Jagatpati Tah's research while affiliated with University of Burdwan and other places

... However, due to limited breeding efforts in Asia, there is a huge knowledge gap in major agronomic traits such as seed size, shape, and colour. Those are important for varietal improvement; therefore, these grain quality traits may be a vital area for research and breeding initiatives [9]. ...

... Induced mutagenesis generates heritable variations, which are easier to screen for specific mutations in a population [13][14][15]. Several superior plant varieties with high grain yield, early maturity, lodging resistance, etc., were developed globally by this method [16,17]. ...

... Different authors illustrated the effects of higher doses of gamma rays on vegetative growth attributed to several factors, such as an increase in growth inhibitors, alterations in ascorbic acid concentration, inhibition of auxin synthesis, biochemical and physiological abnormalities of metabolites, and a reduction in the absorption operation. All this led to the stunted growth of plants [25]. ...

... As a consequence of the stress, lower flowering percentages and pod numbers were recorded for LS678 and Peking at 40.1%, 13.4 and 35.5%, 11.8, respectively [57]. In contrast, polyploidised plants gave improved results of 64.9% of flowering and 37.38% pods per plant using 0.8% and 0.6% EMS, respectively in mungbean (Vigna radiata L.) according to Roychowdhury et al. [59]. ...

... The tomato early blight disease can be managed with a variety of methods. The prevention strategies include using disease-free transplants, routine treatments of fungicides, and a three to five-year crop rotation with non-host crops (Verma and Verma, 2010;Mamgain et al., 2013). Although fungicide treatments are typically the most effective preventative measures, they are not always economically practical and may not be successful in areas where the weather is conducive to causing epidemics (Sudarshana et al., 2012). ...

... In addition to the breeding values of these landraces under high temperatures and eCO 2 levels, it is also very important to the genetic characterization of the landrace population by using molecular genetic markers and to support genotypic performance to screen out better-performing landraces for future breeding pipelines. Different molecular markers, like Start Codon Targeted (SCoT), simple sequence repeat (SSR), and single nucleotide poly-morphic (SNP) markers, have been used to characterize rice genotypes and have revealed their profound role in varietal discrimination and trait selection [20,21]. SCoT markers are a type of molecular marker used in crop genetic analysis and are based on the polymorphism on short ATG start codon region of genes, making them valuable tools for studying genetic diversity, population structure, and phylogenetic relationships among different rice varieties with stress-tolerance properties [22]. ...

... A. mimicula causes early blight in tomato plants (Lycopersicon esculentum) (Ramezani et al., 2019;Woudenberg et al., 2013). A. molesta causes skin lesions on Harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena), a marine mammal that lives in coastal areas and river estuaries (Mamgain et al., 2013;Woudenberg et al., 2013). P. phocoena, being a protected cetacean among endangered species in the UK and EU, are abundant in British waters (Roberts et al., 2019). ...

... In the modern times, carnation has become one of the most important and highly remunerative flower crops grown in greenhouse, mainly for its cut flowers, and in some cases, used for the bedding, pots, rock gardens, window boxes, and edging as well. Many varieties of standard and spray carnations are grown in the world; however, there is a need for superior varieties suitable to commercial floriculture [14,15]. Therefore, the breeding studies are of great importance in measuring the relative diversity based on the coefficients of variations and phenotypic diversity in different traits. ...

... Food grain production, which stood at a mere 50 million tons at the time of independence, had increased almost five and half times to 273.38 million tons by the end of 2016-17 (Press Information Bureau, GOI, 2017) from 159.59 million hectares of cultivated area in country (Agriculture Census, 2010-11). The technologies involved during the inception of green revolution supported by policies and further propelled by agrochemicals, machinery and irrigation were the main driving forces for the enhanced agricultural production and productivity (Roychowdhury et al., , 2013). Despite the fact that the food security of India was definitely addressed by these technologies (Charyulu and Biswas, 2010), an important setback was that the farmers using these technologies were still had to depend upon the purchased inputs. ...

... The Panchagavya, Jeevamrutha and Beejamrutha are efficient plant growth stimulants, activate biological reactions, protect the crop from soil-borne and seed-borne pathogens, improve seed germination and enhance the biological efficiency of crops. These solutions also contain significant amounts of macro and micronutrients along with microbial counts (bacteria, fungi and actinomycetes) (Roychowdhury et al., 2013). ...