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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: Plant Breeding × End date: 2017 × Start date: 2010 × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    Combining ability analysis and heterosis study involving CGMS lines in Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan L. Millsp.)
    (RAU, Pusa (Samastipur), 2013) Prasad, Yogendra; Mishra, S. B.
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    Generation Mean Study for Yield Components and Inheritance Pattern of Mungbean Yellow Mosaic Virus (MYMV) in Vigna.
    (Rajendra Agricultural University, 2011) Sinha, Sima; Mishra, S. B.
    The present investigation was conducted at Research Farm of Tirhut College of Agriculture, Dholi, Muzaffarpur, Bihar during 2009 - 2011. The experimental material comprising the sixty one genotypes including standard varieties (SML 668) involving three of each resistant as well as one of each susceptible variety of mung and urd beans to develop the six intra and four inter specific crosses comprising the P1, P2, F1, F2, BC1 and BC2 population were grown in RBD design with three replications in two sets of experiment including and excluding parent. Observations were recorded for thirteen quantitative traits including the yield. Significant differences among the genotypes for all the character in both sets of experiment were observed. On the basis of mean performance fourteen genotypes were found significantly superior than check SML 668 for phenol content, among them Uttara x LGG 450 was having the highest phenol content (2.03 mg/g of fresh leaf). For grain yield only one treatment HUM 16 x LGG 450 exhibited significant superior over the check variety SML 668. For all the characters PCV was slightly higher than GCV. High heritability coupled with high GA was observed for all the traits except pod per cluster, days to 50 per cent flowering and days to maturity. Grain yield exhibited positive and significant correlation with 100 seed weight and grains per pod alongwith their positive and high direct effects in both sets of the experiment. Based on the joint scaling test few intraspecific combinations showed the presence of epistasis; whereas in most of the interspecific crosses epistasis was observed. As per the three parameters model additive and/or dominant components seems to play an important role in the inheritance of most of the yield attributing traits in intra and interspecific crosses. As evident from the six parameter model, preponderance of significant reducing (-ve) additive gene effects in intraspecific crosses, whereas additive and dominance components were equally important in interspecific crosses for the expression of most of the yield attributing traits. Among epistatic interactions additive x additive gene effects for days to 50 per cent flowering and dominant x dominant gene effect for 100 seed weight in four intraspecific crosses, whereas in interspecific crosses all three types of epistatic interactions were observed for the expression of most of the yield attributing traits. In most of the intra as well as inter specific crosses duplicate type of epistasis was observed. For most of the yield attributing traits desirable heterosis was observed in intraspecific crosses TMB 37 x LGG 450 and Sekhar x Barabanki, whereas in interspecific cross PU 31 x LGG 450 were found promising. In Vigna the MYMV resistance is found digenic recessive in nature.