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Chaudhary Sarwan Kumar Himachal Pradesh Agriculture University, Palampur

Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya (renamed as Chaudhary Sarwan Kumar Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya in June, 2001) was established on 1st November, 1978.The College of Agriculture (established in May, 1966) formed the nucleus of the new farm University. It is ICAR accredited and ISO 9001:2015 certified institution. The Indian Council of Agricultural Research has ranked this University at eleventh place among all farm universities of the country. The University has been given the mandate for making provision for imparting education in agriculture and other allied branches of learning, furthering the advancement of learning and prosecution of research and undertaking extension of such sciences, especially to the rural people of Himachal Pradesh. Over the years, this University has contributed significantly in transforming the farm scenario of Himachal Pradesh. It has developed human resources, varieties and technologies and transferred these to farming community enabling the State to receive the “Krishikarman award” of Govt. of India four times in row for food grain production among small states of the country. Today, the State has earned its name for hill agricultural diversification and the farming community has imposed its faith in the University.

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    PRODUCTION OF SEMI-DWARF AND BLAST RESISTANT DERIVATIVES OF RANBIR BASMATI USING ANTHER CULTURE AND MARKER-ASSISTED-SELECTION
    (CSKHPKV, Palampur, 2019-02) Samal, Prabhudut; Rathour, Rajeev
    Rice blast is one of the most important fungal diseases in rice, which is caused by the fungus Magnaporthe oryzae (syn: Pyricularia oryzae Cav.). The disease not only causes reduction in yield but also results in chalky and sterile grains thus ultimately deteriorating the grain quality in Basmati rice. The present investigation was aimed at development of the semi-dwarf and blast resistant fixed derivatives of a traditional Basmati rice variety Ranbir Basmati through introgression of blast resistance gene Pi-9 and a recessive semi-dwarfing gene sd-1 from a Basmati donor PB1(Pi9). Of the total 388 BC2F2 plants of cross Ranbir Basmati*3/ PB1(Pi9) subjected to marker-assisted foreground selection, 23 were found to be homozygous for both the genes Pi-9 and sd-1. Of the 12459 anthers of BC2F2 progenies of plant JKR-1-29-100 only 68 formed calli, whereas 28 calli were induced from the 6043 anthers obtained from BC2F2 progenies of JKR1-34-16. A total of 37 plantlets were regenerated from the 96 anther derived calli of the selected BC2F2 progenies with overall regeneration frequency of 38.54%. A significant proportion of regenerated plantlets were albinos. Of the total 37 regenerated plantlets 21 (56.75%) were green, while the remaining 16 (43.24%) were albinos. The overall anther culture response of the BC2F2 derivatives of cross Ranbir Basmati*3/ PB1(Pi9) was very low (0.11%) as only 21 green plantlets could be regenerated from the 18502 cultured anthers. The analysis of yield and its component traits in anther culture derived doubled haploid (DH) plants revealed the presence of superior transgressive segregants for the traits viz., effective tillers, grains per panicle and yield per plant; some of the DH plants out performed both the parental genotypes for these traits. Two DH lines, DH-6 and DH-11, besides being semi-dwarf and highly resistant to blast, exhibited yield, maturity and grain quality attributes (except grain length) comparable or better than Ranbir Basmati. These lines can be further evaluated for yield and blast resistance under multi-location yield trials to assess their potential as new varieties.