{"title":"Diversity analysis of phenotypic traits in okra (Abelmoschus esculentus L. Moench)","authors":"A. Ranga, Ankush Chaudhary, M. Darvhankar","doi":"10.24154/jhs.v17i1.1214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24154/jhs.v17i1.1214","url":null,"abstract":"It is necessary to obtain cultivars which provide high yield by exploiting desirable traits from wild genotypes of okra (Abelmoschus esculentus L. Moench). Okra genotypes were evaluated for phenotypic traits during 2018. High genotypic coefficient of variation (GCV) and phenotypic coefficient of variation (PCV) occurred for nine traits and narrow differences between GCV and PCV indicated the influence of environment was negligible. High estimates of heritability, coupled with moderate to high genetic advance as a percent over mean, were recorded for nine traits. Thousand seed weight had a positive, significant, correlation with yield per hectare. Plant height and number of fruits per plant had direct and positive effects towards the yield per hectare The principal component analysis indicated the first 3 principal components contributed 80.517% of total variation among traits describing genotypes. Cluster analysis indicated hybridization of genotypes among inter-cluster I and II could be used to develop stable, uniform varieties in diverse climatic conditions. EC359637 and IARI Selection 2 are distantly placed and can be used for overall improvement in further crop breeding.","PeriodicalId":36766,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Horticultural Sciences","volume":"43 4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81988807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Muhtasim Billah Sajid, Kishor Kumar Sarker, F. Monshi, Sayeda Sultana, Marjia Akhter Monika, M. Bhuiyan
{"title":"Assessing the genetic diversity of squash (Cucurbita pepo L.) genotypes based on agro-morphological traits and genetic analysis","authors":"Muhtasim Billah Sajid, Kishor Kumar Sarker, F. Monshi, Sayeda Sultana, Marjia Akhter Monika, M. Bhuiyan","doi":"10.24154/jhs.v17i1.1245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24154/jhs.v17i1.1245","url":null,"abstract":"An experiment was conducted to estimate the genetic variability of 15 indigenous and exotic squash genotypes assessing 18 quantitative and 8 qualitative traits. Results showed that the accessions have high variability in qualitative traits like fruit size, fruit shape, fruit skin colour,lustre and fruit productivity, which allowed selection for considerable gains in these characteristics. The quantitative traits such as fruits yield per plant, fruit weight, length, diameter and total yield per hectare showed the greater phenotypic coefficient of variation (PCV) along with higher heritability which can helps to identify desirable genotypes. The obtained significant and positive correlation between fruit yield with number of leaves, nodes, fruit length, weight and number could assist in selection to improve this crop. Cluster analysis resulted in the formation of 4 groups, confirming the genetic variability among the studied genotypes. Eventually, the attained PCA analysis result revealed that the number of fruits per plant, fruit yield per plant, fruit length and days to first female flowering are the most discriminating traits which are accelerating the variability in squash genotypes. On the basis of the yield and its attributing traits, First Runner is the best genotype suited in this environment.","PeriodicalId":36766,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Horticultural Sciences","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82285187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Barik, Naresh Ponnam, G. Acharya, T. Singh, M. Kumari, Manas Dash
{"title":"Genetics of growth and yield attributing traits of brinjal (Solanum melongena L.) through six generation mean analysis","authors":"S. Barik, Naresh Ponnam, G. Acharya, T. Singh, M. Kumari, Manas Dash","doi":"10.24154/jhs.v17i1.1226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24154/jhs.v17i1.1226","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding gene action of different traits is of utmost importance for formulating successful breeding programs. The population was developed involving Arka Neelachal Shyama and CARI-1 to inquire the gene actions controlling the inheritance of several growth as well as yield attributingparameters through six-generation mean analysis. Three parameter model revealed the insufficiency of the simpler additive dominance model for the evaluated traits, referring to the existence of inter-allelic interactions. Six parameter model was implemented to better understand gene actions. Most of the yield and attributing traits under study except number of branches showed a high estimate of dominance as well as environmental variance, disclosing a lower extent of heritability. The number of branches was observed to be controlled by duplicate epistasis. Hence, for the fixation of this trait, the best strategy is to exercise minimal selection during advance generations, followed by intense selection during later generations (F4- population onwards). The preponderance of the narrow sense type of heritability revealed that dominant effects were predominantly accountable for the existing genetic variation. Hence, recurrent selection followed by bi-parental mating and selection during the later stage of generations is advised to increase the occurrence of favorable alleles and accumulation of desirable genes.","PeriodicalId":36766,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Horticultural Sciences","volume":"73 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85994252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Pandey, G.C. Satisha, S. Azeez, G. Kumaran, C. C
{"title":"Mushrooms for integrated and diversified nutrition","authors":"M. Pandey, G.C. Satisha, S. Azeez, G. Kumaran, C. C","doi":"10.24154/jhs.v17i1.1193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24154/jhs.v17i1.1193","url":null,"abstract":" Mushrooms were considered as “Objects of mystery” by the primitive man, and were realized as food much before civilization. Mushrooms have been variously used in different cultures from being priced as “Food of Gods” in the Roman culture to tools of psychological sedation for the Mexican warriors. Most of the edible mushrooms are saprophytic growing on decomposed organic plant matter. Mushrooms play varied and important roles in human nutrition and health. They are unique nutrition dense vegetables with quality high protein, very low fat, zero cholesterol, low carbohydrates, low glycemic index, high fiber, good cardiac friendly sodium to potassium ratio and some unique bioactive compounds like ergothioneine and polysaccharides. These unique nutritive properties of mushrooms make them a recommended food for diabetics, body weight management, hypertension and cardiac well-being. The concept of selenium rich mushrooms for slowing down the progress of AIDS has been gaining importance in the recent years. Apart from being a healthy vegetable, the unique lignocellulosic waste-based production system of mushrooms makes them the most ecofriendly zero waste green technology with immense environmental benefits (Gupta et al., 2004, Jain et al., 2014 and & Pandey et al., 2014). Despite many environmental and nutritional benefits; mushrooms yet have not become a part of daily nutrition in the Indian diet and the per capita consumption still remains very low at 70 grams per annum. There is a need to educate and enhance the awareness among the people about the nutritional and health potential of mushrooms. There is also the need to draw the attention towards integrating mushroom technology in successful agro-residue management programs, livelihood programs, national nutrition programs and women empowerment and rural development schemes which ultimately culminate in providing better daily nutrition.","PeriodicalId":36766,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Horticultural Sciences","volume":"85 11-12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79783586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Qualitative and organoleptic evaluation of immature cashew kernels under storage","authors":"Sharon Jacob, Sobhana A","doi":"10.24154/jhs.v16i2.990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24154/jhs.v16i2.990","url":null,"abstract":"Cashew cultivars, based on flowering behaviour, are categorized into three types, viz., early season, mid-season and late season. In late season type, the harvesting of cashew nuts coincides with the rainy season during which the quality of matured nuts are affected by increased pest and disease attack. This loss can be reduced if the nuts are harvested before it reaches its complete maturity. In this context, present study was conducted in immature cashew kernel to find out suitable storage treatments to enhance the shelf life. Immature cashew kernels were stored in different concentrations of brine solution (5%, 10% and 15%), sugar syrup (50°B, 60°B and 70°B) and by drying in hot air oven until the moisture content of kernel reaches 2-3 per cent. Storage period was for four months and the observations like tannin content, microbial content and organoleptic qualities of kernels stored in each treatment were analysed at the beginning and at the end of the storage. The treatment with 10% brine and 70°B sugar syrup for four months were found as best for storing immature cashew kernels.","PeriodicalId":36766,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Horticultural Sciences","volume":"106 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75772150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Surya Prakash Rao Nayani, Divya K Das, Shivanna M B
{"title":"Vegetative vigour, yield and field tolerance to leaf rust in four F1 hybrids of coffee (Coffea arabica L.) in India","authors":"Surya Prakash Rao Nayani, Divya K Das, Shivanna M B","doi":"10.24154/jhs.v16i2.968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24154/jhs.v16i2.968","url":null,"abstract":"Four F1 hybrids of arabica coffee (Coffea arabica L.) developed with the primary objective of pyramiding the SH3 gene for leaf rust resistance in a commercial variety ‘Chandragiri’ for achieving the long-lasting resistance to leaf rust, have been evaluated in field. Two hybrids (S.5083 and S.5084) were derived from a donor heterozygous to SH3, while the other two hybrids (S.5085 and S.5086) were developed from donor homozygous to SH3. Among the hybrids, S.5086 recorded superior yield performance during individual years with a maximum yield of 1611 kg/ha during 2020-21 and the four year mean yield of 1313 kg/ha. The hybrid exhibited maximum heterosis over mid parent (29.10%) and better parent (17.12%) and S.5086 progeny also manifested high field tolerance to leaf rust pathogen as the entire plant population was free from the disease incidence throughout the study period. The findings of the present study established the efficiency of F1 breeding strategy with simultaneous pyramiding of rust resistance genes for development of vigorous, high yielding and durable rust resistant F1 hybrids in arabica. The F1 hybrid, S.5086 with promising performance in terms of crop yield and high field tolerance to leaf rust has potential implications for commercial exploitation.","PeriodicalId":36766,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Horticultural Sciences","volume":"86 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89860112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Limonene extraction from the zest of Citrus sinensis, Citrus limon, Vitis vinifera and evaluation of its antimicrobial activity","authors":"A. K. Wani, Rattandeep Singh, T. Mir, N. Akhtar","doi":"10.24154/jhs.v16i2.840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24154/jhs.v16i2.840","url":null,"abstract":"Citrus rinds contain essential oils. One of the major constituents of the essential oils in the zest of different fruits like Citrus sinensis, C. limon, and Vitis vinifera is limonene. In this research, limonene was extracted by hydro-distillation method using Clevenger set up and its antimicrobial activity against certain bacterial and fungal strains was determined by using Kirby Bauer’s disc diffusion method. The primary antimicrobial screening of limonene without dilution exhibited a zone of inhibition (mm) comparable to Ampicillin (20mg/ml) and Amphotericin B (20mg/ml). The effect of pure limonene against all strains used was high as compared to the isolated samples. The MIC values also showed an expected decrease in the zone of inhibition from 1:2 to 1:8 dilutions. Based on this study, the cost-effective isolation of limonene and other essential oils is quite possible.","PeriodicalId":36766,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Horticultural Sciences","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90528338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kinde Lamessa Tesgera, B. Nandeshwar, Z. Jalata, Teferi Chala Chala
{"title":"Physical quality of coffee bean (Coffea arabica L.) as affected by harvesting and drying methods","authors":"Kinde Lamessa Tesgera, B. Nandeshwar, Z. Jalata, Teferi Chala Chala","doi":"10.24154/jhs.v16i2.1182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24154/jhs.v16i2.1182","url":null,"abstract":"Coffee is a stimulant crop with high socio-economic cultural value including economical significance in Ethiopia. This study was conducted in 2019-2020 to investigate the effect of harvesting methods and drying surfaces on the physical quality of the coffee beans. The experiment was carried out with two factors, harvesting methods and drying surfaces laid out in a two factorial completely randomized block design with three replications using a landrace coffee variety. The result showed that the interaction of harvesting methods and drying surfaces was highly significant (P<0.01) for coffee bean size and dried coffee berry weight. The highest beans retained above screen were recorded from the interaction of mesh wire (90%) and cemented drying (89%) surfaces with selective harvesting methods. The highest dried coffee berry weight (69.33 gm) were attained from the interaction of selective harvesting with mesh wire drying surfaces. The lowest dried coffee berry weight (63.79 gm) were attained from the interaction of strip harvesting with tin drying surfaces. Significant (P<0.05) variation for primary defects, length of drying period were recorded. Higher length of drying periods (41.67 days) was recorded from the interaction of mesh wire drying surfaces with selective harvesting method and the lowest (20.33 days) was recorded from the interaction of tin drying surfaces with strip harvesting method. The highest percentage of primary defected beans were recorded from the interaction of selective harvesting methods with mesh wire drying surfaces (15%) and the lowest number were recorded from strip harvesting method with drying on plastic (5%). Therefore, it can be concluded that using the interaction of selective harvesting and drying on mesh wire is better for optimum physical quality of coffee in the studied area","PeriodicalId":36766,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Horticultural Sciences","volume":"35 6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90422441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"National Horticultural Fair 2021-A Success Story","authors":"Dhanajaya M.V, Upreti K.K, Dinesh M.R","doi":"10.24154/jhs.v16i2.1056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24154/jhs.v16i2.1056","url":null,"abstract":"The ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Hessaraghatta, Bengaluru, organized five- day National Horticulture Fair (NHF 2021) from February 8th to 12th with the theme ‘Horticulture: for start-up and standup India’ in collaboration with several agencies. The fair was held on a dual mode with the approaches of virtual and physical. The virtual mode had the officials of ICAR Institutes, Horticulture Universities, Directors of State Horticulture Departments, Heads of KVKs and representatives from private industry, press personnel, farmers and students attending the event. The event had 255 demonstration plots of various varieties/technologies developed by the Institute. The problems related with the growing of horticultural crops in various regions of the country were addressed by the experts through live video interaction with the help of the demonstration plots. A total viewing of 54 lakhs was recorded during the five days of this fair, which included one way communication viewing through social media network (14,50,000), video conference viewing through 7000 logins in various places of KVK’s, FPO’s and Sri Sri Institute of Agricultural Sciences & Technology Trust accounted for a total primary source viewing was 4,20,000. The reach from the secondary sources through the subscription to our YouTube channel (followers) was 38.20 lakhs. Viewership was also noticed from 11 different countries. The footfall for the physical fair was 56,000. Publicity preceding the fair by way of animated videos, press and media played a great role in making the fair successful as commercialization of 12 technologies also took place. Various private and public institutions as well as entrepreneurs who have purchased the technology from the Institute got an opportunity to display their products. The modus operandi and the details of methodology are discussed.","PeriodicalId":36766,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Horticultural Sciences","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86390173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessment of soil and water quality status of rose growing areas of Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, India","authors":"Vara Lr, T. P, R. S., Upreti K K","doi":"10.24154/jhs.v16i2.838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24154/jhs.v16i2.838","url":null,"abstract":"Rose is a commercial flower crop widely grown across India. It is highly sensitive to salinity and alkalinity. In the process of identification of salt and alkalinity resistant rootstocks of rose cultivars, a survey was conducted in the rose growing areas of Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Rajasthan. Total of 28 representative surface soil samples were collected from rose fields of these regions, processed and analyzed for the soil quality parameters. Similarly water samples (20 samples) from the bore wells of these fields were collected and analyzed. The results revealed that most of the soils of rose growing fields in UP were alkaline (pH >8.0) with normal salt content (electrical conductivity, EC < 0.5 dS m-1). Many of these soils also had higher bicarbonates (> 3 meq 100 g-1). In case of Rajasthan, few samples had higher pH, EC, chloride (>2 meq 100 g-1) and bicarbonate contents. Exchangeable sodium percentage (ESP) of UP and Rajasthan samples ranged from 5.21-20.7% and 2.94-24.9%, respectively. In case of water parameters in these areas, pH was slightly in alkaline range, EC of some of the samples were high (>1 dSm-1). Sodium content was slightly higher than other cations. Soluble sodium percentage (SSP) of water samples was also slightly higher than normal range (0-50%). Few samples had slightly higher chloride above the threshold limit. From the results, it is concluded that soil and water quality of the rose growing areas of UP and Rajasthan is marginal and proper management/reclamation measures need to be carried out for sustaining the production system.","PeriodicalId":36766,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Horticultural Sciences","volume":"2015 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87133751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}