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Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa

In the imperial Gazetteer of India 1878, Pusa was recorded as a government estate of about 1350 acres in Darbhanba. It was acquired by East India Company for running a stud farm to supply better breed of horses mainly for the army. Frequent incidence of glanders disease (swelling of glands), mostly affecting the valuable imported bloodstock made the civil veterinary department to shift the entire stock out of Pusa. A British tobacco concern Beg Sutherland & co. got the estate on lease but it also left in 1897 abandoning the government estate of Pusa. Lord Mayo, The Viceroy and Governor General, had been repeatedly trying to get through his proposal for setting up a directorate general of Agriculture that would take care of the soil and its productivity, formulate newer techniques of cultivation, improve the quality of seeds and livestock and also arrange for imparting agricultural education. The government of India had invited a British expert. Dr. J. A. Voelcker who had submitted as report on the development of Indian agriculture. As a follow-up action, three experts in different fields were appointed for the first time during 1885 to 1895 namely, agricultural chemist (Dr. J. W. Leafer), cryptogamic botanist (Dr. R. A. Butler) and entomologist (Dr. H. Maxwell Lefroy) with headquarters at Dehradun (U.P.) in the forest Research Institute complex. Surprisingly, until now Pusa, which was destined to become the centre of agricultural revolution in the country, was lying as before an abandoned government estate. In 1898. Lord Curzon took over as the viceroy. A widely traveled person and an administrator, he salvaged out the earlier proposal and got London’s approval for the appointment of the inspector General of Agriculture to which the first incumbent Mr. J. Mollison (Dy. Director of Agriculture, Bombay) joined in 1901 with headquarters at Nagpur The then government of Bengal had mooted in 1902 a proposal to the centre for setting up a model cattle farm for improving the dilapidated condition of the livestock at Pusa estate where plenty of land, water and feed would be available, and with Mr. Mollison’s support this was accepted in principle. Around Pusa, there were many British planters and also an indigo research centre Dalsing Sarai (near Pusa). Mr. Mollison’s visits to this mini British kingdom and his strong recommendations. In favour of Pusa as the most ideal place for the Bengal government project obviously caught the attention for the viceroy.

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Subject: Genetics and Plant Breeding × Author: Bharati, Suraj Prakash × Start date: 2014 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Study of chemically induced variation in Agro-morphological characters of wheat under heat stress
    (Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa (Samastipur), 2017) Bharati, Suraj Prakash; Kant, Ravi
    The present study was under taken with five plant growth regulating hormonesviz., Glycine betaine (600PPM) (T2), Salicylic acid (800PPM) (T3), Salicylic acid (400 PPM) (T4), Ascorbic acid (10 PPM)(T5), Tocopherol (150 PPM) (T6) and control (T1) on two varieties HD-2733 (normal sown condition) and HD-2985 (late sown condition) with objective to access induced variation and differential influence created on fifteen agro-morphological traits including yield and seed quality attributes. Analysis of variance revealed highly significant differences among entries in respect of all the agro-morphological traits under study in both conditions i.e. normal and late sown except for number of tiller per plant in late sown condition. Studies of mean performance under normal sown condition revealed that a wide range of variation was induced due to effect of treatment under normal sown condition and underdelayed sown conditionfor all agro-morphological traits under study. Significant positive correlation of grain yield per plant was obtained with number of tillers per plant, 1000 grain weight, harvest index, and seed germination per cent under normal sown condition whereas for plant height, 1000 grain weight and harvest index under delayed condition. Study of cause and effect analysis under normal sown condition also revealed that grain yield per plant is positive correlation associated with number of tiller per plant, pollen fertility per cent, spikelet fertility per cent, number of grain per ear whereas under delayed sown condition it was also positive correlation associated with days to flowering, pollen fertility per cent, flag leaf area, number of grain per ear, 1000 grain weight, harvest index and vigour index. The regression of seed yield on fifteen agro-morphological traits viz., days to maturity, pollen fertility per cent, spikelet fertility per cent, number of tiller per plant, ear length, 1000 grain weight, harvest index, seed germination per cent and viability per cent recorded maximum values of R2 (0.9393) under normal sown condition, while under delayed sown condition, the traits like, days to flowering, days to maturity, number of grain per ear,1000 grain weight, harvest index and viability per cent recorded maximum values of R2 (0.9035). Hence, selection based on these characters would be more effective for yield improvement. Treatment T2 i.e., Glycine betaine (600 PPM), showed significant effect on highest grain yield per plant via, different agro-morphological character mentioned above for normal and delayed sown condition. Yield enhancement due to effect of Treatment T2 Glycine betaine (600 PPM) was recorded 41.30% higher under normal sown condition whereas 44.92% higher under late sown condition in comparison to control. On seed quality traits also showed significant positive effect of Treatment T2 Glycine betaine (600 PPM) was observed for seed germination per cent and viability per cent and no effect on vigour index of seed under both normal and delayed sown condition.