HortFlora Re search Spec trum, Vol. 2(4): Oct.-Dec.

2013 ISSN : 2250-2823

1. Boswellia papyrifera pre-dom i nated woodlands of Ethiopia: Pres ent roles and threats
Tatek Dejene
1*
, Omarsherif Mohamed
1
and Haile Adamu
2
1
For estry Re search Cen ter, P.o.Box 30708 Addis Ababa, Ethi o pia
2
Debre Zeyete Ag ri cul tural Re search Cen ter, P.o.Box 32 Debre Zeyete, Ethi o pia
*E-mail: tdejenie@ya hoo.com
ABSTRACT : The Boswellia pre-dominated woodland, belonging to the CombretumTerminalia deciduous
woodlands of the dry forests of Ethiopia, forms the largest vegetation cover and is widespread in the
northern and north-western lowland part of the country. This paper has tried to review and discuss the
current contribution of the Boswellia dominated woodlands and its main threats which contributed for its
degradation based on different empirical studies. From the review it is understood that the Boswellia
dominated woodland represents important natural resources on which development could be based since it
offer diverse products of commerce such as incense, wood and honey, and support to other economic
activities such as fodder for livestock and soil conservation for crop farming. However, the annually cash
income generated by households from the Boswellia woodland is only 1089.55 ETB, which is 18.32 fold less
than that of the income from the agriculture. The low cash flow is shown to be due to policy restrictions on
the engagement of the local people in producing and marketing frankincense, a principal product from the
woodland. Such low cash contribution by the woodland motivated the local people to continuously clear and
convert the woodland in to agricultural land. In lined with this, the structure of some of the important species
in the woodland showed a hump shaped curve distribution, suggesting regeneration is severely lacking and
the population is under serious threat in the long term. Therefore, the main conclusion of this study is that
the Boswellia woodland, although worthy of sustainable management and utilization even on the basis of
economic criteria, is continuing to suffer conversion to other land uses which offer benefits in the short term
and in which farmers have more confidence in terms of economic benefits and ownership rights of the land.
Therefore, to maximize the actual value of the Boswellia pre-dominated woodland, policies and institutions
that govern access to and use of forest resources and their management need to be revised in such a way
that the locals will have the legal right and the confidence to own or co-own the forest resources in their
vicinity, and will continue to manage and utilize it.
Pub lished in : HortFlora Re search Spec trum, Vol. 2(4) : 277-285 (2013)
2. Pre ci sion farm ing : Com po nents and ap pli ca tionsA re view
M.S. Kanwar*, M.S. Mir and P. Ishfaq Akbar
Pre ci sion Farm ing De vel op ment Cen tre
High Moun tain Arid Ag ri cul ture Re search In sti tute (SKUAST-K),Leh-194 101, Ladakh (J&K)
*E-mail: mskanwar2004@rediffmail.com
AB STRACT: Ag ri cul ture is the back bone of our coun try and econ omy, which ac counts for al most 30 per
cent of GDP and em ploys 70 per cent of the pop u la tion. Over the last de cade, tech ni cal meth ods have been
de vel oped to uti lize mod ern elec tron ics to re spond to field vari abil ity. Such meth ods are known as spa tially
vari able crop pro duc tion, geo graphic po si tion ing sys tem (GPS)-based ag ri cul ture, site-spe cific and
pre ci sion farm ing (pre ci sion ag ri cul ture). The term spa tially vari able crop pro duc tion seems to be more
ac cu rate and de scrip tive than the term pre ci sion ag ri cul ture. The con cept of Pre ci sion Ag ri cul ture avails the
re cent de vel op ments in sen sors, green-house and pro tected ag ri cul ture struc tures. This tech nol ogy can be
mean ing fully de ployed for hot and ex tremely dry re gions where wa ter is scarce, soil is salty, tem per a ture is
high and rain fall is low. It is also cer tain that even in de vel op ing coun tries, avail abil ity of la bour for
ag ri cul tural ac tiv i ties is go ing to be in short sup ply in fu ture. The time has now ar rived to ex ploit all the
mod ern tools avail able by bring ing in for ma tion tech nol ogy and ag ri cul tural sci ence to gether for im proved
eco nomic and en vi ron men tally sus tain able crop pro duc tion. Pre ci sion Ag ri cul ture is an in te grated crop
man age ment sys tem that at tempts to match the kind and amount of in puts with the ac tual crop needs for
small ar eas within a farm field.
Pub lished in : HortFlora Re search Spec trum, Vol. 2(4) : 286-293 (2013)
3. Ef fect of auto ex haust emis sion on the growth, mor phol ogy and bio chem i cal char ac ter is -
tics of mari gold grown in dif fer ent sites of Lucknow
Nidhi Prakash* and Mohammad Yunus
Deptt. of En vi ron men tal Sci ence, Babasaheb BhimraoAmbedkar Uni ver sity, Lucknow (U.P.)
*E-mail: nidhiprakash0107@gmail.com
AB STRACT: The pres ent study was planned to eval u ate the ef fect of auto-ex hausts on a very com mon
or na men tal plant i.e. Af ri can mari gold (Tagetes erecta) plants which also pos sess ar o matic & me dic i nal
prop er ties and nat u ral source of an ti ox i dants. The plant is also rec om mended for grow ing with rose for its
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allelopathic na ture. The area un der mari gold cul ti va tion is in creas ing ev ery year due to its in creas ing
de mand through out the world. To as sess the ef fect of auto-ex haust on mari gold plants trans fer ex per i ment
study was con ducted. Three sites (Road stretches) within the mu nic i pal pre mises of Lucknow city were
iden ti fied based on sur vey of sites and the avail able data on air pol lu tion loads, which dif fer with each other
very sig nif i cantly in terms of the num ber of ve hi cles (source of pol lu tion) ply ing there. A com par i son of
con tents of photosynthetic pig ments, pro tein, proline and cysteine among Tagetes erecta plants kept at
three dif fer ent sites very expilicitly in di cates the bear ing of auto ex haust ef fect on them. Marked al ter ation in
bio-chem i cal char ac ter is tics of plant was ob served in plants grown at highly polluted site as compared to
plant grown at less polluted site.
Pub lished in : HortFlora Re search Spec trum, Vol. 2(4) : 294-303 (2013)
4. Na tional agriculture insurance scheme adoption among farm ers : A factorial analysis in
J&K state
Kiyanoush Ghalavand*
De part ment of Peace and Gandhian Stud ies, Panjab Uni ver sity Chandigarh, In dia
*E-mail: kiyanoush1973@gmail.com
ABSTRACT: Ag ri cul ture crop in sur ance has an im por tant role in ag ri cul tural pro duc tion and is a tool to
sup port farm ers against threats. In ves ti ga tion of fac tors af fect ing farm ers adop tion of na tional ag ri cul ture
in sur ance scheme strat egy was the ob jec tive of this study. The re search was con ducted in Jammu and
Kash mir State, In dia. Sur vey was the re search method, and data was col lected by ques tion naire and
sched ule in ter view. Data were an a lyzed by Ex cel and SPSS 18 Ver sion soft ware. Find ings re vealed that the
farm ers with higher rate of Ag ri cul ture crops in sur ance adop tion, were youn ger with higher level of lit er acy,
they had more crop area and more in come, they had more aware ness to wards the goals and ad van tages of
crop in sur ance, they of ten con sult with other farm ers and they have more par tic i pa tion in train ing classes
and ses sions. Also, rate of their con tact with ag ri cul tural agents and in sur ance agents was higher, they more
par tic i pated in ex ten sion lec tures and more vis ited crop in sur ance com panys ac tiv i ties. The re sults
re vealed that four in de pend ent vari ables ex plain adop tion of ag ri cul ture crop in sur ance. Con sult with other
farm ers is the main in de pend ent vari able. The vari ables af fect ing crop in sur ance (31 vari ables) were
clas si fied to nine fac tors ac cord ing to fac tor anal y sis tech nique. Ex ten sion- ed u ca tion fac tor, eco nomic
fac tor, com mu ni ca tion chan nels fac tor, opin ion lead er ship fac tor, fa cil ity fac tor, con fi den tial fac tor,
su per vi sion fac tor, and di ver sity fac tor are the fac tors. Based on the re search find ings, some
rec om men da tions are pre sented at the end of the pa per.
Pub lished in : HortFlora Re search Spec trum, Vol. 2(4) : 304-310 (2013)
5. Ir ri ga tion management of potato based on soil profile water extraction
P.S. Kashyap*
De part ment of Soil & Wa ter Con ser va tion En gi neer ing
G. B. Pant Uni ver sity of Ag ri cul ture & Tech nol ogy, Pantnagar-263145, Uttarakhand
*Email: pskashyap@ya hoo.com
ABSTRACT: Ef fi cient man age ment of de plet ing wa ter re sources is im por tant in or der to en hance crop
pro duc tiv ity and to at tain high wa ter use ef fi ciency. The study aimed at iden ti fy ing ir ri ga tion man age ment
prac tices, which could re sult in wa ter sav ings through de lib er ate un der ir ri ga tion. Field ex per i ments were
con ducted at Hill Cam pus, Ranichauri, Tehri-Garhwal, Uttarakhand, In dia on po tato crop (Kufri
Chandramukhi) over a pe riod of two years dur ing the win ter sea sons of 2008-09 and 2009-10. The crop was
planted in first week of No vem ber and har vested in the last week of March span ning ap prox i mately 150
days. Three ir ri ga tion treat ments were main tained based on the max i mum al low able de ple tion (MAD) of
avail able soil wa ter. The treat ments were 20% (T
1
), 40% (T
2
) and 60% (T
3
) max i mum al low able de ple tion of
avail able soil wa ter. No soil wa ter stress was main tained at the ini tial stages of the crop de vel op ment so as
to al low the plants at tain a healthy growth. Soil mois ture con tent was mea sured by gravimetric method
pe ri od i cally in 0-15, 15-30 and 30-45 cm soil pro files. Soil mois ture showed a cy clic tem po ral vari a tion at all
three se lected soil depths. The mag ni tude of this vari a tion was higher in 0-15 cm soil pro file and de creased
in 15-30 and 30-45 cm soil pro files in that or der. This trend was ob served at all sched ules of ir ri ga tion. Field
ex per i ments re vealed that ir ri ga tion sched ule with 40% max i mum al low able de ple tion of avail able soil wa ter
gave the max i mum wa ter use ef fi ciency for po tato crop. For sched ul ing of ir ri ga tion of po tato crop, 0-30 cm
soil pro file should be con sid ered as most of the re quired wa ter to be ex tracted from this layer by the plant.
Pub lished in : HortFlora Re search Spec trum, Vol. 2(4) : 311-318 (2013)
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6. Ef fec tive in oc u la tion method and op ti mum con cen tra tion of Oryctes vi rus for bi o log i cal
con trol of co co nut bee tle (Oryctes rhinoceros) adults
S.P. Jayawardena*
De part ment of Plant Sci ences, Fac ulty of Ag ri cul ture, Rajarata Uni ver sity of Sri Lanka, Anuradhapura, Sri
Lanka.
1
Crop Pro tec tion Di vi sion, Co co nut Re search In sti tute, Lunuwila, Sri Lanka.
*E-mail: sithuminijayawardena@ya hoo.com
ABSTRACT: The study was car ried out to de ter mine the ef fec tive in oc u la tion method and op ti mum
con cen tra tion of lo cal Oryctes vi rus (OrV) for suc cess ful in fec tion of Oryctes rhi noc eros (L.) adults in
lab o ra tory which re leased to the field to spread the vi ral dis ease among healthy lar vae and bee tles for their
bi o log i cal con trol. 0.1ml of 10
4
ppm of vi ral sus pen sion was in tro duced orally to one set of bee tles and
an other set of bee tles were al lowed to swim ming in the sus pen sion for 10 min utes. Bee tles were dis sected
at dif fer ent in ter vals to de ter mine the pe riod taken for in fec tion. Five con cen tra tions (10
1
ppm to 10
5
ppm) of
vi rus sus pen sions were in tro duced to adult bee tles orally to find the le thal con cen tra tion (LC
50
) and le thal
time (LT
50
). Per cent age of in fected bee tles was sig nif i cantly dif fer ent (P<0.001) among the two meth ods of
in oc u la tion and un treated con trol. Af ter 21 days of in oc u la tion, oral in tro duc tion method, swim method and
con trol re corded 88.8%, 44.4% and 11.1% of OrV in fec tion, re spec tively in di cat ing the most ef fec tive
in oc u la tion method as oral in tro duc tion. Cu mu la tive per cent mor tal ity of O. rhi noc eros adults with 10
1
ppm,
10
2
ppm, 10
3
ppm, 10
4
ppm and 10
5
ppm con cen tra tions were re corded as 7.3%, 25.1%, 33.3%, 81.4% and
100%, re spec tively. LC
50
was 10
2.7
ppm and LT
50
for 10
4
ppm and 105ppm con cen tra tions were 23 days and
12 days, re spec tively. Best con cen tra tion to oral in oc u la tion of O. rhi noc eros with OrV for field re lease was
se lected as 10
4
ppm.
Pub lished in : HortFlora Re search Spec trum, Vol. 2(4) : 319-323 (2013)
7. Eval u a tion of col oured seed less ta ble grape va ri et ies for in crease in shelf life
Amit Kumar Goswami
1
, R.G. Somkuwar*, Roshni Samarth, A.K. Sharma, Supriya Nawale and
Prerna Itroutwar
Na tional Re search Cen tre for Grapes, P.O. Box 03, Manjri Farm Post, Pune 412307
1
Pres ent ad dress : Di vi sion of Fruits and Hor ti cul tural Tech nol ogy, IARI, Pusa, New Delhi
*E-mail:rgsgrapes@gmail.com
ABSTRACT: An experiment to study the shelf life of four table grape varieties was conducted at National
Research Centre for Grapes, Pune (M.S.). Grape bunches packing and the cold storage condition for 30
days after pre cooling for 24 hours was according to the export standard. After cold storage, shelf life and
other quality parameters were recorded for four days. Lowest physiological loss of weight was recorded in
Sharad Seedless followed by Mahadev Seedless. These two varieties also performed better for the quality
parameters in terms of bunch weight, 5 berry weight and berry diameter which are favourable for better shelf
life. Significant differences were found for the quality parameters except total soluble solids (TSS). Overall,
Sharad Seedless and Mahadev Seedless recorded with the lowest per cent of berry fallen and rotting
among the four varieties studied.
Pub lished in : HortFlora Re search Spec trum, Vol. 2(4) : 324-328 (2013)
8. Ef fect of bio-inoculants on leaf nu tri ent sta tus of ap ple cv. Red De li cious
S.R. Singh
1*
, A.H. Dar
2
, M.K. Sharma
3
and A.S. Sundouri
3

1
Cen tral In sti tute of Tem per ate Hor ti cul ture, Rangreth, Srinagar, J&K

2
Horti.Dev.Offifer, Srinagar, J&K

3
Sher-e-Kash mir Uni ver sity of Ag ri cul ture Sci ence and Tech nol ogy of Kash mir, Shalimar, J&K- 121 191
*E-mail: srajparmar@gmail.com; hadar@rediffmail.com
AB STRACT: Sig nif i cant dif fer ences were re corded for to tal leaf ni tro gen, phos pho rous and po tas sium in
re sponse to the dif fer ent fer til iz ers treat ments. The ef fect of fer til izer re gimes on leaf ni tro gen re sulted in
sig nif i cant dif fer ence in which treat ment F
1
re corded max i mum leaf ni tro gen (2.04 %) fol lowed by F
3
(1.99
%) and F
4
(1.95 %). The in ter ac tion ef fect of phos phate solublizing inoculants and ni tro gen fix ing inoculants
on leaf ni tro gen re corded sig nif i cant in crease. How ever, there was non-sig nif i cant dif fer ences in leaf
phos phate and po tas sium in re sponse to these two inoulants. Sig nif i cant re sults were re corded in re sponse
to in ter ac tion ef fect of ni tro gen fix ing inoculants and fer til izer re gimes. Ef fect of ni tro gen fix ing inoculants,
phos phate solublizing inoculants and fertilizer regimes recorded a significant increase in leaf nitrogen.
Pub lished in : HortFlora Re search Spec trum, Vol. 2(4) : 329-334 (2013)

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9. Ef fect of pre-har vest application of GA
3
, triacontanol and calcium salts on yield and
physical characters of Kinnow fruits harvested on different dates
Tanjeet Singh Chahal* and J.S. Bal
1

Fruit Research Sta tion, PAU- FRS Jallowal-Lesriwal, Punjab
1
De part ment of Horticulture, Khalsa Col lege, Amritsar, Punjab
*E-mail: tanjeetchahal@pay.edu, tanjeetchahal@ya hoo.com
ABSTRACT: The study on the ef fect of pre-har vest chem i cal treat ments in Kinnow man da rin was
con ducted at Khalsa Col lege, Amritsar for two years. Pre-har vest fo liar ap pli ca tion of GA
3
(10, 20, 30ppm),
triacontanol (400, 600ppm), CaCl
2
(4, 6%) and Ca(NO
3
)
2
(0.1, 0.2, 0.3%) was given to the Kinnow plants of
fif teen years of age. The har vest ing of the fruits was done on Jan u ary 1
st
, Jan u ary 15
th
, Feb ru ary 1
st
and
Feb ru ary 15
th
dur ing both the years and yield of the fruits was cal cu lated along with their phys i cal anal y sis.
It was ob served that the max i mum fruit yield to the tune of 54.88kg/plant was re corded with the ap pli ca tion
of GA
3
at 30ppm and it was proved to be the most ef fi ca cious treat ment for im prov ing fruit qual ity in re spect
of fruit size, weight and juice con tent. Max i mum peel thick ness was ob served with CaCl
2
at 6 per cent.
Pub lished in : HortFlora Re search Spec trum, Vol. 2(4) : 335-340 (2013)
10. Ef fect of plant growth reg u la tors on growth and spike yield of glad i o lus cultivars
Ateeq Khan* and Vijay Ba ha dur
De part. of Hor ti cul ture Allahabad School of Ag ri cul ture, Sam Higginbottom In sti tute of Ag ri cul ture,
Tech nol ogy & Sci ences, Allahabad-211 007 (U.P.) In dia
*E-mail : khan_aaidu@rediffmail.com
AB STRACT: The field ex per i ment was con ducted dur ing Rabi sea son 2010-2011 with com bi na tion of
dif fer ent sources of plant growth reg u la tors to study their effect on veg e ta tive growth and spike yield of
glad i o lus. Ex per i ment con sisted of 16 treat ments each rep li cated thrice and laid out in RBD. The re sults
ob tained showed that the plant growth reg u la tors sig nif i cantly af fected the growth pa ram e ters of glad i o lus
such as max i mum val ues of plant height (80.78cm and 82.22cm in Novalux and White Pros per ity,
re spec tively), num ber of shoots in Novalux and White Pros per ity (3.44 in each), num ber of leaves /plant
(20.78 and 20.44 in Novalux and White Pros per ity, re spec tively), min i mum days to spike ini ti a tion in Novalux
(76.67days) and in White Pros per ity (78 days), min i mum days to open ing of the first flo ret (81.67 days in
Novalux and 88.67 days in White Pros per ity), first flo rets du ra bil ity (7.56 days in Novalux and 7.11 days in
White Pros per ity), spike length (81.55cm in Novalux and 82.00cm in White Pros per ity), num ber of
flo rets/spike (23.67 in Novalux and 18.33 in White Pros per ity), num ber of spikes/plant (3.67 in Novalux and
3.11 in White Pros per ity) and spike yield /ha (295200 in Novalux and 279900 in White Pros per ity). The
max i mum value of yield and yield attributing pa ram e ters were found to be higher un der the treat ment NAA
@ 200ppm (T
9
).
Pub lished in : HortFlora Re search Spec trum, Vol. 2(4) : 341-345 (2013)
11. Cor re la tion and path co ef fi cient anal y sis in brin jal (Solanum melongena L.)
Pallavi Chaudhary*, Sanjay Kumar and Prawal Pratap Singh Verma
De part ment of Hor ti cul ture, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (A Cen tral Uni ver sity)
Lucknow-226 025
*E-mail: pallavichaudhary05@gmail.com
AB STRACT: Ge netic vari abil ity in terms of cor re la tion and path co ef fi cient were stud ied for yield per plant
and its at trib ut ing traits in 16 ge no types of egg plant. Sig nif i cant pos i tive genotypic cor re la tion co ef fi cient
was ob served by fruit weight, num ber of leaves per plant, num ber of fruits per plant and num ber of flow ers
per plant. An over all ob ser va tion of path co ef fi cient stud ies re vealed that the di rect con tri bu tion of fruit yield
per plant, fruit yield per hect are, fruit weight, num ber of fruits per plant, and num ber of flow ers per plant was
of higher mag ni tude on fruit yield. High neg a tive di rect ef fect was re corded in to tal sugar fol lowed by
re duc ing sugar and fruit length. Di rect se lec tion may be ex e cuted con sid er ing these traits as the main
se lec tion cri te ria to re duce in di rect ef fects of the other char ac ters during the development of high-yielding
eggplant varieties/hybrids.
Pub lished in : HortFlora Re search Spec trum, Vol. 2(4) : 346-351 (2013)
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12. Eval u a tion of veg e ta ble am a ranth un der hot sum mer grow ing con di tion
Joydip Mandal
1
, V.K. Dhangrah
2
and S. Chakravorty
3
1 & 3
De part ment of Crop Im prove ment, Hor ti cul ture and Ag ri cul tural Bot any (CIHAB),
In sti tute of Ag ri cul ture, Visva-Bharati, Sriniketan (West Ben gal) 731 236, In dia
2
Shri Megh Singh Col lege (Af fil i ated to Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Uni ver sity, Agra), Abidgarh, Agra (UP) 282 006
*E-mail: vkdhangrah@gmail.com, vkdhangrah@rediffmail.com
AB STRACT: The per for mance of 13 veg e ta ble am a ranth ge no types was as sessed un der hot and dry
sum mer con di tion in red and lateritic belt of West Ben gal, In dia. Sig nif i cant dif fer ences among the
ge no types were no ticed for var i ous growth and yield at trib ut ing traits at three sam pling dates (17, 24 and 31
days af ter sow ing). North Dinajpur Col lec tion-4 was re corded as the high est yielder (178.4 q/ha). Bankura
Col lec tion-2, Pusa Lal Choulai, Kendrapara Col lec tion- 6 and Arka Suguna were rel a tively low pro ducer, but
had high leaf : stem ra tio, a desirable trait for any leafy vegetable.
Pub lished in : HortFlora Re search Spec trum, Vol. 2(4) : 352-355 (2013)
13. Re sponse of dif fer ent post har vest treat ments on phys i o log i cal loss in weight and
changes in col our of to mato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.)
Bibhuti Bhusan Sahoo
1*
, Bhaskar Chandra Das
2
, Purandar Mandal
3
and Dheerendra
Katiyar
4
1
De part ment of Crop Im prove ment, Hor ti cul ture & Ag ri cul tural Bot any,
Palli Sikshya Bhavana (In sti tute of Ag ri cul ture), Visva-Bharati, Sriniketan, (WB)
2
De part ment of Post Har vest Man age ment, Col lege of Hor ti cul ture, OUAT, Chiplima, Sambalpur (Odisha).
3
Col lege of Hor ti cul ture, OUAT, Chiplima, Sambalpur (Odisha)
4
Dept. of Vegeta ble Sci ence, CSAUA &T, Kanpur(UP).
*E-mail: bibhutihort@rediffmail.com
AB STRACT: An ex per i ment was con ducted in the lab o ra tory of the De part ment of CIHAB, Palli Sikshya
Bhavana (In sti tute of Ag ri cul ture), Visva-Bharati, Sriniketan (WB) on stor age life of to mato fruits with
dif fer ent post har vest treat ments. The ex per i ment was laid out in RBD with nine treat ments each com pris ing
of three rep li ca tions and ten fruits per rep li ca tion. The re sults re vealed that rip en ing was ini tially de layed by
MAP, NAA and NAA+MAP treat ments. Among all the chem i cals the per for mance of GA
3
, was better than
NAA in re duc ing phys i o log i cal loss in weight of tomato. The re sults on the col our de vel op ment of the fruit in
stor age in di cated that the per cent age col our de vel op ment var ied sig nif i cantly in all the treat ments of to mato
fruits up to 6
th
day of storage.
Pub lished in : HortFlora Re search Spec trum, Vol. 2(4) : 356-359 (2013)
14. Eeffect of stor age en vi ron ment on shelf life of aonla cv. na-7
Manpreet Singh, P.N. Katiyar, R.K. Sachan, Shashank Verma and D. Singh
Col lege of Hor ti cul ture, C.S.A. Uni ver sity of Ag ri cul ture and Tech nol ogy, Kanpur-208 002
AB STRACT: For com bat ing the glut at peak har vest it is im per a tive to im prove the stor age life of aonla fruit.
The ob ject of the pres ent study was to eval u ate the ef fect of pack ag ing and stor age en vi ron ment at am bi ent
tem per a ture as well as un der re frig er a tion for con ser va tion of aonla fruits cv.NA-7. The treat ment com prised
thermocol bowls, per fo rated poly thene bags, card board, wooden boxes, per fo rated plas tic crates, earthen
pots, gunny bags, re frig er a tor and con trol. Stor age un der re frig er a tor was found most ef fec tive in re tain ing
rel a tively su pe rior skin col our, min i miz ing PLW and patho log i cal losses and conserving Vi ta min C and
acid ity con tents in aonla fruits. Re duc tion was no ticed in the metabolital sta tus i.e. TSS and sug ars when
com pared with the stor age un der rest of the pack ag ing and en vi ron men tal con di tions ob vi ously due to
mois ture loss at am bi ent tem per a ture. The higher spoilage occurred mainly due to black mould.
Pub lished in : HortFlora Re search Spec trum, Vol. 2(4) : 360-362 (2013)
15. Ef fect of va ri ety, type of cut ting and IBA con cen tra tion on root ing of croton (Codiaeum
variegatum) cut tings
Hemlata Bharti*, B.P. Singh and K.P. Singh
1
Col lege of Hor ti cul ture and For estry, Narendra Deva Uni ver sity of Ag ri cul ture and Tech nol ogy, Kumarganj,
Faizabad-224 229 (U.P.)
1
Di rec tor ate of Floricultural Re search, IARI, Pusa, New Delhi:
*E-mail: hemlatafloriculture@gmail.com
AB STRACT: The pres ent ex per i ment was con ducted to find out the in ter ac tion ef fect of va ri ety, type of
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cut ting and IBA con cen tra tion on root ing in cut tings of croton. Over all per for mance of hard wood cut ting of
broad leaf va ri ety treated with 400ppm IBA was found sig nif i cantly su pe rior in in duc ing the high est root ing
per cent age (82.34%), took lesser time for sprout ing (10 days), sur vival per cent age (80.04%) and sprout ing
per cent age (88.66) than other treat ments. The hot and hu mid con di tion were con du cive for grow ing
semi-hard wood and hard wood cut tings of broad leaf as well as nar row leaf va ri ety of croton which were able
to show good per for mance. Out of three type of cut tings, semi-hard wood cut tings and 200ppm IBA was
found better in com par i son to 400ppm IBA with broad leaf for root ing and es tab lish ment. There fore, it is
con cluded that croton can be mul ti plied by cut tings un der green house con di tion with IBA treat ments.
Pub lished in : HortFlora Re search Spec trum, Vol. 2(4) : 363-365 (2013)
16. Re sponse of China as ter va ri et ies to pinch ing for growth, yield and qual ity
S.M. Sailaja*, D.M. Panchbhai and K. Suneetha
De part ment of Hor ti cul ture, Dr. PDKV Akola, Maharashtra
*E-mail: sailuhort@gmail.com
ABSTRACT: A field ex per i ment to find out re sponse of China as ter va ri et ies to pinch ing for growth, yield
and qual ity was con ducted at farm of Hor ti cul ture Sec tion, Col lege of Ag ri cul ture, Nagpur. The ex per i ment
con sisted of six teen treat ments of four China as ter va ri et ies with four pinch ing treat ments and it was laid out
in Fac to rial Ran dom ized Block De sign with three rep li ca tions. Max i mum plant height was found in Phule
Ganesh Pur ple va ri ety. Plant height was sig nif i cantly re duced with dou ble pinch ing com pared to con trol
treat ment of pinch ing i.e, with out pinch ing. Whereas, spread of plant was found max i mum in Phule Ganesh
Pink as well as un der the treat ment of sin gle pinch ing at 30 days af ter trans plant ing. Max i mum flow er ing
span was found in Phule Ganesh White as well as the treat ment of dou ble pinch ing at 30 and 45 days af ter
trans plant ing. Yield char ac ters were found to be max i mum in Phule Ganesh White va ri ety with sin gle
pinch ing treat ment at 30 days af ter trans plant ing.
Pub lished in : HortFlora Re search Spec trum, Vol. 2(4) : 366-368 (2013)

17. Stud ies on processing and storage stability of aonla (Emblica officinalis Gaertn) RTS
Purandar Mandal
1
, Bibhuti Bhusan Sahoo
1*
, Bhaskar Chandra Das
1
and Dheerendra Katiyar
2
1
Col lege of Hor ti cul ture, OUAT, Chiplima, Sambalpur, Odisha, In dia
2
De part ment of Veg e ta ble Sci ence, CSAUA & T, Kanpur, U.P., In dia
*E-mail: bibhutihort@rediffmail.com
AB STRACT : Aonla plays an im por tant role in hu man nu tri tion. The fruits are not con sumed freely in fresh
form be cause of its as trin gent taste. But the ex cel lent nu tri tive and ther a peu tic val ues of fruits have great
po ten ti al ity for pro cess ing in to var i ous qual ity prod ucts. In pres ent study dif fer ent rec i pes of Aonla ready to
serve (RTS) was stan dard ized to ex plore the pro cess ing po ten tial of Aonla. There were five dif fer ent
pos si bil i ties of rec i pes. The RTS pre pared from the rec i pes 10% pulp, 12% TSS and 0.30% acidity gave
high est organoleptic qual ity score fol lowed by RTS pre pared from 10% pulp, 10% TSS and 0.30% acidity
and the qual ity of the pre pared RTS was main tained up to fourth month at am bi ent tem per a ture.
Pub lished in : HortFlora Re search Spec trum, Vol. 2(4) : 369-371 (2013)
18. Chenopodium Craft : Creativity to han dle the prob lem of plenty
Shri Niwas Singh* and Shyam Narayan
De part ment of Ge net ics & Plant Breed ing, BRD PG Col lege, Deoria, U.P. 274 001, In dia.
*E-mail: niwas_mdra@bsnl.in
ABSTRACT : Tall type prim i tive Chenopodium spe cies are pro duc ing huge amounts of bio mass un der high
in put ag ri cul ture. If not man aged prop erly, this bio mass is be com ing a prob lem of plenty. To han dle this
prob lem, the stems of these spe cies were ar tic u lated in to a num ber of artefacts like ban gle stands,
ecofriendly pens, pen stands, pot stands, flag stands, agarbatti stands, var i ous types of hang ers and let ter
stands etc. Such di ver si fied uses will make these cheno pods more ac cept able to so ci ety and remunerative
to farmers.
Pub lished in : HortFlora Re search Spec trum, Vol. 2(4) : 372-373 (2013)
19. An un usual oc cur rence of vivipary in pa paya (Carica papaya L.)
Jitendra Singh
Col lege of Hor ti cul ture and For estry, Agricuiltural Uni ver sity, Kota, Cam pus Jhalarapatan, Jhalawar (Rajasthan)
*E-mail: jsingh_rau2s@rediffmail.com
AB STRACT: Vivipary is of un usual occorrence in pa paya. In viviparic fruits, seeds ger mi nate in side while
still they re main at tached with fruits. Such fruits are in sipid in taste. If cut ex posed, the ger mi nated seeds
in side the fruit look very clearly. High hu mid ity and warm weath ers ap pear as so ci ated with the viviparic fruits
in pa paya.
Pub lished in : HortFlora Re search Spec trum, Vol. 2(4) : 374-375 (2013)
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