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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 Physiology × End date: 1999 × Start date: 1990 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    STUDIES ON IN VITRO CLONAL PROPAGATION OF ROSE (Rosa damascena Mill.)
    (AAU, Anand, 1993) MACWAN, SUNIL J.; N., SUBHASH
    THe present study was undertaken to develop a protocol for a raicropropagation of rose, Rosa damascena Mill, by standardizing proper time of collection of explant, identifying suitable media for obtaining sprouting, maximum multiplication rate and rooting response. The results of the study showed that the maiximum number of sprouting/bud breakage were obtained when explants were collected 3 days after decapitation and 4th nodal position from the top. The Murashige and Skoog's (1962) media supplemented with 0.25 mgl-1 gibberellic acid (GA ) and 0.5 mgl-1 benzyl adenine (BA) was found to be the best for establishment and sprouting of the bud. Nodes from the middle portion of the branch recorded better sprouting and vigorous growth as compared to that from the top and bottom. The maximum proliferation/multiplication rate could be achieved by using MS media incorporated with 0.5 mgl-1 BA and 0.35 mgl-1 GA . It was noted that BA is very important for the multiplication of the shoots. Repeated subculturing in the same media upto 3 subculture have shown good multiplication rate thereafter the rate was reduced. The effect of different strengths of MS media supplemented with 0.25 mgl-1 NAA and 0.1 mgl-1 2,4-D on rooting after keeping for different durations in induction media were studied. The 1/4 strength of media was most suitable for good rooting when shoots were kept for three weeks, in induction media. Different potting mixtures were tried to obt«iin maximum survival of in vitro raised plants. The rooted plaikts were transferred into the pot for gradual hardening. The highest survival rate of 90% was found in pot mixtures of sand, soil, FYM and vermiculite ( 1 : 1 : 1 : 1 ) .
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    PHYSIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF HETEROSIS IN OKRA HYBRID GOH6 (Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Moench)
    (AAU, Anand, 1996) Polra, Vajubhai Noorbhai; PANELIA, J. R.
    The present investigation on physiological studies of heterosis in okra hybrid G0H6 (AbBlmoschuB Bsculentus (L.) Moench) in relation to its parents (viz., Parbhani Kranti and KS 312) was carried out on the field of Plant Breeding Farm, Gujarat Agricultural University, Anand during the year 1994-95. Based on these findings, it is suggested that more emphasis should be given to the pattern of translocation of photosynthates and nutrients. The data on accumulation of dry matter indicated that the hybrid produced more dry matter during its lifespan. But the percentage partitioning was utmost similar in all the cultivars. The hybrid also exhibited more major nutrients content in leaf, stem and pod. Rate of growth and developmental traits also depicted that the hybrid adjusted its growth and formed an efficient skeleton. This was evident from the higher values of plant height, number of leaves, leaf area index, leaf area duration, leaf area ratio. The positive values for these characters indicated that the hybrid utilized its vigour to increase the yield potentiality. So far as days to first square, flower and pod set is concerned, the hybrid is late than female parent. The yield contributing characters viz., number of pods and weight per plant contributed significantly to build up higher yield of the hybrid. Hybrid showed 86.25 and 76.25 percentage more number of pods and 87.33 and 76.60 percentage more weight over its female and male parent respectively. The results of chlorophyll content indicated that the hybrid produced significantly more chlorophyll a, b and total than parents. The results of nutrient content indicated that hybrid had more nutrient than parents which showed more nutrient uptake and its translocation.
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    TISSUE CULTURE STUDIES ON BRINJAL (Solanum melongena, L.)
    (AAU, Anand, 1993) Kumar, Rakesh R.; Mehta, A. R.
    The present communication describes tissue culture studies on organogenesis directly as well as somatic embryogenesis via callus derived from the cotyledonary leaf explants of eggplant (Solanum pelongena.L) var. Doli-5 to explore the possibility of creating variability which could be used to supplement the conventional breeding programmes. The effect of various levels of phytohormones lAA, Kn singly and in combination as well as sucrose were studied for shoot bud differentiation and length of shoot per explant using 25 days old cotyledonary leaf explant on MS medium. The findings revealed that maximum number of shoot bud differentiation as well as length of shoot per explant were recorded on MS medium containing 2 mg1-1 Kn in combination with 1 mg1-1 lAA at 2% sucrose in the medium. However, highest length of shoot was obtained using 1 mg1-1 GA3 in combination with 3 mg1-1 BA as well as at 3% sucrose. The cotyledonary leaves of different ages (15 days, 25 days, 35 days, and 45 days old) were tested for shoot bud regeneration and length of shoot; the results obtained showed that cotyledonary leaf explants 25 days old as well as 15 days old seedlings were equally effective for both the characters. The in vitro raised shoots were experimented for root induction per cent, number of roots and length of root per shoot using root induction medium (MS medium containing either 0.0-0.10 mg1-1 NAA/IBA alone or in combination). The findings revealed that 0.05 mg1-1 NAA alone seems to be more effective for maximum percentage of root induction as well as number of root per shoot; however, the highest length of root per shoot was achieved on MS basal medium. Further, these rooted plantlets were transferred into clay pots containing different potting mixtures such as sand, soil, vermiculite FYM, pressmud and their combinations and were further examined for per cent survival of plantlets. The results showed that clay pots containing mixtures of vermiculite and FYM (1:1, v/v) was found most effective for maximum survival (percentage) of plantlets. The somatic embryoids were induced in the callus tissues derived from cotyledonary leaf explant, using various levels of NAA and sucrose in MS medium. The optimal level of NAA and sucrose for maximum number of Somatic embryos formation per explant were found to be 8 mg1-1 and 2% respectively. The addition of cytokinins either BA/Kn (0.05- 5.0 mg1-1 ) keeping NAA (8mg1-1) and sucrose (2.0% w/v) levels constant in the medium inhibited somatic embryogenesis.
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    EFFECTS OF SPACINGS AND APICAL NIPPING ON GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND YIELD OF OKRA ( Abelmoschus esculentus (L .), MONECH)
    (AAU, Anand, 1994) Patel, Maheshkumar Bhavanbhai; Panelia, J. R.
    A field experiment was conducted on sandy loam soil of Plant Breeding Farm, B. A. College of Agriculture, Gujarat Agricultural University, Anand Campus, Anand to study the "Effect of spacing and apical nipping on growth, development and yield of okra" during the year 1992. The experiment was laid out in split plot design with three replications. Spacing were relegated to main plot, while treatment of apical nipping in combination with variety were embeded in sub plot. There were twenty four treatment combinations comprising four spacing viz., 45 x 30 cm (S1), 45 x 45 cm (S2), 60 X 30 cm (S3) and 60 x 45 cm (S4), three stages of nipping viz. , nipping at 40 DAS (N1), nipping at 60 DAS ( N2) and no nipping i.e. control ( N 0 ) and two varieties viz Parabhani kranti (V1 ) and G0H-1 (V2).