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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: Seed Science and Technology × Author: Beniwal, Inderpal × Start date: 2010 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Effect of priming treatments on seed quality in greengram. (Vigna radiata L.)
    (CCSHAU, 2010) Beniwal, Inderpal; Dhaiya, O.S.
    The greengram (mung) is an important arid pulse crop, its significance lies in crop rotation and inter cropping as well on account of their ability to enrich soil by fixing atmospheric nitrogen and healthy diet. The material comprised of two seed lots (good quality=L1 and marginal = L2) of each of two popular varieties of greengram (Asha and Muskan). The different priming treatment (Hydration 14-16h, 2% CaCl2, 50 ppm GA3, hydration-dehydration+dry dressing with thiram @ 0.25% and 0.5% KNO3) were applied to all the variety lots and combination to assess their effect on seed quality. The significant mean sum of squares due to variety, lots and treatments and their interaction indicated the presence of sufficient amount of variation for most of the parameters studied. Lot L2 seeds showed better improvement over lot L1 for standard germination, shoot length, dry weight, vigour index-II, DHA, 50% flowering, days to maturity and yield. Whereas lot L1 showed better improvement in root length, vigour index-I, EC, speed of emeregence, seedling establishment and final plant stand. The variety Asha showed higher improvement in standard germination, shoot length, root length,dry weight, vogour index-I, vigour index-II, DHA, 50% flowering, days to maturity , speed of emeregence and yield. Muskan showed higher improvement in EC, DHA, seedling establishment, final plant stand and 50% flowering. Among various treatments hydration-dehydration + dry dresing with thiran @ 0.25% were found most effective for improving shoot length, dry weight, vigour index-I , vigour index-II, DHA, speed of emeregence, seedling establishment, final plant stand, 50% flowering, days to maturity and yield followed by hydration-dehydration. Therefore, it is concluded from this study that the germination level of marginal/ sub standard seed lots in greengram can be improved by using presowing seed treatments.