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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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    INFLUENCE OF IRRIGATION AND FERTILIZATION ON YIELD AND CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF MUSTARD (VARUNA)
    (AAU, Anand, 1979) PATEL, MOHANBHAI U.; Patel, N. A.
    A split-plot experiment was undertaken on loamy sand of Anand with a view to study the influence of irrigation and fertilization on yield and chemical composition of mustard (varuna). Irrigation intervals at 15, 25 and 35 days were tried as main-plot treatments. Three levels of N viz., 0, 50 and 75 kg N/ha and two levels of P viz., 0 and 50 kg P2O5/ha were tried as sub-plot treatments. Plant components viz., seed, stalk and shell were chemically analysed.
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    BIOLOGY AND CONTROL MEASURES OF SESAMUM LEAF WEBBER, ANTIGASTRA CATALAUNALIS DUP. (PYRALIDAE ; LEPIDOPTERA) ON SESAMUM, SESAMUM INDICUM L.
    (AAU, Anand, 1978) PATEL, PRAVINKUMAR U.; Patel, R. C.
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    HETEROSIS, GENE ACTION AND HERITABILITY IN FORAGE SORGHUM, Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench
    (AAU, Anand, 1978) Kukadia, M. U.; Singhania, D. L.
    In the present investigation informations on magnitude of heterosis, natire of gene action and estimate of heritability were obtained for forage yield, its components and two forage quality traits ( T.S.S. and leaf-stem ratio) following diallel analysis involving six elite lines in sorghum. Highly significant magnitude of positive heterosis for forage yield and its components in the crosses involving elite lines as parents pointed out that there is a great possibility of exploiting heterosis commercially provided the male-sterile lines with disirable forage characteristics are developed. Combining ability analysis indicated the preponderance of additive and additive x additive type of gene action for days to bloom, number of leaves, panicle length, fifth leaf area and T.S.S. These characters were also observed to be highly heritable. For plant height, flag leaf area and leaf-stem ratio the estimates of variance due to sea were predominant but for forage yield and stem diameter both gca and sea were equally important. Graphical analysis also suggested the additive or partial dominance type of gene action for all the characters except for plant height, flag leaf area and leaf-stem ratio; for the se characters overdominance was observed. The relative position of array points on Vr, Wr graphs indicated that the parental varieties Vidisha and Rio had high accumulation of desirable genes.
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    STUDIES ON FLORAL BIOLOGY, MALE-STERILITY AND GERMINATION IN ISABGUL (Plantago Ovata Forsk)
    (AAU, Anand, 1978) PATEL, NARANBHAI H.; Dalal, K. C.
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    FIELD EVALUATION OF NEW INSECTICIDES AGAINST TOBACCO LEAF EATING CATERPILLAR SPODOPTERA LITURA (FABRICIUS)
    (AAU, Anand, 1979) PATEL, A. R.; Chari, M. S.
    Tobacco leaf eating caterpillar(Spodoptera litura F.) is a serious pest of Virginia, Bidi and Chewing tobaccos. The following new insecticides viz. Endosulfan 0.053%, pirimicarb 0.15%, phenthoate 0.1%, fenvalerate 0.01%, UC 51762 0.15%, methamidophos 0.12%, etrimfos 0.05%, quinal phos 0.05%, phoxim 0.075%, acephate 0.08%, monocrotophos 0.04%, phosalone 0.053%, trichlorfon 0.05%, carbaryl 0.1% and chlorpyriphos 0.04% were screened for their efficacy against S. litura. The results of two years (1977-78 and 1978-79) trial indicated that endosulfan(Endocel) 0.053% is the most effective and economic insecticide with an incremental cost benefit ratio of 1:29.0.
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    ECONOMICS OF BIDI TOBACCO CULTIVATION IN BARODA DISTRICT (GUJARAT)
    (AAU, Anand, 1979) PATEL, J. M.; SINGH, S. B.
    The main object of the present investigation was to study the economics of bidi tobacco cultivation in Baroda district (Gujarat). Out of 12 talukas in the district, 3 talukas, viz., Savli, Saroda and Padra were considered under study which accounted for 96.32 per cent of the total tobacco area in the district. A stratified two stage random sampling design with villages as the primary and operational holdings as the ultimate units of study was used for selecting the sample for this study. The study covered 9 villages and 92 bidi tobacco growers 30 small (below 2 hectares), 31 medium (2 to 4 hectares) and 31 large (4 hectares and above) farms. The study covered the agricultural year 1978-79 and data were collected by survey method during the months of April and May, 1979.
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    EFFECT OF METHODS AND LEVELS OF NITROGEN ON THE YIELD AND CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF RICE VARIETY GR-11
    (AAU, Anand, 1978) MODI, JAYANTILAL P.; Patel, K. A.
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    GAMMA-RAY INDUCED GENETIC VARIABILITY, POLLEN DISPERSAL AND SEED SET IN ISABGUL (PLANTAGO OVATA FORSK)
    (AAU, Anand, 1979) PATEL, DIWAKER R.; DALAL, K. C.
    Field experiments were conducted to study radio sensitivity of isabgul to gamma-rays, the effect of length, type, mode and duration of enclosures on seed set, the desirability of powerloom cloth bag for selfing whole plant and pollen dispersal in isabgul crop. (1) In M2 generation, positive significant shifts in means were observed for characters length of spike and number of tillers per plant. Mutagenic treatments of gamma rays increased variability in M2 generation in the progenies for most of the characters. Early maturing types were obtained from irradiated populations. The highest values of genetic variance accompanied by corresponding genetic parameters were observed at both, higher and lower doses of gamma rays for dofferent characters. Forty and eighty Kr doses of gamma rays were most effective in inducing variability for maturity and synchronous flowering.However, 40 Kr dose of gamma rays was suggested for improvement in other characters.
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    GENE EFFECT STUDIES IN BIDI TOBACCO
    (AAU, Anand, 1979) B., SASIKUMAR.; JAISANI, B. G.
    Bidi tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) is one of the important cash crops of India, especially Gujarat. Considering, the important of tobacco in national economy it is but proper that due attention is paid for its development as well as qualitative and quantitative improvement. But unlike fcv tobacco, information on the genetics of bidi tobacco is very scanty. A sound breeding methodology rests on the knowledge of gene effects governing yield and other agro-morphological characters as well as the genetic variability present in the base material. Hence, this study was undertaken to know the gene effects governing yield and other agro-morphological characters, genetic divergance existing among the bidi tobacco genotypes and genetic advance for cured leaf yield.