Publications by authors named "Kunwar Harendra Singh"
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- Drought significantly affects crop yields, particularly in India where 24% of Indian mustard is grown under rainfed conditions, necessitating the development of drought-tolerant varieties.
- The study involved creating introgression lines from B. carinata to B. juncea and evaluating their performance for seed yield and related traits under both rainfall-dependent and irrigated conditions across multiple environments.
- A total of 29 QTLs associated with drought tolerance were identified, with a notable contribution from B. carinata, particularly on the B genome, highlighting several candidate genes linked to stresses and paving the way for future improvements in drought resilience in mustard crops.
Background: Oilseed Brassica represents an important group of oilseed crops with a long history of evolution and cultivation. To understand the origin and evolution of Brassica amphidiploids, simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers were used to unravel genetic variations in three diploids and three amphidiploid Brassica species of U's triangle along with as an outlier.
Results: Of 124 Brassica-derived SSR loci assayed, 100% cross-transferability was obtained for and three subspecies of , while lowest cross-transferability (91.
Genetic engineering technique offers myriads of applications in improvement of horticultural crops for biotic and abiotic stress tolerance, and produce quality enhancement. During last two decades, a large number of transgenic horticultural crops has been developed and more are underway. A number of genes including natural and synthetic Cry genes, protease inhibitors, trypsin inhibitors and cystatin genes have been used to incorporate insect and nematode resistance.
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