Starting in 1926 and continuing for 80+ yr, 11,241 crop genetic materials have been registered as of 31 Dec. 2008. The crop registration process is an important pathway to publically describe and document new and useful genetic materials and to incorporate these into the public domain via the National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS). Crop Registration materials are now searchable via the Germplas...

Nearly a century has been spent collecting and preserving genetic diversity in plants. Germplasm banks-living seed collections that serve as repositories of genetic variation-have been established as a source of genes for improving agricultural crops. Genetic linkage maps have made it possible to study the chromosomal locations of genes for improving yield and other complex traits important to ...

Lignification of cell walls is the major factor controlling the digestibility of forage grasses. Thus far, from QTL analysis, about 15 locations involved in cell-wall lignification or digestibility have been identified in the maize genome, many of which colocalise with QTLs involved in corn borer susceptibility. Genetic diversity for enhancing cell-wall digestibility in maize must be identified...

During the years 2022-2023, a field experiment was carried out at Post Harvest Laboratory of Horticulture Department, Naini Agricultural Institute, Sam Higginbottom University Agriculture, Technology & Sciences, Prayagraj to investigate "Standardization recipe for value-added Herbal Kinnow and Guava jelly better quality shelf life." The using Completely Randomized Design (CRD), with ten tre...

An investigation was carried out to evaluate the influence of post-harvest application different ethylene inhibitors viz., 1-methylcylcopropene (1-MCP; 500, 1000 and 1500 ppb), methyl jasmonates (MeJA; 1, 2 3 mM) salicylic acid (SA; on health-promoting compounds such as total phenols, antioxidants, flavonoids, protein, free amino acids sugars in cold-stored ‘Kinnow’ mandarin fruit. The fruit we...