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| Rice |
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Rice,
being staple food of majority of Indians; is cultivated
in 420 lakh hectares in India. There is very high
scope for multiplication and distribution of fine
variety of Rice seeds in future. Rasi's objective
in Rice Breeding is to identify or evolve and
produce medium duration, good quakity fine variety of Rice seeds. Efforts are on to evolve short and medium duration rice hybrids. |
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| Objectives
of the New Variety |
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Duration
125 to 135 days |
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Short
or Medium in height - Should not be tall |
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Non
lodging |
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Response
to inorganic manures
without inviting pests and diseases |
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Yield
not less than 2 m.t. per acre |
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Good
cooking quality with good taste
and keeping quality |
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Grain
type - fine |
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| Maintenance
Breeding for |
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Continuous
staple yield and quality |
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to
reduce genetic erosion |
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to
narrow down the phenotypic variability |
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| Pearl
Millet |
| Objectives |
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| Breeding
for high yielding, downy mildew and smut resistant lives
with quality grains and fodders to suit the entire
pearl millet growing area. |
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| Ongoing
Projects |
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Collection,
Conservation, and evaluation of germplasm |
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Breeding
for restores of A1 & A4 cytoplasm |
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Breeding
for new A & B lines |
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Synthesis
of New hybrids with high tillering compactness non lodging with stay green fodder. |
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Maintenance
Breeding |
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Screening
for downy mildew & smut resistance |
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| Highlights |
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Aiming for hybrid with high tillering and high
volume heads through elite breeding methods
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collaboration with ICRISAT our R & D aims
for creating new breeding lines
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| Vegetables |
| Objectives |
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develop high yielding with market acceptable varieties
and hybrids in Tomato, Okra, Brinjal, Chilies, Gourds
and Cluster Beans. |
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| Ongoing
Projects |
- Collection, evaluation and maintenance of germplasm lines
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- Development of new breeding lines and hybrids in Bhendi for high tolerance for YVMV diseases and dark green fruit with short internodes character
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- To develop new Tomato lines and hybrids in oval and PKM– 1 fruit shape type with high firmness, tolerance for TYLCV & foliar diseases.
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- To develop Brinjal lines & hybrids for different fruit colour characteristics.
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- Development of Chillies with light green fruit for fresh market and dark green fruit for dry Chilli market.
- To develop gourds with attractive surface and fruit colour and tolerance to powdery mildew and other diseases.
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| Biofuel Crops |
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| Biofuel is the talk of the world and the flagship company is currently evaluating various tropical sugarbeet entries for their suitability, adoptability and performance. Strong breeding programmes have been initiated to develop sweet sorghum hybrids with Industry preferred qualities and with an yield level that can benefit the farming community. |
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