In the present study, 102 chickpea germplasm showed wide range of variation for various characters evaluated during Rabi 2017-18 along with BG 372, Udai and Pant G 186 as checks varieties. The experiment was conducted in Augmented Block Design at Agronomy Research Farm Narendra Deva University Agriculture Technology, Nagar (Kumarganj), Ayodhya (U.P.). observations were recorded on 11 quantitati...

Isoflavones in soybean seeds have putative health-beneficial effects. Previous studies demonstrated that foliar application of chitosan could increase soybean isoflavone concentrations. In this study we determined the impact of different chitosan solutions on gene expression and isoflavone concentrations of two soybean cultivars [AC Orford (low isoflavone cultivar) and AC Proteina (high isoflav...

The Indo-Swiss collaboration in Biotechnology (ISCB) initiated in Phase IV a pigeon pea network considering the importance of pulses in the food and nutrition security of India. Pulses are grown on rainfed marginal lands with meagre nutrient and pest managements. Pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan L.) is the second largest pulse crop and is an important source of dietary proteins in India. India contrib...

BACKGROUND Rutaceae subfamily Rutoideae (46 genera, c. 660 species) is diverse in both rainforests and sclerophyll vegetation of Australasia. Australia and New Caledonia are centres of endemism with a number of genera and species distributed disjunctly between the two regions. Our aim was to generate a high-level molecular phylogeny for the Australasian Rutoideae and identify major clades as a ...

Premise Seed cones of extant Pinaceae exhibit two mechanisms seed release. In “flexers” the cone scales remain attached to central axis, while flexing and separating from each other release seeds. “shedders” are shed with seeds either remaining scale or becoming detached. The early fossil history Jurassic Early Cretaceous is dominated by cones, systematic information provided shedding has been ...

The oil radish siliques maturation occurs in a non-uniform way, which makes it difficult to define the ideal harvesting time in order to produce high quality seeds. In addition, the high lipid content of the seed may hamper its preservation. To evaluate the effect of the maturation stage at harvesting on the physiological quality and chemical composition of the oil radish seeds stored under dif...

hamoon is a new bread wheat cultivar derived from progenies of a cross made between falat and roshan. it is of spring habit and early maturity, 90-100 cm plant height, white spikes and thousand kernel weight of 40-45 gram. it is tolerant to lodging and environmental stresses(drought and salinity) as will as yellow rust. hamoon has hard grains of amber colour with averae protein content of 10.5%...

Controlled environment studies show a-tocopherol (aT) in soybean seeds increases several fold as a result of warmer temperature or drought during seed maturation, but total tocopherols (Ttot) stay approximately constant. To determine if natural variation in weather or climate affect T under field conditions, we analyzed soybean seeds grown at several locations in Maryland between 1999 and 2002....