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The Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University (APAU) was established on 12th June 1964 at Hyderabad. The University was formally inaugurated on 20th March 1965 by Late Shri. Lal Bahadur Shastri, the then Hon`ble Prime Minister of India. Another significant milestone was the inauguration of the building programme of the university by Late Smt. Indira Gandhi,the then Hon`ble Prime Minister of India on 23rd June 1966. The University was renamed as Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University on 7th November 1996 in honour and memory of an outstanding parliamentarian Acharya Nayukulu Gogineni Ranga, who rendered remarkable selfless service for the cause of farmers and is regarded as an outstanding educationist, kisan leader and freedom fighter. HISTORICAL MILESTONE Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University (ANGRAU) was established under the name of Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University (APAU) on the 12th of June 1964 through the APAU Act 1963. Later, it was renamed as Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University on the 7th of November, 1996 in honour and memory of the noted Parliamentarian and Kisan Leader, Acharya N. G. Ranga. At the verge of completion of Golden Jubilee Year of the ANGRAU, it has given birth to a new State Agricultural University namely Prof. Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University with the bifurcation of the state of Andhra Pradesh as per the Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Act 2014. The ANGRAU at LAM, Guntur is serving the students and the farmers of 13 districts of new State of Andhra Pradesh with renewed interest and dedication. Genesis of ANGRAU in service of the farmers 1926: The Royal Commission emphasized the need for a strong research base for agricultural development in the country... 1949: The Radhakrishnan Commission (1949) on University Education led to the establishment of Rural Universities for the overall development of agriculture and rural life in the country... 1955: First Joint Indo-American Team studied the status and future needs of agricultural education in the country... 1960: Second Joint Indo-American Team (1960) headed by Dr. M. S. Randhawa, the then Vice-President of Indian Council of Agricultural Research recommended specifically the establishment of Farm Universities and spelt out the basic objectives of these Universities as Institutional Autonomy, inclusion of Agriculture, Veterinary / Animal Husbandry and Home Science, Integration of Teaching, Research and Extension... 1963: The Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University (APAU) Act enacted... June 12th 1964: Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University (APAU) was established at Hyderabad with Shri. O. Pulla Reddi, I.C.S. (Retired) was the first founder Vice-Chancellor of the University... June 1964: Re-affilitation of Colleges of Agriculture and Veterinary Science, Hyderabad (estt. in 1961, affiliated to Osmania University), Agricultural College, Bapatla (estt. in 1945, affiliated to Andhra University), Sri Venkateswara Agricultural College, Tirupati and Andhra Veterinary College, Tirupati (estt. in 1961, affiliated to Sri Venkateswara University)... 20th March 1965: Formal inauguration of APAU by Late Shri. Lal Bahadur Shastri, the then Hon`ble Prime Minister of India... 1964-66: The report of the Second National Education Commission headed by Dr. D.S. Kothari, Chairman of the University Grants Commission stressed the need for establishing at least one Agricultural University in each Indian State... 23, June 1966: Inauguration of the Administrative building of the university by Late Smt. Indira Gandhi, the then Hon`ble Prime Minister of India... July, 1966: Transfer of 41 Agricultural Research Stations, functioning under the Department of Agriculture... May, 1967: Transfer of Four Research Stations of the Animal Husbandry Department... 7th November 1996: Renaming of University as Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University in honour and memory of an outstanding parliamentarian Acharya Nayukulu Gogineni Ranga... 15th July 2005: Establishment of Sri Venkateswara Veterinary University (SVVU) bifurcating ANGRAU by Act 18 of 2005... 26th June 2007: Establishment of Andhra Pradesh Horticultural University (APHU) bifurcating ANGRAU by the Act 30 of 2007... 2nd June 2014 As per the Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Act 2014, ANGRAU is now... serving the students and the farmers of 13 districts of new State of Andhra Pradesh with renewed interest and dedication...

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Subject: Genetics and Plant Breeding × Author: KAVITHA, GALIPOTHULA × End date: 2019 × Start date: 2015 × Type: Thesis ×
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    EVALUATION OF GROUNDNUT (Arachis hypogaea L.) GENOTYPES FOR POD YIELD AND ITS COMPONENT TRAITS
    (Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, Guntur, 2015) KAVITHA, GALIPOTHULA; REDDI SEKHAR, M
    The experimental material consisted of fifty genotypes of groundnut which were evaluated at dry land farm of S.V. Agricultural College, Tirupati during kharif, 2014 so as to identify the genotypes with high yield and water use efficient genotypes. The analysis of variance revealed the existence of significant differences among the genotypes for all the traits studied. The genotypes viz., MLTG(SB)-3, MLTG(SB)-6, MLTG(VB)-11 and MLTG(VB)-2 showed high mean performance for pod yield and its components viz., number of primary branches per plant, number of sound mature kernels per plant, pods per plant, kernel yield per plant (g), leaf nitrogen (%) content at 60 DAS, leaf nitrogen (%) content at 80 DAS and shelling percentage. The estimates of genetic parameters revealed that dry matter per plant, number of sound mature kernels per plant, kernel yield per plant, pod yield per plant and number of primaries per plant registered high GCV and PCV estimates. High heritability (broad sense) was observed for all the traits. High GAM was recorded for dry matter per plant, number of sound mature kernels per plant, pod yield per plant, number of primary branches per plant, number of pods per plant, specific leaf area at 60 DAS, number of seeds per pod, shelling percentage and specific leaf area at 80 DAS indicating that these traits can be further improved by simple selection in the present breeding material. The D2 analysis revealed that the 50 genotypes had considerable amount of diversity and grouped into five clusters. Inter cluster indicated that clusters III and V were quite distant apart followed by IV and V, I and V, III and IV, I and IV and II and III in decreasing order of genetic distance. Hence, genotypes for these clusters namely MLTG(SB)-6, MLTG(VB)-9, MLTG(VB)-2, MLTG(VB)-11, Abhaya, IET-1531, INS-II-15 and AVT(D)1429 (Cluster-I), MLTG(SB)-3 and MLTG(SB)-2 (Cluster-II), TCGS 320 (Cluster-III), K-6 (Cluster-IV) and MLTG(SB)-12 (Cluster-V) were suggested for inclusion in hybridization programme for obtaining superior and desirable recombinants. Further, canonical root analysis confirmed the clustering pattern obtained by D2 analysis. A perusal of character association indicated highly significant positive association of kernel yield per plant with pod yield per plant. The other traits viz., number of sound mature kernels per plant, number of primary branches per plant, dry matter per plant, leaf nitrogen (%) content at 60 DAS and specific leaf area at 80 DAS exhibited significant positive association with pod yield per plant (g). These characters also exhibited strong and positive inter-se associations among themselves. Path coefficient analysis revealed that kernel yield per plant exerted the highest positive direct effect on pod yield per plant. It was also revealed that number of primary branches per plant, number of sound mature kernels per plant and leaf nitrogen (%) content at 60 DAS contributed indirectly to pod yield per plant through kernel yield per plant. These characters also exhibited highly significant positive association with pod yield as well as among themselves. Hence, these characters should be given due emphasis in formulating selection criterion for genetic improvement of pod yield potential with high water use efficiency in the present genetic material.