An efficient indirect somatic embryogenesis protocol for Carica papaya var TNAU Papaya CO.8 was developed using immature zygotic embryos as an explant. Two growth regulators namely 2,4-D and picloram each at 1, 2, 3 mg/L were tested for callus induction and the highest callus ind...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i330510
A field experiment was conducted to study the impact of temperature and relative humidity on fruiting behaviour and fruit quality of different mango varieties in Central Plain Zone of Uttar Pradesh during the fruiting year 2017-18 in the Garden of the Department of Horticulture,...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i330507
As farmers have started to grow millets in recent times, farming is taking a slow drift towards progression. Past studies justifies this with various reasons viz., reduced water table, labour shortage, progressive market for millets and so on. Is it really because of this reason...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i330508
A field experiment was conducted during Kharif season at Crop Research Farm of Tirhut College of Agriculture, Dholi in 2017 to observe the effect of different levels of potassium on yield and economics of Kharif maize. The experiment was laid out in Randomized block design with f...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i230505
The Full-sib mated sixth (SBF6) generation of intergeneric population of papaya from the cross CP 50 x Vasconcellea cauliflora was evaluated to select the progenies with PRSV tolerance coupled with better yield. In order to identify the well performing progenies, the mean perform...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i230506
Guava is one of the most promising fruit crops of India and is considered to be one of the exquisite nutritionally valuable and remunerative crops. We are unaware of any report describing macro and micronutrient dynamics in fruit at different growth stages of guava. For conductin...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i230634
Sugarcane on one side considered important for crop diversification and important for human civilization while on other sugar industry is facing a long term losses in terms of monetary issues. Moreover, farmer is also not clear about which techniques is to adopt for practising th...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i230504
Fourteen genotypes of tomato collected from different sources were evaluated inside naturally ventilated polyhouse at Polyhouse Complex, Department of Horticulture (Vegetable and floriculture), BAU, Sabour, Bhagalpur during 2018-2019. The experiment was laid out in RBD with three...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i230503
Mango (Mangifera indica L.) is the most important horticultural crop in Maharashtra as well as in India. However, this crop is well acclimatized to tropical and subtropical climatic regions. Post harvest losses caused by micro organisms are reported as from 30 to 35% losses with...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i230501
Aims: The study explored the combustion properties of woods and barks of some selected trees and the mixtures of the two in order to map out how fuel material composition affect the combustion properties of biomass materials. Study Design: The study is a two-factor factorial expe...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i230502