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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: Plant Breeding × Author: Monpara, Bachubhai A × End date: 1999 × Start date: 1992 × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    GENETICS OF SOME YIELD AND NUTRITIONAL QUALITY TRAITS OF INDIAN MUSTARD
    (AAU, Anand, 1992) Monpara, Bachubhai A; Jaisani, B G
    Rapeseed-raustard plays a key role in the national oilseed economy and ranks second to, groundnut for oilseed production. Indian mustard is an important crop among different species of rapeseed-mustard cultivated in India. But the information available on (1) the differential response of Indian mustard genotypes to sulphur application, and (2) the genetics of seed yield and nutritional quality characters is scanty, hence this study was takenup. Study pertaining differential response of genotypes to sulphur application comprised of ten genotypes studied with 0 and 25 kg/ha sulphur levels. The 1000-seed weight increased due to sulphur application, while siliquae on main raceme and oil content revealed depressing effect of the levels of sulphur application. Other traits were non-responsive to the levels of sulphur application. The genotypes differed significantly for various traits and in general, CM 2, Varuna and HLBJ 7 were identified as elite parents to evolve recombs having high yielding ability coupled with better nutritional quality. The differential behaviour of genotypes to the levels of sulphur application revealed that, in general, RLC 1359 responded positively to sulphur application, while Kranti had depressing effect of sulphur application. These two genotypes would be the better parents for two-directional study of the genetics of such an interesting finding. The second experiment comprised of three crosses viz.. Cross 1 (HLBJ 7 x KBJ 3), Cross 2 (RSK 7 x KBJ 3) and Cross 3 (RSK 7 x RLC 86-62) each having four generations (P P2, F1 and F2). The joint scaling test was used for the estimation of genetic parameters of various traits. The results revealed that additive as well as dominance gene actions were involved in the expression of various traits, additivity being predominant. Crosses 2 and 3 were more desirable from seed yield view point, while Cross 1 was the best from nutritional quality view point. On the basis of the observations, it would be desirable to select HLBJ 7, KBJ 3 and RSK 7 as the parents to make three-way cross to develop a gene pool which should be subjected to cyclic method of breeding to isolate superior recombs having higher seed yield, oil content, protein content, oleic and linoleic acids as well as low amount of phytic, linolenic and erucic acids.