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    Growth promotory effect of drought tolerant bacteria on wheat crop under drought stress
    (G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand), 2017-07) Gouri, Vinita; Singh, Ajay Veer
    In natural environmental condition plants continuously exposed to various biotic and abiotic factors. Drought is considered as major abiotic stress and adversely affects plant growth and productivity worldwide. Plants under drought stress conditions show reduced root length, shoot length, deficiency of nutrients and increases disease susceptibility and hence decreases economic yield of crop. In this context, present study was carried out with the application of drought tolerant plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) in wheat to promote growth and productivity under drought stress conditions. During study, total sixty bacterial isolates were retrieved and revived from departmental culture collection. On the basis of growth present on tryptic soy broth medium supplemented with 6% poly ethylene glycol and 20% NaCl, fourteen bacterial isolates were selected as drought tolerant. These drought tolerant bacterial isolates were further checked for plant growth promoting activities such as siderophore production, zinc solubilization, phosphate solubilization and ACC deaminase activity and ten best potential bacterial isolates were screened for further study. Afterward, screened potential bacterial isolates were selected and characterized on the basis of cell and colony morphology, biochemical characteristics and carbohydrate utilization tests. Now these potential isolates were characterized functionally and tested for plant growth promoting traits such as exopolysaccaride production, ammonia production, indole acetic acid production and hydrogen cyanide production. Furthermore, potential bacterial isolates were evaluated for antibiosis activity against two pathogenic fungi of wheat, four isolates were able to suppress mycelial growth of Fusarium oxysporum and three bacterial isolates were able to suppress mycelial growth of Alternaria spp. However, SRPII7 isolate was effective against both the fungi. Furthermore, an in situ greenhouse pot experiment was designed under drought stress with all ten drought tolerant plant growth promoting isolates with early variety of wheat (Triticum aestivum var. UP-2785). Results of green house pot experiment confirmed that all bacterial isolates were significantly able to improve plant growth and productivity in terms of agronomical parameters such as root length, shoot length, dry weight of plant, spike length, number of grains/spike, 1000 grains weight and % harvest index, while four bacterial isolates i.e. WRPA13, WRPA26, SRA1 and SRK14 prove more potential compare to all other isolates and helps wheat plant to cope up with drought stresses. In vitro and in situ studies depicted the potentiality of four bacterial isolates for their promising plant growth promoting activity under drought stress. In respect to said results, present study concluded that these four potential bacterial isolates i.e. WRPA13, WRPA26, SRA1 and SRK14 can be employed as bioinoculant/biofertilizer to improve drought tolerance and nutrient enhancement in wheat crop for sustainable agriculture.
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    Bayesian estimation in weighted x gamma distribution
    (G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand), 2017-12) Agrawal, Priya; Vinod Kumar
    In the present study, a new lifetime distribution, named weighted xgamma distribution has been proposed and its distributional properties are investigated. The maximum likelihood estimates of the parameter θ have been obtained by means of Newton-Raphson method. The expressions for various distributional properties of weighted xgamma distribution including its moment generating function (mgf), cumulant generating function (cgf), characteristic function, moments etc. have been derived. The Bayes estimators of its parameter (θ), reliability function R(t) and hazard rate function h(t) are obtained using Tierney and Kadane method of approximation under two priors namely uniform and gamma. The results obtained have been illustrated by means of several randomly generated data sets from the proposed model, each sample replicated 10,000 times The Bayes Risks have been evaluated by using Squared Error Loss Function (SELF). A real life data set has also been used to establish its utility. It is concluded that gamma prior is superior to uniform prior for finding Bayes estimates of the parameter θ, reliability function R(t) and hazard rate function h(t) of the proposed weighted xgamma distribution.
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    Genotype × environment interaction for yield and related traits in some advance lines of pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp)
    (G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand), 2017-12) Pal, Deepak; Verma, S.K.
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    Effect of nano-sized gypsum on growth and productivity of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)
    (G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand), 2017-12) Rawat, Anupama; Singh, Vijay Pal
    A field experiment entitled “Effect of nano-sized gypsum on growth and productivity of Wheat (Triticum aestivum)” was conducted at the Norman E Borlaug Crop Research Centre of Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar (U.S Nagar) From November 2016 to April 2017. Surface Soil (0-15 cm) of the experiment field was silty clay loam in texture, medium in organic carbon (0.72%), low in available N (218.59 kg/ha), medium in available P (12.53 kg/ha) and medium in available K (149.56 kg/ha) with neutral soil reaction (pH 7.3). In addition to the field experiment two laboratory experiment entitled “Effect of nano-sized gypsum on germination of wheat” and “Effect of nano-sized gypsum blended MS media solution on seedling growth of wheat” was conducted simultaneously to investigate the effect of nano-sized gypsum on emergence and initial seedling growth more precisely. The field experiment was conducted in randomized block design with 3 replications while both the laboratory experiment was conducted in CRD each with 3 replications. For the experiment variety DPW 621-50 was used. The laboratory studies suggest that seed treatment with 100ppm nano-sized gypsum enhances germination and further seedling growth of wheat. In the field experiment it was found that 75% of RDF along with nano-sized gypsum and clay based nano-sized gypsum produced yield at par with 100 % RDF, thus saving 25 % of the RDF. Similarly among plant based nano-sized gypsum, Parthenium based nano-sized gypsum along with 75% of RDF gives promising results. High yield in nano-sized gypsum (4 t/ha), Parthenium based (3.73 t/ha) and clay based nano-sized gypsum (4.07 t/ha) was due to high photosynthetic surface i.e. leaf area index and high yield attributing characters. Hence, 75% of RDF along with nano-sized gypsum or clay based nano-sized gypsum can be recommended to the farmer.
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    Influence of silicon solubilizers on physiological and biochemical attributes in rice genotypes (Oryza sativa L.)
    (G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand), 2017-12) Joshi, Neeraj; Shankhdhar, S.C.
    Rice is a global grain for more than 60% of the world’s population. As the population continues to expand, the demand for food crops also continues to increase. Susceptibility to pest and disease infestation along with environmental stress leads to yield loss. Silicon being, second most abundant element in the earth provides resistance to disease, pest infestation and also alleviates water stress thereby improving resistance of plants against lodging. To study the influence of silicon solubilizers on physiological and biochemical attributes in rice genotypes, a field experiment was conducted in Norman E. Bourlog Crop Research Center, G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar during kharif season 2016 with different rice genotypes namely, PA-6129, PA-6201, PA 6444, PHB-71, US-312 and BPT-5204. The field experiment was carried out in three separate blocks i.e. control, soil (imidazole) and foliar (silixol) application with randomized block design. All genotypes were transplanted in these blocks with three replications each. The plots were separated from each other with proper spacing (20×10 cm) and the experimental field was bordered by proper bunds. Soil and foliar application of silicon solubilizers was done at tillering, panicle initiation and flowering. Both the form of silicon solubilizer applications showed increase in morphological, agronomical and biochemical parameters except amylose content. Pest and diseases infestation was reduced significantly more in foliar than soil application. Maximum increase in plant height at flowering was recorded for PA-6444 (11.87%) by foliar application. Maximum increase in total dry matter was observed in PA-6444 (49.59%) by foliar application. Foliar application showed maximum increase (19.40%) in panicle weight (g m-2) at flowering. Harvest index showed maximum increase by foliar application 12.39% in PHB-71 compared to control. In foliar application, PHB-71 (94.04%) showed maximum increase in protein content. The maximum decrease in dead heart infestation was observed in foliar application 82.35% as compared to control. From the experiment performed, it was found that PHB-71 and PA-6444 were most efficient in utilizing both the forms of silicon solubilizers as they showed maximum harvest index and reduced disease and pest infestation. BPT-5204 and US-312 were found to be more susceptible as the grain yield was found minimum and maximum disease and pest infestation as compared to other varieties, under soil and foliar application of silicon solubilizers.
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    Development of different modules for management of insect pest in Capsicum under protected cultivation and study of newer insecticidal molecule mixture against insect pest of chilli
    (G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand), 2017-10) Suman Kumari; Srivastava, R.M.
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    Development of borders through extra yarn figuring using adapted Aipan designs for application on apparel and accessories
    (G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand), 2017-09) Bhandari, Vandana; Anita Rani
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    Adaptation of architectural designs of Padmanabhapuram palace through CAD for application on apparel using digital printing
    (G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand), 2017-09) Abinaya Dharshini, J.; Gahlot, Manisha
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    A study of 45S and5S rRNA genes in some species of Allium
    (G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand), 2017-07) Lenka, Amit Kumar; Sundip Kumar