Lentil is an important grain legume crop which mostly grown on marginal soils that hamper its productivity. Improvement of salt tolerance in lentils considered to be a useful strategy utilizing salt-affected lands economic manner. This study was conducted evaluate the effectiveness seed priming using silicic acid and humic both seperately combination improve stress among three different lentil varieties: IPL-316 (tolerant), PSL-9, PDL-1 (susceptible). The concentrations durations treatments...

Background: Lentil is second most important nutritionally dense pulse crop of India due to its ability fix nitrogen, helps maintain soil fertility and increase yield other crops grown in rotations. Seed priming a good innovative technology for improvement emergence plant stand under various stress conditions also could enhance defense mechanisms seeds against biotic abiotic stresses. The present study aimed examine the effect seed with silicic acid (3 mM @18 hr), humic (600 ppm hr)...

In the era of global warming, heat stress, particularly at seedling stage, is a major problem that affects production and productivity crops such as mustard are grown in cooler climates. Nineteen cultivars were exposed to contrasting temperature regimes-20 °C, 30 40 °C variable range 25-40 °C-and evaluated for changes physiological biochemical parameters stage study their role heat-stress tolerance. Exposure stress showed detrimental effects on growth revealed by reduced vigor indices,...

Seed priming enhances seed quality, and is crucial for plant development under stresses like salinity, heat, drought. This study examines silicic humic acid (HA+SA) treatment on lentil seeds salinity stress, focusing susceptible (PSL-9, PDL-1) tolerant (IPL-316) varieties. Priming agents included (3mM, 18 hours), (600 ppm, their combination (100 ppm+1mM HA + SA, 16 hours). Seedling survival stress (100, 120, 140 mM) was evaluated hydroponics conditions. Salinity significantly reduced quality...

Indian mustard [Brassica juncea (L.) Czern and Coss] seeds are well known for their multipurpose uses, such as oilseeds, spices etc. Being extensively cultivated in northern western part of the country it constitutes major share country's oilseeds production. Developing cultivars having low erucic acid glucosinolates (single zero double zero) is a objective worldwide Brassica breeding. Such also Quality mustard. Seed; being vital input agriculture, its quality determines performance given...

Canola-type genotypes in Indian mustard (Brassica juncea) are a new kind of quality resource developed for their low levels erucic acid (<2%) and glucosinolate (<30 μmole/g defatted meal) contents. Single-zero (low acid) double-zero content) have less vigor. Conventional (high contents) havea significantly higher seedling vigor index-II (SVI-II) single-zero SVI-I, whereas been observed to lower SVI-I SVI-II. To know the possible reasons differences vigor, seed parameters, reactive...

Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is an important winter season pulse crop in India grown drought prone semi-arid and tropical regions. The aim of present investigation was to find out the effect seed enhancement treatment on field performance chickpea. Seeds Desi cultivar Pusa 256, 2028, Kabuli Pusa1053, Pusa1108, each fresh 4 yrs old lots were taken for treatments like osmo-priming, halo-priming, fungicidal, botanical polymer coating alone combination with thiram neem oil. It observed that or...

Inadequate plant stand establishment due to insufficient germination is an important bottleneck in achieving the potential yields, specifically under uncertain growing conditions. Hydropriming has been publicized as a useful tool alleviate stress-induced consequences. Association of DNA biosynthesis hydroprimed seeds maize; hybrid, PEHM 5 and its parental lines (CM150 CM151) was studied. Seeds were at 25 °C for 30 h half them surface dried while other redried back original moisture contents....

Hydropriming has the potential to ameliorate stress-induced ill effects on yields of crop plants and quality seed produced. In present study, half fresh seeds maize hybrid, PEHM 5 its parental lines (Female - CM 150, Male 151) were subjected accelerated aging test for bringing down viability vigour, thereby creating low vigour lots while high consisted seeds, which hydroprimed (30 h at 25 °C). Half surface dried other redried back original moisture contents. All after treatments evaluated...

The objective of this work was to investigate the application methoxymethylene-N, N-dimethyliminium salts (DMS–DMF adducts) as useful reagents for synthesis (±)-Glabridin via formation Isoflavone Using DMS/DMF adduct a key step.

Under the PPV and FR Act 2001, a number of rice varieties have been registered based on morphological biochemical DUS descriptors. In present study, 61 extant (Oryza sativa L.) were characterized 55 descriptors at different stages plant growth. However, for assessment characters, namely; phenol reaction lemma, amylose content gelatinization temperature, is ripened seed onwards, even after stored. Hence, there need to determine optimum period ripening recording characters avoid confusion...

Background: Chickpea is the largest produced food legume in South Asia. It mainly grown dry or rainfed area, where patchy plant stand often results due to delayed and non-uniform emergence. Moreover, genotypes vary for seed germination seedling vigour. Therefore, study was undertaken find most appropriate treatment enhancement of planting value desi kabuli type chickpeas. Methods: Study conducted at ICAR-IARI, New Delhi with fresh, 2 4 years stored lots (Pusa 2028) 1108) varieties. The were...

Abstract Drawing upon empirical evidence and using Sarah Banks’s concept ‘ethics work’ as a conceptual approach, the article examines ethical dilemmas facing community development practitioners during COVID-19 pandemic. The attempts to understand everyday experience of working with Dalits, women, labour migrants in India. Further, given these communities’ social economic vulnerabilities, tries comprehend how practitioners’ engagement communities response exposed them various dilemmas. also...

An experiment was conducted at ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi (2017-18) to study the possible reason for reduced seed vigour in Indian quality mustard genotypes during storage first time. Freshly harvested seeds, one year, two year aged seeds and controlled deteriorated of freshly conventional were used study. Reactive oxygen species (ROS), i.e. hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) superoxide radical (O2 .-) estimated along with enzymatic antioxidants such as catalase peroxidase...

The effects of early and late sowings were studied on Indian mustard cultivars. During the years 2021-22, 8 genotypes cultivated in RBD with 3 replications three sowing dates: September (D1 ), October (D2 November (D3 ) at SST, IARI, New Delhi. Sowing dates found to be significant for all characters, although their interactions only a no. seeds per siliqua studied. results revealed that timely sown condition was better genotypes. Among eight genotypes, JC-33 had maximum (D2). It discovered...