Role of Indigenous Germplasm in Improvement of Horticultural Crops : Proceedings of National Seminar (Organized by the Pantnagar Centre for Plant Genetic Resources, June 24-25, 2003)
Contents: 1. Current status of vegetable crop improvement using indigenous germplasm in India/Hari Har Ram. 2. Asian Vegetable Research and Development Centre, Shanhua, Taiwan, International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Cali, Colombia and Pantnagar Centre for Plant Genetic Resources Pantnagar - a collaborative approach in acquisition of elite germplasm/Hari Har Ram and R.K. Pant. 3. Evaluation of indigenous germplasm of cucurbits at Pantnagar/Hari Har Ram, D.K. Singh, H.R. Jaiswal, R.K. Dubey, Rupa Upadhyay, S.K. Maurya, A.K. Chaubey, Deepak Rai and R.K. Singh. 4. Indigenous cucurbits germplasm and their breeding potential/D.K. Singh, Hari Har Ram and H.R. Jaiswal. 5. Released vegetable varieties from Pantnagar/Hari Har Ram and Dinesh Kumar Singh. 6. Status of collection, characterization, evaluation and utilization of brinjal germplasm in India/Y.V. Singh. 7. Status and role of indigenous germplasm in varietal development of spices/R.S. Tiwari, Ankur Agarwal and R.K. Dubey. 8. Varietal variation in released varieties of vegetable crops from Pantnagar by SDS- PAGE of seed protein/Kavita Sharma and Hari Har Ram. 9. Potential and limitations of indigenous germplasm based improved vegetable cultivars for export/D.K. Singh and U. B. Pandey. 10. Improvement of onion and garlic using indigenous germplasm in Uttaranchal/R.V. Singh. 11. Indigenous vegetable germplasm-potential and application/N.K. Singh and Narendra Kumar. 12. Variability, genetic diversity and utilization of garden pea germplasm under mid hill condition of NW-Himalayas/Shri Dhar, H.S. Gupta, and S.V. Sai Prasad. 13. Improvement of guava using indigenous strains/J.P. Tiwari, Brijpal Bisen and D.S. Mishra. 14. Conservation, characterization and utilization of indigenous germplasm of horticultural crops at NBPGR, Regional Station, Shimla/V.D. Verma, S.K. Yadav, J.C. Rana and B.S. Dhillon. 15. Indigenous plant bio-diversity and its utilization in improvement of fruit crops in Himalayas/D.C. Dimri, M.C. Nautiyal and Prashant Kamboj. 16. Fruit germplasm maintained at NBPGR Regional Station, Bhowali, Nainital/S.K. Verma, K.S. Negi, K.C. Muneem, Sandhya Gupta, S.K. Malik and K.K. Mishra. 17. Assessment of indigenous germplasm of temperate fruits against major pests in India/S.S. Singh, V.K. Rao and N.C. Nainwal. 18. RAPD, PCR amplification of some ecologically and medicinally important species of the family Asteraceae/Kavita Sharma and P.B. Rao. 19. Role of indigenous germplasm in flower improvement/Prabhat Kumar and Santosh Kumar. 20. Plant bio-diversity in Uttaranchal for horticultural crops with emphasis on indigenous and rare types/R.K. Pant. 21. Long term performance of low-chill pears in subtropical plains/L.D. Bist and Ashish Yadav. 22. Geranium: crop prospective in Uttaranchal/Arvind Shukla. 23. Flora of higher plants of Pantnagar agricultural complex/P.B. Rao, R.K. Agnihotri and Kavita Sharma.
