“Noor-2013” a Bold Seeded and High Yielding Chickpea Kabuli Variety Developed Indigenously

Abstract

The aim of study was to determine the effect of (Brufen TM) alone and in conjugation with vitamin E and Selenium in broilers against coccidiosis. One hundred randomly allocated (25 birds in each group i.e., A, B, C & D) day-old broiler chicks underwent the current trial. Group A, B and C were challenged with 60,000-70,000 sporulated oocysts of genus Eimeria at 21 st day of age. Group A and B were administered with (Brufen TM) and combination of (Brufen TM) with vitamin E and Selenium (E-Sel TM) @ 100mg/kg body weight and 1ml/10 liters of drinking water, respectively. Group C and D were kept as negative (infected & un-medicated) and positive (un-infected & un-medicated) controls, respectively. Therapeutic response was measured on the basis of mortality, oocysts count, weight gains, coccidial lesion scorings and weight of lymphoid organs. Maximum mortality was observed in group C (17/25), followed by group A (12/25), than in group B (8/25) post coccidial infection. Coccidial lesion scores and oocysts count were significantly lower in groups (A & B) administered with Ibuprofen. Moreover, maximum weight gain and reduced lymphoid organ to body weight ratio were also observed in chicken of group B as compared to A, C and D. The study suggested synergistic and enhanced protective response of Ibuprofen in combination with vitamin E and Selenium against chicken coccidiosis.

Noor-2019: A High Yielding and Wilt Resistant Chickpea Kabuli (Cicer arietinum L.) Variety Developed through Introgression Breeding

“…The genetic gain/ improvement made over time by this part of plant breeding in realizing sustainable crop productions are stupendous (Akhatar et al, 2022;Begna, 2021). A number of chickpea varieties in Pakistan and other parts of the world have been developed using this scheme (Duarte, 2022;Khan et al, 2023;Naveed et al, 2020;Rasool et al, 2023). The new cultivar, Noor-2019, also evolved through this procedure, performed good and regularly surpassed standard checks in its testing stage.…”

“…Further, various stresses such as disease, drought, heat, cold etc. when occur alone or in different combinations adversely affect chickpea crop causing severe production losses (Naveed et al, 2019(Naveed et al, , 2020. For example, fusarium wilt alone can cause 12 M rupees production losses in chickpea (Fatima et al, 2022a, b).…”

“…To overcome these issues, development and availability of stress-tolerant cultivars is the most effective and least expensive way forward (Naveed, 2022;Naveed et al, 2020). Therefore, developing new, high yielding and stress-tolerant genotypes is the ultimate objective of any crop-breeding program (Arriagada et al, 2022).…”

“…However, this is not a simple/direct process, instead a lengthy one expanding to more than 10 years' subject to crop type and breeding methods used. This may comprise development of parents or selection from gene-pool followed by hybridization, raising of filial generations (F 1 to F 6 ), selection of desirable plants/uniform lines, and evaluation in different trials determining yield potential, stability/fixing of agro-morphological traits, response to disease and agronomic production package followed by approval process (Naveed et al, 2020;Raina et al, 2019). However, a cultivar becomes susceptible overtime to various types of stresses affecting yield potential and necessitating replacement with genetically improved genotypes (Choudhary et al, 2022;Folta, 2019).…”

“…In this regard, local legume breeders have made considerable progress in developing new and improved chickpea cultivars possessing stress tolerance and better yielding ability (Naveed et al, 2020). The parental source of all the chickpea varieties evolved so far in Pakistan was the cultivated species C. arietinum.…”