference was observed for the mean scores of learning ability among experimental group and control group where the mean score was found higher in experimental group as compared to control group. The relationship between entrepreneurial competencies, attitude, learning ability and various aspects of socio-psycho sphere system variables including entrepreneurial motivation, value orientation, entrepreneurial decision making, entrepreneurial traits and social participation was observed positive and moderate followed by strong which showed that in order to enhance entrepreneurial competencies, positive attitude and learning ability in students, these five aspects of socio-psycho sphere system variables needed to be enhanced in students through PBL because it can be evaluated from the study PBL impacted student’s skills, attitude, performance and learning ability.
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Characterization for yield and quality traits under aerobic and transplanted condition in rice (Oryza sativa L.)
(CCSHAU, Hisar, 2021-09) Bhawana; Rakesh Kumar
The present experiment was carried out at Rice Research Station, Kaul, CCS Haryana Agricultural University Hisar, during Kharif, 2020 to estimate co-efficient of variability, heritability, genetic advance as percent of mean, character association, path co-efficient analysis and genetic divergence for yield and quality traits grown under aerobic and transplanted conditions. A total of 48 genotypes (24 basmati and 24 non-basmati genotypes) were grown in single row (5m long) of each genotype in each replication using randomized block design with spacing 20 x15 cm between rows and plants respectively. Observations were recorded on five randomly selected plants for each genotype on 21 morphological and quality traits. Mean sum of squares due to genotypes were highly significant for all the traits indicating the presence of sufficient variability under both the conditions. Narrow range of GCV and PCV indicated major role of genetic factors in expression of traits than environmental factors. In basmati genotypes, high heritability coupled with high genetic advance as per cent of mean was observed for grain yield/plant, plant height, number of grains/panicle and root dry weight under both conditions. While in non-basmati genotypes, grain yield/plant had high heritability coupled with high genetic advance as percent of mean revealed the importance of additive gene action in expression of the trait. Grain yield/plant showed significant positive correlation with number of tillers/plant, test weight, harvest index % and kernel breadth under both conditions for basmati genotypes, whereas in non-basmati genotypes grain yield/plant exhibited significant positive correlation with biological yield/plant followed by harvest index %, plant height, test weight , number of grains/panicle, number of tillers/plant, root fresh weight and root volume under both conditions suggesting that for improving grain yield direct selection of genotypes for these traits will be more fruitful. Path analysis revealed that biological yield/plant and harvest index % exhibited major positive direct effect on grain yield under both conditions for basmati genotypes whereas, in non-basmati genotypes kernel length followed by number of grains/panicle, days to 50% flowering and biological yield/plant, harvest index % and root volume exerted high positive direct effect on grain yield. Group constellation of genotypes under both the conditions (aerobic and transplanted) did not follow their geographical distribution. On the basis of grain yield HKR 15-455, HKR 16-459, Pusa 1557-06-08-126-162-156 and HKR 15-488 were identified superior than check Haryana Basmati -2 whereas HKR 15-488 and HKR 16-459 were identified as suitable genotypes for quality parameters over check Taraori Basmati. Genotypes, IR14L521, HKR 16-35 and NVSR 2107 were observed suitable under both aerobic and transplanted conditions as these genotypes performed significantly higher than the check HKR 47 and HKR 48 respectively.

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