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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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Author: Suman × End date: 2019 × Start date: 2010 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Residue dynamics and leaching potential of chlorantraniliprole in chilli crop
    (CCSHAU, 2017) Suman; Sushil
    The main objective of this study was to understand the persistence behaviour of new novel insecticide chlorantraniliprole (coragen 18.5 SC) in chilli fruit and its leaching behaviour in sandy loam soil. Recovery experiments were carried out at 0.01 and 0.05 μg/g fortification level in both chilli and soil samples for which average recoveries were found to be 85.23% and 87.46% in chilli samples and 85.92% and 87.11% in soil samples respectively. For dissipation / persistence study a field experiment was conducted following application of single dose (30 g a.i./ha) and double dose (60 g a.i./ha) on chilli crop. The initial residues of CAP at single and double doses were 3.16 and 4.68 mg/kg. Residues persisted upto 7th and 15th day in single and double doses respectively, after which BDL (0.01 mg/kg) comes. For single dose half-life value was of 1.18 days with degradation rate constant (k) value of 0.58 day -1. For double dose half-life was 2.05 days with degradation rate constant (k) value of 0.33 day-1. Leaching behavior of CAP in soil was studied at single (5.6 μg) and double dose (11.2 μg) respectively, for which soil plexi columns were packed and percolated with 35 ml of tap water after each 24 hours. Total amount of CAP recovered out of 5.6 and 11.2 μg were 82.40% and 81.42% from single and double doses respectively. Maximum retention of pesticide in both doses was in 0-5 cm soil core i.e. 79.82% in single dose and 79.11% in double dose. None of the leachate fractions from both the treatments showed the presence of chlorantraniliprole residue considering it safe for ground water table after field application.
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    Screening and characterization of Mesorhizobium ciceri isolates for antagonistic effect to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceri
    (CCSHAU, 2010) Suman; Yadav, A.S.
    Screening and characterization of Mesorhizobium ciceri isolates for antagonistic effect to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceri” was investigated on 207 isolates obtained from the nodules of chickpea plant. The growth of these 207 isolates was checked on YEMA Congo red medium. Out of 207 isolates, 117 were fast growing and 90 were slow growing rhizobia. These 207 isolates were screened for their anagonistic effect against Fusarium oxysporum. Out of 207 isolates, seven isolates were found to be antagonistic to F. oxysporum. Size of inhibition zone varied among the seven isolates from 5 mm to 15 mm. MC99 produced the largest inhibition zone. These seven isolates were further studied for antibiotic, siderophore, indole acetic acid (IAA) production and phosphate solubilization. None of the seven isolates was producing antibiotic. Out of these seven isolates, MC84, MC96, MC99 were producing siderophore and MC69, MC180, MC183 and MC190 were not producing siderophore. So, the mechanism of antagonism might be different in all these isolates. All the seven isolates were produing IAA, which varied among these isolates. The isolate MC99 was producing maximum indole acetic acid. None of the seven isolates was solubilizing tricalcium phosphate. In the present study, the isolate MC99 was found to be having maximum antagonistic activity against F. oxysporum, as it produced maximum zone of inhibition against this fungus. It had also the maximum amount of IAA and siderophore.
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    Effect of cooking methods on nutritional quality of rice (Oryza sativa L.) varieties
    (CCSHAU, 2011) Suman; Boora, Pinky
    The present study was conducted to analyze the physico-chemical properties of six varieties viz., Improved Pusa Basmati-I, Taraori Basmati (HBC 19) and CSR 30 of basmati; HKR 47, HKR 127 and IRBB 60 of coarse rice. The effects of ordinary, pressure, microwave and solar cooking methods were assessed for cooking characteristics, sensory attributes and nutritional composition of varieties. The study revealed that Taraori Basmati and Improved Pusa Basmati had significantly longer grains, higher l/b ratio, true density and porosity and coarse varieties had significantly more grain breadth, thickness, seed wt. and swelling capacity than other varieties. Moisture, crude protein, fat, ash and crude fibre contents in varieties ranged from 10.55 to 12.02, 6.94 to 8.53, 0.63 to 0.90, 0.47 to 0.63 and 0.45 to 0.54 g/100 g, respectively. The protein fractions albumin, globulin, prolamin and glutelin in varieties varied from 5.62 to 6.99, 12.9 to 16.0, 4.27 to 5.15 and 72.4 to 77.2 per cent, respectively. The starch, amylose, total soluble sugars, reducing sugars and non-reducing sugars ranged from 74.48 to 79.05, 18.20 to 24.21, 2.35 to 2.87, 0.57 to 0.65 and 1.78 to 2.25 g/100 g, respectively. The in vitro protein and starch digestibility of varieties ranged from 60.9 to 75.7 and 44.83 to 50.03 per cent, respectively. Varieties differed significantly in total Ca, P, Mg, Fe and Zn contents and their values ranged from 14.85 to 16.65, 165.44 to 174.08, 46.91 to 52.24, 2.17 to 2.57 and 1.30 to 1.59 mg/100 g, respectively. The respective values of HCl extractability of minerals varied from 37.02 to 41.23, 49.28 to 56.6, 57.75 to 61.10, 53.81 to 62.93 and 23.45 to 26.46 per cent in varieties. Improved Pusa Basmati-I and Taraori Basmati had significantly higher elongation ratio, lower volume expansion ratio and water uptake ratio and higher mean scores for all sensory parameters. The cooking time was 16.3, 6.2, 14.0 and 48.9 minutes in ordinary, pressure, microwave and solar cooking methods, respectively. Among various methods, rice cooked in pressure cooker had higher elongation ratio, whereas, microwave cooked rice had less volume expansion ratio and better sensory attributes. After cooking, moisture increased significantly, whereas, crude protein, fat, ash and crude fibre contents decreased significantly under all cooking methods with values ranging from 7.30 to 7.55, 0.51 to 0.61, 0.44 to 0.48 and 0.43 to 0.45 g/100 g, respectively. After cooking, the glutelin fraction of protein increased while other fractions decreased significantly. Cooking by all methods increased the starch content (2.6 to 4.3%) and decreased total soluble sugars, reducing sugars and non reducing sugars but did not influenced the amylose content. The in vitro protein and starch digestibility upon cooking by all methods increased significantly and ranged from 81.87 to 86.60 and 90.60 to 92.14 per cent, respectively. The per cent decrease for total Ca, P, Mg, Fe and Zn ranged from 16.7 to 22.2, 24.7 to 29.2, 11.2 to 15.0, 23.2 to 31.2 and 12.5 to 15.3 but their HCl extractability increased by 19.0 to 24.1, 12.7 to 17.3, 13.1 to 17.8, 16.2 to 19.3 and 9.9 to 12.9 per cent upon cooking by various methods, respectively. All the cooking methods did not differ significantly in respect of ash, crude fibre, crude protein, starch, amylose, Ca, Mg and Zn contents, HCl extractability of Ca and Zn and starch digestibility.
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    Phenotyping and genotyping for salt tolerance of KHARCHIA65 X HD2285 F2 population in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.em.Thell)
    (CCSHAU, 2014) Suman; Shikha Yashveer
    Experiments were conducted to validate markers (Nax1 and Nax2) for salinity tolerance and phenotyping and genotyping of F 2 Population of cross Kharchia65x HD2285. Net house evaluation data showed enormous variation among Kharchia65x HD2285F 2 plants including plant height (cm), No. of tillers per plant, ear length (cm), No. of grains /ear, No. of spikelets/spike, No. of grains/spikelet, grain yield per plant, 1000 grain weight (g), biological yield/plant (g), harvest index (%) and germination percentage under salt stress condition. ). 90 plants were selected with high yield per plant and their tolerance to salt stress but only 20 plants were found to be Nax2 positive. All the 20 F 2 plants clustered in two major groups at the similarity coefficient of 0.43. Major group 1 consisted of parent HD2285 while major group II had Kharchia65 and all F 2 plants. This is the probably the first report where Nax2 has been validated in Kharchia65 and it clearly indicates that a linked marker like Nax2 could provide a valuable tool for breeding wheat with enhanced tolerance to salinity conditions.