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Anand Agricultural University, Anand

Anand Agricultural University (AAU) was established in 2004 at Anand with the support of the Government of Gujarat, Act No.(Guj 5 of 2004) dated April 29, 2004. Caved out of the erstwhile Gujarat Agricultural University (GAU), the dream institution of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Dr. K. M. Munshi, the AAU was set up to provide support to the farming community in three facets namely education, research and extension activities in Agriculture, Horticulture Engineering, product Processing and Home Science. At present there seven Colleges, seventeen Research Centers and six Extension Education Institute working in nine districts of Gujarat namely Ahmedabad, Anand, Dahod, Kheda, Panchmahal, Vadodara, Mahisagar, Botad and Chhotaudepur AAU's activities have expanded to span newer commodity sectors such as soil health card, bio-diesel, medicinal plants apart from the mandatory ones like rice, maize, tobacco, vegetable crops, fruit crops, forage crops, animal breeding, nutrition and dairy products etc. the core of AAU's operating philosophy however, continues to create the partnership between the rural people and committed academic as the basic for sustainable rural development. In pursuing its various programmes AAU's overall mission is to promote sustainable growth and economic independence in rural society. AAU aims to do this through education, research and extension education. Thus, AAU works towards the empowerment of the farmers.

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Subject: Biotechnology and molecular Biology × Start date: 1965 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    MAPPING QTLs FOR HIGH ZINC AND IRON CONTENT IN MAIZE (Zea mays L.)
    (DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY B. A. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2020) Pitambara; Dr. Y. M. Shukla
    Maize is extensively cultivated throughout the world and is top contributor to the world’s cereal production. Iron (Fe) and zinc (Zn) are the vital component of micro nutrition and play significant roles in a range of metabolisms in living organism. Ample amount of variability for kernel mineral concentrations found in 48 maize genotypes studied. Kernel Fe concentration ranged from 14.23 to 38.08 mg/kg whereas kernel Zn concentration ranged from 11.61 to 39.41 mg/kg. Correlation between kernel Fe and Zn concentration in 48 genotypes was significantly positive. The highest genetic dissimilarity was observed between CM133 and CML251 and the lowest was reported between CML251 and CML293. Maize genotypes studied for kernel micronutrient content were grouped under five clusters. CML296 ranked first according to rank summation index which was calculated based on kernel micronutrient content and yield while GLY6 with low Fe and Zn concentration and were chosen as contrasting parents for preparing mapping population (Recombinant inbred lines) using single seed descent method. The mapping population consisted of 120 RILs which was procured from Main Maize Breeding Research Station, AAU, Godhra.
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    POPULATION STRUCTURING AND GENE EXPRESSION ANALYSIS OF DROUGHT TOLERANT GENES IN TEAK (Tectona grandis L.)
    (DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2021) Maisuria H. J.; Dr. H. L. Dhaduk
    Teak (Tectona grandis L.) is a diploid (2n=2x=36) forest tree species, classified in the family Verbenaceae, but sometime in Lamiaceae. Teak occurs in natural forests, below 1,000 m elevation between 9º-26º north latitude and 73º-104º east longitude. In India, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Manipur are major teak growing states. The teak plants are used for furniture and cabinet preparation. In Gujarat, the climate of south region is more favorable for teak than east-north. Teak is not found in Saurashtra and Kutch, except Gir and Girnar.
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    INTERSPECIFIC HYBRIDIZATION FOR YVMV RESISTANCE IN OKRA THROUGH EMBRYO RESCUE AND SOMATIC HYBRIDIZATION
    (DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY B. A. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2019) ZAMAN MARIYA SHABBIR; DR. AKARSH PARIHAR
    The production of new okra cultivars through interspecific hybridization by sexual crossing is problematic and time consuming due to sexual incompatibility, the failure of seeds to germinate and limited gene pool. Biotechnology provides an obvious alternative for the creation of genetic novelty in okra. This thesis focuses on the deployment of novel approaches, based on pollen cryopreservation, standardization of tissue culture explants, embryo rescue, protoplast isolation and fusion technologies, and validation of putative somatic hybrids.
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    ELUCIDATION OF METABOLIC PATHWAY FOR EXPRESSION OF SAFFRON GENES INVOLVED IN BIOSYNTHESIS OF CROCIN AND SAFRANAL USING TOBACCO AS A MODEL SYSTEM
    (DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY B. A. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2019) Sakure Amar Ashok; Dr. R. S. Fougat
    Value addition is the key aspect for improving the quality of agriculturally important crops and metabolic engineering has become a very important approach for such modification. Present investigation was carried out for elucidating metabolic pathway for expression of saffron genes involved in biosynthesis of crocin and safranal using tobacco as a model system. Saffron (Crocus sativus) stigmas and style contain vital metabolites such as crocin, crocetin, Picro crocin and safranal; which are known to have profound effect on human health. Saffron, because of its colour and flavour principles and medicinal properties such as anti-carcinogenic, anti-senescent is an important source of genes for quality enhancement in crops through genetic engineering. Because of low production and limited area of cultivation of saffron presently restricted to few districts of Kashmir Valley and high cost of saffron has always been the item of adulteration. Therefore, transferring these traits to the other crop will not only serves as a good option for additional income generation but also reduce the adulteration of saffron with artificially coloured maize silk and petals of florets of other plants such as safflower. In addition to this, the processing industry, food industry, pharmaceutical and perfumery industry may also benefit from the technology as more choices will be available for extraction of these quality metabolites from the genetically transformed host plant tissues for varied uses.
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    TRANSCRIPTOME ANALYSIS FOR NEMATODE RESISTANCE IN CULTIVATED AND WILD TOMATO
    (DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2019) Kinjal Kulshrestha; Dr. Akarsh Parihar
    Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is widely grown throughout the world for raw consumption as well as processing. It is a berry type fruit with chromosome number 2n=2x=24. It was originated in the Andes region. Tomato is a rich source of water, vitamins and lycopene. The tomato crop is affected by various abiotic and biotic stresses. Nematode infection is one of the prominent biotic stresses responsible for crop loss. The aim of this research was to evaluate resistant and susceptible tomato genotypes, to elucidate certain resistant genes, during the nematode infection.
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    INTERSPECIFIC HYBRIDIZATION IN COTTON (Gossypium spp.) THROUGH EMBRYO RESCUE
    (DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY B.A. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2019) BHUTAKA KINJAL; DR. AKARSH PARIHAR
    The development of new interspecific hybrids through distant hybridization using sexually incompatible species is problematic and time-consuming due the failure of successful fertilization. Embryo rescue is the technique that provides an obvious alternative for the creation of novel cotton hybrids. This thesis focuses on the deployment of novel approaches based on embryo rescue, flow cytometry, molecular marker based validation of putative hybrids and scanning electron microscopy.
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    INTERSPECIFIC HYBRIDIZATION FOR YVMV RESISTANCE IN OKRA THROUGH EMBRYO RESCUE AND SOMATIC HYBRIDIZATION
    (DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY B. A. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2019) ZAMAN MARIYA SHABBIR; DR. AKARSH PARIHAR
    The production of new okra cultivars through interspecific hybridization by sexual crossing is problematic and time consuming due to sexual incompatibility, the failure of seeds to germinate and limited gene pool. Biotechnology provides an obvious alternative for the creation of genetic novelty in okra. This thesis focuses on the deployment of novel approaches, based on pollen cryopreservation, standardization of tissue culture explants, embryo rescue, protoplast isolation and fusion technologies, and validation of putative somatic hybrids.
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    TARGETED GRAIN METABOLITE BASED GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDIES AMONG RICE (Oryza sativa L.) GENOTYPES
    (Dept. of Agricultural Biotechnology Anand Agricultural University Anand, 2019) Adinath S. Palve; Dr. R. S. Fougat
    Asia is considered as ‘rice bowl’ of the world, producing and consuming more than 90% of the world's rice. India has the largest acreage under rice, accounting for 23% of total cropped area under food grains cultivation. In rice genotypes, most of the agronomically important traits such as plant height, flowering time, grain yield, grain quality and secondary metabolites etc. are quantitative in nature resulting from variation within multiple genes and thus are regarded as complex traits. Genome-wide association studies(GWAS) offer a powerful strategy for identification and characterization of genes associated with complex traits. Rice is an ideal candidate system for the application of GWAS because it is self-fertilizing and has a highquality reference genome sequence with many phenotyping resources, available.