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Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar

Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University popularly known as HAU, is one of Asia's biggest agricultural universities, located at Hisar in the Indian state of Haryana. It is named after India's seventh Prime Minister, Chaudhary Charan Singh. It is a leader in agricultural research in India and contributed significantly to Green Revolution and White Revolution in India in the 1960s and 70s. It has a very large campus and has several research centres throughout the state. It won the Indian Council of Agricultural Research's Award for the Best Institute in 1997. HAU was initially a campus of Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. After the formation of Haryana in 1966, it became an autonomous institution on February 2, 1970 through a Presidential Ordinance, later ratified as Haryana and Punjab Agricultural Universities Act, 1970, passed by the Lok Sabha on March 29, 1970. A. L. Fletcher, the first Vice-Chancellor of the university, was instrumental in its initial growth.

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Subject: Forestry × Author: Kavita × Start date: 1994 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    Characterization of seed sources of sissoo (Dalbergia sissoo roxb.) using molecular markers
    (CCSHAU, 2015) Kavita; Bimlendra Kumari
    The ecological and economic importance of Dalbergia sissoo and declination of its population in its natural habitat promoted the present study. Based on desired economically important characters, seed sources were selected from nine provenances covering different agro-ecological regions of Haryana. The progeny testing was done for one year in the nursery of Forestry department, CCS H.A.U., Hisar. Genetic diversity was evaluated by using RAPD markers. Significant variations were observed among the provenances as well as agroecological regions for all the plus tree characters viz., total height, diameter at breast height, clear bole height, crown spread and straightness. Correlation among most of the characters was also significant with maximum value 0.923 between total height and diameter at breast height. Variations among morphological characters of pods and seeds were significant. High heritability with high genetic advance was observed for pod and seed weight character. The maximum genotypic and phenotypic correlation (0.598 and 0.519) was observed between seeds per pod and 100 pod weight, and seed length and 100 seed weight, respectively. Ample genetic variation was also observed for germination percentage, seedling height, collar diameter, number of branches per seedling, height of first branch, root length, fresh weight and dry weight among the progenies of the selected plus trees. Fresh weight and dry weight characters were found highly significantly correlated, followed by root length and total height. Among all the progenies, the progeny of Ambala seed sources at a stage of six month and Hisar progenies at 12 month age was found outstanding. Genetic diversity among the plus tree progenies assessed with the help of 60 RAPD primers displayed the values of genetic similarity coefficient ranging from 0.49 to 0.81, which indicated a broad genetic base of Dalbergia sissoo in selected area of Haryana state.