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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: Genetics and Plant Breeding × Author: Pooja × End date: 2019 × Start date: 2014 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Genetic divergence analysis for morphological and biochemical traits in Desi cotton (Gossypium arboreum L.)
    (CCSHAU, 2019) Pooja; Pundir, S.R.
    The present investigation entitled “Genetic divergence analysis for morphological and biochemical traits in Desi cotton (Gossypium arboreum L.)” was carried out at the Research area of Cotton Section and Biochemistry Laboratory, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar (Haryana, India) during Kharif 2017-18. The observations were recorded for different quantitative and biochemical characters to assess the genetic diversity in 60 Desi cotton genotypes. The GCV and PCV were observed high for seed cotton yield /plant, plant height (cm), number of bolls /plant, lint yield /plant (g), and protein content (%). High heritability was observed for almost all the characters studied except number of monopods /plant. The highest genetic advance as percent of mean was recorded for traits like lint yield /plant (g), seed cotton yield /plant and gossypol content (%). Hence, on the basis of highest value for component of variation and variability parameter direct selection for traits would be most effective. Seed cotton yield /plant had a positive and highly significant correlation with trait like number of monopods /plant, number of bolls /plant, boll weight (g), lint yield /plant (g), seed index and lint index at genotypic level indicated that there was strong inherent association between these traits. On the basis of cluster analysis sixty Desi cotton genotypes were grouped into seven clusters, indicated the presence of substantial genetic diversity in the evaluated germplasm lines/genotypes. In this context, the highest intra-cluster distance was observed in cluster V and lowest in cluster II. The maximum inter-cluster distance were showed between clusters II and IV, whereas, the minimum inter cluster distance was noticed between cluster III and VII, followed by clusters I and II. The genotypes of cluster III viz; FFS-1, Garovilli, H 476-5, HD 10, HD 3 and HD 20 were best performing. Based on study of morphological genetic diversity, the genotypes viz., BH 92, DC-93, HD 5278, FFS-9, BH 102, AC 33, HD 351, HD 372, BH 41, N-W-1, HD 392, G 20 and G 23 showed sufficient amount of genetic diversity for yield and its component traits which may be used in cotton breeding programmes for further improvement.
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    Molecular characterization of diverse genotypes of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L. Em. Thell) for leaf and stripe rust resistance
    (CCSHAU, 2014) Pooja; Chawla, Veena
    The present investigation entitled “Molecular characterization of diverse genotypes of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L. Em. Thell) for leaf and stripe rust resistance” was conducted to evaluate 40 diverse genotypes of bread wheat for yield and its component traits for identification of the most promising wheat genotypes and to characterize these genotypes using Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) markers. Analysis of variance revealed considerable magnitude of variability among the diverse genotypes of bread wheat for all the traits. Genotypic coefficient of variation (GCV) was observed high for biological yield, grain yield per plant and tillers per plant. The differences between GCV and PCV values were minimum which show least influence of environment. High heritability was reported for biological yield, 1000-grain weight, ear length and number of grains per ear. Tillers per plant showed significant correlation with yield per plant. Biological yield (1.287) had the highest direct contribution towards grain yield per plant followed by harvest index (0.758), days to heading (0.173), number of tillers per plant (0.111) and ear length (0.092). So, direct selection of genotypes for grain yield through these traits may be effective. A total of 27 SSR primers were used in study. Three SSRs (Xgwm 582, LrK10-1AS and gwm344) did not show amplification of genomic DNA from different wheat genotypes. Only 24 SSRs (88.8%) showed amplification, of which 11 SSRs (40.7%) produced polymorphic bands while 13 SSRs produced monomorphic bands (44.4%). Size of amplified product in different genotypes ranged from 150-400 bp, a total of 44 alleles were detected with 1.83 as the average number of alleles detected.