Anil Kumar

BAU, Sabour · Plant Breeding and Genetics

Overweight/ obesity among adolescents are most commonly determined by BMI percentiles but it involves time consuming computations for obesity diagnosis. Neck circumference (NC) is a marker of subcutaneous fat distribution in the adipose tissue in the upper body. NC has been positively correlated with components of metabolic syndrome and affects car...

Pink oyster mushroom (Pleurotus djamor) owns a pleasant colour, good sensory attributes, high nutritional value, anti-oxidant, anti-microbial and medicinal properties. Cultivation of different types of mushroom has been accepted as a short-term income generating avenue under crop production for livelihood of the farmers. The present study was carri...

Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) is one of the vital grain legume crops that originated from L. culinaris Medik.ssp. orientalisin the Near East. It is an essential food source that is capable of contributing energy, proteins and iron to human diet. Major concern of lentil producing countries is to have a stable high seed yield in addition to resistan...

Mungbean (Vigna radiata (L.) R. Wilczek) is a short duration farmer preferred warm-season pulse crop. The crop has shown a balanced growth worldwide, especially in developing countries. Mungbean being a great source of protein with higher folate and iron levels attracts high demand and price on the market making the farmers happy and satisfied. Mor...

Lentil is one of the most nutritious pulse crops known as masur and grown as a rainfed crop throughout the world in winter season. It is rich in protein, starch, micronutrients and dietary fiber. In the global scenario, India ranked first in the area and second in the production with Bihar being one the major lentil growing state. The majority of t...

The present investigation aimed to study the physicochemical properties, nutritional indices, antioxidant properties, and hypoglycemic effects of dried pink oyster mushroom (Pleurotus djamor) powder. The yield of dried mushroom powder was 8.54%, the oil absorption capacity was 3.34 mL/g, and the swelling index was 0.33 mL/g. A qualitative analysis...

India is a nation which has got huge scope for modernization. The pace of increasing modernization in India coupled with its ever increasing human population is posing a very serious impact on environment mainly due to global warming. Abrupt rainfall conditions coupled with drought conditions prevailing during the Kharif season often hampers paddy...

Thirty three accessions including four checks of Indian mustard (Brasssica juncea L.) were evaluated in randomized block design having three replication for 10 quantitative characters to study the genetic diversity and correlation at Oilseed section, Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour, Bhagalpur. Multivariate based diversity analysis was determi...

The present experiment was conducted to analyze G × E interaction and characterization of twelve chickpea genotypes of diverse origin during three consecutive years with three replications under rice fallow land. Plot yield was negatively associated with dry root rot (-0.66*) and stunt disease (-0.53*). Based on mean yield performance, Gcp 105 (277...

Comparative study about the salt-induced oxidative stress and lipid peroxidation has been realised in primary root tissues for Tomato (Lycopersicon esculantum L.) in order to evaluate their responses to salt stress. Salinity impacts in terms of root growth, H 2 O 2 generation, lipid peroxidation and membrane destabilisation were more pronounced in...

In the present investigation, integrated farming system (IFS) adopted by a progressive farmer in 1.0 ha area, in village Chalthi, situated in Champawat district of Uttarakhand was analyzed as a model for its economics, benefit to cost ratio and extent to overcome food and nutritional security. The main components of IFS were fish, dairy, poultry, v...

Damaged wheat grains are usually discarded following which they decompose naturally to cause environmental pollution. Potential for conversion of these starchy substrates to usable fermentable sugars was the subject of this study. Wheat grains in different quantities (10‐20%, w/v) were liquefied using different concentrations of α‐amylase (1−5% v/v...

Bioactive Property Containing Traditional Spices in Obesity Management, Pros and Cons of Momordica charantia as a Therapeutic Agent, Reproductive Structure and Chromosomal Abnormalities in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPS) of Kashmir Himalayas , Antifungal Potential of Neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss.) Antibacterial Potential of Neem (Azadirach...

Information on combining ability is derived from data on twelve yield and yield contributing characters in fifteen male and three female parents utilised in line x tester fashion to estimate combining ability of rice genotypes under coastal saline condition. Forty Five hybrids generated from crossing three lines with fifteen testers were studied al...

Aim: The current experiment was conducted to know the genetic architecture of 12 physio-morphological traits under sodic soil through Line × Tester analysis. Study Design: The experiment was laid out in randomized complete block design with three replications adopting a recommended spacing of 20 x 15 cm in the field. Recommended package of practice...

Problem: Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is one of the principal cereal crops grown worldwide and one of the important staples of nearly 2.5 billion of world population. India ranks second position in terms of both in area and production after china. The substantial improvement in production is utmost necessary to feed the growing population. Objectiv...

The present study was conducted to evaluate the seed quality of chickpea (cv. PG-186) and lentil (cv. HUL-57) seed samples collected from randomly selected districts of different agroclimatic zones of Bihar. The seed quality was assessed based on their physiological (seed moisture, seed germination, seedling length, vigour index, etc.) and biochemi...

Aim: The current experiment was conducted to study correlation and path analysis among morphological traits and their contribution towards yield under irrigated and drought stress condition using forty eight diverse rice genotypes. Study Design: The experiment was studied in three replications using Randomized Block Design. Place and Duration of St...

The current experiment was held in Summer season, 2018 at rice upland 1, near rice bore well of Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour, Bhagalpur, Bihar, India. The experiment was done by 36 Mungbean genotypes at rice upland 1, near rice bore well of Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour, Bhagalpur in 2018. The analysis of variance (ANOVA) disclosed...

In this work, hydrochloric acid, phosphoric acid, nitric acid and sulphuric acid were screened for their relative potential for hydrolysis of damaged wheat grains. Inhibitor concentration and reducing sugar were taken as performance parameters. Concentration of four inhibitors namely, furfural, 5-hydroxymethyl furfural, acetic acid and formic acid...

The present investigation was carried out on thirty-six lentil genotypes at the farm of Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour, Bhagalpur in 2018-19. The genetic divergences were examined using Mahalanobis D2 statistics for two dates of sowing i.e normal sown and late sown condition. The presence of variation among genotypes was revealed by ANOVA fo...

Mango trees grown under high density planting system show a gradual decline in yield after 10-11 years due to overcrowding of canopies. It results in poor utilization of available resources and ultimately low productivity and profitability. So, to maximize the yield per unit area an experiment was conducted on an old senile, rejuvenated high densit...

The present study was aimed to estimate the extent of genetic variability for yield & its components traits, genetic association, path coefficient analysis in forty-five genotypes of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). The experiment was conducted at Pulse research farm, Bhitti, Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour during Rabi season 2018-19. High valu...

The present manuscript reports the novel synthesis of 5'-CMP molecule-mediated pH-responsive porous supramolecular hydrogels consisting of β-FeOOH/5'-CMP core–shell type nanohybrids as a building block. As synthesized hydrogels has been fully characterized in terms of the size of the core, shape/morphology along with its optical, magnetic and rheol...

Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) is an inexpensive, nutrient dense legume favoring health. Physical characteristics and nutritional composition of Pusa Komal (PK) was compared with improved grain cowpea varieties (PL-1, PL-2, PL-3, PL-4, PL-5, PGCP-11 and PGCP-13). Grain cowpea varieties were significantly larger in size, higher seed weight, higher hydra...

The experiment was conducted using 140 lentil genotypes at (farm name?) Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour, Bhagalpur in 2017-18. The genetic divergences were estimated using D2 analysis where a number of clusters were formed considering all genotypes of indigenous and exogenous types. Genetic variation of genotypes in considerable traits was si...

Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is the 2 nd largest grain-legume cropin the world and is an important rabi pulse crop of Indo Gangetic Plain. India ranks first in chickpea production in the world followed by Australia, Myanmar and Pakistan. It is one of the major pulse crops in Bihar. The present investigation was undertaken using forty genotypes of...

Six varieties of grain cowpea were evaluated for different agronomical characters in 2014 and 2015. Adequate variability was found for various agronomical characters. Data were taken on 50% flowering, plant height (cm), pod length (cm), number of pods per plant, number of seeds per pod, days to maturity, 100-seed weight (g), and grain yield per plo...

In the present study, variability, correlation and path coefficients analysis was carried out in twenty brinjal genotypes for phomopsis blight, fruit yield and its attributing traits. The study indicated that the genotypes evaluated differed significantly for all the seventeen traits in field condition whereas for five traits in pot experiment. The...

Generation mean analysis in basmati rice was studied for eight traits such as number of effective tillers per plant, panicle length (cm), number of grains per panicle, 1000-grain weight (g), grain yield per plant (g), alkali digestion value (%), gel consistency (%) and amylose content (%) in two crosses UPRI 2003-13×Taraori Basmati (C1) and UPR 287...

An experiment was conducted during Rabi 2016-17 at Pulses Research farm, Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour (Bhagalpur) to study the existing genetic diversity in thirty six Desi chickpea genotypes. All the genotypes were grouped into eight clusters as per Ward minimum variance method revealed the presence of considerable amount of genetic diver...

An experiment was conducted during Rabi 2016-17 at Pulses Research farm, Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour (Bhagalpur) to study the existing genetic diversity in thirty six Desi chickpea genotypes under normal sown condition. All the genotypes were grouped into seven clusters as per Ward minimum variance method revealed the presence of consider...

Forty diverse genotypes of Indian mustard [Brassica juncea (L.) Czern & Coss] were evaluated for seed yield and its yield components (four-teen characters) under late sown condition. Both phe-notypic and genotypic coefficients of variation were higher for important traits including seed yield per plant, number of pods per plant, leaf area index, se...

Forty diverse genotypes of Indian mustard [Brassica juncea (L.) Czern & Coss] were evaluated for seed yield and its yield components (fourteen characters) under late sown condition. Both phenotypic and genotypic coefficients of variation were higher for important traits including seed yield per plant, number of pods per plant, leaf area index, seco...

Red rot disease is aptly called as cancer of sugarcane and it causes differential accumulation in micronutrient like iron content and depletion in copper and zinc content in cane juice. The maximum accumulation of iron content was observed in variety BO120 and minimum in BO130. Depletion of both copper and zinc content was found maximum in cane var...

An experiment was conducted during Rabi, 2016-17 at Pulses Research farm, Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour (Bhagalpur), Bihar to study the correlation and path analysis for grain yield and its component characters in thirty six desi chickpea genotypes. The correlation study revealed that grain yield per plant was found significantly and positi...

Twenty-one progenies with their seven parent cultivars of Avena sativa L. (2n = 6x = 42) along with two checks were taken with a view to estimate genetic components of variance indicating different types of gene effects. The present work aimed at estimating the genetic component of variance in oats involving in the character grain yield, its compon...

The basic leucine (Leu) zipper (bZIP) transcription factor family is characterized by a highly conserved bZIP domain of 60-80 amino acids in length and composed of two parts: a basic region and a Leu zipper. bZIP transcription factors are also considered as important regulators in signaling and responses to abiotic as well as biotic stresses. Genom...

The present experiment was conducted to analyze G × E interaction and characterization of twelve chickpea genotypes of diverse origin during three consecutive years with three replications under rice fallow land. Plot yield was negatively associated with dry root rot (-0.66*) and stunt disease (-0.53*). Based on mean yield performance, GCP 105 (277...

The availability of an array of molecular markers allowed comparing the efficiency of two of these marker systems for diversity analysis. In the present investigation, two multiloci markers, RAPD (20 primers) and ISSR (20 primers) and also eight morphometric traits were used to assess the genetic diversity among 38 doubled haploid lines and their p...

Plants are subjected to multiple environmental stresses known as abiotic stresses during their entire life span which seriously affect their productivity. Among the abiotic stresses salt stress is one of the major limiting factor. To mimic the salt stress experienced by plants in field, in the laboratory condition we expose the experimental plants...

Combining ability analysis was carried out for for grain yield, its components and some of the quality character in 7 x 7 diallele cross (excluding reciprocals). Significant differences among the crosses were found for the character viz grain yield, groat protein content, protein yield, days to 50% heading, days to maturity, number of spikelets per...

The term 'Global or Genome Wide' means the study of expression of thousands of genes at once to create global picture of cellular function. The study of '-omics' is important to know the structure, functions & regulation of genes, to understand evolution & relationships of genomes and to interpret interactions between the genes and its environment....

Root knot nematode (Meloidogynae incognita) infestation and low magnesium use efficiency are serious constraints in polyhouse cultivation of cucumber. Novel combination formulations of Tagetes patula root extract containing the nematicidal alpha terthienyl (α-T) and magnesium sulfate were prepared, using the biopolymeric hydrogel as carrier. The te...

Chickpea is a crucial annual crop widely cultivated in semi-arid tropics. It is one of the most important pulse crops in India. Variability may be a greater need for initiating a breeding program for yield and yield contributing traits. A total of 30 lines, along with a check, were evaluated in Randomized Block Design (RBD) during Rabi 2020-21. Hig...

Six varieties of grain cowpea were evaluated for different agronomical characters in 2014 and 2015. Adequate variability was found for various agronomical characters. Data were taken on 50% flowering, plant height (cm), pod length (cm), number of pods per plant, number of seeds per pod, days to maturity, 100-seed weight (g), and grain yield per plo...

Bihar is a typical eastern state, with a large proportion of land (3.2 mha) under rice, which has an average productivity of only 2.0 t ha-1. More than half of the rice area is rainfed lowland, including flood-prone ecosystems, which are characterized by low productivity obtained under traditional systems of cultivation. Despite scientists' claims...

Ohmic heating is a process in which alternating electric current is passed through liquid-particulates foods to heat them. The heating occurs in the form of internal energy generation within the product. Voltage is applied directly to the electrodes at both ends of the product body which cause internal energy generation within the food material. Th...

Seed yield per plant in mustard was found to be positively and significantly correlated with pod length, number of seeds per pod and oil content while, negative significant association of seed yield was observed with days to first flowering and total biomass. Path analysis revealed that oil content, leaf area index showed the highest positive direc...

Seed yield per plant in mustard was found to be positively and significantly correlated with pod length, numberof seeds per pod and oil content while, negative significant association of seed yield was observed with days tofirst flowering and total biomass. Path analysis revealed that oil content, leaf area index showed the highestpositive direct e...

Wilt caused by Fusarium udum Butler, is the major constraint to pigeonpea production worldwide, which can cause yield losses up to 100% in susceptible cultivars, These toxic metabolites also known is one of the weapons used by pathogen inducing disease condition in susceptible host plants. Many pathogens are known to produce toxins both in vitro an...

A study was conducted to evaluate the quality of milkcake available in market and to compare it with laboratory-made milkcake. Samples of milkcake were collected from commercial manufacturers and analyzed for sensory attributes, chemical characteristics and microbiological quality. Results of the study indicated that various samples collected from...

Drought stress triggered by changes in the external water potential is an environmental commonplace in the life of a higher plant. The compatible osmolytes, such as proline plays an important role and act as osmoprotectants during stress. Though several attempts have been made to establish a relationship between proline accumulation and drought tol...

Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata), is an important arid legume with a good source of energy, protein, vitamins, minerals and dietary fibre. Sprouting of legumes enhances the bioavailability and digestibility of nutrients and therefore plays an important role in human nutrition. Improved varieties of grain cowpea viz. Pant Lobia-1 (PL-1) and Pant Lobia-2 (...

Heterosis in basmati rice was studied for eight traits such as number of effective tillers per plant, panicle length (cm), number of grains per panicle, 1000-grain weight (g), grain yield per plant (g), alkali digestion value (%), gel consistency (%) and amylose content (%) in seven crosses among eight basmati/basmati type parental lines through ge...

Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) along with other legumes is recognized as an important source of protein. They are cooked plain, mixed with other foods or processed into formulated recipes. Biscuits can be easily fortified with protein rich flours to provide convenience food in order to supplement protein in the diet. An experiment was conducted to deve...

An experiment was conducted to develop and evaluate nutritional and sensory characteristics of food products supplemented with cowpea flour. Cowpea flour was incorporated at the levels of 20%, 40%, 60% and 80% to products made from whole wheat flour in khajure, semolina in halwa and refined wheat flour in mathri. Products prepared without cowpea fl...

The study was conducted to see the effect of edible coating of whey protein concentrate (WPC) on quality characteristics of jaggery stored in drying cum storage bin for 4 months. Edible coating solution (4 and 8 % (w/v) WPC) was prepared in distilled water with 5 ml glycerol as plasticizer. Moisture content, ash content, pH, reducing sugar, sensory...

Cowpea is one of the highly nutritious grain and vegetable pulse crop with nutraceutical values in India, which is commonly known as lobia and chaura. Cowpea represents an economical source of protein, calories and B-vitamins and therefore it is regarded as the “poor man's meat”. It is rich in nutraceutical compounds such as dietary fibre, antioxid...

Garden pea (Pisum sativum L.) is a leguminous crop and plays an important role in horticulture, because of its high protein content, vitamins, carbohydrates and minerals. Generally, it is grown as an off-season crop in both summer and winter season in high hill areas of Uttarakhand. Being an off-season crop, garden pea provided premium return to th...

Heterosis in basmati rice was studied for seven characters viz. days to 50 per cent flowering, plant height, number of effective tillers per plant, panicle length, number of grains per panicle, 1000-grain weight and grain yield per plant in seven crosses among eight basmati/ basmati type parental lines. The analysis of variance indicated highly sig...

The temperate and cold region of the Jammu and Kashmir state are devoid of any vegetation greenery in winter because of low temperature (-5 °C to -10 °C) in Kashmir Valley and extremely low temperature (-30 °C) in cold arid region of Ladakh. Hence, the use of a greenhouse has potential for production of quality horticultural crops during the severe...

The components of genetic variance for grain yield, important yield components and certain quality traits were studied in seven crosses among eight basmati parental lines. The character means over six generations were subjected to scaling test. In the presence of epistasis, six parameter model was used to detect epistasis. The genetic analysis reve...