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Dr. Y. S. Parmar University of Horticulture & Forestry, Solan

Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Solan, was established on 1st December, 1985 with the objective to promote education, research and extension education in the fields of Horticulture, Forestry and allied disciplines. Late Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar, the first Chief Minister and the architect of Himachal Pradesh perceived the importance of Horticulture and Forestry to develop and improve the State economy which led to the establishment of this University. Its history lies in erstwhile Himachal Agricultural College, Solan, established in 1962 and affiliated to the Panjab University. It became one of the campuses of Agriculture Complex of Himachal Pradesh University on its formation in 1970. Consequent upon the establishment of Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya in 1978, this campus became its Horticulture Complex and finally in 1985, assumed the status of a State University, being the only University in the country engaged exclusively in teaching, research and extension in Horticulture and Forestry. The University is located at Nauni in Solan District of Himachal Pradesh, 13 km from Solan on Solan-Rajgarh Road, at an elevation of 1300 metres above mean sea level. Solan town is situated on national highway (NH-22) and is well connected by train and bus services. The University has four constituent colleges, out of which, two are located at the main campus Nauni, one for horticulture and the other for forestry, having 9 and 7 departments, respectively. The third College i.e., College of Horticulture & Forestry is located at Neri in Hamirpur District on Nadaun-Hamirpur state highway, about 6 Km from Hamirpur town and is well connected with bus service. The college offers three Undergraduate Degree Programmes i.e. BSc (Hons.) Horticulture, BSc (Hons.) Forestry and B. Tech. Biotechnology and MSc degree programme in a few subjects. The fourth college i.e. College of Horticulture and Forestry, Thunag (Mandi) is located at Thunag District Mandi. This college offer BSc (Hons.) Horticulture and BSc (Hons.) Forestry degree programme. In addition, there are five Regional Research Stations, 12 Satellite Stations and five Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) situated in different zones of the State.

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Subject: Floriculture and Landscaping × Author: BHARGAVA, BHAVYA × End date: 2009 × Start date: 2000 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    STUDIES ON MICRO PROPAGATION OF GERBERA (Gerbera jamesonii Bolus) cv. ‘Harley
    (UHF,NAUNI,SOLAN, 2009) BHARGAVA, BHAVYA; DILTA, B.S.
    ABSTRACT Studies on micro propagation of Gerbera (Gerbera jamesonii Bolus) cv. ‘Harley’ were carried out in the tissue culture laboratory of Department of Floriculture and Landscaping of Dr. Y.S. Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Solan (H.P.) during 2008-2009. During the entire course of study, four experiments were carried out viz., establishment of explants on culture medium, standardization of culture medium for multiplication, standardization of culture medium for in vitro rooting and standardization of potting mixture for hardening of plantlets. The surface sterilization of explants with 0.1% HgCl2 for 5 minutes resulted in the highest uncontaminated growing cultures (70.00%). The earliest culture establishment of capitulum sections (91.74 days) was recorded with MS medium containing BA (4 mg/l) and IAA (0.5 mg/l). Among explants, capitulum sections were found to be better multiplier of divisions or clumps (4.89) than the divisions obtained on callus from newly emerged leaf sections when inoculated on MS medium supplemented with BA (6 mg/l) and Kinetin (2 mg/l). Maximum number of leaves and leaf length after 8 weeks (11.87 and 4.45 cm, respectively) were obtained in MS medium supplemented with BA (6 mg/l) and Kinetin (2 mg/l). For in vitro rooting, half strength MS medium supplemented with 4 mg/l IBA was found to be most effective for per cent rooting, number of roots per clump and root length whereas earliest rooting was obtained in half strength MS medium supplemented with 5 mg/l NAA. For hardening of in vitro rooted plantlets, coco peat was found to be a better potting mixture resulting in maximum survival (90.00%), number of newly emerged leaves (3.10) and leaf length (3.33 cm) after 4 weeks of transplantation.