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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: Zoology × Author: Arvind × Start date: 2011 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Quantitative and qualitative losses due to tyrophagus putrescentiae schrank (Acari: Acaridae) in wheat and its management
    (CCSHAU, 2014) Arvind; Gulati, Rachna
    The studies on quantitative and qualitative losses due to Tyrophagus putrescentiae infestation in wheat grains/flour revealed Amongst the two, wheat flour was found significantly better as more number of mites (2517.73 mobile stages and 1742.73 eggs/ 100g flour) was recorded than on wheat grains (643.16 mites and519.87 eggs/ 100g grain). Irrespective of the form of wheat, maximum number of mites (3605.53 mites/ 100 g wheat) was witnessed at 180 days which showed significant difference with mite numbers at other observation periods. Percent weight loss was significantly more (1.92%) on wheat flour, as compared to wheat grain (0.73%) showing highly significant positive correlation with T. putrescentiae population in grains (r= 0.98) and flour (r= 0.94). Qualitative estimation of infested grains and flour revealed the decrease in total soluble sugars (60.60, 54.71mg/1g), non reducing sugars (32.95, 24.97 mg/1g) and starch (367.35, 322.72mg/1g) after 180 days of infestation, respectively as compared to 67.16, 43.06 and 444.18 mg/1 g at 0 day; depicting significant negative correlation. However, the reducing sugars exhibited a significant increase from24.10 to 27.65, 29.74 mg/1g at 180 days of mite exposure in wheat grains and flour, respectively when subjected to initial count of 100 mite pairs, showing significant positive correlation. A significant positive correlation (r= 0.91) was recorded between protein content and mite population in wheat flour. Percent loss in wheat germination due to T. putrescentiae population at different durations was recorded as 4.67, 38, 60 and 77.34 percent after 0, 30, 90 and 180 days. Higher concentrations (2 and 1%) of leaf powder of Withania somnifera, Pongamia pinnata and Azadirachta indica in wheat grains caused 100 percent mortality in T. putrescentiae after 45 days post treatment.