hortflora res. spectrum, abstracts vol. 1 (1-4); year 2012

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HORTFLORA RESEARCH SPECTRUM ISSN : 2250-2823

Volume 1(1), January-March, 2012

Contents

1. Natural Medicinal Chemsitry : Cures from A ‘‘LivingFossil’’

Pooja Sapra Sharma and Rajan Sharma 1-4

2. Influence of Soil Nutrient Status on Yield and QualitativeAttributes of Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) and Ber(Zizyphus mauritiana Lamak.)

Jitendra Singh and Raj Kumar 5-12

3. Horticulture and Tasar Flora : Status, Scope and PotentialUtilization

A.K. Srivastava, Dinesh Kumar, J.P. Panddey, Vijai Kumarand B.C. Prasad

13-16

4. Influence of Nitrogen, Phosphorus and PotassiumFertilizers on Yield and Quality of Grapes cv. Perlette

N.K. Arora, M.I.S. Gill and Navjot 17-23

5. Evaluation of Orchid Species under Sub-TropicalMid-Hills of Meghalaya

Rajiv Kumar, Bidyut C. Deka and A.R. Roy 24-28

6. Effect of Growth Retardants on Vegetative Growth,Flowering and Fruiting of Litchi cv. Calcuttia

Bikramjit Singh, Sukhdev Singh and Savreet Sandhu 29-33

7. Studies on Genetic Variability, Heritability and GeneticAdvance in Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.)

Yogesh Chandra Yadav, Sanjay Kumar and RaghvendraSingh

34-37

8. Integrated Nutritional Management Affects the Growth,Flowering and Fruiting of Rejuvenated Ber

P.N. Katiyar, V.K. Tripathi, R.K. Sachan, J.P. Singh andRam Chandra

38-41

9. Ecofriendly Management of Stemphylium Blight(Stemphylium botryosum) of Garlic by Plant Extract andBioagents

Upesh Kumar, Prem Naresh and S.K. Biswas 42-45

10. Evaluation of Baramasi Lemon Germplasm under PunjabConditions

S.K. Jawandha, Nav Prem Singh, P.P.S. Gill andKarnail Singh

46-49

11. Effect of Bio-Regulators on Growth and Yield Parametersof Capsicum Cultivars under Controlled Condition

R.N. Singh, S.L. Pal, D.K. Rana, S.S. Rawat andM.S. Gusain

50-54

12. Effect of Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE) Packagingand Chemicals on Ambient Storage of Kinnow

S.K. Jawandha, P.S. Tiwan and J.S. Randhawa 55-59

13. Effect of Pre-Harvest Application of Micro-Nutrients onQuality of Guava (Psidium guajava L.) cv. Sardar

A.K. Goswami, H.S. Shukla, Prabhat Kumar andD.S. Mishra

60-63

14. Effect of Zinc, Iron and Copper on Yield Parameters ofGladiolus

J.P. Singh, Krishna Kumar and P.N. Katiyar 64-68

15. Effect of GA3 and IAA on Growth and Flowering ofCarnation

Vijai Kumar, Vipin Kumar, Vandana Umrao andMonbir Singh

69-72

16. Effect of Micronutrients Spray on Fruit Drop, FruitQuality and Yield of Aonla cv. Banarasi

Prakash Chandra Singh, Ritesh Singh Gangwar andVivek Kumar Singh

73-76

17. Genetical Studies on Zimikand (Amorphophalluscampanulatus Blume.)

Sanjive Kumar Singh and S.M. Tripathi 77-79

18. Effect of GA3 and BA on Fruit Weight, Quality andRipening of ‘Rose Scented’ Litchi

D.S. Mishra, Prabhat Kumar and Rajesh Kumar 80-82

19. Correlation Study for Physico-Chemical Characters inJamun

Vartika Srivastava, Prabhat Kumar and P.N. Rai 83-85

20. Genetic Variability for Some Metric Traits in Strawberry(Fragaria ´ ananassa Duch.)

Bijay Kumar, Sanjay Kumar and Yogesh Chandra Yadav 86-88

21. Response of Boron, Zinc and Copper on Quality of AonlaFruits cv. Banarasi

Prakash Chandra Singh, Ritesh Singh Gangwar andVivek Kumar Singh

89-91

22. Screening of Okra Varieties for Resistance to Yellow Vein Mosaic Virus under Field Condition

Ajay Tiwari, B. Singh, T.B. Singh, S.K. Sanval andS.D. Pandey

92-93

23. Participation of Farm Women in Agri-HorticulturalActivities in Rural Rrea of Delhi

Manoj Kumar Pandey and Himanshu Pandey 94-95

HortFlora Re search Spec trum, Vol. 1(1): Jan.-March, 2012 (ABTRACTS) ISSN : 2250-2823

1. NAT U RAL ME DIC I NAL CHEM IS TRY : CURES FROM A “LIV ING FOS SIL”Pooja Sapra Sharma1 and Rajan SharmaEidogen-Sertanty Inc, Cal i for nia, U.S.A.1Ch. S. S. Shandilya (P.G.) Col lege, Machhra, Meerut.E-mail: [email protected]

AB STRACT: Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba L.), is one of the old est liv ing tree spe cies and its leaves areamong the most ex ten sively stud ied herbs in use to day. Nick named as “liv ing fos sil” by CharlesDar win, Ginkgo is over 150 mil lion years old and was thought to be ex tinct un til it was foundgrow ing in China in 17th Cen tury. In west ern world, Ginkgo sup ple ments are among thebest-sell ing herbal med i ca tions. Ginkgo leaves con tain two types of chem i cals (flavonoids andterpenoids) be lieved to have po tent an ti ox i dant prop er ties. Ginkgo has been used in Chi nesetra di tional med i cine to treat blood dis or ders and en hance mem ory. Sci en tific stud ies through outthe years have found ev i dence that sup ports these claims. Al though not all stud ies agree,Ginkgo may help treat de men tia (in clud ing Alz hei mer’s dis ease) and in ter mit tent claudication, orpoor cir cu la tion in the legs. It also shows prom ise for en hanc ing mem ory in older adults.

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2. IN FLU ENCE OF SOIL NU TRI ENT STA TUS ON YIELD AND QUAL I TA TIVEAT TRIB UTES OF POME GRAN ATE (Punica granatum L.) AND BER

(Zizyphus mauritiana LAMK.)Jitendra Singh and Raj Kumar¹Col lege of Hor ti cul ture and For estry, Maharana Pratap Uni ver sity of Ag ri cul ture and Tech nol ogy, Cam pusJhalarapatan, Jhalawar-326 023 (Rajasthan).¹KVK, Vejhalpur, Panchmahals, Godhra-389 340, Gujarat, In dia

AB STRACT: Pome gran ate and ber are im por tant fruits find fa vour es pe cially in arid/ semi-aridar eas of trop ics all across the globe. Bright sun-shine and light soil of fer pre mium qual ity inhar vest unmatching to the har vest ob tained from any where else in the world. How ever, theshare of In dia in world trade is abys mally low. Qual ity of the pro duce match ing to in ter na tionalstan dard is proved as the hard im ped i ment in this re gard. It is ob vi ous that the qual ity of pro ducede pends a lot upon the in her ent fer til ity and pro duc tiv ity of soil. To have an ac count of all suchfac tors study was un der taken se lect ing ten rep re sen ta tive or chards of pome gran ate cv. Ganeshand also of ber cv. Gola of Bikaner dis trict and it was at tempted to study the in her ent nu tri entsta tus of or chards and its im pact on physicochemical char ac ter is tics of fruits. Soil sam ples werecol lected from each or chard from 0-60 cm soil depth. From the in ves ti ga tion it was found that thelevel of or ganic car bon, ni tro gen, zinc, phos pho rus and sul phur was low to me dium andpo tas sium con tent was in me dium range in soils of se lected sites in or chards in Bikaner dis trict.All soil nu tri ents were found pos i tively cor re lated with nu tri ent sta tus of leaves, fruit yield andqual i ta tive at trib utes of ber ex cept phos pho rous and zinc con tents in leaves.


3. HOR TI CUL TURE AND TASAR FLORA: STA TUS, SCOPE AND PO TEN TIAL UTI LI ZA TIONA.K. Srivastava, Dinesh Kumar, J.P. Pandey, Vijai Kumar1 and B.C. PrasadCen tral Tasar Re search and Train ing In sti tute, Cen tral Silk Board, Govt. of In dia, P.O. Piska-Nagri, Ranchi835303, In dia.1De part ment of Hor ti cul ture, CSSS (PG) Col lege, Machhra, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, In dia.E-mail-dineshkcsb@ya hoo.co.in

AB STRACT : Tasar cul ture prac ticed largely by tribal de pended hith erto on a host of tasar hostplants nat u rally avail able in the for est. Chang ing so cial fab ric on one hand and the need forcon ser va tion of tasar flora on the other call for in sight and de vis ing fo cused strat e giessus te nance of tasar cul ture is re quired. In this back drop, block plan ta tion of Arjun/Asan are taken up at dif fer ent spac ing, of these plan ta tion with 10¢ ´ 5¢ has given more profit. It is need of thehour that tasar food plants com bined with land hus bandry and hor ti cul tural plants viz. Terminaliacatappa, Anacardium occidentale, Carissa carandus, Zizyphus jujuba, Eugenia cuminii, etc areef fec tive means of de vel op ment as tasar food plants for ex pan sion of tasar flora. It will pro videgain ful em ploy ment op por tu ni ties in ru ral ar eas which will check mi gra tion of ru ral folk to ur banar eas.


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4. IN FLU ENCE OF NI TRO GEN, PHOS PHO RUS AND PO TAS SIUM FER TIL IZ ERS ON YIELD

AND QUAL ITY OF GRAPES CV. PERLETTEN.K. Arora, M.I.S. Gill and Navjot1

De part ment of Hor ti cul ture, Punjab Ag ri cul tural Uni ver sity, Ludhiana, Punjab1PAU Re gional Sta tion, Bathinda, Punjab

AB STRACT: The pres ent stud ies were con ducted to as cer tain the ef fect of dif fer entcom bi na tions of N, P and K fer til iz ers on the yield and qual ity of Perlette grapes. The yield andqual ity char ac ter is tics var ied with the dif fer ent com bi na tions of N, P and K. The mean pooleddata in di cates that the max i mum num ber of bunches/vine (2.28) were ob tained in N1P1K1

com bi na tion. The mean bunch weight was how ever, sig nif i cantly higher (497.2g) in a fer til izercom bi na tion N1P2K2 fol lowed by com bi na tion N1P1K2 (469.3). The higher yield /vine (10.3 kg)was ob tained in N1P2K2 com bi na tion. The qual ity pa ram e ters viz., TSS, acid ity and TSS/Acidra tion also var ied with change in fer til izer dose. The sig nif i cantly higher TSS (19.1%) wasob tained in the bunches har vested from the vines given 75g N, 50 g P and 150 g K. TheTSS/Acid ra tio was sig nif i cantly higher (37.3). Thus the fer til izer com bi na tion N1P1K2 (75g N, 50g P and 150 g K)/ year age of vines should be rec om mended in vine yards to ob tain higher yieldand better qual ity fruits.


5. EVAL U A TION OF OR CHID SPE CIES UN DER SUB-TROP I CAL MID-HILLS OF MEGHALAYARajiv Kumar¹, Bidyut C. Deka and A.R. RoyDi vi sion of Hor ti cul ture, All In dia Co-ordinated Re search Pro ject on Flori cul tureICAR Re search Com plex for NEH Re gion, Umiam 793 103, MeghalayaPres ent ad dress: 1Di vi sion of Or na men tal Crops, In dian In sti tute of Hor ti cul tural Re search, Hessaraghatta lakePost, Bangalore 560 089, KarnatakaE-mail: flori_rajiv@ya hoo.co.in

AB STRACT: Or chids are in ter na tion ally ac claimed for their ex qui site flower forms and at trac tivecolours. Forty or chid spe cies were eval u ated for veg e ta tive and flow er ing char ac ters at ICARRe search com plex for NEH re gion, Umiam, Meghalaya dur ing 2009-10. The find ings re vealedthat plant height ranged from 5.06 cm (Pleione maculata) to 140.00 cm (Thunia marshalliana).Sig nif i cantly max i mum num ber of stems/plant was re corded in Arundina bambusifolia (15.83). Epidendrum sp. re corded max i mum stem length (130.50 cm) and internodal length (9.68 cm).How ever, max i mum num ber of leaves/plant (99.76) and spikes/plant (17.80) was re corded inCoelogyne nitida. Ear li est flow er ing was re corded in Den dro bium aphyllum (136 days) while itwas de layed in Cym bi dium giganteum (829 days). Num ber of flow ers/spike var ied from 1.00(Paphiopedilum spicearianum) to 140.02 (Aerides multiflorum). Sig nif i cantly max i mum spikelength (90.00 cm) and spike du ra bil ity (58.90 days) was re corded in Calanthe masuca andCym bi dium hy brid, re spec tively. Flower size var ied from 0.83 cm (Pholidota sp.) to 13.63 cm(Paphiopedilum villosum), while Phaius tankervilliae (7.86 cm) re corded the lon gest pedicel.Spe cies Calanthe masuca, Cym bi dium giganteum, Den dro bium nobile, Phaius tankervilliae,Renanthera imschootiana, Thunia marshalliana, Vanda coerulea were found prom is ing as cutflower.


6. EF FECT OF GROWTH RE TAR DANTS ON VEG E TA TIVE GROWTH,FLOW ER ING AND FRUIT ING OF LI TCHI CV. CALCUTTIABikramjit Singh 1, Sukhdev Singh and Savreet SandhuDe part ment of Hor ti cul ture, Khalsa Col lege, Amritsar-143 0021PAU Re gional Re search Sta tion, Abohar-152 116.

AB STRACT : Pres ent in ves ti ga tion was carriedout dur ing 2009-10 to stan dard ize lev els ofgrowth re tar dants (CCC and PBZ) for proper veg e ta tive growth, flow er ing and fruit ing in li tchi cv.Calcuttia, Re sults re vealed that PBZ 7.5 ml proved to be the most ef fec tive treat ment forsup press ing shoot growth, pan i cle size, male flower per cent age, fruit drop and sex ra tio. Sametreat ment re sulted in in creased her maph ro dite flower per cent age, fruit set and fruit re ten tion.PBZ 2.5 ml proved to be the most ef fec tive in in creas ing fruit size and PBZ 5.0 ml in fruit breadthand weight. CCC 2000 ppm re sulted in max i mum pulp weight, pulp/stone ra tio, to tal sol u blesol ids and min i mum acid ity whereas CCC 500 ppm found help ful in de creas ing seed and peelweight. PBZ 7.5 ml was the most ef fec tive treat ment in pro duc ing max i mum sug ars (to tal andre duc ing) and fruit yield/tree.


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7. STUD IES ON GE NETIC VARI ABIL ITY, HERITABILITY AND GE NETIC AD VANCE IN CU -

CUM BER (Cucumis sativus L.)Yogesh Chandra Yadav, Sanjay Kumar and Raghvendra SinghDe part ment of Hor ti cul ture, In sti tute of Ag ri cul tural Sci ences, Banaras Hindu Uni ver sity, Varanasi-221 005E-mail : sanjay123_bhu@ya hoo.co.in

AB STRACT: A field ex per i ment was con ducted with 20 di verse ge no types (BSC-1, BSC-2,CH-122, 126,128, CHC-1, Swarna Ageta, VRC-11-2, CC-3, CC-8, DR/NKV/02,VRC-19, CC-2,4, 5, 6, 7 , 9, 1 and Ranchi-1) in ran dom ized block de sign with three rep li ca tions. An a lyzed datare vealed that among all the ge no types CC-5, BSC-2, BSC-1, CH-128, CHC-2 and CC-2 gaveprom is ing re sults.


8. IN TE GRATED NU TRI TIONAL MAN AGE MENT AF FECTS THE GROWTH, FLOW ER INGAND FRUIT ING OF RE JU VE NATED BERP.N. Katiyar, V.K. Tripathi, R.K. Sachan, J.P. Singh and Ram ChandraDe part ment of Hor ti cul tureC.S. Azad Uni ver sity of Ag ri cul ture & Tech nol ogy, Kanpur, U.P.-208002

AB STRACT: The ex per i ment was car ried out in the Hor ti cul ture Gar den of C.S. Azad Uni ver sityof Ag ri cul ture & Tech nol ogy, Kanpur dur ing 2009-11 to in ves ti gate in te grated nu tri tionalman age ment ef fects on the growth, flow er ing, fruit ing yield and qual ity of re ju ve nated ber(Zizyphus mauritiana Lamk.) cv. Banarasi Ka raka. The 35 years old ber plants were headedback with the help of hand saw af ter leaf fall dur ing mid of May of 2009. There were sixtreat ments of NPK (g) viz., T1 (200:100:50), T2 (400:200:100), T3 (600:300:150), T4

(800:400:200), T5 (1000: 500:250), T6 (Con trol – No fer til izer and ma nure) rep li cated four timesin a RBD. Tree un der all the treat ments bar ring T6 were sup ple mented with 50 kg FYM. Fer til izer ap pli ca tion through DAP, Urea and MoP was done just af ter prun ing the trees. Ap pli ca tion of T5

pro moted veg e ta tive growth but blos som ing, fruit set were max i mized un der T4 where as theper cent age of fruit drop was noted min i mum un der the low est level of NPK i.e. T1. The size andweight of fruit were noted greater un der T4 and small est size and lesser weight were notedcon trol. The fruit qual ity was aug mented su pe rior in re spect of T.S.S., ascor bic acid and lowertitratable acid ity when the trees were sup ple mented with 800gN + 400g P + 200gK + 50Kg FYM.The same treat ment gave sig nif i cantly better har vest dur ing first year (30.08 Kg fruits).


9. ECOFRIENDLY MAN AGE MENT OF STEMPHYLIUM BLIGHT (Stemphylium botryosum) OF

GAR LIC BY PLANT EX TRACT AND BIOAGENTS

Upesh Kumar1, Prem Naresh and S.K. Biswas De part ment of Plant Pa thol ogy, C. S. Azad Uni ver sity of Ag ri cul ture & Tech nol ogy, Kanpur1K.V.K., Sehore (M.P.)

AB STRACT: In vi tro screen ing of six ex tract of plant spe cies viz. Azadirachta in dica, Daturametel, Lantana camara, Par then ium hystorophorus, Ociumum spp., Argimone mexicana andfive bioagents viz. Trichoderma harzianum, T. viride, Aspergillus niger, Penicillium citrinum andGliocladium virens were tested against Stemphylium botryosum. Among plant ex tractsAzadirachta in dica (66.5 per cent) and Datura metel (64.5 per cent) were the best in re strict ingthe growth of patho gen over con trol and in eval u a tion of bioagents, S. botryosum + T.harizianum (81.2 per cent) and S. botryosum + T. viride (74.5 per cent) were sig nif i cantlyin hib ited the growth of patho gen. Un der field con di tion sup pres sion of patho gen by T.harzianum, treat ing the gar lic cloves (0.2 per cent) along with two fo liar sprays (0.2 per cent) at15 days in ter val found to be most ef fec tive for man age ment of this dis ease.


10. EVAL U A TION OF BARAMASI LEMON GERMPLASM UN DER PUNJAB CON DI TIONSS.K. Jawandha, Nav Prem Singh, P.P.S. Gill and Karnail Singh¹De part ment of Hor ti cul ture, PAU, Ludhiana¹Deptt. of Plant Breed ing and Ge net ics,E-mail [email protected]

AB STRACT: Baramasi lemon plants are com mon found grow ing in var i ous agro-cli ma tic zonesin clud ing sub moun tain ous tract of Punjab and chance for the se lec tion of elite strains are highdue to wide ge netic di ver sity in the

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ex it ing germplasm. To as sess the ge netic vari abil ity in baramasi lemon, the fruit sam plescol lected and ana lysed for var i ous physic-chem i cal at trib utes. A wide range of vari abil ity withre spect to fruit at trib utes like fruit weight, rind thick ness, vi ta min C con tent and num ber ofseg ments have been re corded. This vari abil ity may pos si bly be ex ploited for the se lec tion ofsu pe rior ge no types for con ser va tion, eval u a tion, uti li za tion and a source for crop im prove ment in future breeding programme under sub tropical conditions.


11. EF FECT OF BIO-REG U LA TORS ON GROWTH AND YIELD PA RAM E TERS OF CAP SI CUMCULTIVARS UN DER CON TROLLED CON DI TIONR.N. Singh, S.L. Pal¹, D.K. Rana¹, S.S. Rawat and M.S. Gusain De part ment of Hor ti cul ture, Chauras Cam pus, HNB Garhwal Uni ver sity, Srinagar (Garhwal) 246 174,Uttarakhand, In dia.¹Deptt of Hor ti cul ture, R.S.M. Col lege, Dhampur (Bijnor) U.P.

AB STRACT : The in ves ti ga tion was car ried out to study the ef fect of bio-reg u la tors on growthand yield pa ram e ters in cap si cum un der pro tected con di tion in Garhwal re gion. The in ves ti ga tion re vealed that bio-reg u la tors spray had sig nif i cant in flu ence on growth and yield. Spray ing of NAA @ 50ppm in creased the plant height, num ber of sec ond ary branches, leaf area, days taken foranthesis, num ber of flow ers/plant, num ber of fruits/plant, fruit weight and yield per plot. Themax i mum height (114.38 cm) and max i mum yield (1.85 kg) per plant was found in treat ment T3.


12. EF FECT OF LOW DEN SITY POLY ETH YL ENE (LDPE) PACK AG ING AND CHEM I CALS ON AM BI ENT STOR AGE OF KINNOWS.K. Jawandha, P.S. Tiwan and J.S. RandhawaDe part ment of Hor ti cul ture, Punjab Ag ri cul tural Uni ver sity, Ludhiana–14004 (Punjab), In dia

ABSTACT: Study was planned and freshly har vested kinnow fruits were washed and treatedwith So dium car bon ate (2 & 3 %), Bo ric acid (2 & 3%) and packed in low den sity poly eth yl ene(LDPE) bags with per fo ra tion and with out per fo ra tion be fore pack ag ing in CFB boxes. Fruitswere ana lysed for var i ous physico-chem i cal char ac ter is tics af ter 15, 30,45 and 60 days ofstor age. Re sults re vealed that min i mum rot ting and max i mum pal at abil ity rat ing and acid ity werereg is tered in Bo ric acid @ 3 % + LDPE pack ag ing with per fo ra tion dur ing the en tire stor agepe riod. TSS was found max i mum in con trol fruits, whereas min i mum phys i o log i cal loss in weight was re corded in Bo ric acid @ 3 % +LDPE pack ag ing with out per fo ra tion. It can be con cludedthat the stor age rots can be re duced by treat ing the kinnow fruits with Bo ric acid @ 3 % +LDPEpack ag ing with per fo ra tion and fruit health can be main tained up to 45 days at am bi entcon di tions with out much de te ri o ra tion in qual ity.


13. EF FECT OF PRE-HAR VEST AP PLI CA TION OF MI CRO-NU TRI ENTS ON QUAL ITY OFGUAVA (Psidium guajava L.) CV. SARDARA.K. Goswami¹, H.S. Shukla, Prabhat Kumar² and D.S. Mishra² C.S. Azad Uni ver sity of Ag ri cul ture and Tech nol ogy, Kanpur- 208 002¹Di vi sion of Fruits and Hor ti cul tural Tech nol ogy, IARI, New Delhi²De part ment of Hor ti cul ture, G.B.P.U.A.&T., PantnagarE-mail: amitk@iari,res.in, [email protected],

AB STRACT: The pres ent in ves ti ga tion was con ducted on uni form, healthy, nine year oldbud ded trees of guava (Psidium guajava L.) cv. Sardar. Var i ous doses of cal cium ni trate, bo ricacid and zinc sul phate were sprayed twice i.e. 45 and 25 days be fore har vest ing and com paredwith un treated ones. Each treat ment was ap plied on two trees and rep li cated thrice in aran dom ized block de sign. It was ob served that the size of fruit com prises length, di am e ter,vol ume were max i mum in fruits col lected from trees sprayed with zinc sul phate (0.4 per cent).The max i mum weight was ob served un der 0.4 per cent bo ric acid and it was at par with zincsul phate at 0.4 per cent. The zinc sul phate 0.4 per cent also im proves the physico-chem i calpa ram e ters at har vest. Among the dif fer ent treat ments pre har vest spray of zinc sul phate at 0.4per cent wasfound most ef fec tive for im prov ing the physico-chem i cal pa ram e ters at har vest andpro longed the shelf-life of fruits ex hib it ing lower de gree of post-har vest losses.


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14. EF FECT OF ZINC, IRON AND COP PER ON YIELD PA RAM E TERS OF GLAD I O LUSJ.P. Singh, Krishna Kumar and P.N. KatiyarDe part ment of Hor ti cul ture, C.S.A.U.A. & T., Kanpur

AB STRACT: An ex per i ment en ti tled “Ef fect of zinc, iron and cop per on yield pa ram e ters inglad i o lus” was car ried out at, Chandra Shekhar Azad Uni ver sity of Ag ri cul ture and Tech nol ogy,Kanpur dur ing the year 2010-11. The ex per i ment con sisted two lev els each of Zn (Zn0 and Zn1),Fe (Fe0 and Fe1) and Cu (Cu0 and Cu1) which were sprayed on glad i o lus plant. The dose of fo liarspray of zinc, iron and cop per were 0.50%, 0.25% and 0.25%, re spec tively. Weight of cormssig nif i cantly in creased with the ap pli ca tion of Zn and Cu (94.38 and 94.82 g, re spec tively).Di am e ter of corms in flu enced sig nif i cantly with the ap pli ca tion of Zn, Fe and Cu (5.71, 5.77 and5.81 cm di am e ter, re spec tively). Fo liar spray of Zn, Fe and Cu, sig nif i cantly in creased thenum ber of corms per plant. In ter ac tion be tween Zn x Fe and Zn x Cu, sig nif i cantly en hancednum ber of corms per plant whereas, the num ber of corms per plant re vealed by Zn (1.74),Fe(1.66) and Cu (1.68) over their re spec tive con trols. Max i mum in crease in cormels pro duc tionper plant was in flu enced due to ap pli ca tion of zinc (44.97) fol lowed by spray of cop per (43.18)and iron (42.11) over their re spec tive con trols.


15. EF FECT OF GA3 AND IAA ON GROWTH AND FLOW ER ING OF CAR NA TIONVijai Kumar, Vipin Kumar, Vandana Umrao¹ and Monbir SinghDe part ment of Hor ti cul ture, Ch. Shivnath Singh Shandilya (P.G.) Col lege, Machhra, Meerut-250 106 (U.P.) In dia¹De part ment of Ag. Bot anyE- mail:[email protected]

AB STRACT: A field ex per i ment was con ducted to find out ef fect of plant growth promotors (GA3

and IAA) on growth and flow er ing of car na tion un der open field con di tion of West ern UttarPradesh. Four lev els of each of gibberellic acid (0, 50, 100n and 150 ppm) and IAA (0, 100, 200and 300 ppm) were sprayed on stand ing crop of car na tion in fac to rial R.B.D. with threerep li ca tions. Re sults re vealed that higher con cen tra tion of GA3 (150 ppm) or IAA (300 ppm)ap plied in di vid u ally re sponded fa vour able ef fects on most of the paramaters stud ied. Thein ter ac tion of higher lev els of both the hor mones (150 ppm GA3 ´ 300 ppm IAA) in flu encedsig nif i cantly to all the char ac ters ex cept no. of side shoots and diameter of stem.


16. EF FECT OF MICRO NUT RI ENTS SPRAY ON FRUIT DROP, FRUIT QUAL ITY AND YIELD

OF AONLA CV. BANARASI

Prakash Chandra Singh, Ritesh Singh Gangwar and Vivek Kumar Singh1 Col lege of Ag ri cul ture, C.S. Azad Uni ver sity of Ag ri cul ture and Tech nol ogy Kanpur-208 002 (U.P)1De part ment of Hor ti cul ture

AB STRACT : An in ves ti ga tion was car ried out dur ing 2006 and 2007 to study the ef fect of bo ron(0.1, 0.2 and 0.3%), zinc (0.2, 0.4 and 0.6%) and cop per (0.1, 0.2 and 0.3%) alongwith a con trolon fruit drop, phys i cal pa ram e ters and yield of aonla fruits cv. Banarasi. There were tentreat ments tried in a RBD. All the char ac ters stud ied were sig nif i cantly im proved by ap pli ca tion of dif fer ent mi cro-el e ments and their lev els show ing vary ing de gree of their ef fi cacy. The min i mumfruit drop (56.84 and 50.22%), max i mum length of fruit (4.01 and 4.10cm), breadth (4.31and4.35 cm), weight (46.85 and 47.34 g) and pulp con tent (44.66 and 45.16 g) were ob tained un derthe fo liar spray of zinc. Among the three con cen tra tions, the higher level proved most ef fec tive inre spect of all the char ac ters. Zinc at its higher con cen tra tion proved the best treat ment inim prov ing the yield of aonla.


17. GENETICAL STUD IES ON ZIMIKAND (Amorphophallus campanulatus Blume.)

Sanjive Kumar Singh and S.M. TripathiDe part ment of Veg e ta ble Sci enceC. S. Azad Uni ver sity of Ag ri cul ture and Tech nol ogy Kalyanpur, Kanpur-208 024

AB STRACT: Phenotypic and genotypic co ef fi cient of vari a tion, heritability, cor re la tion co ef fi cient and path anal y sis were es ti mated for plant height, length of leaf, stem di am e ter, equa to rialdi am e ter and corm yield per plant in zimikand (Amorphophallus campanulatus Blume). Theex per i ment com pris ing 18 di verse ge no types have been sown in RBD with 3 rep li ca tions dur ing2002-03 and 2003-04 at Veg e ta ble

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Reaserch Farm of C.S.Azad Uni. of Agr. & Tech.Kalyanpur, Kanpur. The anal y sis of vari ancere vealed highly sig nif i cant dif fer ences among ge no types for all the char ac ters. High heritabilityac com pa nied with mod er ate ge netic ad vance as per cent of mean for dif fer ent char ac terssug gested that im prove ment in corm yield may be made through se lec tion. Phenotypiccor re la tion co ef fi cients of all char ac ters with yield were found pos i tive and highly sig nif i cant.Yield per plant had strong pos i tive cor re la tion with equa to rial di am e ter and stem di am e ter atgenotypic level. The path co ef fi cient re vealed max i mum di rect ef fect of equa to rial di am e ter onyield fol lowed by length of leaf in both the years while plant height showed neg a tive di rect ef fecton yield. Thus, the char ac ters like equa to rial di am e ter and leaf length may be con sid ered whilemak ing se lec tion for the im prove ment of yield in zimikand.


18. EF FECT OF GA3 AND BA ON FRUIT WEIGHT, QUAL ITY AND RIP EN ING OF ‘ROSESCENTED’ LI TCHI

D.S. Mishra, Prabhat Kumar and Rajesh Kumar De part ment of Hor ti cul ture, Col lege of Ag ri cul ture, G.B. Pant Uni ver sity of Ag ri cul ture & Tech nol ogy,Pantnagar–263145, U.S. Nagar, Uttarakhand

AB STRACT: An at tempt was made to study the ef fect of GA3 and BA on rip en ing of li tchicultivar Rose Scented. In this at tempt, KNO3 (4%) was sprayed at 1 cm size of pan i cle in the firstweek of Feb ru ary. How ever, other treat ments viz. GA3 (20, 40 ppm) and BA (20, 40 ppm) wereap plied two weeks be fore ex pected date of har vest (on 15th May). KNO3 (4%) ad vanced thehar vest ing date only for 2 days in com par i son to con trol. GA3 20 and 40 ppm de layed the har vest date for 2 and 5 days, re spec tively while BA 20 ppm and 40 ppm de layed the har vest date for 5-6 days. In all the treated trees, fruit weight was found to be more than 21g as com pared to con trol.Higher fruit qual ity at trib utes were re corded with GA3 (40 ppm) fol lowed by GA3 20 ppm overother treat ments. Re duced fruit crack ing was also ob served in trees which were sprayed withGA3 and BA.


19. COR RE LA TION STUDY FOR PHYSICO-CHEM I CAL CHAR AC TERS IN JAMUNVartika Srivastava1, Prabhat Kumar2 and P.N. Rai21De part ment of Hor ti cul ture, In sti tute of Ag ri cul tural Sci ences, Banaras Hindu Uni ver sity, Varanasi-2210052De part ment of Hor ti cul ture, G. B. Pant Uni ver sity of Ag ri cul ture and Tech nol ogy, Pantnagar (Uttarakhand)Pub lished in : HortFlora Re search Spec trum, Vol. 1(1) : 83-85 (2012)

20. GE NETIC VARI ABIL ITY FOR SOME MET RIC TRAITS IN STRAW BERRY (Fragaria ×ananassa Duch.) Bijay Kumar, Sanjay Kumar and Yogesh Chandra Yadav De part ment of Ap plied Plant Sci ence (Hor ti cul ture)Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Uni ver sity,(A Cen tral Uni ver sity)Vidya-Vihar, Rae Bareli Road, Lucknow-226 [email protected] lished in : HortFlora Re search Spec trum, Vol. 1(1) : 86-88 (2012)

21. RE SPONSE OF BO RON, ZINC AND COP PER ON QUAL ITY OF AONLA FRUITS CV.

BANARASIPrakash Chandra Singh, Ritesh Singh Gangwar and Vivek Kumar Singh Col lege of Ag ri cul ture, C.S.Azad Uni ver sity of Ag ri cul ture and Tech nol ogy, Kanpur–208 002 (U.P.)Pub lished in : HortFlora Re search Spec trum, Vol. 1(1) : 89-91 (2012)

22. SCREEN ING OF OKRA VA RI ET IES FOR RE SIS TANCE TO YEL LOW VEIN MO SAIC VI -RUS UN DER FIELD CON DI TIONAjay Tiwari, B. Singh, T.B. Singh, S.K. Sanval and S.D. PandeyIn dian In sti tute of Veg e ta ble Re search, VaranasiPub lished in : HortFlora Re search Spec trum, Vol. 1(1) : 92-93 (2012)

23. PAR TIC I PA TION OF FARM WOMEN IN AGRI-HOR TI CUL TURAL AC TIV I TIES IN RU RAL

AREA OF DELHI

Manoj Kumar Pandey1 and Himanshu PandeyKrishi Vigyan Kendra, Ujwa, New Delhi-110 073, 1K.V.K., Deoria


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Volume 1(2), April-June, 2012

Contents

1. Allelopathy : It’s Interface in Tree-Crop Association Anil Kumar Singh, Pravesh Kumar, Nidhi Rathore,Triyugi Nath and Renu Singh

97-102

2. Combinational Impact of Debaryomyces hanseniiBioagent and 1-Methylecyclopropen (1-MCP) on ShelfLife and Quality Attributes of Kinnow Mandarin

Ram Asrey, C. Sasikala and Dinesh Singh 103-109

3. Studies on Genetic Variability and Characters Association of Fruit Quality Parameters in Tomato

Madhurina Manna and Amitava Paul 110-116

4. Effect of Different Packagings on Quality of PeachesDuring Storage

Navjot Gupta and Sukhjit Kaur Jawandha 117-121

5. Genetic Variability and Correlation Analysis in Ber(Zizyphus mauritiana Lamk.) Germplasm Grown inLucknow

Ganesh Shukla, Rekha Singh, R.B. Ram andDeepa H. Dwivedi

122-126

6. Embryo Culture and Development of Seedlings inDifferent Citrus species

Bikramjit Singh Gill, Savreet Sandhu andSukhdev Singh

127-130

7. Effects of Drip Irrigation and Polythene Mulch onProductivity and Quality of Strawberry (Fragariaananassa)

A.K. Singh, S.K. Singh, A.K. Pandey, K. Rajan andA. Kumar

131-134

8. Influence of Paclobutrazol and Ethephon on Fruit Qualityof ‘Allahabad Safeda’ Guava

J.S. Brar, H.S. Dhaliwal and J.S. Bal 135-138

9. Genetic Variability, Heritability, Genetic Advance,Correlation and Path Analysis in Okra

Sanjay Kumar, Annapurna, Yogesh Chandra Yadav andRaghvendra Singh

139-144

10. Biochemical Changes in Guava Fruits During Storage asAffected by Different Methods of Harvesting fromDifferent Position of Tree

Ayushi Tamta, Rajesh Kumar, D.S. Mishra andPrabhat Kumar

145-148

11. Standardization of Bench Grafting in Custard Apple(Annona squamosa L.)

Sunil Kumar and A.K. Shukla 149-152

12. Effect of Pre-Harvest Treatments of Calcium Salts onHarvest Maturity in Kinnow Mandarin

Tanjeet Singh Chahal and J.S. Bal 153-157

13. Effect of Nutrient Management Through Organic Sourceson the Productivity of Guava (Psidium guajava L.)

Ram Ishwar Yadav, Ram Kumar Singh, Pravesh Kumarand Anil Kuumar Singh

158-161

14. Effect of Cycocel on Growth, Yield and Quality ofTomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.)

Jitendra Kumar, Madan Lal and Krishna Pal 162-164

15. Standardization of Stone Grafting in Some MangoCultivars under Lucknow Conditions

R.B. Ram, D. Kumar, Priyamvada Sonkar, Rubee Lataand M.L. Meena

165-167

16. Study on Genetic Variability and Heritability in Ocimumspp.

M. Shehbaz Khan, D.K. Bahuguna, Rajeev Kumar, NitinKumar and Ishrat Ahmad Lone

168-171

17. Effect of Nitrogen and Phosphorus on Crop Growth, HeadYield and Quality of Broccoli (Brassica oleracea L. var.italica)

Dheerendra Katiyar, S.M. Tripathi, A.K. Dwivedi andVivek Pandey

172-174

18. Standardzation of Plant Multilication in Aonla (Emblicaofficinalis Garten.) cv. Narendra Aonla-6

Sarvesh Singh, Satya Prakash Singh, H.K. Singh andChandra Shekhar

175-177

19. Russian Olive (Elaeagnus angustifolia L.) : ProbableOrnamental Plant for Bio-Aesthetic Landscaping in ColdArid Ecosystem

P. Ishfaq Akbar, M. Saleem Mir, M.S. Kanwar andJahangeer A.. Baba

178-180

20. Growth and Seed Yield of Fennel as Influenced byRhizobacteria

T.P. Malik and S.K. Tehlan 181-183

21. Evaluation of Taro (Colocasia esculenta var. antiquorum) Genotypes Against Leaf Blight (Phytophthoracolocasiae) Under Eastern Uttar Pradesh Condition

R.C. Shakywar, S.P. Pathak, M. Pathak andAnil Kumar Singh

184-186

22. Population Dynamics of Oriental Fruit Fly, Bactroceradorsalis (Hendel) in Relation to Abiotic Factors

Jitendra Mishra, Sandeep Singh, Akilesh Tripathi andM.N. Chaube

187-189

23. Effect of NPK Levels on Growth, Yield and Quality ofOkra cv. Arka Anamika

S.K. Singh, Sanjay Kumar, Yogesh Chandra Yadav andAdesh Kumar

190-192

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1. ALLELOPATHY: IT’S IN TER FACE IN TREE-CROP AS SO CI A TION Anil Kumar Singh1, Pravesh Kumar, Nidhi Rathore, Triyugi Nath² and Renu SinghDe part ment of Agron omy, (RGSC) In sti tute of Ag ri cul tural Sci ences, BHU, Barkachha, Mirzapur (UP). ¹ ICAR Re search Com plex for East ern Re gion, Patna (Bihar)²De part ment of Soil Sci ence and Ag ri cul tural Chem is try (SSAC), IAS, BHU, Varanasi

AB STRACT: Com bi na tion be tween tree and crops in ter acts dy nam i cally and pro vides multi-fac etedas pects of im prove ment such as in creased pro duc tiv ity, en rich ment of soil with or ganic mat ter andni tro gen, trans port of nu tri ents from lower to the up per layer of soil, con ser va tion of en vi ron ment,im proved mi cro cli mate and allelopathy is one amongst them when it co mes to com bine the bothcom po nents for sus tain able land use and to in crease food pro duc tion. Be cause these com po nentsco-ex ist si mul ta neously, their allelopathic com pat i bil ity may be de ci sive to de ter mine the se lec tion ofsuc cess ful tree-crop com bi na tion. Mostly trees have neg a tive allelopathic ef fects on crops, there fore,it is es sen tial to ex plore that what type of tree-crop in ter ac tion will have no or pos i tive allelopathicef fects on the com pan ion crops may be com bined for ben e fi cial re sults. As trees re main a part of theagro forest ry sys tem for a lon ger pe riod, and most of them pro duce a large amount of leaves and lit ter,their allelochemicals may play an im por tant role in an over all im prove ment. If the due em pha sis isgiven, allelopathy could play a ma jor role in en hanc ing the pro duc tion and pro duc tiv ity in agro forest rysys tems by hav ing the better un der stand ing about tree-crop com bi na tion.


2. COM BI NA TIONAL IM PACT OF Debaryomyces hansenii BIOAGENT AND 1-METHYLECYCLO- PROPEN (1-MCP) ON SHELF LIFE AND QUAL ITY AT TRIB UTES OF KINNOW MAN DA RINRam Asrey¹, C. Sasikala¹ and Dinesh Singh² ¹Di vi sion of Post-har vest Tech nol ogy, ²Di vi sion of Plant Pa thol ogy, In dian Ag ri cul tural Re searchIn sti tute, New Delhi 110 012, In dia

E-mail: ramu_211@ya hoo.comAB STRACT:Due to ris ing con sum ers’ con cern over chem i cal/pes ti cides res i due free eat ables andin ter na tional food safety laws, it is felt world wide to find out an al ter na tive ap proach for postharvestfood loss re duc tion and qual ity re ten tion. To find out safe postharvest treat ment al ter na tives, Kinnowman da rin fruits were treated in di vid u ally with 1-MCP (250 nl L-1), Debaryomyces hansenii (109 cfu ml-1

for 2 min utes) and their com bi na tion (250 nl L-1 + 109 cfu ml-1). Treated fruits were stored at 10°Ctem per a ture and 85% RH. Their im pact on patho log i cal, phys i cal and qual ity pa ram e ters wasin ves ti gated af ter 45 days stor age. Fruits treated with 1-MCP (250 nl L-1) + Debaryomyces hanseniibioagent (109 cfu ml-1) re sulted in min i mum in ci dence of moulds (green 3.61% and blue 2.05%) overall nat u ral de cay (7.25%) and higher sen sory score (7.50). Higher fruit firm ness and lower PLW wasre corded equally good with 1-MCP alone and in com bi na tion of Debaryomyces hansenii bioagent.Postharvest fruit qual ity pa ram e ters viz TSS, acid ity, to tal sug ars and vi ta min C con tent were notaf fected with the 1-MCP and Debaryomyces hansenii ei ther alone or in com bi na tion.


3. STUD IES ON GE NETIC VARI ABIL ITY AND CHAR AC TERS AS SO CI A TION OF FRUIT

QUAL ITY PA RAM E TERS IN TO MATOMadhurina Manna and Amitava PaulDe part ment of CIHAB, Palli Siksha Bhavana (In sti tute of Ag ri cul ture) Visva-Bharati,

Sriniketan – 731236, Birbhum, West Ben galE-mail: [email protected]

AB STRACT : The ge netic vari abil ity and char ac ters as so ci a tion of dif fer ent fruit qual ity pa ram e terswere stud ied in 15 to mato ge no types grown in a two year field ex per i ments. High and mod er ate tohigh GCV and PCV were re corded for num ber of locules / fruit, fruit weight, to tal acid (%), num ber offruits/plant, vi ta min C (mg /100g), fruit yield /plant, fruit length and pericarp thick ness. High andmod er ate to high heritability cou pled with high and mod er ate to high ge netic gain in num ber oflocules/fruit, fruit weight, fruit length, num ber of fruits/plant, pericarp thick ness, vi ta min C (mg/100g)and to tal acid (%) in di cated the pre dom i nance of ad di tive gene ac tion, and there fore, these are morere li able for ef fec tive se lec tion. Cor re la tion co ef fi cient re vealed that fruit yield per plant was pos i tivelyand sig nif i cantly cor re lated with pericarp thick ness, fruit length, fruit weight and num ber of fruits/plantin di cat ing rel a tive im por tance of these char ac ters for yield im prove ment. Sig nif i cantly pos i tive andneg a tive as so ci a tions among dif fer ent fruit qual ity pa ram e ters were also ob served in the pres entstudy. The path co ef fi cient anal y sis re vealed that num ber of locules /fruit, TSS, fruit length, num ber offruits/plant, fruit weight, vi ta min C con tent and pericarp thick ness had pos i tive di rect ef fect on fruityield, while fruit width and to tal acid con tent had strong neg a tive ef fects on the fruit yield.

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4. EF FECT OF DIF FER ENT PACKAGINGS ON QUAL ITY OF PEACHES DUR ING STOR AGENavjot Gupta and Sukhjit Kaur JawandhaDe part ment of Hor ti cul ture, Punjab Ag ri cul tural Uni ver sity, Ludhiana–141 004, In diaE-mail: navjot_bti@ya hoo.co.in

AB STRACT: Physiochemical and en zy matic changes in the peach fruits packed in cor ru gatedcard board boxes of 2 kg and 4 Kg and tra di tional wooden boxes of 4 Kg and 8 Kg were stud ied dur ingcold stor age (0-2°C with 85-90 per cent R.H.). The CFB boxes was proved very ef fec tive in re duc ingspoil age, phys i o log i cal loss in weight (PLW) and main tain ing acid ity, to tal phe nols con tent and pec tinmethyl estrase (PME) ac tiv ity dur ing stor age. There was an in crease (p£0.05) in spoil age, PLW, TSS,re duc ing sug ars and PME ac tiv ity and de crease (p£0.05) in acid ity and to tal phe nols con tent dur ingstor age. The fruits packed in 2 kg CFB boxes were best in terms of qual ity pa ram e ters fol lowed by 4kg CFB boxes. Re sults re vealed that peach fruits packed in 2 kg CFB boxes can be stored for threeweeks in cold stor age (0-2°C, 85-90% RH) with ac cept able ed ible qual ity of fruits and can besub sti tuted for wooden boxes due to its dem on strated ben e fits.


5. GE NETIC VARI ABIL ITY AND COR RE LA TION ANAL Y SIS IN BER (Zizyphus mauritianaLamk.) GERMPLASM GROWN IN LUCKNOWGanesh Shukla, Rekha Singh1, R.B. Ram and Deepa H. DwivediDe part ment of Ap plied Plant Sci ence (Hor ti cul ture), Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Uni ver sity,Vidya Vihar, Raebareli Road, Lucknow.1Na tional Bo tan i cal Re search In sti tute, LucknowE-mail: [email protected]

AB STRACT: A study was con ducted in sodic soil con di tions of Lucknow dur ing 2005-2006 us ing 16ge no types of Zizyphus mauritiana Lamk. in which 12 were com mer cial cultivars viz. Banarasi Ka raka,Karali, Shootless, Mehrun, Peundi, Gola, Jaffran, Chhuhara, Khinni, Desi, Kaithli and Illaichi; and 4se lec tions-i.e. Ambedkar Ber 1, Ambedkar Ber-2, Ambedkar Ber-3 and Ambedkar Ber-4 to cor re late13 physico-chem i cal char ac ters of fruits i.e. fruit length, fruit width, fruit weight, fruit vol ume, spe cificgrav ity, to tal sol u ble solid (TSS), acid ity, ascor bic acid, stone length and stone width, stone weight,pulp: stone ra tio and fruit pulp. The ex per i ment was car ried out in com pletely ran dom ized de sign(CRD) with three rep li ca tions. Cor re la tion anal y sis study showed a high pos i tive and sta tis ti callysig nif i cant (P<0.01) cor re la tion be tween fruit pulp and fruit weight (0.999). Fruit pulp also had pos i tiveand sig nif i cant cor re la tion with fruit vol ume (0.874) and fruit width (0.730). Fruit vol ume in di catedneg a tive cor re la tion with spe cific grav ity. There fore, in for ma tion on dif fer ent physico-chem i calchar ac ters of fruits and fruit pulp yield may be of great im por tance to a breeder in se lect ing a de sir ablege no type.


6. EM BRYO CUL TURE AND DE VEL OP MENT OF SEED LINGS IN

DIF FER ENT CIT RUS SPE CIESBikramjit Singh Gill, Savreet Sandhu and Sukhdev SinghDe part ment of Hor ti cul ture, Khalsa Col lege, GNDU, Amritsar-143 002, Punjab.E-mail: singh_kotla@ya hoo.co.in

AB STRACT: The cit rus in dus try is con sid ered to be a ma jor fruit in dus try hence it needs to beim proved to ca ter to the di verse needs of con sum ers and crop breed ers. Ge netic ma nip u la tion through con ven tional tech niques in this ge nus is in vari ably a dif fi cult task for plant breed ers as it poses var i ousbi o log i cal lim i ta tions com pris ing long ju ve nile pe riod, high heterozygosity, sex ual in com pat i bil ity,nucellar polyembryony and large plant size that greatly hin der cultivar im prove ment. The de mands forelite rootstock ma te rial are con tin u ously in creas ing for fruit pro duc tion and to ful fill such de mandsap pli ca tion of in vi tro prop a ga tion tech niques is one of the suc cess ful al ter na tive par tic u larly in case ofcit rus crops. One of the es sen tial re quire ments for the suc cess ful ap pli ca tion of plant prop a ga tiontech nol ogy in ag ri cul ture is its ca pac ity to re gen er ate elite plantlets. The pro cess of em bryo cul ture is a suit able method of micropropagation and has the po ten tial of mass prop a ga tion com mer cially.Keep ing in mind these things ex per i ment on “Em bryo cul ture and de vel op ment of seed lings indif fer ent Cit rus spe cies” was con ducted. The seeds were ex tracted from the de vel op ing fruits from thetrees grow ing in the col lege nurs ery and were ster il ized. The em bryos of six Cit rus spe cies werecul tured to ob tain the stock plants. The ger mi na tion ranged from 71.5 to 96.0 per cent and theem bryos were in oc u lated on the basal Murashige and Skoog me dium. Cit rus limon gave the max i mum (96 per cent) ger mi na tion and Cit rus sinensis re sulted in min i mum (71.5 per cent) ger mi na tion. It wascon cluded from the ex per i ment that in vi tro prop a ga tion has been a great po ten tial tool to over comeprob lems re lated with the field cul ture for cit rus spe cies. These ad vances in bio tech nol ogy havegen er ated new op por tu ni ties for cit rus

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ge netic im prove ment. There fore, de vel op ment of ef fi cient em bryo cul ture pro to cols is nec es sary forcon ser va tion and ge netic im prove ment of cit rus.


7. EF FECTS OF DRIP IR RI GA TION AND POLY THENE MULCH ONPRO DUC TIV ITY AND QUAL ITY OF STRAW BERRY (Fragaria ananassa) A.K. Singh, S. K. Singh, A. K. Pandey, K. Rajan and A. Kumar ICAR- Re search Com plex for East ern Re gion, Patna 800 014 (Bihar)

AB STRACT: A field trial was con ducted un der farmer’s par tic i pa tory re search pro ject at farm ers’ fieldin the Bhojpur dis trict of Bihar on clay loam soil to im prove straw berry (Fragaria ananassa) pro duc tiv ity and qual ity through drip ir ri ga tion and poly thene mulch and to en hance wa ter use ef fi ciency throughpres sur ized ir ri ga tion cou pled with use of black poly thene mulch along with sur face ir ri ga tion. Dripir ri ga tion with poly thene mulch gave sig nif i cantly high est yield (50.10 q ha-1) as com pared to sur faceir ri ga tion in an unmulched con di tion (40.15 q ha-1) how ever, the yield un der paddy straw (45.90 q ha-1)and unmulched (42.07 q ha-1) was next in or der to drip with poly thene mulch but were sig nif i cantly atpar among them selves. When cal cu lated the per cent age in crease the drip with poly thene mulch gave25 per cent higher yield than sur face with unmulched con di tion. Sim i larly, the wa ter use ef fi ciency(WUE) was high est in drip ir ri ga tion with poly thene mulch (7.7 kg ha-1 mm-1) as com pared to sur faceir ri ga tion (5.1 kg ha-1 mm-1). The fruit yield of straw berry un der drip ir ri ga tion was found to be 46.07 qha-1 com pared to 40.15 q ha-1 un der sur face ir ri ga tion. More over, poly thene mulch plus drip ir ri ga tionfur ther raised the yields. Fruit weight in creased sig nif i cantly while other an a lyzed qual itychar ac ter is tics did not dif fer sig nif i cantly among treat ments. Drip ir ri ga tion be sides giv ing a sav ing of50-55 % ir ri ga tion wa ter re sulted in 20-40 % higher yield of crops stud ied.


8. IN FLU ENCE OF PACLOBUTRAZOL AND ETHEPHON ON FRUIT

QUAL ITY OF ‘ALLAHABAD SAFEDA’ GUAVA J. S. Brar1, H.S. Dhaliwal2 and J.S. Bal3

1Re gional Re search Sta tion (PAU) Bathinda-151 001-In dia2De part ment of Hor ti cul ture, PAU, Ludhiana-141 004-In dia3Khalsa Col lege, AmritsarE-mail: [email protected]

AB STRACT: In ves ti ga tion on 4-year old plants of guava cv. Allahabad Safeda was con ducted to findout the in flu ence of gibberellin-in hib i tor paclobutrazol (PBZ), [(2RS, 3RS)-1-(4-chlorophenyl)-4,4-dimethyl-2-(1,2,4 triazol-1-yl)pentan-3-ol] and rip en ing pro moter ethephon[(2-chloroethyl) phosphonic acid], on fruit qual ity. Treat ments in the form of fo liar ap pli ca tion were ap plied re peat edly dur ing March 2007 and 2008 at 500 and 1000 ppm of each chem i cal on plantsat 6x5m spac ing. Fruit size and weight was re corded higher in all treated plants dur ing both rainy andwin ter sea sons as com pared to un treated plants. Num ber of seed was counted high est in fruitsob tained from con trol plants dur ing both sea sons. Pulp pro por tion was not af fected sig nif i cantly withtreat ments. The pal at abil ity rat ing and TSS of fruits dur ing both rainy and win ter sea son were re corded higher and acid ity was re corded lower in treated plants as com pared to un treated plants. High estvi ta min C con tent was noted in fruits ob tained from ethephon 1000 ppm treated plants dur ing rainysea son and ethephon 500 ppm dur ing win ter sea son. Al though, PBZ 500 ppm was found to in creasethe fruit size and weight par tic u larly dur ing rainy sea son but ethephon 500 ppm treated plantspro vided fruits with best eat ing qual ity.


9. GE NETIC VARI ABIL ITY, HERITABILITY, GE NETIC AD VANCE,

COR RE LA TION AND PATH ANAL Y SIS IN OKRA Sanjay Kumar, Annapurna1, Yogesh Chandra Yadav1 and Raghvendra SinghDe part ment of Hor ti cul ture, In sti tute of Ag ri cul tural Sci ences, Banaras Hindu Univ., Varanasi1DAPS (Hort.), B.B.A. Univ., Lucknow

AB STRACT : A field ex per i ment was con ducted with twenty di verse ge no types of Okra (PusaMakhamali, VRO-6, VRO-5, Se lec tion-10, IIVR-10, HRB-10, IIVR-11, Perkins Long Green,VRO-4,HRB-9-2, Parbhani Kranti, RS-410, Punjab-7, DOV-91-4, D-1-87-1, EMS-8-1,Bhindi Vaphy, 315, andBO-2) in ran dom ized block de sign with three rep li ca tions. Ana lysed data re vealed that among all thege no types, Pusa Makhamali, Perkins Long Green, Parbhani Kranti, VRO-6, VRO-5 and Se lec tion-10gave prom is ing re sults.


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10. BIO CHEM I CAL CHANGES IN GUAVA FRUITS DUR ING STOR AGE AS AF FECTED BYDIF FER ENT METH ODS OF HAR VEST ING FROM DIF FER ENT PO SI TION OF TREEAyushi Tamta, Rajesh Kumar, D. S. Mishra and Prabhat KumarG.B.Pant Uni ver sity of Ag ri cul ture and Tech nol ogy, Pantnagar 263145, U.S. Nagar, Uttarakhand

AB STRACT: A study was car ried out on the ef fect of po si tion of the can opy and dif fer ent meth ods ofhar vest ing of guava to eval u ate its chem i cal as well as min eral qual ity at the dif fer ent pe riod ofstor age. Ma tured healthy fruits of guava cv. ‘Pant Prabhat’ with uni form size were har vested with andwith out peduncle and with one leaf pair with the help of secateur to an a lyze the post har vest be hav iour of fruit af ter three and seven days of stor age. Time of ma tu rity was in flu enced by po si tion of fruits.Fruits from lower tree can opy ma ture ear lier than rest of the can opy. There was also a vari a tion inchem i cal as well as min eral qual ity be tween dif fer ent can opy po si tions on tree. Cal cium andpo tas sium con tents were higher in up per can opy po si tions than lower can opy fruits. Fruits should behar vested lower layer of fruit tree can opy for better qual ity as well as stor age. There fore, at the time ofhar vest ing guava the pedicel should re main at tached to its fruit for better stor age qual ity.


11. STAN DARD IZA TION OF BENCH GRAFT ING IN CUS TARD AP PLE (Annona squamosa L.)Sunil Kumar and A.K. ShuklaGrass land and Silvopasture Man age ment Di vi sionIn dian Grass land and Fod der Re search In sti tute, Jhansi 284 003 In diaE-mail:sunilhort66@ya hoo.co.in; [email protected]

AB STRACT : An ex per i ment on bench graft ing in cus tard ap ple (Annona squamosa L.) em ploy ingcleft graft ing tech nique was con ducted at In dian Grass land and Fod der Re search In sti tute, Jhansidur ing 2007. Bare rooted stocks of cus tard ap ple hav ing 0.6 cm di am e ter were bench grafted withdor mant scion of cv. Balanagar. Dor mant scion shoots hav ing 0.6 cm thick ness used for graft ing hasgiven high est graft suc cess (96.4%) when it was per formed dur ing 29th May, whereas min i mum(37.8%) was re corded when 0.8 cm thick scion was grafted on 6th June. Days taken to sprout ing,length of sprout, col lar di am e ter, num ber of sec ond ary branches and num ber of sec ond ary roots per

plant were sig nif i cantly in flu enced by scion thick ness and time of graft ing.


12. EF FECT OF PRE-HAR VEST TREAT MENTS OF CAL CIUM SALTS ON HAR VEST MA TU -

RITY IN KINNOW MAN DA RINTanjeet Singh Chahal and J. S. Bal1

F.R.S. Gangian (PAU), Hoshiyarpur1De part ment of Ag ri cul ture, Khalsa Col lege, Amritsar, Punjab

E-mail: tanjeetchahal@ya hoo.comAB STRACT : The pres ent study was un der taken at Punjab Gov ern ment Prog eny Or chard andNurs ery, Attari, Amritsar, to judge the ef fi cacy of dif fer ent lev els of Cal cium Chlo ride (CaCl2) and Cal cium Ni trate {Ca(NO3)2} for re tain ing the fruit qual ity dur ing de layed har vest ing. There were sixchem i cal treat ments and the ex per i ment was rep li cated three times. The fruits from the trees werehar vested at dif fer ent stages of ma tu rity (1st Jan u ary, 15th Jan u ary, 1st Feb ru ary and 15th Feb ru ary)and were sub jected to physico-chem i cal eval u a tion. On the ba sis of two years ob ser va tion, Cal ciumChlo ride (CaCl2) at 6 per cent and Cal cium Ni trate {Ca(NO3)2}at 0.3 per cent proved their ef fec tive ness in de lay ing the har vest ma tu rity of the fruits. How ever, the TSS, to tal sug ars and re duc ing sug ars levelof these treated fruits was find to be lower in com par i son to con trol. The acid ity level was re corded tobe higher than con trol.


13. EF FECT OF NU TRI ENT MAN AGE MENT THROUGH OR GANIC SOURCES ON THE PRO -

DUC TIV ITY OF GUAVA (Psidium guajava L.)Ram Ishwar Yadav, Ram Kumar Singh, Pravesh Kumar and Anil Kumar Singh1

Ag ri cul tural Re search farm of Rajiv Gan dhi South Cam pus, (BHU) Barkachha, Mirzapur (UP)

ICAR Re search Com plex for East ern Re gion Patna (Bihar) AB STRACT : The ex per i ment was con ducted to study the ef fect of nu tri ent man age ment throughor ganic sources on guava trees. Re sults showed that ap pli ca tion of var i ous or ganic sub stancesin creased growth of trees, fruit yield and fruit qual ity as com pared to un treated ones (con trol). Thehigh est val ues of these pa ram e ters were re corded for trees ap plied with poul try ma nure fol lowed bythe trees ap plied with FYM. Ap pli ca tion of poul try ma nure on guava trees sig nif i cantly in creasednum ber of fruits per plant and resultantly higher yield (kg/tree) was achieved as com pared to con trol.

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The re corded val ues of to tal sol u ble sol ids and to tal sugar were also found sig nif i cantly higher with theap pli ca tion of poul try ma nure.


14. EF FECT OF CYCOCEL ON GROWTH, YIELD AND QUAL ITY OFTO MATO (Lycopersicon esculentum MILL.)Jitendra Kumar, Madan Lal1 and Krishan Pal De part ment of Hor ti cul ture, Uni ver sity Teach ing De part ments, Chaudhary Charan Singh Uni ver sity Cam pus,Meerut-250 005 Uttar Pradesh, In dia.1De part ment of Hor ti cul ture, Allahabad Ag ri cul tural In sti tute, Allahabad–211 007, U.P., In dia.E.mail.- [email protected]

AB STRACT: The yield of any crop is in flu enced by a num ber of fac tors. There fore, an in ves ti ga tionwas car ried out to de ter mine the ef fect of dif fer ent rates of Cycocel on growth, yield and qual ity ofto mato. The find ings car ried out on to mato, re vealed that the ap pli ca tion of cycocel at 300 ppmbrought about the best re sults. Cycocel as re tar dant (CCC) ex hib ited the ca pac ity for pro fusebranch ing, higher leaf count, higher flower clus ter and better yield per plant as com pared to con trol.


15. STAN DARD IZA TION OF STONE GRAFT ING IN SOME MANGO CULTIVARS UN DERLUCKNOW CON DI TIONS R.B. Ram, D. Kumar, Priyamvada Sonkar, Rubee Lata and M. L. MeenaDe part ment of Ap plied Plant Sci ence (Hor ti cul ture)Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Uni ver sity (A Cen tral Uni ver sity) Lucknow - 226 025 (U.P), In dia

AB STRACT : The pres ent in ves ti ga tion was car ried out dur ing 2005- 2006 at the Hor ti cul turalRe search Farm of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Uni ver sity, Lucknow. The ex per i ment wascon ducted us ing six va ri et ies viz. Amrapali, Dashehari, Mallika, Langra, Chausa and Lucknow Safedain a Ran dom ized Block De sign with five rep li ca tions. Re sults re flect that the high est suc cess per centand over all per for mance of stone graft ing op er a tions was re corded by us ing scion stick cultivarAmrapali, whereas min i mum suc cess per cent was in cultivar Lucknow Safeda un der Lucknowcon di tions.


16. STUDY ON GE NETIC VARI ABIL ITY AND HERITABILITY IN Ocimum spp.M. Shehbaz Khan, D.K. Bahuguna, Rajeev Kumar¹, Nitin Kumar¹ and Ishrat Ahmad LoneDe part ment of Seed Sci ence and Tech nol ogy, Ch.Charan Singh Uni ver sity, Meerut.1De part ment of Ag. Bot any, CSSS (P.G.) Col lege Machhra, Meerut.

AB STRACT: A field ex per i ment was con ducted dur ing kharif sea son of 2008 to study the vari abil ity of25 ge no types of Ocimum spp. for 11 traits. The es ti mate of max i mum range and co ef fi cient ofvari abil ity were noted for six dif fer ent char ac ters in clud ing plant height, leaf length, no. ofin flo res cence/plant, length of in flo res cence, days to ma tu rity and fresh herb yield /plant. The high estes ti mates of heritability in broad sense were ob served for plant height (99.70 %) fol lowed by length ofin flo res cence /plant (98.80 %), fresh herb yield per plant (98.60%), no. of in flo res cence/plant(98.40%), days to ma tu rity (92.60%) and leaf width (91.50%). The high est value of ge netic ad vancewas ob tained for fresh herb age yield per plant (1018.02) fol lowed by dry herb yield per plant (394.31),no of in flo res cence/plant (43.76) and plant height (39.13). High est val ues of genotypic and phenotypiccovariance in di cated wide range of vari abil ity and high heritability as so ci ated with higher val ues ofrel a tive ge netic ad vance.


17. EF FECT OF NI TRO GEN AND PHOS PHO RUS ON CROP GROWTH, HEAD YIELD ANDQUAL ITY OF BROC COLI (Bras sica oleracea L. var. italica)Dheerendra Katiyar, S.M.Tripathi, A.K. Dwivedi and Vivek PandeyDe part ment of Veg e ta ble Sci ence, Chandra Shekhar Azad Uni ver sity of Ag ri cul ture and Tech nol ogy, Kanpur-208002, (U.P.)

AB STRACT: An ex per i ment was con ducted at De part ment of Veg e ta ble Sci ence, C.S. Azad Univ. ofAgri. & Tech., Kalyanpur, Kanpur dur ing Rabi sea son of 2005-06 to find out the ef fect of ni tro gen (30,60, 90, 120 kg ha-1), phos pho rus (30, 60, 90 kg ha 1- ) on crop growth, head yield and qual ity ofbroc coli. The sig nif i cant re sult was ob tained in growth and yield pa ram e ter, i.e., height of plant, days to cen tral head, head yield per plant and per plot, plant frame, head size, har vest du ra tion andcom pact ness of the head. The most of the char ac ters and op ti mum head yield of broc coli werefa voured by ap ply ing 90 kg ni tro gen and 90 kg phosphorus per hectare.


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18. STAN DARD IZA TION OF PLANT MUL TI PLI CA TION IN AONLA (Emblica officinalis Garten.)CV. NARENDRA AONLA-6Sarvesh Singh, Satya Prakash Singh, H. K. Singh and Chandra ShekharDe part ment of Hor ti cul ture, Col lege of Hor ti cul ture and For estry

N. D. Uni ver sity of Ag ri cul ture & Tech nol ogy Kumarganj, Faizabad.AB STRACT: Field ex per i ment con ducted to stan dard ize the op ti mum stock thick ness, bud ding height and method of bud ding in aonla cv. N.A. 6 con cluded that Narendra Aonla-6 should be bud ded on 0.5cm thick ness or rootstock at 10 cm height above ground level with patch method of bud ding dur ing themonth of June for higher bud ding suc cess and fur ther growth of bud ding.


19. RUS SIAN OL IVE (Elaeagnus angustifolia L.): PROB A BLE OR NA MEN TAL PLANT FORBIO-AES THETIC LAND SCAP ING IN COLD ARID ECO SYS TEMP. Ishfaq Akbar, M Saleem Mir, M S Kanwar and Jahangeer A. Baba1

High Moun tain Arid Ag ri cul ture Re search In sti tute Leh, Ladakh-1941011Sher-e-Kash mir Uni ver sity of Ag ri cul tural Sci ences and Tech nol ogy, Kash mir-191 121E-mail: [email protected] Pub lished in : HortFlora Re search Spec trum, Vol. 1(2) : 178-180 (2012)

20. GROWTH AND SEED YIELD OF FEN NEL AS IN FLU ENCED BY RHIZOBACTERIAT.P. Malik and S.K. TehlanDe part ment of Veg e ta ble Sci ence, CCS Haryana Ag ri cul tural Uni ver sity, Hisar–125 004, Haryana.E-mail:tpmalik@ya hoo.com


21. EVAL U A TION OF TARO (Colocasia esculenta var. antiquorum) GE NO TYPES AGAINST LEAFBLIGHT (Phy toph thora colocasiae) UN DER EAST ERN UTTAR PRADESH CON DI TIONR.C. Shakywar, S.P. Pathak1, M. Pathak2 and Anil Kumar Singh3

De part ment of Plant Pro tec tion, Col lege of Hor ti cul ture & For estry, Cen tral Ag ri cul tural Uni ver sity,Pasighat–791 102, Arunachal Pradesh1De part ment of Plant Pa thol ogy, N.D. Uni ver sity of Agri. & Tech., Kumarganj, Faizabad2Krishi Vigyan Kendra, East Siang, Col lege of Hor ti cul ture & For estry, CAU, Pasighat–791 102 3ICAR Re search Com plex for East ern Re gion, Patna-800 014 (Bihar)E-mail: [email protected]


22. POP U LA TION DY NAM ICS OF ORI EN TAL FRUIT FLY, Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel) IN RE LA -TION TO ABIOTIC FAC TORSJitendra Mishra, Sandeep Singh, Akilesh Tripathi¹ and M.N. Chaube²Deptt. of En to mol ogy, C.S.Azad Univ. of Agri. & Tech.,Kanpur¹Deptt. of En to mol ogy, K.A.P.G Col lege, Allahabad²Deptt. of En to mol ogy, S.D.J.P.G Col lege, Chandeshar, Azamgarh


23. EF FECT OF NPK LEV ELS ON GROWTH, YIELD AND QUAL ITY OF OKRA CV. ARKA

ANAMIKAS. K. Singh, Sanjay Kumar, Yogesh Chandra Yadav and Adesh KumarDe part ment of Ap plied Plant Sci ence (Hor ti cul ture),Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Uni ver sity, Lucknow, Vidya Vihar Rae Bareli Road,

Lucknow-226 025(UP)


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Volume 1 (3) July-September 2012


Volume 1(3), July-September, 2012

Contents

1. Dynamics of Tree-Crop Interface in Relation to theirInfluence on Microclimatic Changes—A Review

Anil Kumar Singh, Pravesh Kumar, Renu Singh,and Nidhi Rathore

193-198

2. Seed Germination of Fruit Crops : A Review Rajech Kumar, K.K. Misra, D.S. Misra andManoj Brijwal

199-207

3. Response of Bio-Organic Nutrition on Growth, Yield andQuality of Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera Dunal.)

Naresh Kumar, Vijai Kumar and M.C. Singh 208-214

4. Path Analysis between Fruit Yield and some YieldComponents in Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill)

Madhurina Manna and Amitava Paul 215-219

5. Effect of Chemicals on Shelf Life and Quality of Guava(Psidium guajava) Fruits cv. Apple Colour

Praveen Kumar Nishad, Balaji Vikram and V.M. Prasad 220-224

6. Effect of Ethrel on Post Harvest Changes in Papaya(Carica papaya L.) Fruits

Priyanka Singh, Sanjay Kumar and Sutanu Maji 225-230

7. Fruit Yield and Quality of Peach (Prunus persica Batsch.)as Influenced by Differential Application of Zinc

A.S. Sidhu, B.S. Sidhu and J.S. Brar 231-234

8. Extending Harvesting Period of Litchi (Litchi chinensisSonn.) Through Chemicals Application

Mahesh Pal and D.S. Mishra 235-238

9. Interaction Effect of Chemical and Bio-Fertilizers onGrowth and Yield of Onion (Allium cepa L.)

Yogita and R.B. Ram 239-243

10. Integrated Nutrient Management in Garden Pea (Pisumsativum var. hortense)

Dharmendra Kumar Dubey, S.S. Singh, R.S. Verma andP.K. Singh

244-247

11. Genetic Variability, Heritability and Correlation Studiesin Chilli (Capsicum annuum L.)

Diwaker Kumar, Vijay Bahadur, S.B. Rangare andDevi Singh

248-252

12. Effect of Calcium Nitrate on Physico-Chemical Changesand Shelf-Life of Aonla (Emblica officinalis Gaertn)Fruits

Santosh Gangwar, H.S. Shukla, Dheerendra Katiyar and Vivek Pandey

253-258

13. Evaluation of Ivy Gourd (Coccinia cordifolia L.)Genotypes in Allahabad Agro-Climatic Condition

Hitesh Nag, Devi Singh, Vijay Bahadur and J.P. Collis 259-262

14. Study on Post-Harvest Life of Cut Rose cv. First Red asAffected by Different Chemicals and Wrapping Materials

Jitendra Kumar, Anis Mirza and Krishan Pal 263-266

15. Faba Bean : Unique Germplasm Explored and Identified Anil Kumar Singh and B.P. Bhatt 267-269

16. Response of Different Spacing and Salicylic Acid Levelson Growth and Flowering of Gladiolus (Gladiolusgrandiflora L.)

Mani Ram, Virendra Pal, Manoj Kumar Singh andMukesh Kumar

270-273

17. Economics of Production and Marketing of Okra inDistrict Bijnor (U.P.)

O.P. Maurya and S.L. Pal 274-277

18. Identification of Faba Bean (Vicia faba L.) Lines Suitablefor Rainfed and Irrigated Situation

A.K. Singh, B.P. Bhatt, Santosh Kumar andP.K. Sundram

278-280

19. Effect of Foliar Application of Zinc and Boron on Yieldand Fruit Quality of Guava (Psidium guajava L.)

Nitin Trivedi, Devi Singh, Vijay Bahadur, V.M. Prasadand J.P. Collis

281-283

20. Response of Gibberellic acid on Growth Behaviour andMenthol Oil Yield of Mentha (Mentha piperita L.)

Awadhesh Kumar, Hashim Mouzzam andPriyanka Singh

284-285

21. Response of Gerbera Varieties against Powdery MildewDisease Under Polyhouse Condition

Sunil Kumar, K.S. Tomar and R.C. Shakywar 286-288

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1. DY NAM ICS OF TREE-CROP IN TER FACE IN RE LA TION TO THEIR IN FLU ENCE ONMICROCLIMATIC CHANGES—A RE VIEW Anil Kumar Singh1, Pravesh Kumar2, Renu Singh2 and Nidhi Rathore21ICAR Re search Com plex for East ern Re gion, Patna-800 014 (Bihar)2De part ment of Agron omy, (RGSC) In sti tute of Ag ri cul tural Sci ences, BHU, Barkachha,Mirzapur (UP)

AB STRACT: In te gra tion of trees with crops adds a sig nif i cant el e ment of bi o log i cal di ver sity toag ro nomic sys tems and pro motes sus tain able, pro tec tive and pro duc tive land use. The bi o log i calin ter ac tions be tween the ma jor com po nents i.e., trees and crops are of pri mary im por tance andin tro duce chal lenges and com plex i ties not pres ent in sole crop ping. Spe cif i cally, it must bedem on strated that sat is fac tory growth and yields of both trees and crops can be achieved in themicroenvironment of the agro forest ry land-use sys tem that var ies con sid er ably with time. Com paredto an open en vi ron ment, the mod i fied mi cro cli mate un der trees will have re duced so lar ra di a tion, alow ered red: far-red light ra tio, a more mod er ate tem per a ture re gime, higher hu mid ity, lower rates of evapo-tran spi ra tion and higher soil mois ture lev els. All of these fac tors will change as a func tion oftree de vel op ment and tree man age ment prac tices. The spac ing ar range ment cho sen for trees willalso be a fac tor in de ter min ing how rap idly the changes come into play. Dur ing the es tab lish mentphase, tree shade will be min i mal and have lit tle sig nif i cant ef fect on the understory com pan ion crops.How ever, as the trees grow, the changes in the mi cro cli mate will be come more pro nounced, whichmight strongly af fect the growth and com pat i bil ity of the understory com pan ion crop.


2. SEED GER MI NA TION OF FRUIT CROPS : A RE VIEWRajesh Kumar, K.K.Misra, D.S. Misra and Manoj BrijwalDe part ment of Hor ti cul ture, G. B. Pant Uni ver sity of Ag ri cul ture & Tech nol ogy,Pantnagar 263145, In diaE-mail: [email protected]

AB STRACT: Seed ger mi na tion is the re sump tion of ac tive growth of em bryo that re sults in theemer gence of the young plant. Seeds of many fruit crops re main ungerminated even un der fa vour ablecon di tions. Such kind of dor mancy in seeds may be due to pres ence of hard and im per me able seedcoat, ger mi na tion in hib i tors or due to im proper de vel op ment of em bryo. Such seeds may re quirespe cial treat ments like scarification, soak ing in wa ter, growth reg u la tors etc. for over com ingdor mancy. This re view sum ma rises the lat est de vel op ments in seed ger mi na tion in dif fer ent fruitscops. .


3. RE SPONSE OF BIO-OR GANIC NU TRI TION ON GROWTH, YIELD AND QUAL ITY OFASHWAGANDHA (Withania somnifera Dunal.)Naresh Kumar, Vijai Kumar and M.C. Singh¹ Ch. Shivnath Singh Shandilya( P.G.) Col lege, Machhra, Meerut, UP.-250 106¹Di vi sion of Flori cul ture & Land scap ing, IARI, Pusa Cam pus, New DelhiE-mail:[email protected]

AB STRACT : In an ex per i ment con ducted on ashwagandha (Withania somnifera Dunal), to study there sponse of dif fer ent or ganic amend ments with or ganic ma nure (FYM) and bio-fer til iz ers in re la tion toplant growth, root yield and qual ity pa ram e ters it was found that the seed lings (5-7 leaf stage)in oc u lated with Azospirillum @ 105 or 106 CFU re sulted a sig nif i cant in crease in plant growth andbio mass yield. How ever, the root and seed yields were ob served higher in the plants planted in soilamended with vermi-com post and FYM @ 2 or 3 kg / 1.8 m2 /plot. The plant height var ied sig nif i cantlyamong all the treated plots but re main taller (24.80 cm) in plots treated @ 2kg FYM hav ing max i mumstem di am e ter (0.48 cm) at 30 DAP (days af ter plant ing) and high est num bers of leaves per plant (438) af ter reach ing 75 DAP fol lowed by seed ling treated with Azospirillum @ 106 CFU. How ever, the low est num ber of leaves per plant (97.4) was ob served in the plants grown in plots amended vermi-com post@ 2kg / plot. Num ber of branches per plant re mained high est (51.0) with plants treated withAzospirillum @ 106 CFU, soil amended with vermi-com post @ 2kg and FYM @ 3 kg/ plot fol lowed byplants grown with Azospirillum @ 105 CFU (46.0). Whereas, the plants grown in plots amendedwith out FYM pro duced least num ber of branches (21.2) even at 75 DAP. Fresh root weight per plantwas ob served max i mum (24.0 g) in the plants amended with vermi-com post @ 2kg and FYM @3kg/plot and in oc u lated with Azospirillum @ 106 CFU. How ever, the dry weight of the roots re mainedhigh est ( 7.6g /plant) in the plants treated with FYM @ 3kg , vermi-com post @ 2 kg / plot andin oc u lated with Azospirillum @ 105 CFU.


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4. PATH ANAL Y SIS BE TWEEN FRUIT YIELD AND SOME YIELD COM PO NENTS IN TO MATO (Lycopersicon esculeutum Mill)Madhurina Manna and Amitava PaulDe part ment of CIHAB; Palli Siksha Bhavana (In sti tute of Ag ri cul ture)Visva-Bharati, Sriniketan–731236, Birbhum, West Ben galE-mail: amitava. paul @ rediffmail.com

AB STRACT : Path anal y sis was per formed on plant and fruit char ac ters of fif teen to mato ge no typesgrown in a two year field ex per i ment to de ter mine for fruit yield, the di rect and in di rect ef fects of thefol low ing traits: plant height, no. of pri mary branches/plant, no. of fruits/plant, fruit weight (g), fruitbear ing length, fruit length, fruit width and pericarp thick ness. Fruit yield per plant was pos i tively andsig nif i cantly cor re lated with pericarp thick ness, fruit length, fruit weight and no. of fruits/plant, whereas, fruit yield per plant had neg a tive and sig nif i cant as so ci a tion with days to 50% flow er ing, plant height,no. of pri mary branches/plant, fruit bear ing length. Path anal y sis showed that plant height, fruit length,fruit bear ing length and pericarp thick ness had pos i tive di rect ef fects on fruit yield while other traitsun der study had strong neg a tive di rect ef fects. The sig nif i cant pos i tive cor re la tion co ef fi cients of no. offruits/plant with fruit yield was re sulted from pos i tive in di rect ef fects of days to 50% flow er ing, fruitweight, fruit width and pericarp thick ness, while for fruit weight with fruit yield, sig nif i cant pos i tivecor re la tion re sulted from pos i tive in di rect ef fects via days to 50% flow er ing, no. of fruits/plant and no.of pri mary branches/plant. Re sults sug gest that in di rect se lec tion for days to 50% flow er ing, fruitweight, fruit width and di rect se lec tion for fruit bear ing length and pericarp thick ness should be pri mary se lec tion cri te ria for im prov ing fruit yield in to mato


5. EF FECT OF CHEM I CALS ON SHELF LIFE AND QUAL ITY OF GUAVA (Psidium guajava)

FRUITS CV. AP PLE COL OUR Praveen Kumar Nishad, Balaji Vikram and V. M. Prasad De part ment of Hor ti cul ture Allahabad School of Ag ri cul ture, Sam Higginbottom In sti tute ofAg ri cul ture, Tech nol ogy and Sci ences Allahabad-211 007(U.P.)E-mail: [email protected]

AB STRACT: Guava cv. Ap ple col our is a com mer cial fruit crop for the grower in In dia but its self life ispoor and its waste causes many eco nomic prob lems. The aim of this study was to im prove the self lifeof the fruit by the use of dif fer ent chem i cals com po si tion, Waxol per cent ages and pack ag ing ma te ri als. There were ten post har vest treat ments—Bavistin (0%), (0.1%) and (2%) and Wax (0%), (6%) and(8%), and one stor age con di tion i.e (Room tem per a ture). Name of chem i cal use – Their ef fects wereac cessed by com plete ran dom ized de sign with three rep li ca tions. The treated fruits of guava werestored at room tem per a ture. There was de crease in vi ta min C (mg) and acid ity dur ing stor age pe riodof guava fruit un der room tem per a ture. The in crease in TSS and juice pH and phys i o log i cal loss inweight of fruit was no ticed in stor age pe riod ir re spec tive of post har vest treat ment and roomtem per a ture. All the treat ments were found better in re spect of TSS & ascor bic acid con tent overcon trol. On the ba sis of re sults ob tained the treat ment com bi na tion T4 (Waxol 6% + Bavistin 0.2%)proved to be the best in terms of fruit qual ity and better shelf life at room tem per a ture.


6. EF FECT OF ETHREL ON POST HAR VEST CHANGES IN PA PAYA (Carica pa paya L.) FRUITS

Priyanka Singh, Sanjay Kumar and Sutanu MajiDe part ment of Ap plied Plant Sci ence (Hor ti cul ture), Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Uni ver sity(A Cen tral Uni ver sity), Vidya-Vihar, Rae Bareli Road, Lucknow-226 025E-mail: [email protected]

AB STRACT: The pres ent ex per i ment en ti tled, “Stud ies on the ef fect of ethrel on post har vest changes in pa paya (Carica pa paya L.) fruits was car ried out to in ves ti gate the ef fect of ethrel on bio-chem i calchanges oc curred dur ing its post har vest life. The ob jec tive of this work was to eval u ate the ef fects ofvar i ous con cen tra tions of Ethrel (500 ppm, 750 ppm, 1000 ppm and 1500 ppm) on shelf life of pa payafruits when stored un der am bi ent con di tions. The treated fruits were as sessed for phys i o log i calchanges such as per cent age of rip en ing, loss of fruit weight (kg), bio chem i cal as pects such as TSS(°Brix), titratable acid ity (%), to tal sug ars (%), re duc ing sugar (%), ascor bic acid con tent (mg/100g),to tal ca rot en oids (mg/100g) along with organoleptic eval u a tion. The ob ser va tions were re corded at 3,6 and 9 days af ter stor age and the ex per i ment was laid down us ing Com pletely Ran dom ized De sign.From the ex per i ment it was clear that the over all per for mance of the above char ac ter is tics was foundthe best when the fruits were treated with 1500 ppm ethrel fol lowed by 1000 ppm ethrel.

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7. FRUIT YIELD AND QUAL ITY OF PEACH (Pru nus persica Batsch.) AS IN FLU ENCED BYDIF FER EN TIAL AP PLI CA TION OF ZINC A. S. Sidhu, B. S. Sidhu and J. S. BrarPAU, Re gional Re search Sta tion, Bathinda PunjabE-mail: [email protected]

AB STRACT: The data re vealed that fruit yield of peach in creased with in creas ing ap pli ca tion of zincsul phate. The max i mum fruit size ( 5.0 cm length and 4.9 cm breadth), fruit weight (89.00g), fruit yieldper plant (58.25 kg) and yield per unit area (64.07 q/hect are) were ob served with 800 g ZnSO4 perplant as soil ap pli ca tion fol lowed by fo liar spray (0.5%) whereas min i mum yield was ob tained with outzinc ap pli ca tion. Zinc ap pli ca tion also im proved to tal sol u ble sol ids (TSS) and TSS: acid ra tio.How ever, acid ity of fruits ob tained from treated and un treated plants was not dif fer sig nif i cantly but thehigh est acid con tent was ob served in con trol plants, whereas low est was in fo liar ap pli ca tion of 0.50 % ZnSO4. Fruits were also more pal at able in Zinc ap plied plants. The high est con cen tra tion of zinc(11.55 ppm) in leaves was ob served at higher doses of soil zinc ap pli ca tion and was in low est incon trol plants.


8. EX TEND ING HAR VEST ING PE RIOD OF LI TCHI (Li tchi chinensis Sonn.) THROUGHCHEM I CALS AP PLI CA TIONMahesh Pal and D.S. MishraDe part ment of Hor ti cul ture, Col lege of Ag ri cul ture, G.B. Pant Uni ver sity of Ag ri cul ture & Tech nol ogy,Pantnagar–263 145, U.S. Nagar, Uttarakhand

AB STRACT: An ex per i ment was con ducted to stag ger the har vest ing of li tchi in cultivar RoseScented. In this re gard, var i ous kinds of treat ments were im posed on 20 years old full bear ing li tchitress ei ther at flower ini ti a tion or few days be fore har vest of fruits. KNO3 (4%) was sprayed at 1 cm size of pan i cle in the first week of Feb ru ary. How ever, other treat ments viz. GA3 (20, 40 ppm), BA (20, 40ppm) and bag ging of fruit pan i cles were ap plied two weeks be fore ex pected date of har vest, whilesil ver thiosulphate (10 m mol) sprayed twice (on 30th April and 15th May). Shad ing treat ments weregiven by cov er ing the tree with ny lon nets pro duc ing 30% and 50% shade, re spec tively, 30 days af terfruit set. KNO3 (4%) and clus ter bag ging treat ments ad vanced the har vest ing for 2 and 3 days,re spec tively over con trol. Shade nets of 30% and 50% were most ef fec tive in de lay ing rip en ing of li tchi fruits and de layed the har vest date by 14 and 16 days, re spec tively with out com pro mis ing with the fruit qual ity. Sil ver thiosulphate gave a har vest de lay of 8 days, how ever, a few brown spots on fruit skinwere ob served af ter the spray. GA3 20 and 40 ppm de layed the har vest date for 2 and 5 days,re spec tively while BA de layed the har vest date for 5-6 days. Higher fruit re ten tion and re duced fruitcrack ing were ob tained with shade net (50%) which was re mained at par with shade net (30%) andclus ter bag ging. Higher fruit qual ity at trib utes were re corded with GA3 (40 ppm) over other treat ments.


9. IN TER AC TION EF FECT OF CHEM I CAL AND BIO-FER TIL IZ ERS ON GROWTH AND

YIELD OF ON ION (Allium cepa L.) Yogita and R.B.RamDe part ment of Ap plied Plant Sci ence (Hor ti cul ture)Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Uni ver sity (A Cen tral Uni ver sity), Vidya Vihar, Rae Bareily Road, Lucknow-226025 (U.P.), In dia

AB STRACT : The pres ent in ves ti ga tion com pris ing the supplementation of chem i cal and biofertilizersfor on ion crop was car ried out un der field con di tions at Hor ti cul tural Re search Farm of BabasahebBhimrao Ambedkar Uni ver sity, Lucknow dur ing rabi sea son of 2010-2011. The ex per i ment com prisedof four lev els of chem i cal fer til iz ers and six lev els of biofertilizers. The max i mum plant heights, num berof leaves, neck thick ness, bulb di am e ter, bulb weight, num ber of scales and yield were found with theap pli ca tion of T12 (100 kg N + 50 kg P + 70 kg K/ha + 2 kg/ha Azotobacter + 1.9 kg/ha VAM) that wasclosely fol lowed by T11 (100 kg N + 50 kg P + 70 kg K/ha + 2 kg/ha Azotobacter + 2 kg/haPhosphobacteria ), T18 (75 kg N +37.5 kg P + 52.5 kg K/ha + 2 kg/ha Azotobacter + 1.9 kg/ha VAM)and T17 (75 kg N +37.5 kg P + 52.5 kg K/ha + 2 kg/ha Azotobacter + 2 kg/ha Phosphobacteria)re spec tively. Min i mum num ber of days re quired for bulb for ma tion and num ber of days taken toma tu rity were also ob tained with the ap pli ca tion of T12 (100 kg N + 50 kg P + 70 kg K/ha + 2 kg/haAzotobacter + 1.9 kg/ha VAM). Re sults ob tained by the ap pli ca tion of in or ganic fer til iz ers withbiofertilizers ex hib ited sig nif i cant ef fect on var i ous pa ram e ters stud ied un der the in ves ti ga tion.


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10. IN TE GRATED NU TRI ENT MAN AGE MENT IN GAR DEN PEA (Pisum sativum var. hortense)Dharmendra Kumar Dubey, S.S. Singh, R.S. Verma and P.K. Singh¹De part ment of Veg. Sci., N.D. Uni ver sity of Ag ri cul ture & Tech nol ogy, Kumarganj, Faizabad-224 229¹Di vi sion of Olericulture, S. K. Uni. of Agric. Sci. & Tech. (K), Shalimar, Srinagar (J&K)E-mail: [email protected]

AB STRACT: An ex per i ment was con ducted to find out the ef fect of in te grated nu tri ent man age ment in gar den pea (Pisum sativum var. hortense). The re sults in di cated that ap pli ca tion of vermicompost @ 1 t ha-1 + rest PK (50:25 kg ha-1) through chem i cal fer til iz ers with va ri ety Azad Pea-3 re sulted max i mumheight of plant (59.40 cm), num ber of pods plant-1 (8.46), weight of pods plant-1 (41.22g), shell ingper cent age (50.66%) and yield of green pod (126.54 qha-1). On the ba sis of cost of cul ti va tion,max i mum net re turn of Rs. 44392/ ha and C.B. ra tio (1:2.93) was re corded un der Azad Pea-3 with theap pli ca tion of vermicompost @ 1 t ha-1 + rest PK (50:25 kg ha-1) and next best treat ment was FYM @3 t ha-1 + rest PK (48:10 kg ha-1) in the same va ri ety which gave Rs. 41796/ ha with C:B ra tio 1:2.57.


11. GE NETIC VARI ABIL ITY, HERITABILITY AND COR RE LA TION STUD IES IN CHILLI

(Cap si cum annuum L.)Diwaker Kumar, Vijay Ba ha dur, S.B. Rangare and Devi SinghDe part ment of Hor ti cul ture, Allahabad School of Ag ri cul ture, SHIATS, Allahabad

AB STRACT: Ge netic vari abil ity, heritability, ge netic ad vance and cor re la tion for dif fer ent yieldcon trib ut ing char ac ters were stud ied in 20 ge no types of chilli. Sig nif i cant dif fer ences were ob servedamong the ge no types for all the traits. The phenotypic co ef fi cient of vari a tion (PCV) was higher thangenotypic co ef fi cient of vari a tion (GCV) for all the traits. Traits like num ber of branches at 150 DAT,days to flower anthesis, num ber of fruits per plant, av er age fruit weight, ascor bic acid, capsaicincon tent and fruit length showed pos i tive cor re la tion with fruit yield per plant (g). While leaf curlin ci dence showed neg a tive cor re la tion at genotypic level. Ge netic ad vance at 5% was found high forplant height af ter 150 DAT, num ber of fruits per plant, ascor bic acid and fruit yield per plant (g).Whereas, ge netic ad vance as per cent of mean at 5% was no ticed high for all the traits ex cept days toflower ini ti a tion and days to first har vest. Num ber of fruits per plant ex hib ited the high est pos i tive di rectef fect fol lowed by days to flower anthesis, plant spread (N-S) at 150 DAT, ascor bic acid con tent, plantheight at 150 DAT and fruit length at genotypic level. In view at the di rect and in di rect con tri bu tions ofcom po nent traits to wards fruit yield per plant, se lec tion on the ba sis of hor ti cul tural traits viz., av er agefruit weight and num ber of fruits per plant would be a pay ing prep o si tion in the ge no types in cluded in

the study.


12. EF FECT OF CAL CIUM NI TRATE ON PHYSICO-CHEM I CAL CHANGES AND SHELF-LIFEOF AONLA (Emblica officinalis Gaertn) FRUITS

Santosh Gangwar1, H.S.Shukla1, Dheerendra Katiyar2 and Vivek Pandey21De part ment of Hor ti cul ture 2De part ment of Veg e ta ble Sci ence Chandra Shekhar Azad Uni ver sity of Ag ri cul ture and Tech nol ogy, Kanpur-208002 U.P.

AB STRACT : The ex per i ment was con ducted at the De part ment of Hor ti cul ture, C.S.A. Uni ver sity ofAg ri cul ture and Tech nol ogy, Kanpur dur ing the year 2006-07 to find out ef fect of cal cium ni trate onphysico-chem i cal changes and shelf-life of aonla fruit. Com pletely Ran dom ized De sign (CRD) wasse lected with four treat ments of cal cium ni trate (0.5, 1.0 and 1.5 per cent with con trol) and four othertreat ments of cultivars (Banarasi, Krishna, Kanchan and NA-7) and 5 days, 10 days and 15 days ofstor age pe riod. Ex per i ments unit was 1 kg fruit in per fo rated poly thene bags. Fruits were treated andstored on 17 No vem ber, 2006. As re gards among the treat ments tried as post-har vest dip at 1.0 percent cal cium ni trate treat ment proved most ef fec tive in re spect to in crease physico-chem i cal qual i tiesand shelf-life of aonla fruits. The 1.0 per cent cal cium ni trate treated fruits sig nif i cantly re duced thephys i o log i cal loss in weight, patho log i cal loss, ex hib ited better qual ity on ac count of its fa vour ableef fect on to tal sol u ble sol ids, to tal sugar and in re tain ing more ascor bic acid and acid ity therebyren der ing them ac cept able upto pe riod of 15 days. Dif fer ent cultivars could keep well up to 5 days with‘Ex cel lent’ rat ing, 10 days with ‘Good’ rat ing while only NA-7 and Krishna with ‘Fair’ rat ing upto 15days.


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13. EVAL U A TION OF IVY GOURD (Coccinia cordifolia L.) GE NO TYPES IN ALLAHABADAGRO-CLI MA TIC CON DI TIONHitesh Nag, Devi Singh, Vijay Ba ha dur and J. P. CollisDe part ment of Hor ti cul ture, Allahabad School of Ag ri cul ture,SHIATS, Allahabad

AB STRACT: An eval u a tion trial on ivy gourd (Coccinia cordifolia L.) ge no types in Allahabad agrocli ma tic con di tion was con ducted at veg e ta ble re search farm, De part ment of Hor ti cul ture, SHIATSAllahabad for 16 char ac ters i.e. days to first fe male flower anthesis, plant height, internodal length,pet i ole length, fruit length, fruit daimeter, av er age fresh fruit weight, num ber of seeds/fruit, num ber offruits per plant, yield per plant, yield per hect are, TSS (°Brix) and ascor bic acid con tent. Eightge no types of ivy gourd, namely Arka Neelachal Sabuja, Arka Neelachal Kunkhi, AAIIG – 1, AAIIG – 2,AAIIG – 3, AAIIG – 4, AAIIG – 5 and AAIIG – 6 were eval u ated in ran dom ized block de signed in threerep li ca tion dur ing 2011. The ge no type AAIIG – 1 and Arka Neelachal Sabuja showed min i mum daysto fe male flower anthesis. The high est fruit length and fruit di am e ter were ob tained by Arka NeelachalKunkhi and AAIIG – 1, re spec tively and max i mum fruit weight was ex hib ited by ge no types AAIIG – 1.The most prom is ing ge no type was AAIIG – 1 for max i mum num ber of fruit per plant and fruit yield perplant fol lowed by Arka Neelachal Sabuja.


14. STUDY ON POST-HAR VEST LIFE OF CUT ROSE CV. FIRST RED AS AF FECTED BY

DIF FER ENT CHEM I CALS AND WRAP PING MA TE RI ALSJitendra Kumar, Anis Mir za and Krishan PalDe part ment of Hor ti cul ture, Uni ver sity Teach ing De part ments, CCS Uni ver sity Cam pus,Meerut-250 004 Uttar PradeshE-mail : [email protected]

AB STRACT: An in ves ti ga tion was car ried out to find the ef fect of dif fer ent chem i cals as puls ingso lu tions (CaCl2 1%, Su crose 5% + 8HQC 150 ppm, Su crose 3% + Al2(SO4)3 300 ppm for du ra tion of20 and 24 h) and wrap ping ma te ri als (News pa per, But ter pa per and Cel lo phane sheet for du ra tion of16 h) on the qual ity and vase life of cut rose cv. First Red. Re sults ob tained show that all treat mentsper formed better than that of con trol. Among all the treat ments, A2C2 (cut rose pulsed with Su crose 5% + 8HQC 150 ppm for 20 h and pack aged with But ter pa per for 16 h) re corded the max i mum in crease in qual ity and vase life of 12.34 days. Whereas the treat ments A2C0 (pulsed with Su crose 5% + 8HQC150 ppm for 20 h only) and A0C2 (pack aged with But ter pa per for 16 h only) re corded a vase life of11.13 days and 11.02 days, re spec tively. How ever, in con trol treat ment (A0C0) the vase life re cordedwas 8.53 days.


15. FABA BEAN: UNIQUE GERMPLASM EX PLORED AND IDEN TI FIED Anil Kumar Singh and B.P. Bhatt ICAR Re search Com plex for East ern Re gion Patna-800 014 Bihar

AB STRACT: The germplasm con tains prom is ing traits re lated to yield and yield at trib ut ingchar ac ters, qual ity char ac ters and also re sis tance to var i ous bi otic and abiotic stresses.Ex plo ra tion for col lec tion of germplasm of di verse na ture is the quick est and sim plest method forac quir ing the de sired one. 71 ac ces sions of faba bean were col lected from Bihar and eval u ated. Unique germplasm ex plored and iden ti fied and no ta ble among them are salt re sis tant linesex plored and col lected from Vaishali dis trict of Bihar. One germplasm line hav ing four pods pernod and an other one bear fruits right from col lar re gion were iden ti fied dur ing the course ofchar ac ter iza tions and eval u a tion. These prom is ing and unique ac ces sions will be used bybreed ers/ crop im prove ment work ers in the coun try for its eval u a tion and fur ther uti li za tion intheir on go ing/en su ing crop im prove ment works for strength en ing food and nu tri tional se cu rity ofcoun try.


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16. RE SPONSE OF DIF FER ENT SPAC ING AND SAL I CYLIC ACID LEV ELS ON GROWTH AND FLOW ER ING OF GLAD I O LUS (Glad i o lus grandiflora L.) Mani Ram, Virendra Pal¹, Manoj Kumar Singh and Mukesh Kumar Deptt. of Hor ti cul ture, SVPUAT, Meerut-250 110 ¹Di rec tor ate of Ex ten sion, K.V.K. Baghpat (SVPUAT, Meerut)

AB STRACT: An ex per i ment was con ducted to as sess the ef fect of spac ing and sal i cylic acid lev elson veg e ta tive growth and flow er ing of glad i o lus cv. White Properity at HRC, SVPUAT, Meerut. Thethree lev els of spac ing (20 x 10, 20 x 20, and 20 x 30 cm) and three lev els of sal i cylic acid ( 0, 50 and100 ppm) were used in ran dom ized block de sign (RBD) with three rep li ca tions. Out of these aop ti mum spac ing 20 x 20 cm was found su pe rior with 100 ppm sal i cylic acid con cen tra tion in re spectof num ber of leaves, leaf length (cm), days to open ing of 1st flo ret and vis i bil ity of first spike, spikelength, and num ber of flo rets per spike. .


17. ECO NOM ICS OF PRO DUC TION AND MAR KET ING OF OKRA IN DIS TRICT BIJNOR (U.P.)O.P. Maurya and S.L. Pal¹De part ment of Ag ri cul tural Eco nom ics, R.S.M.(P.G.) Col lege, Dhampur (Bijnor)¹De part ment of Hor ti cul ture

AB STRACT: Bhindi (Okra) is an im por tant veg e ta ble crop of dis trict Bijnor. It pro vides a net in come ofRs. 7794.78 with a gross out put value of Rs. 21000.00 with a to tal in put of Rs. 13205.22. The cost :ben e fit ra tio was cal cu lated at 1:1.59. In the mar ket ing of Bhindi(okra) the pro ducer’s share in the price paid by the con sumer was very low be ing only 56.41 per cent due to in ef fi cient mar ket ing. A soundpro duc tion and mar ket ing sys tem of veg e ta bles in gen eral and that of Bhindi (okra) in par tic u lar areneeded.


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18. IDEN TI FI CA TION OF FABA BEAN (Vicia faba L.) LINES SUIT ABLE FOR RAINFED ANDIR RI GATED SIT U A TION A.K. Singh, B.P. Bhatt, Santosh Kumar and P.K. SundramICAR Re search Com plex for East ern Re gion Patna 800 014


19. EF FECT OF FO LIAR AP PLI CA TION OF ZINC AND BO RON ON YIELD AND FRUIT

QUAL ITY OF GUAVA (Psidium guajava L.)Nitin Trivedi, Devi Singh, Vijay Ba ha dur, V. M. Prasad and J. P. Collis De part ment of Hor ti cul ture Sam Higginbottom In sti tute of Ag ri cul ture, Tech nol ogy and Sci ences, Allahabad- 211 007 Pub lished in : HortFlora Re search Spec trum, Vol. 1(3) : 281-283 (2012)

20. RE SPONSE OF GIBBERELLIC ACID ON GROWTH BE HAV IOUR AND MEN THOL OILYIELD OF MENTHA (Mentha piperita L.) Awadhesh Kumar, Hashim Mouzzam and Priyanka Singh¹De part ment of Bot any, Dr, A. H. Rizvi Shia De gree Col lege, Jaunpur-222 002 (U.P.)¹Baldev P.G. Col lege, Baragawn, Varanasi (U.P.)


21. RE SPONSE OF GERBERA VA RI ET IES AGAINST POW DERY MIL DEW DIS EASE UN DERPOLY HOUSE CON DI TION Sunil Kumar1, K.S. Tomar2 and R.C. Shakywar2 1De part ment of Flori cul ture, 2De part ment of Plant Pro tec tion, Col lege of Hor ti cul ture and For estry, Cen tral Ag -ri cul tural Uni ver sity, Pasighat-791 102, Arunachal PradeshE-mail : sunu159@ya hoo.co.in


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Volume 1(4), October-December, 2012

Contents

1. Standardization of in-situ Moisture Conservation Methodfor Establishment of Aonla Orchards on Sloppy DegradedWastelands

R.S. Negi, B.S. Baghel, A.K. Gupta and Y.K. Singh 289-294

2. Perennial Chillies Germplasm Identified and Exploredfrom Bihar

Anil Kumar Singh, Vijai Kumar Umrao and ManojKumar Sinha

295-299

3. Foliar Application of Potassium, Calcium, Zinc and Boron Enhanced Yield, Quality and Shelf Life of Mango

Arvind Bhatt, N.K. Mishra, D.S. Mishra and C.P. Singh 300-305

4. Studies on the Extent of Genetic Contamination in SeedProduction of Exerted Stigma Tomato (Solanumlycopersicum L.)

Rajinder Singh, Dilbagh Singh and J.S. Kanwar 306-311

5. Vegetable Type Pigeonpea Germplasm Identified andExlored from Vaishali District of Bihar

Anil Kumar Singh 312-317

6. Qualitative Effect of Wrapping and Cushioning Materialon Guava Fruits During Storage

Deepak Chandra and Rajesh Kumar 318-322

7. Effect of Various Mulch Materials and Spacing onGrowth, Yield and Quality of Strawberry

Priyamvada Sonkar, R.B. Ram and M.L. Meena 323-327

8. Studies on Seed Vigour Deterioration in Pea (Pisumsativum L.)

Ishrat Ahmad Lone, S.D. Tyagi, D.K. Bahuguna, RajeevKumar and Nitin Kumar

328-333

9. Effect of Foliar Spray of Zinc, Calcium and Boron onSpike Production of Gladiolus cv. Eurovision

Prashant Katiyar, O.P. Chaturvedi and DheerendraKatiyar

334-338

10. Path Coefficient Analysis for Seedling Vigour in Radish(Raphanus sativus L.) Genotypes

Dilbag Singh and Rajinder Singh 339-343

11. Effect of Post Harvest Calcium Treatments on Shelf Lifeof Guava cv. Sardar

Rajesh Kumar, Shant Lal and K.K. Mishra 344-347

12. Effect of Nitrogen and Phosphorus with Nitrogen Sourceson Vegetative Attributes of Tuberose

A.P.S. Gangwar, J.P. Singh, V.K. Umrao and I.P. Singh 348-353

13. Correlation Coefficient Studies in Ashwagandha(Withania somnifera Dunal) cv. Jawahar-20

Vijai Kumar, Naresh Kumar and M.C. Singh 354-357

14. Integrated Response of Inorganic and Bio-Fertilizers onYield and Yield Attributes of Turmeric

Arun Pratap Singh, R.P. Singh, Jagdish Singh andS.K. Shahi

358-361

15. Effect of Environmental Factors on Phytophthora BlightDevelopment of Colocasia

R.C. Shakywar and S.P. Pathak 362-366

16. Effect of Chemical and Bio-Fertilizers on Quality ofOnion

Yogita and R.B. Ram 367-370

17. Management of Phomopsis Leaf Blight of BrinjalThrough Different Fungicides and Biopesticide

Ramesh Singh, P.C. Singh, Dinesh Kumar andN.S. Sachan

371-374

18. Chironjee : A Promising Tree Fruits of Dry Subtropics P.S. Chauhan, Jitendra Singh and Kavita A. 375-379

19. Effect of AgNO3 and 8-HQC on Vase Life of Cut Rose Satish Chand, Vijai Kumar and Jitendra Kumar 280-282

20. Morphological Markers for Identification of Populusdeltoides Clones in Nursery

Manoj Kumar Singh 283-284

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HortFlora Re search Spec trum, Vol. 1(4): Oct.-Dec. 2012 (ABTRACTS) ISSN : 2250-2823

1. STAN DARD IZA TION OF IN-SITU MOIS TURE CON SER VA TION METHOD FOR ES TAB LISH -MENT OF AONLA OR CHARDS ON SLOPPY DE GRADED WASTE LANDSR.S. Negi1, B.S. Baghel2, A.K. Gupta3 and Y.K. Singh4

1Deendayal Re search In sti tute, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Satna (MP)-485 3312Col lege of Hor ti cul ture, JNKVV, Mandsour (MP)3,4Ma hatma Gan dhi Chitrakoot Gramodaya Vishwavidyalaya, Chitrakoot.E-mail: [email protected]

AB STRACT: A study was car ried out in Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Deendayal Re search In sti tute,Satna for two con sec u tive years to eval u ate the ef fect of var i ous in-situ mois ture con ser va tionmea sures on es tab lish ment and growth of aonla (Emblica officinalis) in sloppy de graded lands.In-situ mois ture con ser va tion mea sures in cluded for the study were prep a ra tion of cir cu lar ringba sin + mulch ing the ba sin with black poly thene, stag gered con tour trench ing (45 cm width and 3 m length) on up per side of the plant ba sin, place ment of one sub merged pitcher in one side of the plant for rain wa ter har vest ing, set ting the seed ling in a de pres sion of 1 m width and 15 cm deep,sur rounded by a ring-shaped ridge with 25 cm width and 15 cm height and a 30 cm open ing onthe higher side to har vest rain wa ter + fill ing the de pres sion with straw + mulch ing with blackpoly thene and con trol (no mi cro- catch ment or mulch). The re sults re vealed that all the in-situmois ture con ser va tion meth ods showed im prove ments in sur vival, es tab lish ment and growth ofaonla plants. How ever, prep a ra tion of mi cro catch ment area of one me ter width sur rounded byring shaped ridge of 25 cm width and 15 cm height and hav ing a 30 cm open ing at the higher side and mulch ing in de pressed area with straw and cover with black poly thene was found to be themost ef fec tive mois ture con ser va tion method in in creas ing the sur vival and growth of aonlaseed lings/budlings among all the con ser va tion treat ments.


2. PE REN NIAL CHIL LIES GERMPLASM IDEN TI FIED AND EX PLORED FROM BIHARAnil Kumar Singh, Vijai Kumar Umrao¹ and Manoj Kumar SinhaICAR Re search Com plex for East ern Re gion Patna-800 014 Bihar¹De part ment of Hor ti cul ture, Ch. Shivnath Singh Shandilya (P.G.) Col lege, Machhra,Meerut-250 106 (U.P.)

AB STRACT: Qual ity seeds are the in dis pens able ma te rial for suc cess ful crop pro duc tion.Germplasm re source con tains unique traits/genes that can be uti lized for fur ther cropim prove ment. Ex plo ra tion for col lec tion of germplasm is the quick est and sim plest method forac quir ing the de sired one. Pe ren nial type of chil lies has been iden ti fied and ex plored fromWALMI Re search farm of ICAR Re search Com plex for East ern Re gion Patna (Bihar). Thisunique germplasm has been en tered in the sev enth suc ces sive years of suc cess ful fruit ing. Such dis tinc tive ge no type could be a great value for kitchen gar den pur pose, par tic u larly in theera of nu cleus fam ily. Such prom is ing and unique germplasm can be uti lized by chil lies worker intheir re spec tive on go ing/en su ing crop im prove ment programme to re in force ment food andnu tri tional se cu rity of coun try by ef fi cient uti li za tion.


3. FO LIAR AP PLI CA TION OF PO TAS SIUM, CAL CIUM, ZINC AND BO RON EN HANCEDYIELD, QUAL ITY AND SHELF LIFE OF MANGOArvind Bhatt, N.K. Mishra, D.S. Mishra and C.P. SinghDe part ment of Hor ti cul ture, Col lege of Ag ri cul ture, G.B. Pant Uni ver sity of Ag ri cul ture andTech nol ogy, Pantnagar 263 145 (US Nagar, Uttarakhand)

AB STRACT: Mango, the na tional fruit of In dia, has de vel oped its own im por tance all over theworld. Be ing a use ful and de li cious fruit, it is the part of cul ture and re li gion since long time, andnow, it is rec og nized as one of the best fruits in the world mar ket. Cal cium and po tas siumamongst ma jor nu tri ents as well as zinc, bo ron amongst mi cro nu tri ents have been found to playa ma jor role in main te nance of mango fruit qual ity. More over, for rapid re sponse and cor rec tionof de fi cien cies of min eral nu tri ents, fo liar spray of nu tri ents es pe cially Ca, B, Zn and K have been used sin gly or in com bi na tion. The ex per i ment was con ducted on mango cv. Dashehari atHor ti cul ture Re search Cen tre, Patharchatta, G.B. Pant Univesity of Ag ri cul ture and Tech nol ogy,Pantnagar. The ex per i ment in volved the pre-har vest fo liar spray of nu tri ents at ‘mar vel stage’ of

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mango fruits. The treat ments in cluded [email protected]%, Bo [email protected]%, K2SO4 @ 0.5%, Ca(NO3)[email protected]%, [email protected]%, [email protected]% and con trol. The re sults ob tained in di cated that thetrees sprayed with 0.5% bo rax showed max i mum fruit yield, fruit weight, fruit vol ume, T.S.S.,re duc ing sugar, non re duc ing sugar and ascor bic acid con tent, how ever, this treat ment found tobe at par with 1% Ca(NO3)2. While with re gard to main te nance of post har vest fruit qual ity inmango, the min i mum phys i o log i cal loss in weight was re ported in 1.0% Ca(NO3)2 fol lowed byCaCl2 (1.2%) up to the end of 12th day. Other qual ity pa ram e ters like fruit TSS, sugar andascor bic acid con tent were best main tained by bo rax, cal cium and po tas sium treat ments.


4. STUD IES ON THE EX TENT OF GE NETIC CON TAM I NA TION IN SEED PRO DUC TION OFEX ERTED STIGMA TO MATO (Solanum lycopersicum L)Rajinder Singh, Dilbagh Singh and J.S. Kanwar De part ment of Veg e ta ble Crops, Punjab Ag ri cul tural Uni ver sity, Ludhiana-141 004, PunjabE-mail: [email protected]

AB STRACT: Stud ies were con ducted at the ex per i men tal farm of Punjab Ag ri cul tural Uni ver sity, Ludhiana, dur ing Rabi sea son for three years, 2006 to 2010 to stan dard ize the min i mumiso la tion dis tance re quired for main tain ing ge netic pu rity in hy brid seed pro duc tion of ex ertedstigma (re ces sive) to mato un der open field con di tions. The ex erted stigma seed par ent withre ces sive po tato leaved seed ling marker was sown at 25 m, 50 m, 75 m, 100m, 150m, 200m and 250m dis tance away from nor mal stigma (in serted) con tam i na tor par ent cv. Cas tle Rock hav ingdom i nant cut leaf seed ling marker. The pooled data of three years in di cated that the high estper cent age of ge netic con tam i na tion of 9.26% was re corded at a dis tance of 25 m from thecon tam i na tor (Cas tle Rock). It was also ob served that there was a grad ual re duc tion incon tam i na tion level with in creas ing dis tance at 100m iso la tion dis tance of 2.56% al though it wasnot within the pre scribed max i mum per mis si ble limit of ge netic con tam i na tion (1 and 2% forfoun da tion and cer ti fied seed, re spec tively). There was zero ge netic con tam i na tion at the high est iso la tion dis tance of 150 m. In the pres ent study, in the iso la tion dis tances stud ied un til 100m, the level of con tam i na tion was well above the per mis si ble min i mum seed cer tif i ca tion stan dards (98% ge netic pu rity for cer ti fied seed). How ever, based on the pres ent study, the iso la tion dis tancere quired for main te nance of ge netic pu rity of to mato us ing ex erted stigma seed par ent for hy bridseed pro duc tion un der open field con di tions of Punjab is 150m as against the rec om mendediso la tion of 25m and 100m for pro duc tion of cer ti fied seeds of open pol li nated seeds and hy bridseeds, re spec tively.


5. VEG E TA BLE TYPE PIGEONPEA GERMPLASM IDEN TI FIED AND EX PLORED FROMVAISHALI DIS TRICT OF BIHARAnil Kumar Singh ICAR Re search Com plex for East ern Re gion, Patna-800 014 Bihar

AB STRACT: Ge netic re sources are the ba sic ma te rial for any crop im prove ment programme,ob vi ously be cause they con tain some unique traits/gene. Ex plo ra tion for col lec tion of germplasm is the quick est and sim plest method for ac quir ing the de sired one. In dian is world’s big gest home of veg e tar ian in hab it ants and le gumes are main source of pro tein in their diet, pods arecon sumed fresh, or pro cessed as veg e ta ble ei ther dried seed are used as dal or va ri ety ofprep a ra tion. A veg e ta ble type pi geon pea of pe ren nial na ture has been iden ti fied and ex ploredfrom Vaishali dis trict of Bihar. Such prom is ing and unique germplasm could be uti lized by pi geonpea work ers in their re spec tive crop im prove ment programme to re in force ment food andnu tri tional se cu rity of coun try by ef fi cient uti li za tion.


6. QUAL I TA TIVE EF FECT OF WRAP PING AND CUSH ION ING MA TE RI ALS ON GUAVAFRUITS DUR ING STOR AGE Deepak Chandra and Rajesh KumarDe part ment of Hor ti cul ture, G.B.Pant Uni ver sity of Ag ri cul ture and Tech nol ogy, Pantnagar 263145, Uttarakhand, In dia Email. [email protected]

AB STRACT : The aim of the pres ent study was to in ves ti gate the ef fect of wrap ping andcush ion ing ma te ri als on guava (Psidium guajava L.) fruits dur ing stor age. Fruits were packed indif fer ent wrap ping and cush ion ing ma te ri als viz. Tis sue pa per, Cling wrap, Ba nana leaves andTeak leaves as wrap ping ma te ri als, Neem leaves, Rice straw and Bam boo leaves as cush ion ingma te ri als and con trol. All the treat ments were kept at con trolled room tem per a ture (25±2°C),

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rel a tive hu mid ity (85±5%) in cor ru gated fi bre board (CFB) boxes. The ef fec tive ness of thetreat ments was as sessed in terms of its im pact on fruit ap pear ance, weight loss, to tal sol u blesol ids (TSS), titratable acid ity, ascor bic acid con tents and to tal sug ars. It was found thatwrap ping of fruits with cling wrap showed better re sult for most of the pa ram e ters rat ing fol lowedby wrap ping with teak leaves. In organoleptic rat ings fruits wrapped in teak leaves showed better re sult while poor rat ing was re corded in cling wraps.

Pub lished in : HortFlora Re search Spec trum, Vol. 1(4) : 318-322 (2012) 7. EF FECT OF VAR I OUS MULCH MA TE RI ALS AND SPAC ING ON GROWTH, YIELD ANDQUAL ITY OF STRAW BERRY Priyamvada Sonkar, R.B. Ram and M.L. MeenaDe part ment of Ap plied Plant Sci ence (Hor ti cul ture), Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Uni ver sity,(A Cen tral Uni ver sity), Vidya Vihar, Rae Bareli Road, Lucknow-226 025

AB STRACT: An ex per i ment was con ducted at the Hor ti cul tural Re search Farm of BabasahebBhimrao Ambedkar Uni ver sity, Lucknow. The ex per i ment was per formed to find out the mostsuit able mulch ing ma te rial and an ideal spac ing for straw berry cul ti va tion un der Lucknowcon di tions. The ex per i ment was laid out in a Fac to rial Ran dom ized Block De sign with threerep li ca tions. The treat ments com prised of six mulch ing ma te ri als viz. paddy straw, dry grass(Saccharum spp.), dry leaves (dry neem leaves), red poly eth yl ene, green poly eth yl ene andtrans par ent poly eth yl ene) with two spac ings (30 x 15 cm and 30 x 30 cm). On the ba sis of thesta tis ti cal data, it is con cluded that spac ing of 30 x 30 cm with green poly eth yl ene mulch wasfound to be the best in terms of plant growth viz. plant height, spread of plants, num ber of leavesand leaf area. Sim i larly, spac ing of 30 x 15 cm with green poly eth yl ene mulch sig nif i cantlyin flu enced num ber of flow ers, fruit length and fruit width, yield and qual ity. How ever, there wasslight dif fer ence in qual ity pa ram e ters among dif fer ent treat ments


8. STUD IES ON SEED VIG OUR DE TE RI O RA TION IN PEA (Pisum sativum L.)Ishrat Ahmad Lone, S.D. Tyagi, D.K. Bahuguna¹, Rajeev Kumar² and Nitin Kumar² De part ment of Ag ri cul tural Bot any, Kisan (P.G) Col lege Simbhaoli, Panchsheel Nagar (U.P).¹De part ment of Seed Sci ence and Tech nol ogy, Ch. Charan Singh Uni ver sity, Meerut, 250 004 In dia ²De part ment of Ag ri cul tural Bot any, CSSS (P.G.) Col lege Machhra, Meerut

AB STRACT: Seed vig our eval u a tion was con ducted on ten pea ac ces sions to study their levelof de te ri o ra tion at vary ing tem per a ture and time du ra tions. The ac ces sions were sub jected todif fer ent tem per a ture (30°C and 45°C) and stor age du ra tions (48 hours and 72 hours) dur ingac cel er ated age ing. Ob ser va tions were re corded for seed vig our in terms of ger mi na tionper cent age, ger mi na tion in dex, vig our in dex I, vig our in dex II and elec tro lyte leak age.Ger mi na tion per cent age and vigor in dex was greatly af fected af ter sub ject ing to large du ra tionsof time at high tem per a ture. The higher tem per a ture (45°C) af ter 72 hours in duced moreelec tro lyte leak age from the some ac ces sions. The re sults re vealed that vig our level of seedde te ri o rates af ter stor age at high tem per a ture. Sig nif i cant va ri etal dif fer ences were ob served inac ces sions in terms of their in her ent ca pac i ties to with stand higher tem per a ture treat ments bothaf ter 48 hours and 72 hours. The rate of seed de te ri o ra tion was faster in some ac ces sions ascom pared to other.


9. EF FECT OF FO LIAR SPRAY OF ZINC, CAL CIUM AND BO RON ON SPIKE PRO DUC TIONOF GLAD I O LUS CV. EUROVISIONPrashant Katiyar1, O.P. Chaturvedi1 and Dheerendra Katiyar21De part ment of Hor ti cul ture; 2De part ment of Veg e ta ble Sci ence

Chandra Shekhar Azad Uni ver sity of Ag ri cul ture and Tech nol ogy, KanpurAB STRACT: The ex per i ment was car ried out on spike pro duc tion in glad i o lus with fo liarap pli ca tion of zinc, cal cium and bo ron, con ducted in Hor ti cul ture Gar den of Chandra ShekharAzad Uni ver sity of Ag ri cul ture and Tech nol ogy Kanpur in Ran dom ized Block De sign with fourrep li ca tions. The ex per i men tal plots were 32 with 8 treat ments and two lev els of each of zinc,cal cium and bo ron treated by zinc sul phate 0.5%, cal cium sul phate 0.75% and bo rax 0.2%,re spec tively. The re sults ob tained re vealed that the fo liar spray of zinc at 0.5% to glad i o lus plantwas most ef fec tive to in flu ence the veg e ta tive growth and size of spike


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10. PATH CO EF FI CIENT ANAL Y SIS FOR SEED LING VIG OUR IN RAD ISH (Raphanus sativus L.) GE NO TYPES Dilbag Singh and Rajinder SinghDe part ment of Veg e ta ble Sci ence, Punjab Ag ri cul tural Uni ver sity, Ludhiana, Punjab, In dia, 141 004E-mail: [email protected]

AB STRACT: The field study was con ducted dur ing 2010 and 2011 to as sess the ge neticvari abil ity, inter re la tion ships and di rect and in di rect ef fects of com po nent traits on seed lingvig our in rad ish. High PCV val ues were ob tained in FW (32.68%), SVI I (32.43%) andger mi na tion % (30.84%). Mag ni tude of heritability was high est for SVI II (92.00%) fol lowed byger mi na tion (89.45%), 100 SW (84.90%), ASL (83.16%) and SVI I (79.27%). SVI II showedpos i tive and highly sig nif i cant as so ci a tion with ger mi na tion %,ASL, seed ling FW, DW, 100 SWand SVI I. Path anal y sis in di cated pos i tive di rect ef fect of SVI I, shoot length and 100 seedweight on seed ling vig our in dex II of dif fer ent rad ish ge no types. The seed ling vig our in dex I,shoot length, 100 seed weight and ger mi na tion % ex hib ited strong pos i tive cor re la tion andpos i tive or neg a tive di rect ef fects on seed ling vig our in dex II emerged as im por tant com po nentscon trib ut ing to seed ling vig our. There fore, se lec tion pri mar ily based on these traits may lead toiden ti fi ca tion and de vel op ment of ge no types hav ing better field emer gence and seed linges tab lish ment.


11. EF FECT OF POST HAR VEST CAL CIUM TREAT MENTS ON SHELF LIFE OF GUAVA CV.SARDARRajesh Kumar, Shant Lal and K.K. MisraDe part ment of Hor ti cul ture, Col lege of Ag ri cul ture, G. B. Pant Uni ver sity of Ag ri cul ture andTech nol ogy, Pantnagar-263 145, U.S. Nagar (Uttarakhand)

Email: kamboj783@ya hoo.comAB STRACT: The search for tech niques that ex tend shelf life of guava (Psidium guajava) fruits,and re duce its postharvest losses is de sir able. The ob jec tive of this work was to eval u ate theef fects of con cen tra tions of com pet i tive eth yl ene an tag o nist cal cium salts on con ser va tion of‘Sardar’ guava fruits. Treat ments con sisted of 0.5%, 1% Cal cium Ni trate, 1%, 2% Cal ciumChlo ride and 0.5%, 1% Cal cium Sul phate for 12 days fol lowed by stor age at room tem per a ture.The ap pli ca tion of 1% cal cium chlo ride for 12 days was ef fi cient in de lay ing loss of skin color andin keep ing fruit firm at room tem per a ture stor age. The cal cium ni trate at 1% con cen tra tion wasef fi cient in de lay ing skin col our loss only when fruits were stored at 25°C. The ef fect of cal ciumni trate was quite sig nif i cant on the re duc tion of ac cept abil ity in both the year. The prod uct wasef fi cient in de lay ing the rip en ing of fruits and the cal cium chlo ride 1% showed the best ef fect.


12. EF FECT OF NI TRO GEN AND PHOS PHO RUS WITH NI TRO GEN SOURCES ON VEG E TA -TIVE AT TRIB UTES OF TUBEROSEA.P.S. Gangwar, J.P. Singh, V.K. Umrao¹ and I.P. Singh De part ment of Hor ti cul ture, C.S.Azad Uni ver sity of Ag ri cul ture & Tech nol ogy, Kanpur-2¹Pres ent ad dress: Ch. Shivnath Singh Shandilya (P.G.) Col lege, Machhra, Meerut E-mail: [email protected]

AB STRACT: An ex per i ment was laid out dur ing two con sec u tive years in Hor ti cul ture gar den of C. S. Azad Uni ver sity of Agri. and Tech., Kanpur. There were three ni tro gen sources viz. Urea,Am mo nium Sul phate, Cal cium Am mo nium Ni trate; four lev els of each of ni tro gen (0, 50,100 and150kg/ha) and phos pho rus (0,100,200 and 300 kg/ha), with a to tal of forty treat ments. There sults showed that there were no sig nif i cant dif fer ences ob served due to ni tro gen sources inre spect of sprout ing of bulbs. In creas ing doses of phos pho rus caused rel a tively early sprout ingdur ing both the years of study. Phos pho rus ap plied @ 200kg/ha ex pressed tall est plant dur ingboth the years of study. Num ber of leaves per plant im proved un der am mo nium sul phatefol lowed by cal cium am mo nium ni trate. Phos pho rus @ 200kg/ha pro duced max i mum num ber ofleaves dur ing both years. Ap pli ca tion of 150kg N/ha or 200 kg phos pho rus ex pressed high estleaf area fol lowed by 100 kg N/ha.


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13. COR RE LA TION CO EF FI CIENT STUD IES IN ASHWAGANDHA (Withania somnifera Dunal) cv. JAWAHAR-20Vijai Kumar, Naresh Kumar and M.C. Singh¹ Ch. Shivnath Singh Shandilya P.G. Col lege, Machhra, Meerut-250 106 U.P.¹Di vi sion of Flori cul ture & Land scap ing, IARI, Pusa Cam pus, New DelhiEmail:[email protected]

ABSTARCT: In an ex per i ment con ducted on ashwagandha (Withania somnifera Dunal), tostudy the re sponse of dif fer ent or ganic amend ments with or ganic ma nure (FYM) andbio-fer til iz ers in re la tion to plant growth, root yield and qual ity pa ram e ters. It was found that theseed lings (5-7 leaf stage) in oc u lated with Azospirillum @ 105 or 106 CFU re sulted a sig nif i cantin crease in plant growth and bio mass yield which ex hib ited a pos i tive as so ci a tion among them incon trib ut ing the root yield and qual ity traits. The max i mum and pos i tive cor re la tion (0.884) wasob served be tween the to tal al ka loid and withanaloid con tent fol lowed by fresh root weight perplant (g) and fresh root yield per ha (0.831) and be tween plant height and num ber of leaves perplant (0.777). The as so ci a tion of the plant height also ex hib ited a highly sig nif i cant cor re la tionwith stem di am e ter (0.659), al ka loid (0.777) and withanaloid (0.668) con tent in the roots. Thenum ber of leaves per plant had highly sig nif i cant and pos i tive cor re la tion (1.99) with plant can opy fol lowed by al ka loid (0.755) and withanaloid (0.774) con tents. The fresh root weight per plantex erted the pos i tive and sig nif i cant ef fect of high mag ni tude (0.831) and fresh root yield (kg) perplot. Dry root weight per plant could es tab lished a sig nif i cant and pos i tive as so ci a tion (0.514)with dry root yield (kg) per ha. The to tal al ka loid con tent in the roots wit nessed a highly sig nif i cant and pos i tive cor re la tion with plant height (0.777), num ber of leaves per plant (0.755) fol lowed by pos i tive and sig nif i cant as so ci a tion with stem di am e ter (0.573), num ber of ber ries per plant(0.554) and fresh root yield (kg) per plot (0.485). Withanaloid con tent (%) wit nessed a highlysig nif i cant and pos i tive cor re la tion with plant height (0.668), num ber of leaves per plant (0.754)and al ka loid con tent (0.884). Whereas a sig nif i cant and pos i tive cor re la tion ex hib ited with stemdi am e ter (0.581).


14. IN TE GRATED RE SPONSE OF IN OR GANIC AND BIO-FER TIL IZ ERS ON YIELD ANDYIELD AT TRIB UTES OF TUR MERICArun Pratap Singh, R.P. Singh, Jagdish Singh and S.K. ShahiDe part ment of Ag ri cul tural Chem is try and Soil Sci ence, Udai Pratap Au ton o mous Col lege,Varanasi, U.P.E-mail: [email protected]

AB STRACT: A field ex per i ment was con ducted to study the ef fect of in te gra tion of bio- andin or ganic fer til iz ers on yield and yield at trib utes of tur meric dur ing 2007-08 and 2008-09 at UdaiPratap Au ton o mous Col lege, Varanasi, U.P. The ex per i ment was laid out with thir teentreat ments con sisted of com bi na tion of two va ri ety of tur meric (V1 – Padrauna lo cal and V2 –NDH-18) rep li cated three times in a ran dom ized block de sign. The re sults in di cated thatap pli ca tion of T6 (NPK 180:90:90 kg per ha + Azotobactor chrococcum @ 2.5 kg per ha +Pseu do mo nas floriscence @ 2.5 kg per ha) sig nif i cantly in creased yield and all yield at trib utesover all treat ments, whereas treat ment T9 (50% R.D. of in or ganic ni tro gen + 50% R.D. ofin or ganic phos pho rus + 100% R.D. of pot ash + Azotobactor chrococcum @ 2.5 kg per ha +Pseu do mo nas floriscence @ 2.5 kg per ha + 50% ni tro gen through car pet waste) was closelyfol lowed by treat ment T6. In re spect of tur meric va ri ety , NDH-18 was found su pe rior over va ri etyPadrauna lo cal in all above con di tions. On the ba sis of per for mance treat ment T6 and T9 may beadopted for higher yield and sustainability.


15. EF FECT OF EN VI RON MEN TAL FAC TORS ON Phytophthora BLIGHTDE VEL OP MENT OF COLOCASIAR.C. Shakywar and S.P. Pathak1

De part ment of Plant Pa thol ogy, Col lege of Hor ti cul ture & For estry, Cen tral Ag ri cul tural Uni ver sity,Pasighat-791 102, Arunachal Pradesh, In dia 1De part ment of Plant Pa thol ogy, N.D. Uni ver sity of Ag ri cul ture & Tech nol ogy, Kumarganj-224 229 Faizabad,Uttar Pradesh, In diaE-mail: [email protected]

AB STRACT: Prog ress of Phy toph thora blight of taro (Colocasia esculenta var. antiquorum)caused by Phy toph thora colocasiae Racib. was found greatly in flu enced by en vi ron men talfac tors prev a lent un der field con di tion. Per cent plant in fec tion, dis ease in ten sity, co ef fi cient ofdis ease in dex and re lated prog ress of dis ease were pe ri od i cally re corded on a sus cep ti ble

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va ri ety Narendra Arvi-2. The max i mum and min i mum in fec tion rate (‘r’) was ob served in 33rd and32nd stan dard week dur ing 2006 and 2007. Dis ease in ten sity and per cent plant in fec tion weresig nif i cantly but pos i tively cor re lated with rain fall and rel a tive hu mid ity in both the year. Dis easein ten sity and per cent plant in fec tion were neg a tively but none sig nif i cantly cor re lated withmax i mum tem per a ture in 2007 but pos i tively cor re lated in the year 2006. How ever, rest of theweather fac tors were pos i tively cor re lated to dis ease in ten sity and per cent plant in fec tion in both the years. Rel a tive hu mid ity, cu mu la tive rain fall and sunshine hour were found most congenialenvironmental factors for leaf blight development of taro.


16. EF FECT OF CHEM I CAL AND BIO-FER TIL IZ ERS ON QUAL ITY OF ON IONYogita and R.B. RamDe part ment of Ap plied Plant Sci ence (Hor ti cul ture), Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Uni ver sity (A Cen tral Uni -ver sity), Vidya Vihar, Rae Bareli Road, Lucknow-226 025 (U.P.), In dia E-mail: [email protected]

AB STRACT: The pres ent in ves ti ga tion com pris ing the supplementation of chem i cal andbio-fer til iz ers for on ion crop was car ried out un der field con di tions at Babasaheb BhimraoAmbedkar Uni ver sity, Lucknow dur ing rabi sea son of 2010-2011. The ex per i ment com prised offour lev els of chem i cal fer til iz ers and six lev els of biofertilizers. The max i mum ascor bic acid,re duc ing sugar and to tal sug ars were found with the ap pli ca tion of T11 (100 kg N + 50 kg P + 70kg K/ha + 2 kg/ha Azotobacter + 2 kg/ha Phosphobacteria). The max i mum TSS, non-re duc ingsugar, phos pho rus and cal cium were found un der the treat ment T12 (100 kg N + 50 kg P + 70 kgK/ha + 2 kg/ha Azotobacter + 1.9 kg/ha VAM). The min i mum val ues were found un der the con trol i.e. T1. Re sults ob tained by the ap pli ca tion of in or ganic fer til iz ers with biofertilizers ex hib itedsig nif i cant ef fect on var i ous pa ram e ters stud ied un der the in ves ti ga tion.


17. MAN AGE MENT OF PHOMOPSIS LEAF BLIGHT OF BRIN JAL THROUGH DIF FER ENTFUN GI CIDES AND BIOPESTICIDERamesh Singh, P.C. Singh, Dinesh Kumar and N.S. Sachan¹Deptt. of Plant Pa thol ogy, T.D.P.G. Col lege, Jaunpur-222 002¹Oil Seeds Sec tion, C.S.Azad Uni ver sity of Agri. & Tech., Kanpur

AB STRACT: Phomopsis leaf blight caused by Phomopsis vexans is an im por tant dis ease ofBrin jal (Solanum melongena L.) in East ern U.P. There fore, ef fi cacy of fun gi cides andbiopesticides were tested in-vi tro and in-vivo. Bavistin (0.1%), Vitavax (0.1%), Blitox-50 (0.2%),and Ridomil (0.15%) proved to be the most ef fec tive in in hib it ing the growth of patho gen in-vi troand con trol ling the dis ease in the field. Biopesticide, Nimbidine was also proved ef fec tive, butslightly less ef fec tive than sys temic fun gi cide ex cept Indofil M-45, Nimbidine be ing a safeeco-friendly and eco nom i cal bioproduct which can be used in the man age ment of the dis ease.


18. CHIRONJEE : A PROM IS ING TREE FRUITS OF DRY SUB TROP ICS P.S. Chauhan, Jitendra Singh and Kavita A.Col lege of Hor ti cul ture and For estry (MPUAT), Jhalarapatan, Jhalawar–326 023 (Raj)


19. EF FECT OF AgNO3 AND 8-HQC ON VASE LIFE OF CUT ROSESSatish Chand, Vijai Kumar¹ and Jitendra KumarDe part ment of Hor ti cul ture, C.C.S. Uni ver sity Cam pus, Meerut-250 004


20. MOR PHO LOG I CAL MARK ERS FOR IDEN TI FI CA TION OF Populus deltoides CLONES INNURS ERYManoj Kumar SinghDe part ment of Ge net ics and Plant Breed ing, T.D.P.G. Col lege, JaunpurE-mail: [email protected]


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