HI 1636 (Pusa Vakula), high yielding, bio fortified bread wheat variety for high fertility conditions of Central Zone

Authors

  • Sai Prasad SV
  • Jang Bahadur Singh
  • Divya Ambati ICAR-Indian Institute of Oilseeds Research, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad
  • Rahul M Phuke
  • Prakasha TL
  • Akilesh Nandan Mishra
  • Kailash Chandra Sharma
  • Anil Kumar Singh
  • Dilip Kumar Verma
  • Gyanendra Pratap Singh
  • Jai Bhagwan Sharma
  • Pradeep Kumar Singh
  • Harikrishna
  • Ram Kumar Sharma
  • Naresh Kumar Bainsla
  • Kiran Bapusaheb Gaikwad
  • Shailendra Kumar Jha
  • Sanjay Kumar
  • Prasanth Babu H
  • Raghunandan K
  • Vaibhav Kumar Singh
  • Sivasamy M
  • Tapas Ranjan Das
  • Dharam Pal
  • Vinod
  • Anju Mahendru Singh
  • Neelu Jain
  • Manjeet Kumar
  • Niharika Mallick
  • Niranjana M
  • Jayaprakash P
  • VK Vikas
  • Madhu Patial
  • Ram Niwas Yadav
  • Kumble Vinod Prabhu
  • Rajbir Yadav

https://doi.org/10.25174/qg4evh06

Keywords:

Bread Wheat, Disease resistance, bio fortified, high fertility, central zone

Abstract

HI 1636 (Pusa Vakula), a high yielding bread wheat variety with an average yield of 56.6 q/ha was released by Central Sub-Committee on Crop Standards, Notification and Release of Varieties for Agricultural Crops, Government of India vide notification No. S.O.8 (E) dated 03.01.2022 for commercial cultivation under timely sown, irrigated conditions of central wheat growing zone of India.  HI 1636 exhibited seedling resistance to all the prevalent stem and leaf rust pathotypes and postulated to have leaf rust resistance gene Lr24. HI 1636 had an excellent chapati quality and is a “zinc bio-fortified” high yielding bread wheat variety suitable for chapati and biscuit preparations with zinc content of 44.4 ppm and protein content of 11.3%.

Author Biography

  • Divya Ambati, ICAR-Indian Institute of Oilseeds Research, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad

    Divya Ambati earlier worked on the objective of improvement of Indian durum wheat for abiotic stress conditions and quality parameters. Now she is working on improvement of Indian Linseed for productivity and quality

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Submitted

2023-04-06

Published

2023-12-30

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 3 (2023)

Section

Variety Release

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How to Cite

SV, S. P., Singh, J. B., Ambati, D., M Phuke, R., TL, P., Mishra, A. N., Sharma, K. C., Singh, A. K., Verma, D. K., Singh, G. P., Sharma, J. B., Singh, P. K., Harikrishna, Sharma, R. K., Bainsla, N. K., Gaikwad, K. B., Jha, S. K., Kumar, S., H, P. B., … Yadav, R. (2023). HI 1636 (Pusa Vakula), high yielding, bio fortified bread wheat variety for high fertility conditions of Central Zone. Journal of Cereal Research, 15(3). https://doi.org/10.25174/qg4evh06