The present experiment was carried out in twelve genotypes including IRRI introgression lines and a Japonica cultivar to analyse the genetic variability, heritability, and genetic gain. Significant differences were observed among the genotypes. All the traits under study recorded...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2023/v35i163266
The Brown Plant Hopper (BPH), Nilaparvata lugens (Homoptera: Delphacidae) is one of the most destructive insect pests causing significant yield loss in most of the rice cultivars of Asia. Marker-assisted backcrossing is used to introgress the genes for BPH resistance in which the...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2023/v35i122960
The present character association study aims to understand the correlation between morphological, physiological and yield traits of rice genotypes under water stress and non-stress conditions, so as to identify the differentially expressing traits under both the conditions. Such...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2023/v13i71877
Fusarium oxysporum (Fo), causes vascular wilt in cowpea is a serious pathogen, which leads to severe yield loss and high plant mortality. Variability among the pathogen is very low, due to the lack of sexual reproduction, and low mutation rate. In this study ten different isolate...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i242721
An experiment was conducted at the Department of Seed Science and Technology, College of Agriculture, Vellayani to study the influence of gamma irradiation in enhancing storage life of grain cowpea. The experiment consists of six treatments (100 Gy, 200 Gy, 300 Gy, 400 Gy, 500 Gy...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i730883