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Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat

Assam Agricultural University is the first institution of its kind in the whole of North-Eastern Region of India. The main goal of this institution is to produce globally competitive human resources in farm sectorand to carry out research in both conventional and frontier areas for production optimization as well as to disseminate the generated technologies as public good for benefitting the food growers/produces and traders involved in the sector while emphasizing on sustainability, equity and overall food security at household level. Genesis of AAU - The embryo of the agricultural research in the state of Assam was formed as early as 1897 with the establishment of the Upper Shillong Experimental Farm (now in Meghalaya) just after about a decade of creation of the agricultural department in 1882. However, the seeds of agricultural research in today’s Assam were sown in the dawn of the twentieth century with the establishment of two Rice Experimental Stations, one at Karimganj in Barak valley in 1913 and the other at Titabor in Brahmaputra valley in 1923. Subsequent to these research stations, a number of research stations were established to conduct research on important crops, more specifically, jute, pulses, oilseeds etc. The Assam Agricultural University was established on April 1, 1969 under The Assam Agricultural University Act, 1968’ with the mandate of imparting farm education, conduct research in agriculture and allied sciences and to effectively disseminate technologies so generated. Before establishment of the University, there were altogether 17 research schemes/projects in the state under the Department of Agriculture. By July 1973, all the research projects and 10 experimental farms were transferred by the Government of Assam to the AAU which already inherited the College of Agriculture and its farm at Barbheta, Jorhat and College of Veterinary Sciences at Khanapara, Guwahati. Subsequently, College of Community Science at Jorhat (1969), College of Fisheries at Raha (1988), Biswanath College of Agriculture at Biswanath Chariali (1988) and Lakhimpur College of Veterinary Science at Joyhing, North Lakhimpur (1988) were established. Presently, the University has three more colleges under its jurisdiction, viz., Sarat Chandra Singha College of Agriculture, Chapar, College of Horticulture, Nalbari & College of Sericulture, Titabar. Similarly, few more regional research stations at Shillongani, Diphu, Gossaigaon, Lakhimpur; and commodity research stations at Kahikuchi, Buralikson, Tinsukia, Kharua, Burnihat and Mandira were added to generate location and crop specific agricultural production packages.

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Subject: Soil Science × Author: Tamuly, Danish × End date: 2017 × Start date: 2014 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    Bioremediation of iron toxicity in lowland rice ecosystem of Assam
    (AAU, 2016) Tamuly, Danish; Das, K. N.
    Two sets of experiment viz., pot (2012-13) and field (2013-14) was carried out to find bioremediation potential to ameliorate iron toxicity in lowland rice ecosystem of Assam. Rice crop was cultivated in Yoshida medium (hydroponic culture) developed specifically for rice. The experimental set up consisted of 6 boxes containing 60 PVC cut pipes each. Two check cultivars namely Mahsuri (sensitive) and Padumoni (tolerant) were tried along with eight test cultivars namely Ranjit, Moniram, Kushal, Pankaj, Luit, Basundhara, Jaymoti and Bahadur. Two weeks old seedlings from sand cultured nursery beds were transplanted into the PVC pipes fixed with half-split foam plugs in such a way that only root was in direct contact with the Yoshida solution. Liquid paraffin oil (low density) was added to each PVC pipe to maintain a 3 mm layer for checking oxidation process. Three bacterial inoculations viz., Control, PSB5w and PSB25w along with four iron levels, 0, 500, 1000 and 1500 mg Fe L-1 were tried in different combinations. Sampling at maximum tillering stage of crop revealed leaf scoring ranging from 0.0 to 4.9 with a mean of 0.3 to 3.7. The highest mean scoring of 3.7 was observed at 1500 mg Fe L-1, which was followed by 1000, 500 and 0 mg Fe L-1 with 2.9, 1.4 and 0.3 scoring respectively. The least scoring of 1.2 was observed in PSB5w followed by PSB25w (2.0) and PSB0 (3.1) inoculated cultivars. Among the rice cultivars the leaf scoring was in the order Mahsuri (1.4) < Joymoti (1.6) < Moniram (1.7) < Prafulla (1.9) < Podumoni (2.0) < Ranjit (2.2) < Luit (2.2) < Kushal (2.3) < Basundhara (2.4). Increasing levels of iron from 0 to 1500 mg Fe L-1 was found to significantly reduce the yield attributing traits of cultivars viz., root length (8.0 to 7.0 cm) and shoot length (22.4 to 17.6 cm). Similar reduction was also observed with N, P and K content in both leaf and stem i.e. leaf N (2.42-0.97%), stem N (1.55-0.90%), leaf P (0.220-0.041%), stem P (0.271-0.039%), leaf K (0.473-0.069%) and stem K (1.420-0.208%). The Fe content in different plant parts viz., leaf, stem and root was found to significantly increase with increased Fe-level. Mean root Fe-plaque was found to significantly increase from 0.19 (Fe0) to 0.94 (Fe1500) mg Fe g-1 root. PSB x Fe-level had significant effect on agronomic growth traits viz., root length and number of leaves and on N, P and K content in both leaf and stem. Both leaf and stem N content was found to be significantly higher with cultivars inoculated with PSB5w. However, P and K content in both stem and leaf were found to be higher in PSB25w inoculated cultivars. PSB5w inoculated cultivars recorded significantly lower leaf Fe, stem Fe and root Fe than control and PSB25w. Significantly, higher root Fe plaque was found in cultivars inoculated with PSB5w than PSB25w and control. Negative and significant correlation exist between scoring with root length, shoot length, number of leaves, leaf N%, stem N%, leaf P%, stem P%, leaf K% and stem K%. However, positive and significant correlation was observed between scoring with leaf Fe, stem Fe, root Fe and Fe plaque. Subsequent validation of results of pot experiment was carried out in the ICR Farm, AAU, Jorhat. Six rice cultivars viz., Mahsuri, Moniram, Joymoti, Prafulla, Podumoni and Ranjit in increasing order of scoring were selected. Following this, the strain PSB5w which showed least scoring was also selected with the highest iron level of 1500 mg Fe L-1. PSB5w inoculated cultivar showed significantly higher root length (21.50 cm), leaf N (2.20%), leaf P (0.313%), stem P (0.277%) and leaf K (0.804%) than non inoculated cultivars. Except for Moniram, all other cultivars showed significantly lower leaf and stem iron content. Significant difference in grain yield was observed with inoculated (1730.70 kg ha-1) and non-inoculated (1644.30 kg ha-1) cultivars. Relatively higher grain yield was achieved in PSB5w inoculated cultivars Mahsuri (2000 kg ha-1) and Prafulla (1850 kg ha-1) as compared to control. Thus the Bacillus sp. PSB5w with suitable carrier material can be used as a bioremediation tool for chronically Fe-toxic lowland rice ecosystem in Assam. Further, a stress encountering bio-package consisting of seedling root dip treatment in PSB5w especially for rice cultivars Mahsuri and Prafulla may be advocated for Fe toxicity affected low land rice ecosystem from the present investigation.