eprintid: 7430 rev_number: 7 eprint_status: archive userid: 17 dir: disk0/00/00/74/30 datestamp: 2014-01-30 01:27:21 lastmod: 2014-01-30 01:27:21 status_changed: 2014-01-30 01:27:21 type: article metadata_visibility: show contact_email: Library-ICRISAT@CGIAR.ORG creators_name: Venkateswarlu, S creators_name: Singh , R B icrisatcreators_name: Venkateswarlu, S affiliation: ICRISAT(Patancheru) affiliation: Germplasm Resources, SEA(Bangkok) country: India country: Thailand title: Pigeonpea improvement at Banaras Hindu University ispublished: pub subjects: s1.2 full_text_status: public abstract: This review of investigations in India on the genetic improvement of pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan) includes a report that, of the pest complex of the crop in northern India, Melanagromyza obtusa (Mall.) causes the most damage; the variety GP 127 from a tribal area in Orissa was the least preferred by M. obtusa, damage being only up to 5%,ADDITIONAL ABSTRACT:Research work developing high-yielding disease-resistant pigeon pea cv. at Varanasi is briefly described. The new highly disease-resistant cv. Purple 1 matured in 200 days and yielded up to 1.5 t/ha. Its 100-seed wt. varied from 5 to 26 g date: 1980 date_type: published publication: Tropical Grain Legume Bulletin volume: 17-18 publisher: International Grain Legume Information Centre. pagerange: 28-29 refereed: TRUE issn: 0304-5765 related_url_url: http://scholar.google.co.in/scholar?as_q=Pigeonpea+improvement+at+Banaras+Hindu+University&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=title&as_sauthors=&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5 related_url_type: pub citation: Venkateswarlu, S and Singh , R B (1980) Pigeonpea improvement at Banaras Hindu University. Tropical Grain Legume Bulletin, 17-18. pp. 28-29. ISSN 0304-5765 document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/7430/1/TGLB_17-18_28-29_1980.pdf