The genus Allium is one of the largest monocotyledon genera having 1000 designated
species with commercial and economic significance. Allium cepa L.(onion) and Allium …

Global environmental dissociative changes are now in steady state. Its negative impacts
were gradually imposed on a wide range of crops and thus crop improvement was hindered …

Mungbean is a short-duration legume crop cultivated in South Asia, Southeast Asia and
Australasia. Its cultivation is rapidly spreading to other parts of the world. Insect pests and …

Induction of mutation by gamma rays, ethyl methane sulfonate (EMS) and their combined
treatments was studied in three widely divergent genotypes of tomato, EC620176 …

Background Induced mutagenesis is a quick and effective breeding strategy to enhance
genetic variability, an important prerequisite for the genetic improvement of existing lentil …

Mung bean [Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek] is one of the upsurging, highly economical, nutritive
Asiatic leguminous crops. The crop is getting higher attention in terms of the consumption …

The studies of induced mutation in Jatropha curcas were performed by exposing the healthy
and dry seeds to gamma rays viz., 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 Kr doses and ethyl …

Chemical mutagenesis is an efficient tool used in mutation breeding programme for
improving various vital characteristics in floricultural crop, like Dianthus. In this study …

Pepper seeds (Capsicum annuum L.) var. B12 were mutagenized by four presoaking
treatments in ten concentrations of ethyl methane sulfonate (EMS) to determine the …

Peanut is an important oilseed and food crop worldwide; however, the development of new
cultivars is limited by its remarkably low genetic variability. Therefore, in order to enhance …