Research Progress - Year 2 (2014-15)

Project

Developing chickpea cultivars suited to mechanical harvesting and tolerant to herbicidesSupport byDepartment of Agriculture & Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India

UnderNational Food Security Mission (NFSM)

Presented by

Pooran Gaur on behalf of Project Team

Partners

Project partners

Breeding: Pooran Gaur, S Srinivasan

IIPR, Kanpur Breeding: SK Chaturvedi, Murleedhar AskiAgronomy: Ummed Singh

IARI, New Delhi Breeding: Shailesh Tripathi, C Bharadwaj Agronomy: TK Das

PAU, Ludhiana Breeding: Sarvjeet Singh, Inderjit SinghAgronomy: Guriqbal SinghEngineering: Ritu Dogra, Baldev Dogra,

RAK College of Agriculture, Sehore (under RVSKVV)

Breeding: Mohammad YasinAgronomy: MD Vyas

UAS-Dharwad Breeding: A Vijaykumar Agronomy: M Ganajaxi

RARS-Nandyal (under ANGRAU)

Breeding: Veera Jayalakshmi Agronomy: P Muniratnam,

Key objectivesObj 1: Develop chickpea cultivars suited to mechanical harvesting.Obj 2: Modify/adjust combine harvesters to customize for chickpea harvestingObj. 3: Develop chickpea cultivars tolerant to herbicides

Harvesting

Objective 1: Develop chickpea cultivars suited to mechanical harvestingActivity 1.1: Evaluate machine harvestable chickpea breeding lines at farmers’ fields for assessing yield performance and suitability to combine harvesting.

Activity 1.2: Evaluate machine harvestable chickpea breeding lines for grain yield in multilocation trials.

Activity 1.3: Evaluate machine harvestable chickpea breeding lines for grain yield in station trials

Activity 1.4: Targeted breeding for development of cultivars suited to mechanical harvesting.

Activity 1.5: Develop suitable agronomy for machine harvestable chickpea varieties.

Activity 1.1: Evaluate machine harvestable chickpea breeding lines at farmers’ fields

• NBeG 47 gave yield similar to or higher than JG 11 and was amenable to machine harvesting.

• Proposal for release of NBeG 47 submitted to State Variety Release Committee.

Year No. of demos JG 11

(Yield kg/ha)NBeG 47

(Yield kg/ha)

2013-14 21 1616 17312014-15 12 1575 1608

JG 11 NBeG 47 JAKI 9218

(1) Demonstrations on machine harvestable desi chickpea breeding line NBeG 47 on farmers’ fields in AP

• GBM 2 gave 12-15% higher yield than Annigeri-1 and BGD 103 and matched yield levels of popular cultivars JG 11 and JAKI 9218.

• Proposal for release of GBM 2 recommended by the University level committee and submitted to State Variety Release Committee.

(2) Demonstrations on machine harvestable chickpea breeding line GBM 2 on farmers’ fields in Karnataka during 2014-15

No. of demos

Check variety

Yield of check (kg/ha)

Yield of GBM 2 (kg/ha)

8 JG 11 1183 1168

2 JAKI 9218 1569 1594

2 Annigeri-1 1235 1421

1 BGD 103 1260 1408

Activity 1.2: Evaluate machine harvestable chickpea breeding lines for grain yield in multilocation trials

Initial Varietal Trial (IVT) – Mechanical Harvesting introduced in AICRP trials from 2014-15• 12 Breeding lines contributed by NFSM project partners

Center Entries contributed IIPR-Kanpur IPC 2008-83, IPC 2011-28, IPC 03205IARI-New Delhi BG 3061, BG 3062PAU-Ludhiana GL 12003, GL 96836RARS-Nandyal NBeG 780, NBeG 03108UAS-Dharwad DBGV 03112RAKCA-Sehore RVSSG 08102, RVSSG 08103

Mechanical Harvesting Trial-1 (MHT-1)Entries selected from MHT-1 and MHT-2 of 2013-14 were evaluated under MHT-1 during 2014-15

MHT-1A (Northern India) No. of entries: 28 + one common check HC 5 + one local checkLocations (3): Kanpur, New Delhi and Ludhiana

MHT-1B (Central and southern India)No. of entries: 22 + 4 checks (JG 11 and JAKI 9218 for yield; GBM 2 and NBeG 47 for plant height) Locations (4): Sehore, Patancheru, Nandyal, Bijapur

For both the trials:Experimental design: RCBD with 3 repsPlot size: 4 row of 4m

(1) Patancheru (2) Nandyal

Entry 1st pod height Yield (kgha-1) Entry 1st pod height Yield

(kgha-1) ICCV 08101 32.8 2346.3 ICCV 05103 37.8 3526.0ICCV 13606 34.6 2309.1 ICCV 03108 33.5 3513.5ICCV 08102 30.7 2246.2ICCV 05103 33.1 2241.8ICCV 11516 32.2 2172.6ICCV 13647 32.9 2169.2ICCV 13601 41.6 2094.8NBeG 47 34.3 2275.4 NBeG 47 36.7 2972.1GBM 2 29.4 2100.2 GBM 2 31.1 2684.4Best check 23.1 2393

(JG 11)23.3 3588

(JG 11)LSD 5% 323 299CV % 8.2 6.1

MHT-1B: Promising lines identified based on 1st pod height and grain yield……….(1/2)

(3) Bijapur (4) Sehore

Entry 1st Pod height Yield (kgha-1) Entry 1st Pod height Yield

(kgha-1) ICCV 08102 27.9 2248.7 ICCV 07112 30.1 2958.2ICCV 03205 26.5 2058.7 ICCV 08102 36.7 2449.9ICCV 03104 26.9 1959.1 ICCV 07104 33.9 2388.8ICCV 05103 29.1 1717.1 ICCV 13601 48.3 2305.5ICCV 08101 27.8 1557.0 ICCV 13647 39.9 2091.6

ICCV 05103 30.2 2033.0ICCV 13606 30.1 1822.1ICCV 11516 36.7 1758.3ICCV 13605 43.7 1427.7

NBeG 47 30.6 1572.0 NBeG 47 33.9 1330.2GBM 2 26.5 1558.1 GBM 2 29.7 950.0Best check 16.4 1778 (JG 11) 21.7 1583 (JG 11)LSD 5% 215 189CV % 8.0 5.9

MHT-1B: Promising lines identified based on 1st pod height and grain yield……….(2/2)

(1) Kanpur (2) New Delhi (3) Ludhiana

Entry1st pod height (cm)

Yield (kgha-1) Entry

1st pod height (cm)

Yield (kgha-1) Entry

1st pod height (cm)

Yield (kgha-1)

IPC 2012-164 39.3 1520 ICCV 11514 28.8 1567.4 ICCV 96839 53.0 2249.9IPC 2012-253 33.7 1441 ICCV 13621 29.3 1499.5 ICCV 13645 51.3 2041.6ICCV 13617 32.7 1311 ICCV 13628 31.4 1492.4 ICCV 11516 48.3 1819.4ICCV 08101 31.0 1191 Pusa 547 26.0 1482.4 ICCV 13621 52.3 1638.8

ICCV 13645 25.8 1465.2ICCV 96839 27.0 1449.3ICCV 13619 27.3 1405.1ICCV 13623 31.1 1385.0ICCV 08101 29.6 1379.8ICCV 11601 29.4 1357.5

Best check 36.31038

(IPC 92-3) 25.71556 (HC-5) 42.0

1833 (PBG-5)

LSD 5% - 196 184CV % - 8.8 8.8

MHT-1A: Promising lines selected based on 1st pod height and grain yield

Mechanical Harvesting Trial-2 (MHT-2)

Entries selected from station trials (MHT-3) of 2013-14 were evaluated under MHT-2 during 2014-15

No. of entries: 40 + 4 checks (JG 11, JAKI 9218, HC 5 and local check) Locations: All 7 locations

Experimental design: RCBD with 3 repsPlot size: 1 row of 4m

Patancheru Nandyal

Entry1st pod height

(cm)Yield

(kgha-1) Entry1st pod

height (cm)Yield

(kgha-1) ICCV 13108 32.2 3117.9 ICCV 03105 43.7 4409.6ICCV 13107 31.4 2955.7 N BeG 780 47.3 4262.0ICCV 97127 31.4 2666.8 ICCV 13635 42.8 4008.3N BeG 780 38.9 2457.5ICCV 13640 50.7 2442.8ICEL - 5 41.3 2411.1ICCV 13114 33.2 2372.0ICEL - 2 34.6 2237.3GL 13016 34.4 2072.7ICCV 13631 36.4 1909.0 NBeG 47 39.9 4425.3

Best check

26.12089

(JG 11) 34.5 cm2928

(JG 11)LSD 5% 371 336CV % 9.7 6.5

MHT-2B: Promising lines identified based on 1st pod height and grain yield……….(1/2)

Bijapur Sehore

Entry 1st Pod height(cm)

Yield (kg/ha) Entry 1st Pod height

(cm)Yield

(kg/ha)

ICEL - 5 28.1 1419.5 ICCV 13631 43.7 2477.2GL 13044 24.7 1396.4 ICCV 13611 40.9 2272.1ICCV 13114 26.4 1380.8 GL 13016 53.2 2247.7ICEL - 4 22.3 1355.8 ICCV 13634 40.2 2243.6ICCV 11515 24.4 1329.4 ICCV 13616 31.0 2213.8ICEL - 1 21.8 1314.3 GL 12021 43.8 2124.9ICCV 13625 28.4 1294.4 ICCV 13108 33.6 2108.2ICCV 01301 22.2 1281.1 ICCV 13608 45.2 1847.1ICCV 13630 24.3 1187.7 ICCV 13633 44.9 1833.3ICCV 03105 24.4 1175.2 ICCV 13604 42.9 1722.2HC-5 29.7 1233.6 HC 5 33.3 1683.3

Best check 17.8 987.7

(JG 11 ) 25.01127.7 (JG 11)

LSD 5% 171 201CV % 9.3 7.2

MHT-2B: Promising lines identified based on 1st pod height and grain yield……….(2/2)

Kanpur• Trial severely affected by winter rains. • None of the entries out yielded the best check DCP 92-3 (2060 kg/ha), which

is released for high input conditions. The check HC 5 yielded 1425 kg/ha. • Promising entries included IPC 2011-28 (2060 kg/ha), IPC 2012-49 (2083

kg/ha), IPC 2011-85 (2163 kg/ha), IPC 2012-31 (2167 kg/ha), and IPC 2010-142 (2222 kg/ha)

New Delhi• Trial severely affected by winter rains and quality data could not be collected

due to lodging.• None of the entries could surpass local check HC 5

Ludhiana• Trial severely affected by winter rains and ascochyta blight . Eleven

genotypes severely affected and did not produce seed. The most promising genotypes were GL 12021 (2.3 t/ha), GL 13016 (2.2 t/ha) , ICCV 13604 (2.1 t/ha).

MHT-2 in Northern India

Activity 1.3: Evaluate machine harvestable chickpea breeding lines for grain yield in station trials

Location No. of entries

Remarks

ICRISAT-Patancheru

144 40 promising lines identified.

IIPR-Kanpur 27 + 3 checks (HC 5, IPC 92-

3, JG 16)

IPC 2011-28 (2060 kg/ha), IPC 2012-49 (2083 kg/ha), IPC 2011-85 (2163 kg/ha), IPC 2012-31 (2167 kg/ha) and IPC 2010-142 (2222 kg/ha) outyielded the check HC 5 (1425 kg/ha).

IARI-New Delhi 30 3 lines gave 10% more yield than the best check (HC 5)PAU-Ludhiana 24 The genotypes GL14009, GL14010, GL14011, GL14012, GL14049,

GL14050, GL14053, GLI4057 were found promising.

RAKCA-Sehore 76 (Set-1) 35 promising entries identified 34

(Set-II)Six promising entries (ICCV 920412, ICCV 96836 x PBG 5, ICC 37 x K 1189, JG 11 x ICCV 05529, HPG 17 x ICCV 96029, Himchana 1 x ICCV 96029) were identified.

UAS-Dharwad 12 Two genotypes (UASD ST2015-05 and ST2015-07) were found promising

Breeding lines evaluated in MHT-3 (station trial) at different locations

Activity 1.4: Targeted breeding for development of cultivars suited to mechanical harvestingGeneration ICRISAT,

PatancheruIIPR,

KanpurIARI, New

DelhiPAU,

LudhianaRAKCA, Sehore

RARS, Nandyal

UAS, Dharwad

Total

New crosses 13 4 4 7 9 2 3 42F1 26 4 4 14 13 3 4 68F2 - 6 2 1 8 4 79 100F3 28 2 3 3 6 - 30 72F4 14 - 3 3 2 - - 22F5 - - 5 3 - - - 8

Activity 1.5: Develop suitable agronomy for machine harvestable chickpea varieties

Experiment: Agronomic evaluation of machine harvestable genotypes under variable crop geometry (row and plant spacing)Treatments (8)

Row spacing: 30 cm, 22.5 cmPlant spacing: 10 cm, 7.5 cmGenotypes: Two (GBM 2 and NBeG 47 in central and southern India; HC 5 and one other variety in Northern India)

Experimental design: Split pot with 4 replicationsLocations (6): Kanpur, New Delhi, Ludhiana, Sehore, Nandyal, Dharwad

Results from row and plant spacing trials – Central and southern India

Results from row and plant spacing trials – Northern India

Note: Trial affected by Ascochyta blight at PAU-Ludhiana

Objective 2: Modify/adjust combine harvesters to customize for chickpea harvesting

Activity 2.1: Evaluate the available commercial harvesting machines and make required modifications/ adjustments to customize for chickpea harvesting.

Harvesting by two Combine harvester(A) Harvesting with CLAAS combine harvester (B) Harvesting with STANDARD S-390 combine with two cutter bar width 3 m and 4.2 m.

Parameters DetailsCrop Varieties HC-5, PBG-5, NBeG-47Harvested Area 0.9Cylinder speed, m/s PS1 (13.54) & PS2 (15.12)Forward speed, km/h F1(1.2)

S.No. Particular Specification

1 Combine harvester STANDARD S-390

2 Power source, hp rpm 50 to 55 (Tractor) 2000-2500

3 Cutter bar width, cm 3.0 & 4.2

4 Threshing system Tangential Flow Type

5 Cylinder width,cm 55

6 Rotor Dia, cm 45

7 Cleaning system Force air cleaning fan with shutter control

8 Fan speed, rpm 1200-1500

9 Grain tank capacity, lit 1500

10 Unloading system Universal joint type

11 Overall Dimensions

Weight, kg 4620 kg

Length, mm 6990

Width, mm 2965

Length, mm 3660

Track width, mm 2190

Wheel base, mm 3166

Ground clearance, mm 355

Brief specifications of the STANDARD S-390 combine harvester

S. No. Particulars

1 Reel position w. r. t. Cutter bar

Height, mm 200Forward, mm 170RPM, 10

2 Cutter bar height from ground, cm 0, 5 & 10

3 Cylinder speed, m/s (rpm) 13.54 &15.12

4 Concave clearance, mm 38.1 & 69.85

5 Type of threshing Drum, Spike tooth

6 Machine forward speed, km/h 1.2

7 Opening space of sieve, mm Upper 20-50Lower 5-10

Settings of STANDARD S-390 combine harvester for chickpea harvesting

Field Operation of Combine Harvester on Chickpea

Harvesting of chickpea (a) Claas Tangential Axial Flow (b) STANDARD S 390 (3 m cutter bar) and (c) STANDARD S 390 (4.2 m cutter bar)

(a) (b)

(c)

Salient findingsParameters HC 5 PBG 5 NBeG 47Shattering loss (%)

1.5 to 4.1 2.4 to 3.9 3.3 to 3.8

Threshing efficiency (%)

98.3 to 99.2 98.2 to 99.1 98.2 to 99.5

Grain damage (%)

2.7 to 4.9 2.4 to 6.2 3.9 to 7.2

Sieve loss (%) 0.8 to 1.1 0.8 to 1.0 0.7 to 0.8Separation loss

0.4 to 0.7 0.5 to 0.6 0.2 to 0.3

Cleaning efficiency

88.7 to 89.4 86.5 to 90.5 88.3 to 90.9

5.3% in manual harvesting

Assessment of the efficiency of combine harvesting of NBeG 47 and JG 11 at Nandyal

NBeG 47 JG 11

Variety Parameter ObservationJG-11 Threshing Efficiency, % 89.53

Broken,% 2.77Shoe Loss,% 1.02Rake Loss, % 1.41Cleaning Efficiency, % 92.89

NBeG-47 Threshing Efficiency, % 91.11Broken,% 3.15Shoe Loss,% 1.59Rake Loss, % 1.02Cleaning Efficiency, % 90.14

Performance of combine harvesters at Nandyal

Objective 3: Develop chickpea cultivars tolerant to herbicides Activity 3.1: Multilocation evaluation of putative herbicide tolerant lines selected in previous year.

Activity 3.2: Screen a new set of genotypes (germplasm/ cultivars/breeding lines) for herbicide tolerance in station trials

Activity 3.3: Develop and screen mutagenic populations (M2/M3/TILLING) for herbicide tolerance

Activity 3.4: Targeted breeding for developing herbicide tolerant breeding lines

Activity 3.5: Agronomic trials on weed management by herbicides

Activity 3.1: Multilocation evaluation of putative herbicide tolerant lines selected in previous year.

Herbicide Tolerance Screening - 1 (HTS-1)

Entries: 21 genotypes selected from HTS-1 and HTS-2 trials of last year were evaluated in HTS-1 during 2014-15.

Treatments: Unsprayed (control) and sprayed with Imazethapyr (Pursuit: BASF)

Experimental Design: RCBD with 4 replications.

Plot size: 4 rows of 4m

Locations: All seven locations

Patancheru Nandyal Bijapur

Entry Yield (kg ha-1) Entry Yield

(kg ha-1) Entry Yield (kg ha-1)

ICCV 10 1644 ICCIL 01031 4002 ICCIL 01026 1817ICCV 08109 1561 ICCIL 01034 3826 ICCV 09106 1777ICCV 09106 1551 ICCV 08102 3351 ICCIL 04021 1749ICCIL 04021 1548 ICCV 10114 3296 ICCV 08109 1742ICCIL 04004 1506 ICCV 08109 3251 ICCIL 01034 1736ICCV 97105 1505 ICCIL 04016 3122 ICCV 10 1709ICCIL 01034 1339 ICCV 10 3010 ICCV 04516 1625ICCIL 04007 1303 ICCIL 01026 2972 ICCIL 04004 1607ICCIL 01026 1277 ICCIL 04004 2863 ICCV 97105 1600ICC 9567 1056 ICCV 09106 2832 ICCIL 01031 1594

HTS-1: Top genotypes selected based on yield under sprayed condition……..(1/2)

Common at 6 locations

Common at 5 locations

Common at 4 locations

Sehore New Delhi Ludhiana

Entry Yield (kg ha-1) Entry Visual score* Entry Visual score*

ICCV 08102 1572 ICCIL 04021 1.7 ICCIL 01031 2.0ICCIL 04021 1361 ICCIL 04004 1.9 ICCV 04307 2.1ICCIL 04016 1254 ICCV 10 2.1 ICCV 08102 2.2ICCV 09106 1247 ICCIL 04016 2.1 ICCIL 01026 2.2ICCIL 01034 1197 ICCV 96836 2.8 ICCIL 01034 2.3ICCIL 01026 1175 ICCIL 04007 2.8 ICCIL 04021 2.3ICCV 97105 1148 ICCIL 01026 2.8 ICCV 08109 2.5ICCIL 04007 1129 ICCV 08109 2.9 ICCV 09106 2.7ICCV 10 1126 ICCV 09106 3.2 ICCV 05530 2.8ICCIL 01031 1059 ICC 9567 3.2 ICCV 96836 2.8

HTS-1: Top genotypes selected based on yield under sprayed condition……..(2/2)

*Herbicide tolerance score on 1 to 5 score (1= highly tolerant, 5 highly sensitive)

Common at 6 locations

Common at 5 locations

Common at 4 locations

Herbicide Tolerance Screening - 2 (HTS - 2)

Entries selected from station trials (HTS-3) of 2013-14 were evaluated under HTS-2 during 2014-15

No. of entries: 100Herbicide: Imazethapyr (Pursuit: BASF)Locations: All seven project locations Experimental design: Alpha Lattice with 4 repsPlot size: 1 row of 4m

Patancheru Nandyal Bijapur

Entry Yield (kg ha-1) Entry Yield

(kg ha-1) Entry Yield(kg ha-1)

ICCV 11101 1836 ICCV 11116 2556 ST-3-D-2 2204ICCV 97007 1772 ICCV 11101 2472 ICCV 93122 1969ICCV 95013 1764 ICCV 93054 2341 ST-3-D-16 1956ST-3-D-5 1759 RVG 201 2153 ICCV 97025 1928N BeG 510 1718 GNG 1958 2074 Pusa 5028 1903ICCV 95008 1705 NBeG 453 2071 ICCV 91020 1896ICCV 97056 1676 ST-3-D-1 2032 ICCV 93055 1880ICCV 11109 1660 ICCV 97025 2011 ICCV 97110 1871ST-3-D-2 1652 JSC 38 1976 ST-3-D-10 1857ICCV 11303 1640 ST-3-D-2 1958 ICCV 95008 1827LSD 238 188 203CV% 13 7.1 269

HTS-2: Top genotypes selected based on yield under sprayed condition……..(1/2)

Common at least at 2 locations

Sehore Ludhiana

Entry Yield (kgha-1) Entry Visual

score*ICCV 97049 1570 N BeG 471 2.1RVG 201 1493 N BeG 119 2.3ICCV 96005 1397 N BeG 510 2.3JSC 38 1370 PBG 5 2.3ICCV 95012 1368 GL 12003 2.3BGD 128 1354 GL 29098 2.4RVG 202 1344 BG 2085 2.4N BeG 458 1302 ICCV 97315 2.4ICCV 95005 1268 GL 10061 2.5ICCV 96003 1222 GL 22044 2.5LSD 5% 140CV% 8.7

HTS-2: Top genotypes selected based on yield under sprayed condition……..(2/2)

Common at least at 2 locations

*Herbicide tolerance score on 1 to 5 score (1= highly tolerant, 5 highly sensitive)

Kanpur• Trial severely affected by winter

rains. • GL1006, GL29098, ICCV 93055,

ICCV 97019, ICCV 97017, GL 22044, GLW 12042, GLW 12041, NBeG 453 appeared promising.

New Delhi• Trial severely affected by winter

rains and quality data could not be collected due to lodging

Location No. of entries

Crop condition and findings

IIPR-Kanpur 28 Crop affected by rains; 3 promising lines (IPC 2010-81, IPC 2008-59, IPC 2014-86) identified

IARI-New Delhi 34 Crop affected by rain; 6 promising lines (ICC 1205, JAKI 9218, ICC 14402, ICC 12928, ICC 1710 and ICC 637) identified.

PAU-Ludhiana 498 Also screened for herbicides Metrabuzin (Sencor) and Carfentrazone (Affinity);Crop affected by ascochyta blight; 26 promising lines selected.

HTS-3: Northern India

Activity 3.2: Screen a new set of genotypes germplasm/cultivars/ breeding lines) for herbicide tolerance in station trials

HTS-3: Each centre screened available cultivars/breeding lines/germplasm for tolerance to herbicide imazethapyr (Pursuit)

Location No. of entries

Crop conditions and findings

ICRISAT-Patancheru

152 48 promising lines identified.

RAKCA-Sehore 200 (Set-I) Over 50 genotypes found promising. 50 (Set-II) 18 promising lines identified.RARS-Nandyal 27 Top yielding entries viz., N BeG 179 (2616

kg/ha), N BeG 439 (2599 kg/ha), N BeG 511 (2499 kg/ha), and NBeG 402 (2482 kg/ha)

ARS-Bijapur 219 28 promising entries identified

HTS-3: Central and Southern India

Activity 3.3: Develop and screen mutagenic populations (M2/M3/TILLING) for herbicide tolerance (A) New mutagenic populations developed

Location M1/M2 grown during 2014-15

ICRISAT-Patancheru M2 of ICCV 10IIPR-Kanpur M2 of DCP 92-3, ShubhraIARI-New Delhi M1 of Pusa 372PAU-Ludhiana M2 of GPF2RAKCA-Sehore M1 of RVG 202, BGD 112, RVSKG 102 and ICC

4812; M2 of JG 6 and RVSJKG 102RARS-Nandyal M1 of JAKI 9218UAS-Dharwad M1 of BGD 103 and BG 1105

(B) Herbicide tolerance screening of mutagenic populationsLocation Populations screened Selection of tolerant plants ICRISAT-Patancheru

M4 of KAK 2, JG 11 and ICCV 95333

Putative tolerant plants selected.

IIPR-Kanpur M2 of Shubhra and DCP 92-3

Crop damaged by rains. Plants that produced pods were bulk harvested.

IARI-New Delhi

M4 of KAK 2, JG 11 and ICCV 95333; TILLING population of ICC 4958

Putative tolerant plants selected.

PAU-Ludhiana

M4 of KAK 2, JG 11 and ICCV 95333

Crop damaged by ascochyta blight

RAKCA-Sehore

M2 of JG 6 and RVSJKG 102; M4 of JG 11, KAK 2)

Putative tolerant plants selected.

RARS-Nandyal

M2 of JAKI 9218; M4 of KAK 2, JG 11 and ICCV 95333

Plants selected: JAKI 9218 44; KAK 2 78, JG 11 63, ICCV 95333 46.

UAS-Dharwad

M4 of JG 11, KAK 2, ICCV 95333

Plants selected: KAK 2 - 222, ICCV 95333 - 234 & JG 11 - 258

M4 population two weeks after herbicide spray

Spray of herbicide (Pursuit) on M4 population at ICRISAT

Activity 3.4: Targeted breeding for developing herbicide tolerant breeding lines

Development of mapping populations for herbicide tolerance: Two RIL populations are being developed for mapping QTL/genes for tolerance to herbicide imazethapyr (ICC 1710 x ICC 14077) and metribuzin (ICC 1205 x ICC 14077). The RILs were advanced to F4.

Generation ICRISAT IIPR IARI PAU RAKCA RARS-Nandyal

UAS-Dharwad

Total

New crosses

6 3 4 7 - - 2 22

F1 - 3 4 - - 2 6 15F2 58 2 - 7 - - - 67F3 - 3 - - - - - 3F4 - 7 - - - - - 7F5 - - - - - - - -

Activity 3.5: Agronomic trials on weed management by herbicides

Genotypes: ICCV 09311/NBeG 47 (Southern India) ICCV 10 (Central India)ICCV 08312 (Northern India)

Treatments: Imazethapyr @ 50 g/ha and 75 g/haCarfentrazone-ethyl @ 20 g/ha and 30 g/haHand weedingWeedy check

Locations: RARS-Nandyal (Southern India)RAKCA-Sehore (Central India)PAU-Ludhiana, IIPR-Kanpur (Northern India)

Design: RBD with 4-replications

Results of agronomic trials on weed managementTreatment PAU

(weed control %)

IIPRYield (kg/ha)

RAKCAYield (kg/ha)

RARS-Nandyal

Yield (kg/ha)

Imazethapyr @ 50 g/ha 60.0 1203 2386 2054Imazethapyr @ 75 g/ha 66.2 1123 2046 2158Carfentrazone-ethyl @ 20 g/ha 63.7 1267 2365 2541Carfentrazone-ethyl @ 30 g/ha 67.5 1342 2602 2416Hand weeding 100.0 1816 2760 2707Weedy check - 919 1697 1995

Project management, monitoring and evaluation

Review and Planning Meeting 29 Aug 2014, RARI, Durgapura, Jaipur

Monitoring of field trials

Location Date Monitored byICRISAT, Patancheru 06/01/2015 Dr. N.P. Singh, Dr. S.K. Chaturvedi, Dr. Sarvjeet Singh, Dr. V.

Jayalakshmi, Dr. Vijay KumarICRISAT, Patancheru 04/04/2015 Dr. G.P. Dixit (PC, Chickpea) and Dr. S.K. ChaturvediIARI, New Delhi 03/03/2015 Drs Sarvjeet Singh, Guriqbal Singh and othersIARI, New Delhi 10/04/2015 Dr. Rajeev Varshney and Dr. P.M. GaurIIPR, Kanpur 27/02/2015 Dr. U.P. Singh, Member Research Advisory Committee of IIPRIIPR, Kanpur 02/03/2015 Dr. Sarvjeet Singh and Dr. Guriqbal SinghIIPR, Kanpur 08/03/2015 Dr. M.C. Diwakar (Director Sugarcane Development)IIPR, Kanpur 11/04/2015 Dr. Rajeev Varshney, Dr. P.M. Gaur and Dr. M. YasinPAU, Ludhiana 06/02/2015 Dr. Sailesh TripathiPAU, Ludhiana 12/03/2015 Dr SK Chaturvedi, Dr Mohammad YasinPAU, Ludhiana 24/03/2015 Dr SK Yadav, DAC, Govt. of IndiaRAKCA, Sehore 06/12/2014 Dr. P.M. GaurRAKCA, Sehore 07/02/2015 Dr. N.P. SinghRAKCA, Sehore 20/02/2015 Dr. A.K. Singh (VC, RVSKVV) and ICARDA Scientists RAKCA, Sehore 07/03/2015 Dr. H.S. Yadav (DRS, RVSKVV, Gwalior)RAKCA, Sehore 17/03/2015 Dr. A.K. Tiwari (Director Pulses, Bhopal)RAKCA, Sehore 22/03/2015 Dr Sanjeev Gupta (PC, MULLARP)RARS, Nandyal 16/01/2015 Dr. S. Srinivasan and Dr. Baldev DograRARS-Bijapur Dr Ashutosh Sarker from ICARDA

Pictures of field trials/field visits

ICRISAT-Patancheru

Visit of Drs DP Malik, SJ Singh, Rajeev Varshney, PM Gaur and M Yasin at IIPR-Kanpur

IIPR-Kanpur

IARI-New Delhi

PAU-Ludhiana

RAKCA-Sehore

RARS-Nandyal

ARS-Bijapur

Acknowledgements

Department of Agriculture & Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India

Thank you!