Jagadish Rane

ICAR- Central Institute for Arid Horticulture

Background The slow breeding cycle presents a significant challenge in legume research and breeding. While current speed breeding (SB) methods promise faster plant turnover, they encounter space limitations and high costs. Enclosed environments risk pest and disease outbreaks, and supplying water and electricity remains challenging in many developi...

Phenological stages of flowering and fruiting, timing of anthesis, duration of pollen viability and stigma receptivity.  Identification of viable pollen and stigma receptivity, collection and storage of pollen, pollination, bagging etc. (Needs hands on training/demonstration)  Ensure best pollen source and quality (Male clone) Benefits This techn...

Background Climate change exacerbates abiotic stresses, which are expected to intensify their impact on crop plants. Drought, the most prevalent abiotic stress, significantly affects agricultural production worldwide. Improving eggplant varieties to withstand abiotic stress is vital due to rising drought from climate change. Despite the diversity o...

Crop adaptation to waterlogging stress necessitates alterations in their morpho-physiological and biochemical characteristics. Cowpeas, which serve as a dual-purpose legume crop (food and fodder), are sensitive to waterlogging stress, especially when exposed to extended periods of water stagnation during the early growth stage. In this study, we su...

Eco-physiology describes the inherent mechanisms used by plants to respond to external stimuli that contribute to adaptations to particular environment. In nature, plants are often simultaneously challenged by individual and interactive effects of several biotic and abiotic stresses such as drought, supra- or sub-optimal ambient temperatures, water...

The persistent challenges posed by pollution and climate change are significant factors disrupting ecosystems, particularly aquatic environments. Numerous contaminants found in aquatic systems, such as ammonia and metal toxicity, play a crucial role in adversely affecting aquaculture production. Against this backdrop, fish feed was developed using...

Chickpea, a nutritionally rich annual legume predominantly cultivated in drought-prone regions, relies on photosynthesis for biomass production and grain formation. The resilience of this process is crucial for productivity under water stress, which induces leaf desiccation. In this study, 15 Cicer accessions from various species were assessed for...

Chickpea is a cool season, photothermal-sensitive crop, that is adversely affected by high temperatures (>35°C) and whose flowering is promoted by long-day conditions (>12 h). This prevents horizontal crop spread under a variety of agro-climatic conditions and the development of insensitive genotypes that perform well in all seasons. Therefore, a s...

Pre-exposure of plants to moderate stress may create a “stress memory” that enables a fast protective response to next stress event. Protocols to differentiate the crop genotypes for such traits are essential for genetic improvement of plant stress tolerance. We hypothesized that memory due to soil moisture deficit may get reflected in leaf canopy...

As the best-fit leguminous crop for intercropping across time and space, mungbean promises to sustain soil health, carbon sequestration, and nutritional security across the globe. However, it is susceptible to waterlogging, a significant constraint that persists during heavy rains. Since the predicted climate change scenario features fewer but more...

Intercropping offers greater scope to introduce new crops. Cultivation of crops with diverse root architecture and different durations enhances the productivity of scarce resources like land and water. This study aimed to determine the effect of intercrop competition and irrigation regimes on yield, competition, land usage, irrigation water use eff...

Haplotype-based breeding approaches hold promise for enhancing crop improvement strategies, allowing for targeted selection of superior genetic combinations to develop high-yielding and resilient varieties. The current study aimed at identification of NRT1.1 nitrate transporter haplotype that could serve as "donors" in haplotype-based breeding. We...

The increasing effect of heat stress on horticultural crops has become a critical concern, given the current and anticipated global warming trends. The horticultural sector, playing a vital role in the economy, is making significant strides. It is no longer optional but an imperative necessity to address the challenges posed by a warming future. Th...

In wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), the grain size varies according to position within the spike. Exposure to drought and high temperature stress during grain development in wheat reduces grain size, and this reduction also varies across the length of the spike. We developed the phenomics approach involving image-based tools to assess the intra-spike...

In wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), the grain size varies according to position within the spike. Exposure to drought and high temperature stress during grain development in wheat reduces grain size, and this reduction also varies across the length of the spike. We developed the phenomics approach involving image-based tools to assess the intra-spike...

The abiotic stresses, such as drought, waterlogging, heat, cold, and salinity, cause significant crop yield losses associated with extremes of moisture and temperature and ion imbalance. The occurrence of these conditions is being aggravated by climate change, global warming, and industrial pollution. It is crucial to safeguard food security throug...

In India, during the initial period of dragon fruit introduction, white fleshed variety was planted in large acreage. However, the yield of this variety was very low, since it bears a greater proportion of smaller fruits. The supplementary manual self- and cross-pollinations enhanced fruit size up to 30 (321 g) and 82% (452 g), respectively, compar...

Stay green traits have been found to have a positive correlation with grain yield in cereal crops facing challenges such as high temperatures and water deficit stress. As a result, this research aimed to assess the genetic variations associated with stay green traits in chickpea plants and to determine their significance in maintaining yield under...

Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan L. Millspaugh) is mainly grown in the rainfed ecosystem during the monsoon season on deep vertisols, and it often faces transient waterlogging problems due to continuous and heavy downpours during early monsoon seasons. Thus, waterlogging has become a significant issue in most of the pigeonpea growing areas of the semi-arid...

Developing improved pigeonpea varieties is vital to ensure food and nutritional security. However, understanding the nature and extent of genetic variability and trait association is crucial to design an appropriate breeding strategy. Hence, the present study aimed to ascertain the genetic variability through multivariate analysis in a diverse pige...

Unlabelled: To deal with the vagaries of climate change, it is essential to develop climate-resilient agricultural practices, which improve crop productivity, and ensure food security. The impacts of high temperature and water deficit stress conditions pose serious challenges to a sustainable crop production. Several adaptation measures are practi...

To ensure the conservation of natural resources and food security for future, utilization of different tools and techniques for improving resource use efficiency is mandatory. Roots are the key determinant for researcher and breeders for improving resource use efficiency. Crop root architecture improvements promise to increase water and nutrient re...

Chickpea is one of the major pulse crops cultivated worldwide. It is affected by many fungal diseases including rust caused by the fungus Uromyces ciceris arietini. Its severity is mainly observed during the flowering and pod development stage and this causes considerable yield losses. The present investigation was carried out at ICAR-NIASM, Barama...

Water scarcity severely impacts agricultural productivity and quality in arid and semi–arid regions. Specific elicitors like plant growth regulators (PGRs) and bio–stimulants as well as deficit irrigation (DI) practices have been put forward to alleviate the effect of resultant water stress and enhance crop productivity. Hence, a field experiment w...

Rainfall induced hypoxia with transient waterlogging is a major constraint limiting the productivity and quality of monsoon season onion (Allium cepa L.). Therefore, the effects of water stagnation at different growth stages and possibilities of its alleviation with plant growth regulators (PGRs) namely; potassium nitrate (PN, 20 g L⁻¹), thio-urea...

Maize being versatile crop is known for its many uses. It has substantially contribution to food security in the poor country. In the recent past, deliberate attempts have been made to integrate trait-based genomic approaches to complement conventional plant breeding. However, the success of the genomics mainly based on phenotypic expression of a t...

Appropriate water management practices are essential for the successful cultivation of chia in water-scarce situations of semiarid regions. This is highly essential when new crops such as chia are introduced for ensuring diversity and water saving. Therefore, field trials (2020–21 and 2021–22) were conducted to understand the impact of deficit irri...

2023): Bacterial derived biopolymer to alleviate nutrient stress and yield enhancement in turmeric (Curcumalonga L.) by mediating physiology and rhizosphere microbes on poor soils of semi-arid tropics, Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science, ABSTRACT Biopolymers (BP) are the unexploited eco-friendly microbial derivatives which regulate soil moisture...

Chia is an annual short day herb and its cultivation is gaining commercial importance across the globe and in India as a new and alternate crop. The present study was undertaken to optimize the nursery raising protocol. The results revealed that 37.2 cc cells having 50 cells in a tray were optimal for holding media and also for seedling growth. Amo...

Chickpea is one of the major pulse crops cultivated worldwide. It is affected by many fungal diseases including rust caused by the fungus Uromyces ciceris arietini . Its severity is mainly observed during the flowering and pod development stage and this causes considerable yield losses. The present investigation was carried out at ICAR-NIASM, Baram...

Agricultural crops especially fruit trees are constrained by edaphic stresses in shallow soils with low water retention and poor fertility. Therefore, interventions of shifting to trench planting for better root anchorage and replacing the filling soil were evaluated for 8 years in dragon fruit (Hylocereus undatus) cultivated in Deccan Plateau of p...

Oilseed crops are predominantly cultivated in water-stressed environments under marginal soils. They often encounter multiple abiotic stresses due to water, temperatures, soil salinity and other environmental factors. Oilseed crops are known for tolerance to abiotic stresses. However, the adaptability and tolerance to severe abiotic stresses are co...

Drought is one of the important abiotic stresses affecting the all growth stages of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) crop; it becomes more severe during the flowering and grain-filling phases (terminal drought) and can cause up to 78% yield loss. Link: https://bgri.cornell.edu/portfolio/image-based-phenotyping-for-screening-drought-tolerance-in-spring...

Capacity of mango tree to withstand drought (absence of soil moisture) can be attributed to stress resilient physiological processes inside the cell and also at whole plant level. To test this hypothesis, photosynthetic traits were recorded over the period of time. Further, desiccation tolerance of photosystem II (PSII) in excised mango leaves were...

Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) crop is widely cultivated throughout India primarily in the rabi season (October-February). However, there is a very good potential of growing it in the Kharif season (June–August) in Western Maharashtra because of the average temperature ranging between 20 and 30 °C with average rainfall of 200–250 mm during June to A...

An efficient, low-cost, lightweight, and portable paper microscope can be used to monitor real-time in vivo pollination, which is not feasible with a conventional compound microscope. The advantages of paper microscopes (foldscopes) remain unexplored for in vivo field-oriented assessment of pollination. In this study, experiments were carried out t...

Key message This study focused on enhancing resilience of soybean crops to drought and salinity stresses by overexpression of GmFAD3A gene, which plays an important role in modulating membrane fluidity and ultimately influence plants response to various abiotic stresses. Abstract Fatty acid desaturases (FADs) are a class of enzymes that mediate de...

The cultivation of nutritionally and economically important crops like tomato are often threatened by dry spells due to drought as these crops largely depend on an assured water supply. The magnitude and intensity of drought is predicted to intensify under climate change scenarios, particularly in semi-arid regions, where water is already a scarce...

Characterizing stress–inducing trait(s) and deploying their genetic diversity are crucial for developing stress–tolerant cultivar(s). The study aimed to investigate the genotypic variations in chickpea senescence traits and their significance in yield sustainability under water–deficit stress conditions. Therefore, a panel of eighty–eight chickpea...

The size and the weight of wheat grains vary across the length of each spike (Triticum aestivum L.). High temperature and water scarcity often reduce the single grain weight, and this reduction also varies across the spike length. Plants tend to cope with high temperature and drought stress through inherent mechanisms such ascanopy cooling through...

In the present study, individual and combined effects of drought and heat stress were investigated on key physiological parameters (canopy temperature, membrane stability index, chlorophyll content, relative water content, and chlorophyll fluorescence) in two popular sorghum cultivars (Sorghum bicolor cvs. Phule Revati and Phule Vasudha) during the...

The present study is the first report of isolation and characterization of endophytic actinobacteria from cactus (Opuntia ficus-indica). A total of 179 morphologically distinct endophytic actinobacterial isolates were purified from the roots of two different genetic accessions of cactus. All these isolates were screened for their plant growth promo...

Under dryland conditions, annual and perennial food crops are exposed to dry spells, severely affecting crop productivity by limiting available soil moisture at critical and sensitive growth stages. Climate variability continues to be the primary cause of uncertainty, often making timing rather than quantity of precipitation the foremost concern. T...

Plants under field conditions experience several abiotic stressors that are fatal to growth and development. The manifestation of multiple stresses due to climate change might alter morphological, physiological, and molecular responses in plants. Usually, accompanying multiple abiotic stresses in combination is detrimental to crop production. Durin...

Fatty acid desaturases (FADs) are a class of enzymes that mediate desaturation of fatty acids by introducing double bonds. They play an important role in modulating membrane fluidity in response to various abiotic stresses. However, a comprehensive analysis of FAD3 in drought and salinity stress tolerance in soybean is lacking. We used Bean Pod Mot...

Frontiers of Plant Physiology for Climate Smart Agriculture National Conference of Plant Physiology-2021 abstract book.

Frontiers of Plant Physiology for Climate Smart Agriculture National Conference of Plant Physiology-2021 abstract book

In agriculture, occurrence of abiotic stress such as drought, salinity, waterlogging, heat and cold stress etc. can cause huge loss to agricultural productivity and economic returns. Development and adaptation of climate resilient crop varieties, livestock and fish breeds is best one of the strategy in combating the impact of abiotic stresses in ag...

Abiotic stresses, including drought, extreme temperatures, salinity, and waterlogging, are the major constraints in crop production. These abiotic stresses are likely to be amplified by climate change with varying temporal and spatial dimensions across the globe. The knowledge about the effects of abiotic stressors on major cereal and legume crops...

Dryland fruit crops are highly prone to stresses caused by depleting soil moisture coupled with high ambient temperatures, particularly during summers. This is more conspicuous and seldom deleterious during droughts, which recur periodically. However, some of the crops sustain and recover their growth after the drought. Since desiccation of leaf is...

Screening for drought tolerance requires precise techniques like phonemics, which is an emerging science aimed at non-destructive methods allowing large-scale screening of genotypes. Large-scale screening complements genomic efforts to identify genes relevant for crop improvement. Thirty maize inbred lines from various sources (exotic and indigenou...

In the human diet, particularly for most of the vegetarian population, mungbean (Vigna radiata L. Wilczek) is an inexpensive and environmentally friendly source of protein. Being a short-duration crop, mungbean fits well into different cropping systems dominated by staple food crops such as rice and wheat. Hence, knowing the growth and production p...

In the human diet, particularly for most of the vegetarian population, mungbean (Vigna radiata L. Wilczek) is an inexpensive and environmentally friendly source of protein. Being a short-duration crop, mungbean fits well into different cropping systems dominated by staple food crops such as rice and wheat. Hence, knowing the growth and production p...

The present study is the first report of isolation and characterization of endophytic actinobacteria from cactus ( Opuntia ficus-indic a). A total of 179 morphologically distinct endophytic actinobacterial isolates were purified from the roots of two different genetic accessions of cactus. All these isolates were screened for their plant growth pro...

Understanding and mitigating the adverse impacts of water stress on agriculture production have become global concern in water scarce environments. Particularly, Deccan plateau, the largest semi-arid zone of peninsular India, is confronted with severe water resources conflicts and extensive pressure for food production under climate change scenario...

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