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Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola

Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola was established on 20th October, 1969 with its head-quarter at Akola. This Agricultural University was named after the illustrious son of Vidarbha Dr. Panjabrao (alias Bhausaheb) Deshmukh, who was the Minister for Agriculture,Govt. of India. The jurisdiction of this university is spread over the eleven districts of Vidarbha. According to the University Act 1983 (of the Government of Maharashtra), the University is entrusted with the responsibility of agricultural education, research and extension education alongwith breeder and foundation seed programme. The University has its main campus at Akola. The instructional programmes at main campus are spread over in 5 Colleges namely, College of Agriculture, College of Agricultural Engineering & Technology, College of Forestry, College of Horticulture and Post Graduate Institute. At this campus 4 degree programmes namely B.Sc.(Agri.) B.Sc. (Hort.), B.Sc. (Forestry) and B.Tech. (Ag. Engg.) , two Master’s Degree Programmes viz. M.Sc.(Agri.) and M.Tech. (Agri.Engg.) and Doctoral Degree Programmes in the faculties of Agriculture and Agril. Engineering are offered. The University has its sub-campus at Nagpur with constituent College, College of Agriculture which offers B.Sc.(Agri.) and M.Sc.(Agri.) degree programmes. The Nagpur Campus is accomplished with a garden, surrounded by its natural beauty and a well established Zoo which attract the general public and visitors to the city. A separate botanic Garden is being maintained on 22 hectares with a green house for the benefit of research workers. In addition there are 2 affiliated grant-in-aid colleges and 14 private non-grant-in-aid colleges under the umbrella of this University A Central Research Station is situated at the main Campus which caters to the need of research projects undertaken by Crop Scientists of the principle crops of the region are Cotton, Sorghum, Oilseeds and Pulses.

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Subject: Agricultural Biotechnology × Author: GANGURDE, ANUJA SUKLAL. × End date: 2018 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF JAVA CITRONELLA VARIANTS AND ENCAPSULATION OF OIL FOR SLOW RELEASE.
    (Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola., 2017-10-10) GANGURDE, ANUJA SUKLAL.; Akhare, Prof. A. A.
    The present investigation entitled “Morphological characterization of java citronella variants and encapsulation of oil for slow release” was carried out at Biotechnology Centre, Department of Agricultural Botany, Post Graduate Institute, Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola in academic year 2016-2017. Morphological characterization of five selected variants of in vitro mutagenized plants along with 4 promising control genotypes of java citronella i.e Bio-13, jalpallavi, medini and mandakini was done. On the basis of various qualitative character such as plant height(cm), number of tillers, leaf width (cm), leaf blade length (cm), yield parameter such as oil yield (100g/ml), biomass (g), morphological characters such as steam colour characterization was done. All the five variants of in vitro mutagenized plants have performed well for characters like plant height, number of tillers, leaf blade length and biomass but the variant 4 and 5 performed best over control genotypes for the character such as for plant height variant 4 (118.40) cm and variant 5 (113.60) cm, number of tillers (59.40),(61.93), leaf blade length (88.86) cm, (90.73) cm, Biomass (4204.47)g, (4526.69)g. While for characters like leaf width the variants were small as compared to control Bio-13 (2.0) cm, jalpallavi (1.78)cm High oil yield was recorded in variant 4, 5 (1.38), (1.40), Bio-13 (1.45), jalpallavi (1.42) 100g/ml. steam colour had shown variation from as green, light green, green brown, dark brown in variants and control genotypes respectively. Qualitative determination of oil constituents by thin layer chromatography was done by using different solvent system but among that Hexane : Ethyl acetate (80:20 v/v) has given best separation and identification of components .The components identified using this solvent system were geraniol with Rf value (0.77), (-)- citronellal (0.98), β-citronellol (0.80), (-)-β citronellol (0.81) with Greenish blue, Dark violet, Faint blue colour were obtained. The Oil in water (o/w) type chitosan encapsulated volatile Citronella Oil microcapsules were prepared with various concentration of chitosan ranging from (0.5 percent to 1.5 percent) and NaOH concentration ranging from (0.5 percent to 1.5 percent). The significant formlulation of microcapsules were obtained at 1.5 percent chitosan and 1 percent NaOH.The encapsulation effeciency of 95.61 percent was observed with storage stability upto 25 days.