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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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ThesisItem Open Access SEED TREATMENT WITH CATTLE-DUNG AND GA AND THEIR EFFECT ON GERMINATION AND SUBSEQUENT GROWTH OF SEEDLINGS OF RAYAN (Mimusops Hexandra LINN.)(AAU, Anand, 1988) DESAI, JANAKRAY D.; Shah, P. M.The present investigation was carried out at Horticulture Nursery of B.A. College of Agriculture, Anand during the year 1987. An experiment was laid out in Two Factorial Completely Randomised Design with three replications. Rayan seeds were soaked in cattle-dung paste at different intervals i.e. 0, 8, 16 and 24 hours and again soaked in GA at various concentrations viz. 0, 100, 200, 300 and 400 ppm for 6 hours. In all twenty treatments were tried in respect to germination root length, plant height, fresh and dry weight, survival percentage, protein and peroxidase content.ThesisItem Open Access SEASONAL VARIATION OF NUTRIENTS IN ANNUAL GROWTH OF MANGO SHOOT CV. 'KESAR'(AAU, Anand, 1986) PATEL, MAHESHKUMAR MAGANLAL; Chundawat, B. S.Investigations were carried out at Horticulture Research-cum-Demonstration Farm of the Gujarat Agricultural University, Anand Campus, Anand, during the period of March, 1984 to June 1985 with an objective to find out seasonal variation and accumulation of nutrients in annual growth (Spring flush) and total quantity of different nutrients removed by harvested fruit. The study revealed that almost all macro-nutrients viz., nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium were found to be in optimum range throughout the year and their accumulation steadily increased with age and dry matter accumulation. However, micro-nutrients iron, zinc and manganese were found to be in low level/ deficient level. Therefore, it is suggested that regular foliar feeding of these elements should become a regular orchard operation.ThesisItem Open Access EFFECT OF FOLIAR APPLICATIONS OF ZINC AND IRON ON GROWTH AND CHLOROPHYLL AS WELL AS MINERAL NUTRIENT CONTENTS OF THE KAGZILIME (Citrus aurantifolia Swingle) SEEDLINGS(AAU, Anand, 1982) PATEL, HEMANT C.; Patel, B. M.Investigation was carried out at the Horticulture Farm, of the Gujarat Agricultural University, Anand Campus, Anand, during the year 1981-82; to assess the effect of foliar applications of zinc and iron on the growth and chlorophyll as well as mineral nutrient contents of the Kagzilime seedlings. Foliar sprays of 0.5 per cent ZnSO4 and 0.5 per cent FeSO4 were found more effective compared with 1.0 per cent level of both for number of morphological characters like plant height (at initial stage), number of branches and number of leaves (at the time of obtaining saleable plant) as well as chemical composition of Kagzilime seedlings like total chlorophyll content, potash content, zinc content, ferrous content and manganese content.ThesisItem Open Access POST-HARVEST CHANGES IN KAGZI LIME (CITRUS AURANTIFOLIA SWINGLE) UNDER DIFFERENT STORAGE CONDITIONS(AAU, Anand, 1982) Aboud, Tag Elsir Gaafar; MAJMUDAR, A. M.Kagzi lime (Citrus aurantifolia Awingle) fruits treated with 2, 4-D dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2, 4-D) and maleic hydrazide (MH) alongwith control were packed in separate perforated polythene bags. The same were stored for six weeks under ambient conditions in room as well as the cold storage in both kharif and winter seasons. Average temperature during the period of experiment in kharif season was 31°C with 95% relative humidity and the same during winter season was 24.5°C with 81% relative humidity.ThesisItem Open Access POST HARVEST PHYSIOLOGY OF RAJAPURI MANGO FRUIT(AAU, Anand, 1987) CHAUDHARI, MOGHAJIBHAI H.; Chundawat, B. S.With the objective of retarding the process of ripening to extend the shelf life and to minimiae post harvest losses in 'Rajapuri' mango fruits at ambient temperature, two experiments were conducted, using harvesting, grading, ripening methods and pre-ripening treatments, at the Experimental Orchards of liie Department of Horticulture, B. A. College of Agriculture, Anand during 1985-86. Resul-ts revealed that non-destructive harvesting method and size grading of fruits did not affect the ripening pattern and quality of ripe fruits. However, ripening fruits using calcium carbide enhanced the process of ripening and reduced post-harvest losses during ripening owing to short duration of ripening process, Pre-ripening treatment with Bavistin 0.1 per cent brought down the damage to 6.45 per cent compared 33.72 per cent in control. When Bavistin 0.1 per cent was combined with Gibberellic acid 150 ppm and used as treatment it not only reduced the storage damage but extended the shelf-life of fruits by 5 days compared to control. Hot water dip caused uniform ripening and reduced storage losses, A dip in calcium chloride solution(2 per cent) delayed the ripening and needs further standardization on mango.ThesisItem Open Access EFFECT OF POST-HARVEST TREATMENTS ON RIPENING CHANGES IN SAPOTA CULTIVARS 'KALIPATTI' AND 'CRICKET BALL'(AAU, Anand, 1989) GAUTAM, SARVESH KUMAR; Chundawat, B. S.With the objectives of retarding the process of ripening and to extend the shelf life of sapota fruits of cvso 'Kalipatti' and 'Cricket Ball' through post harvest dip treatment with GA 300 ppm, Kinetin 100 ppm and Silver Nitrate 40 ppm at ambient temperature, experiments were conducted at the Laboratories of Department of Horticulture, Gujarat Agricultural University, Anand Caifipus, Anand during 1988, The results revealed that GA 300 ppm was very effective and delyed the ripening by 2.5 days followed by kinetin 100 ppm and silver nitrate 40 ppm being 1.5 and 1.0 days respectively compared to control. Post harvest treatments of sapotas with GA, kinetin and silver nitrate reduced the rates of ethylene production and respiration and retarded the activities of catalase and pectin methyl esterase and slowed down the starch hydrolysis and thus helped in prolonging shelf life of fruits. However, in untreated sapota fruits, ripening was characterised by rapid loss in texture and fruit weight. Fruit tissues exhibited higher, metabolic rates as evidenced by increased rates of respiration, ethylene production and activities of catalase and pectin methyl esterase.ThesisItem Open Access EFFECT OF GROWTH REGULATORS AND MEDIA ON ROOTING OF BOUGAINVILLEA CUTTINGS (Bougainvillea peruviana) cv. MARY PALMER(AAU, Anand, 1990) Patel, K. R.; SHAH, P. M.The present investigation was carried out to study , the effect of growth regulators and media on rooting of bougainvillea cuttings c.v. Mary palmer at the nursery of Horticulture Section/ B.A, College of Agriculture, Gujarat Agricultural University, Anand Campus, Anand during June, 1990. The experiment was laid out in Factorial Complete Randomized Design with 27 treatments repeated three times. The treatments were comprised of three media viz., soil, sand and soil + sand mixture, two growth regulators i.e. IBA and lAA, four levels of concentration of each growth regulators i.e. 1000, 2000, 3000 and 4000 ppm and three controls i.e. cuttings treated with distilled water and planted in soil, sand and soil + sand mixture media. The characters studied were sprouted cuttings, primary roots and their length, shoot length, secondary roots and leaves per cutting and rooting and survival percentage. Rooting media produced significant effect for number of leaves, primary roots, secondary roots per cutting and rooting percentage. The cuttings in sand media produced more rooting (53.34%) than soil + sand mixture (49.58%) and soil media (43.75%). Growth regulators produced significant effect for all the parameters studied except number of sprouts and secondary roots per cutting. The growth regulator IBA gave maximum rooting percentage (52.22%) than lAA (45.56%). Responses due to levels of concentration were significant for the parameters studied. The concentration 3000 ppm gave maximum rooting percentage (56.67%) followed by 2000 ppm (49.44%), 1000 ppm (46.67%) and 4000 ppm 42.78%). The interactions between the media and growth regulators, growth regulators into concentration were found non-significant. The higher order interaction was found significant for the number of sprouts and primary roots per cuttings. Among the controls non-significant differences were recorded for all the parameters studied. Rest of the treatments under study were found significantly superior over control for all the parameters studied. Thus, from the results it can be concluded that in all the media, rooting can easily be induced by external application of growth regulators. They are also effective in improving the percentage of establishment.ThesisItem Open Access EFFECT OF GROWTH SUBSTANCES AND PRE-CONDITIONING ON ROOTING OF STEM CUTTINGS OF POMEGRANATE ( Punica granatum L.)(AAU, Anand, 1988) PATEL, ABBASBHAI M .; SHAH, P. M.An experiment was conducted at College Horticulture Farm of B.A.College of Agriculture, Gujarat Agricultural University, Anand Campus, Anand during monsoon season of the year 1987-88 with a view to study the effect of growth regulators , media and etiolation on rooting of stem cuttings of Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) CV. Ganesh. Sixteen treatments involving combination of two media viz., soil and vermiculite , four levels of growth substances (Control, NAA,5000 ppm, IBA 5000 ppm ,and IBA 5000 + NAA 5000 ppm) and. two levels of etiolation (Non-etiolated cuttings and etiolated cuttings) were studied in split plot design with three replications. Among the media tested no effect of soil or vermiculite on rooting of cutting was observed. Similarly etiolation treatment has proved benificial effects over non-etiolated. Among the growth substances treatments IBA 5000 ppm was found to be superior for the most of the parameters, followed by IBA 5000 + NAA 5000 ppm combination. While in addition etiolation has helped in improving, all the parameters under study except fresh weight and dry weight of roots. The interaction effect, media and etiolation was found to be superior in improving thickness, fresh and dry weight of primary roots. While, etiolation and soil gave only more fresh and dry weight. Similarly growth substances with etiolation proved to be the best for percentage of rooting, number of primary and secondary roots and final per cent establishment of rooted cuttings.ThesisItem Open Access EFFECT OF DIFFERENT PRE-TREATMENTS ON THE GERMINATION OF TEAK (TECTONA GRANDIS, L. ) SEEDS(AAU, Anand, 1980) PATEL, DIPAK T.; AMIN, R. S.The present experiment was conducted to study the problem of low germination of teak seeds and to find out an easy method of seed treatment, which gives fairly high percentage of germination. Teah seeds received from three different places namely Ahwa (District Dang), Parnera (District Valsad) and Dev Gadh Baria (District Panchmahal). Seeds were then graded into two groups namely big and small sized. Number of embryos present in seed was counted from all the groups. The present study included differed pre-treatments of seeds namely soaking in tap or hot water, soaking in acids, alkali, alkali, thiourea, gibberellic acid including heat treatment and local pit methods followed by Forest Department at Ahwa, Dev Gadh Baria and Baroda. Periodical germination count was taken upto three months duration from sowing.