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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: Plant Breeding × Author: Rakesh Kumar × End date: 2008 × Start date: 2003 × Type: Thesis ×
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    Phenotypic Stability And Genetic Diversity In Pea ( Pisum Sativum L.)
    (Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University; Hisar, 2005) Rakesh Kumar; Ram Dhari
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    Stability analysis and molecular characterization of elite pearlmillet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.] hybrids
    (CCSHAU, 2007) Rakesh Kumar; Chhabra, A.K.
    Two experiments were conducted to study the stability, correlation and path coefficient for eleven traits in thirty hybrids of pearlmillet at three locations and to molecularly charcterize these hybrids with proteins and isoenzyme profiles. Significant genotypic differences were observed for all the traits in all the three environments. Estimates of environment index revealed that E1 (irrigated condition at Hisar) was the most favourable environment for all of the characters. The G x E interaction was highly significant for all the characters. The estimates of stability parameters of individual genotype revealed that hybrids HHB-146 and HHB-197 were most ideal hybrid. Besides high grain yield, it exhibited stable performance across the environments for harvest index, plant height ,total tillers and ear length. Correlation study revealed that grain yield was significantly and positively correlated with harvest index, ear girth, effective tillers, dry fodder yield and biological yield in all the three environments. The path coefficient analysis suggested the importance of biological yield as it has direct positive effect and indirect effect on grain yield in all environments. Hence, while breeding for increased grain yield main emphasis should be given on biological yield. In another experiment proteins and isoenzyme profiles produced a lot of polymorphic bands. However, they also detected some unique bands useful for fingerprinting of hybrids/male parents/female parents so these can play important role in registration of plant material and pedigree studies.