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Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar

After independence, development of the rural sector was considered the primary concern of the Government of India. In 1949, with the appointment of the Radhakrishnan University Education Commission, imparting of agricultural education through the setting up of rural universities became the focal point. Later, in 1954 an Indo-American team led by Dr. K.R. Damle, the Vice-President of ICAR, was constituted that arrived at the idea of establishing a Rural University on the land-grant pattern of USA. As a consequence a contract between the Government of India, the Technical Cooperation Mission and some land-grant universities of USA, was signed to promote agricultural education in the country. The US universities included the universities of Tennessee, the Ohio State University, the Kansas State University, The University of Illinois, the Pennsylvania State University and the University of Missouri. The task of assisting Uttar Pradesh in establishing an agricultural university was assigned to the University of Illinois which signed a contract in 1959 to establish an agricultural University in the State. Dean, H.W. Hannah, of the University of Illinois prepared a blueprint for a Rural University to be set up at the Tarai State Farm in the district Nainital, UP. In the initial stage the University of Illinois also offered the services of its scientists and teachers. Thus, in 1960, the first agricultural university of India, UP Agricultural University, came into being by an Act of legislation, UP Act XI-V of 1958. The Act was later amended under UP Universities Re-enactment and Amendment Act 1972 and the University was rechristened as Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology keeping in view the contributions of Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant, the then Chief Minister of UP. The University was dedicated to the Nation by the first Prime Minister of India Pt Jawaharlal Nehru on 17 November 1960. The G.B. Pant University is a symbol of successful partnership between India and the United States. The establishment of this university brought about a revolution in agricultural education, research and extension. It paved the way for setting up of 31 other agricultural universities in the country.

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Subject: Vegetable Science × End date: 2008 × Start date: 2005 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    Inheritance Of Segmented Leaf And Fruit Shape In Bottle Gourd (Lagenaria Siceraria (Molina) Standl.)
    (Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology;Pantnagar, 2005) Tiwari, Akhilesh; Ram, Hari Har
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    Heterosis combining ability and D2 analysis for quantitative traits in brinjal (Solanum melongena L.)
    (G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar (Uttarakhand), 2005) Verma, Alka; Singh, Y.V.
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    Variability, character correlations and genetic divergence studies in potato (Solanum tuberosum L.)
    (Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology;Pantnagar, 2006) Shashi Kamal; Singh, N.P.
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    Stability parameters development of superior hybrids and seed protein profiling in cucumber {Cucumis sativus L}
    (Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology;Pantnagar, 2006) Singh, Anita; Hari Har Ram
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    Adaptability analysis hybrid breeding and seed protein electrophoresis in bottle gourd [lagenaria siceraria (mol.) standi]
    (Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology;Pantnagar, 2006) Upadhyay, Megha; Hari Har Ram
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    Stability analysis heterosis and seed protein electrophoresis in bitter gourd [Momordica charantia L.]
    (Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology;Pantnagar, 2006) Shweta Rani; Hari Har Ram
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    Studies on selection procedures in vegetable pea (Pisum sativum L.)
    (G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar (Uttarakhand), 2005) Pratibha; Singh, Y.V.
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    Stability analysis for growth, yield and quality characters in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.)
    (G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand), 2008-08) Thapliyal, Alok; Singh, J.P.
    Thirty three genotypes of tomato were evaluated in Randomized Block Design (RBD) with three replications to study the stability behaviour of tomato genotypes at Vegetable Research Centre, Pantnagar under three environmental conditions (summer and winter of 2006 and winter of 2007) for thirteen characters namely, plant height, number of primary branches per plant, days to 50% flowering, number of flower clusters per plant, days to 50% fruit set, days taken to first harvest, days taken to last harvest, average fruit weight (g), locules per fruit, number of fruits per plant, weight of fruits per plant, fruit yield (q/ha) and TSS (%). The analysis of variance revealed the presence of genotype-environment interaction for ten characters namely, plant height, days to 50% flowering, number of flower clusters per plant, days to 50% fruit set, days taken to first harvest, days taken to last harvest, average fruit weight (g), fruit weight per plant, number of fruits per plant and yield (q/ha). The linear component of G × E interaction were highly significant for days to 50% flowering, number of flower clusters per plant, average fruit weight, fruit weight per plant, number of fruits per plant and yield (q/ha), The non-linear component of G × E interaction were highly significant for plant height, days to 50% flowering, number of flower clusters per plant, days to 50% fruit set, days taken to first harvest, days taken to last harvest, average fruit weight (g), weight of fruits per plant, number of fruits per plant and fruit yield (q/ha). The deviation from regression was significant for most of the genotypes for plant height, days to first harvest, days to last harvest, fruit weight per plant, number of fruits per plant and yield (q/ha). Two genotypes namely, Ajeet-11 and VR-20 were adjudged superior and also stable for the character mean fruit weight. For number of fruits per plant, BCTH-62, BSS-437, KS-227, KS-229 and Pant T-7 were found to be suitable for high yielding environments. For yield (q/ha), Ajeet-11, PTH-68, BSS-571, HATH-9, Pant T-8 and Pant T-7 appeared promising under favorable environment. The genotypes Aruna, ATL-02-39, Pant T-7 and Pant T-10 were found promising for TSS (%) over a wide range of environments. The genotype Pant T-8 and Pant T-7 was found most stable with regards to yield. Despite of yield Pant T-8 also showed stability for fruit weight per plant, however, Pant T-7 showed stability for another yield attributing character i.e., number of fruits per plant. Similarly, the genotypes CLN 2413R and CLN 2026M also exhibited stability for two important yield contributing traits i.e., mean fruit weight and fruit weight per plant.
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    Study on morphological and biochemical variations and hybrid breeding in ash gourd [Benincasa hispida (Thunb.) Cogn.]
    (G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand), 2008-06) Singhal, Preeti; Singh, D.K.
    The present investigation was undertaken consisted of three experiments: (I) evaluation of twenty-three germplasm lines of ash gourd for genetic variability and correlation studies, (II) determination of combining ability, components of genetic variation and heterosis in a half diallel cross involving six parental lines (PAG-10, PAG-12, PAG-16, PAG-41, PAG-60 and PAG-65).Pant Petha-1 was used as a standard check and (III) sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) of seed protein for detecting variation in protein banding pattern at G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar (U.S. Nagar), Uttarakhand, India. Evaluation of twenty-three germplasm lines was done over two seasons viz., summer 2006 and kharif 2006 and six parental lines and their 15 F1 hybrids during summer 2007. The experiments were laid out in a randomized block design (RBD) using three replications. The traits under study were main vine length (m), number of primary branches, days to first male flower anthesis, node number to first male flower, days to first female flower anthesis, node number to first female flower, fruit length (cm), fruit diameter (cm), seed cavity length (cm), seed cavity diameter (cm), flesh thickness (cm), number of seeds per fruit (not recorded in half diallel cross), fruit weight (kg), number of fruits per plant, fruit yield per plant (kg), fruit shape, stem end fruit shape, bottom end fruit shape, fruit colour and flesh colour. There was sufficient variability among the germplasm lines for all the traits studied. PAG-50, Pant Petha-1, PAG-64, PAG-12, PAG-14 and PAG-09 were the high yielding germplasm lines. High genetic variability and heritability accompanied with high genetic advance was estimated for number of fruits per plant and yield per plant. The traits like, number of primary branches, flesh thickness, fruit weight and number of fruits per plant were significantly and positively correlated with yield per plant. The genotypic difference due to parents, F1s and parents vs F1s were highly significant for all the characters except main vine length (parents) and node number to first male and female flower (parents vs F1s). The GCA and SCA mean squares were highly significant for all the characters. The SCA mean squares were larger in magnitude than GCA mean squares except node number to first male and female flower, seed cavity diameter and number of fruits per plant. The two parental lines namely, PAG-16 and PAG-12 were the superior lines based on their GCA, mean performance and their contribution to give better heterotic combinations as compared to other parental lines. The component of genetic variances indicated the dominant role of non-additive gene action for most of the characters. . The crosses PAG-12×PAG-65, PAG-16×PAG-41 and PAG-12×PAG-16 were found to be best heterotic combinations along with best SCA effects for most of the economic traits and are worth exploiting on commercial scale. These crosses yielded 36.87 kg, 34.68 kg and 33.45 kg per plant, respectively as compared to 23.48 kg per plant of standard check Pant Petha-1. The seed protein profile of twenty-four germplasm revealed total of thirteen protein bands. The PAG-50 was found the most diverse germplasm line on the basis of seed protein profile. Amongst the diallel progeny, seed protein profile with total of eleven bands was obtained. Moreover, the higher similarity among diallel progeny as compared to that of different germplasms, indicates the closer relationship among diallel progeny.