Vinod Goyal

• Ph.D
• Plant Physiologist at Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University

Raya Hisar 1706 (RH 1706), the first zero erucic acid (erucic acid <2%) Indian mustard [Brassica juncea (L.) Czern & Coss] variety in public sector developed by Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana. It was released for commercial cultivation in 2023. It is black seeded with 38.0% oil content. In Indian mustard vari...

Background Brassica juncea L. (family Brassicaceae) or Indian mustard is a fast‐growing oilseed crop. Climate changes mean that it is very important to evaluate the effects of salinity stress on B. juncea. The aim of this study was therefore to show the metabolic effect of salinity stress on shoots and roots using two cultivation models – hydroponi...

Lipaphis erysimi (Kalt.), commonly known as the mustard aphid (Homoptera: Aphididae), is the most notorious, globally distributed, and obligatory ectoparasite of many field crop including rapeseed and mustard. An investigation was carried out to assess the biology and fertility life table of Coccinella septempunctata in Bio-control lab, Department...

Mustard (Brassica juncea) is a major oilseed and medicinal crop and its consumption has considerably increased with growing human population, leading to greater demand than supply. Increasing production and productivity of oilseed brassica to meet out the projected demand of edible oils, crop management strategies need to be fabricated and implemen...

Indian mustard (Brassica juncea; Brassicaceae) is an edible, oilseeds-yielding crop widely consumed as a food spice owing to its richness in nutrients with several health benefits. The current study aims to dissect the B. juncea metabolome heterogeneity among its different organs including leaf, stem, flower, and seed. Moreover, assessing the metab...

The efficacy, targeting ability, and biocompatibility of plant-based nanoparticles can be exploited in fields such as agriculture and medicine. This study highlights the use of plant-based ginger nanoparticles as an effective and promising strategy against cancer and for the treatment and prevention of bacterial infections and related disorders. Gi...

Soil salinity is a major abiotic stress which limits the agricultural productivity throughout the world. Anthropogenic strategies play a vital role in mitigating soil salinity and restoring soil health. These strategies encompass physical, chemical and biological processes, each targeting different aspects of soil salinity management. Physical proc...

Nanotechnology has attracted remarkable attention due to its unique features and potential uses in multiple domains. Nanotechnology is a novel strategy to boost production from agriculture along with superior efficiency, ecological security, biological safety, and monetary security. Modern farming processes increasingly rely on environmentally sust...

Salinity is a significant abiotic stress that is steadily increasing in intensity globally. Salinity is caused by various factors such as use of poor-quality water for irrigation, poor drainage systems, and increasing spate of drought that concentrates salt solutions in the soil; salinity is responsible for substantial agricultural losses worldw...

Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. ciceris (FOC), an extremely destructive pathogen, infects chickpea plants leading to over 100% losses. Although using chemicals like Carbendazim and Mancozeb control the disease but ruin the soil’s natural flora and fauna. Also, the emergence of new FOC races threatens the current genotypes. Many efforts have been made towa...

One of the most damaging pests in vegetable crops is the root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne incognita) worldwide. The continuous use of nematicide is costly and has unintended consequences for human and environmental health. To minimize nematicides, eco-friendly integrated nematode management is required. Trichoderma, an antagonistic fungus has been e...

Multiple environmental stresses like water and high temperature stress negatively impact agricultural productivity. Biostimulants such as orthosilicic acid and seaweed extracts act as stress mitigators and can contribute to climate smart agriculture as they influence and promote plant growth and yields during environmental stresses. Oilseed Brassic...

Soybean with enriched nutrients has emerged as a prominent source of edible oil and protein. In the present study, a meta-analysis was performed by integrating quantitative trait loci (QTLs) information, region-specific association and transcriptomic analysis. Analysis of about a thousand QTLs previously identified in soybean helped to pinpoint 14...

Agricultural productivity is negatively impacted by drought stress. Brassica is an important oilseed crop, and its productivity is often limited by drought. Biostimulants are known for their role in plant growth promotion, increased yields, and tolerance to environmental stresses. Silicon in its soluble form of orthosilicic acid (OSA) has been esta...

Salinity is a prominent abiotic stress in many parts of the world. It is the most important element that causes crop damage and lower yields. Mustard is one of the most salt-sensitive crops. An experiment was designed comprising fifteen genotypes of Indian mustard under varied saline levels (control, 8 dSm-1 , 10 dSm-1 , 12 dSm-1 , and 14 dSm-1) to...

Salinity is a major abiotic stress, limiting plant growth and agriculture productivity worldwide. Salicylic acid is known to alleviate the negative effects of salinity. The present study demonstrated the impact of SA on sorghum, a moderately salt-tolerant crop, grown for food, fodder, fiber, and fuel. A screen house experiment was conducted using s...

One of the main drivers of organism growth and species distributions is climate; thus, a drastic change in climate has many consequences for plants, be it droughts, heat waves, or increased flooding. Besides these cumulative effects of global warming, rising concentration of carbon dioxide and rapid increase in temperature affect the persistence, g...

Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) is one of the most impor�tant high protein arid legume and being a short duration crop fits well during the summer season in semi-arid region in different traditional cropping systems. But the prevailing moisture and salinity stress and other kind of biotic and abiotic stress affect the seed yield of cowpea to a great ext...

Genetic improvement of soybean, one of the major crops providing edible oil and protein-rich food, is important to ensure balanced nutrition for the growing world population. To make soybean cultivation more rewarding, an increase in seed oil and protein content is most desirable. Here, a critical review of the efforts employed over a half-century...

The agriculture sector is vulnerable to various environmental stresses, which significantly affect plant growth, performance, and development. Abiotic stresses, such as salinity and drought, cause severe losses in crop productivity worldwide. Soil salinity is a major stress suppressing plant development through osmotic stress accompanied by ion tox...

To evaluate the responses of oat genotypes to rising salinity, we studied plant growth, plant water status, membrane injury, chlorophyll content and photosynthetic rate at 50 and 100 mM of salt stress. Genotypes were grown in pots under screen house conditions and measured physiological parameters at 50% flowering. Most of the parameters declined...

Arsenic (As), a toxic metalloid, is finding its route to human through intake of As-contaminated water and consumption of food grown on contaminated soil. Rice is the most As-affected crop. Present study is aimed to assess the impact of stabilized orthosilicic acid (a proprietary formulation for plant-available silicon (Si) and earlier used as fert...

Gases such as ethylene, hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), nitric oxide (NO), carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrogen sulfide (H2S) have been recognized as vital signaling molecules in plants and animals. Of these gasotransmitters, NO and H2S have recently gained momentum mainly because of their involvement in numerous cellular processes. It is therefore importan...

Plants are sessile and sensitive organisms that encounter a variety of biotic and abiotic stresses like heavy metal toxicity, drought, salinity and temperature stress (low and high) throughout the life cycle. The equilibrium between production and scavenging of reactive oxygen species (ROS) is perturbed under these stresses and plant is said to be...

One of the main menaces to agriculture is the adverse environmental conditions that threaten plant growth and development. Salt stress is one of the major threats to agriculture. The experiment was conducted under screen house conditions in CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar to evaluate the responses of ten oat genotypes under different lev...

Repetitive sequences are ubiquitous features of eukaryotic genomes, which contribute up to 70-80% of the nuclear genomic DNA. They are known to impact genome evolution and organization and play important role in genome remodelling. The widespread distribution and sufficient conservation of repeats reinforce the value of repetitive DNA sequences as...

Physiological response of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) genotype (HJ 513) against the foliar application of salicylic acid (SA) under salt stress was studied. Present investigation was carried out to evaluate the role of SA in mitigating the adverse effect of salt stress. Experiment was conducted in pots under screen house conditions. Salt stress wa...

Halophytes are diverse group of plants with tolerance to high salinity due to specific mechanisms of salt uptake and tolerance. Saline areas are being affected by heavy metal pollution also due to many reasons like industrialization, etc. in the recent years. Use of halophytic species for heavy metal remediation is of significant importance as thes...

Agricultural land is continuously becoming less available for cultivation due to increasing population and unfavourable environmental conditions including climate changes. Salinity, worldwide, is one of the biggest problems for agriculture leading to significant yield losses especially in dry lands. The best solution for proper use of these lands w...

Sorghum is a major crop of the world, and its high economic value is due to its use of all plants parts for different purposes. It is moderately salt tolerant crop, more than maize and less than barley. Hence, its salt tolerance potential can be exploited for reclamation of saline soils. The study was conducted to evaluate the effect of salt stress...

Present investigation was carried out to evaluate the effect of salt stress on physiological maturity of sorghum genotypes. Tolerance of different genotypes depends on the ability to avoid harmful salt accumulation. It is moderately salt tolerant crop, more than maize and less than barley. Hence, its salt tolerance potential can be exploited for re...

Drought stresses adversely affect production of mustard as it is cultivated mostly as a rain-fed crop. Drought at critical stages of crop growth is one of the reasons for low productivity of mustard in India. We screened 38 genotypes of Indian mustard [Brassica juncea (L.) Czern] and Sinapis alba L. (white mustard), and identified genotypes with co...

Agrobacterium is a phytopathogenic bacterium that causes crown gall disease in plants because of its unique capability of transferring its genetic material to the plant genome. Agrobacterium perceives plant signals to activate its virulence gene complex which mediates the transfer of the T-DNA portion of its Ti-plasmid into the plant genome. Agroba...

Repetitive DNA sequences are a major component of eukaryotic genomes and may account for up to 90% of the genome size. They can be divided into minisatellite, microsatellite and satellite sequences. Satellite DNA sequences are considered to be a fast-evolving component of eukaryotic genomes, comprising tandemly-arrayed, highly-repetitive and highly...

With the advent of transgenic technology, it has become possible to mobilize and express foreign genes into plants and to design crop varieties with better agronomic attributes and adaptability to challenging environmental conditions. Recent advances in transgenic technology have led to concerns about safety of transgenic crops to human and animal...

Agrobacterium, the natures' genetic engineer, has been used as a vector to create transgenic plants. Agrobacterium-mediated gene transfer in plants is a highly efficient transformation process which is governed by various factors including genotype of the host plant, explant, vector, plasmid, bacterial strain, composition of culture medium, tissue...

Declining availability of water for irrigation remains one of the major impediments to sustaining the current level of production. Further enhancement in productivity has to meet the challenge of limited water availability.In the present study, screening of forty genotypes of Brassica, Eruca sativa and Sinapis alba in one meter-long tubes under con...

Total synthesis of podophyllotoxin is an expensive process and availability of the compound from the natural resources is an important issue for pharmaceutical companies that manufacture anticancer drugs. In order to facilitate reasoned scientific decisions on its management and conservation for selective breeding programme, genetic analysis of 28...

Assessment of genetic diversity through RAPD, ISSR and AFLP markers in Podophyllum hexandrum: a medicinal herb from the Northwestern Himalayan region

Photosynthetic pigments play important role in the development of plants and particularly under stress conditions (artificial conditions) when they are to cope up with altered metabolic pathways due to change in enzymatic activities for adaptation. Changes in the photosynthetic pigments under exposure of plants, to artificial light (in vivo conditi...

Pigment analysis using spectroscopic technique has been done on leaves of two Brassica varieties (RH-30 and CS-52) under different interactive treatments of stress levels. Interaction of water and salt stress shows unusual response in two varieties. It has been observed that there is more increase in carotenoid content in CS-52 (salt tolerant varie...

The present investigations were conducted to ascertain the influence of Pb2+ and Cd2+ both individually and in combination on selected enzymes of tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle. All the enzymes of TCA cycle examined (-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase, isocitrate dehydrogenase, succinate dehydrogenase, malate dehydrogenase) were affected deleteriously by...