Interspecific hybridization is a powerful technique for introducing new genes into cultivated crops like Capsicum, especially to integrate desirable traits from wild relatives. A common challenge, however, is the presence of reproductive barriers that can lead to infertility in h...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2025/v28i103096
The identification of disease-tolerant genotypes is a necessity for sustainable management of chilli leaf curl-mosaic complex disease (ChiLCMC) that usually causes upto hundred percent yield loss in chilli. This study aimed to screen chilli genotypes for ChiLCMC tolerance through...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2025/v28i42195
Rice cultivation in rainfed lowland regions faces mounting challenges due to climate-driven flooding stress, which severely threatens crop productivity. Farmers in flood-prone areas are often reluctant to adopt improved rice varieties due to their limited tolerance to submergence...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2025/v28i123373
Ethyl methane sulphonate (EMS) is a potent chemical mutagen widely used to induce genetic variability in crops, including rice (Oryza sativa L.). The objective of this research was to evaluate the combined effects of water pre-soaking, EMS concentration, and exposure duration on...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2025/v28i113264
Climate change poses a significant threat to global agriculture due to the combined effects of rising temperatures and fluctuating atmospheric CO₂ levels. Fodder cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.), a climate-resilient legume, holds great promise as a sustainable forage source...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2025/v28i113245
Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan L. Millsp.), a vital pulse crop, faces yield improvement challenges due to the complex inheritance of productivity traits. The study aims to investigate the relationship between yield and various phenological, quantitative, and quality traits. The study w...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2025/v37i105778
Yardlong bean is a highly popular and profitable vegetable traditionally cultivated in the humid tropics of Kerala and is an inexpensive source of vegetable protein. Developing sustainable host plant resistance mechanisms, such as using the backcross method to introduce single-ge...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i115130
Drought is a key stress factor that limits rice production globally. The present study was carried out to identify drought tolerant rice lines at the germination and seedling stages using polyethylene glycol (PEG) induced stress. Twenty promising high yielding BC2F4 lines, stack...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i105109
Thirty fodder cowpea genotypes (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp) were analyzed for different genetic parameters for yield and its contributing traits using Randomized Block Design at Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture, Vellayani, Trivandrum. Significant...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i105084
Aims: This study evaluated 123 rice germplasm lines to assess genetic diversity for major biometric and grain iron and grain zinc contents and identify superior donor genotypes for biofortification breeding programmes. Study Design: completely randomized design. Place and Duratio...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2025/v28i103176
Yardlong bean (Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis (L.) Verdcourt), is significant among legume vegetable crops. Global warming and climate change can significantly impact its cultivation, yield, and production. This study examined the F3 population of five yardlong bean famil...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i74756
Waterlogging stress is a significant threat to the global agriculture, resulted in the 33% reduction in the average crop yield. It is predicted that annual daily precipitation will increase by 14% by 2050 in IPCC report. Increase in precipitation increases waterlogging condition....
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2025/v28i62465