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Weser Books No 78737, Aussere Webserstr.57 02763 Zittau, Germany e-mail : [email protected] Website : www.weserbooks.com, 2018

This book “Advances in Horticultural Crops” has been design to provide overall understanding of all aspects related to the study of horticultural crops. In this book up to date enlarged, comprehensive and advanced book. It cover both the aspects of the subject such as brief and descriptive.This book provides an over view of the concise and clearly expressed principles and practices in horticulture crops. The aim has been to present a complete and modern view of the horticultural sciences. Keeping the aforesaid points of view, I have made an attempt to compile the latest information an all facts and all the facets of horticulture based on my experience in this subject. The literature consulted to compile this book has been duly acknowledge to augment the wider acceptability and full utility of this book some chapters with modifications have been incorporated from literature survey scientists and officials ,who helped me during this period . These might have been few errors in spite of best efforts made through carefully proof reading. We are especially thankful to everyone who help us for completing this book. We are thankful to our editors who have toiled along with me in editing the voluminous treaties. We hope that the book is useful and interesting to readers, teachers and students and would create in them the urge to know more about recent researchers going related to environment protection. We also thanks International publisher Weser Books, Germany for taking keen interest to publish the book. Dr. Joginder Singh

ABSTRACT Onion and garlic research in India has produced 45 open-pollinated and two F1 hybrids in onion and approximately 25 varieties in garlic. Red onion is used for domestic consumption and export while the white onion is used mostly for processing. Improvement in garlic has been largely through clonal selection and mutation breeding. Somaclonal variations for development of varieties have not been used till now.

Contact Dermatitis, 2010

A low-cost structure, zero energy cool chamber (ZECC), developed by the IARI, New Delhi, was utilized for testing the storage life, ripening days and colour development in banana (Musa paradisiaca L.) and tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.), important summer horticultural commodities. Both are highly perishable, summer-sensitive and become soft, and shrivelled due to high temperature and low humidity. In banana, colour retention is the problem, while in tomato colour formation is the problem. As a result, banana becomes soggy and shrivelled and tomato remains yellow. Fully mature fruits were purchased from the market and stored in plastic crates both in ZECC and the control. The ZECC maintained a uniform temperature range of 22-33oC and a high relative humidity (90 %). Banana fruits showed a shelf-life of 6 days. They were firm, fully yellow in colour, with a pulp temperature of 27.2o C, while the control banana fruits started losing their firmness from day 1 to 2. Tomato was stored at three different stages; full colour (bright red), indicating complete ripening which took place at day 10 in green stage, day 7 in turning stage and day 5 in half ripe stage. The tomatoes were firm, with a lower pulp temperature (26.5o C) and marketable even after 14 days of storage period, while tomatoes kept in the control started showing deterioration as early as day 4 in half ripe stage and turning stage and from day 8 in green stage.

Acta Horticulturae

The production and marketing of horticultural crops is undergoing continuous change globally. This is due to the growing demands of consumers for safe and healthy foods, increased urbanisation of societies, the growth in scale and influence of supermarkets, the corporatisation of farming, changes in the availability of labour and the low priority given to food production by governments. Horticultural science can respond to many of these challenges through research and innovation that can seek to gain more efficient methods of crop production, refined post-harvest storage and handling methods, newer and higher value cultivars, demonstration of health benefits, and newer methods of knowledge dissemination.

Effect of Growth Regulators on In vitro Organogenesis in Cauliflower (Brassica oleracea L. var.botrytis), 2019

Cauliflower (Brassica oleracea l. var. botrytis) is a member of family Cruciferae (Apiaceae), and is cultivated all over North and South India. The whole inflorescence forms a large head of flowers on thick hypertrophied branches which are eaten as vegetable. Cauliflower contains Sulforaphane, which was shown to kill cancer stem cells. It also relieves high blood pressure. It contains antioxidants like vitamin C, and beta carotene. Conventional propagation takes a long period for multiplication due to poor rate of fruit set; poor germination and heterozygosis through seeds. In vitro culture includes culturing of cells, tissues, organs under aseptic laboratory conditions in culture media. Plant parts known as explants are cultured in nutrient medium. Plant tissue culture can overcome these problems and establish plants successfully through a standardized protocol. MS (Murashige and Skoog, 1962) basal medium was used for callus culture and organogenesis. The Auxin and Cytokinin used for leaf explants were NAA (Naphthalene Acetic Acid) 3 mg/L and BAP (Benzyl Amino Purine) 0.5 mg/L. MS medium +NAA 3 mg/L and BAP 0.5 mg/L was proved to be a favorable medium for callus induction, proliferation and shoot organogenesis.

IKSAD PUBLICATION, 2021

Acta Horticulturae, 2011

A review of the impact and success of IHC2010 is based on an evaluation of various events in the programme, analysis of various trends that influenced the attendance and organization of scientific meetings, registration data, comments prepared by symposium and seminar conveners, an analysis of geographic origin of IHC participants, the number of abstracts of invited and oral presentations, and poster presented in the various colloquia, symposia, seminars and thematic sessions. Included is a summary of the scientific highlights and thematic clusters. This is followed by an analysis of specific congress events and presentation options such as e-posters, short-oral poster presentations, exhibition, brokerage event and postcongress technical tours. Very positive replies from an on-line inquiry of participants confirmed the high quality of the Congress. A review of the innovate aspects of the IHC2010 and some of its drawbacks will be helpful in the preparation of future IHCs.

2011

The present investigation conducted in the temperate region of Kashmir valley revealed important underutilized vegetables consumed by the sample population and more common by the tribal communities of the surveyed region. These communities were found expert collectors of these herbs and use them for common culinary and ethnic medicinal purposes. Underutilized species hold a great genetic diversity and a vast heritage of indigenous knowledge. The new emphasis given to indigenous knowledge is creating new favourable conditions for the enhancement of these species largely maintained today by local communities. Due to the modernization the common people are forgetting these traditional foods and because of the floral and genetic erosion due to various natural causes and human interference many of these foods are near to the verge of extinction. Hence the present study was initiated to document the basics information of these lesser known food plants to plan future possibilities for popularizing these valuable herbs. These greens possess enough potential if utilized and explored up to their maximum potential through specific breeding and laboratory techniques to meet the present nutritional needs and secure the future demands.