Ornamental plants represent an economically and culturally important component of horticulture, yet their improvement has historically relied mainly on phenotypic selection with limited mechanistic understanding. This review synthesises how genomic technologies are expanding know...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2026/v29i74101
Gladiolus is one of the most important lucrative cut flower crops that is cultivated globally, valued for its diverse spike shapes, sizes and vibrant colour combinations. Gladiolus, with its inherent heterozygosity, is well-suited for polyploid induction and the development of ne...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2025/v28i113256
Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan L. Millsp.), a vital pulse crop, faces yield improvement challenges due to the complex inheritance of productivity traits. The study aims to investigate the relationship between yield and various phenological, quantitative, and quality traits. The study w...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2025/v37i105778
Heterogeneity of current environmental conditions and global climatic change constantly complicate the task for breeders in defining the Target Population of Environments (TPE). Moreover, the differential response of genotypes across variable environments, referred as Genotype by...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2025/v28i103073
Red gram (Cajanus cajan L. Millsp.), commonly known as pigeon pea, is a widely cultivated legume valued for its nutritional and agronomic importance. This study aimed to assess genetic variability, heritability, and genetic advance for yield and quality traits in 30 short-duratio...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2025/v28i42199
Oncidium orchids, commonly known as “dancing lady orchids,” represent a diverse genus with significant horticultural and commercial value. Breeding programs aimed at improving Oncidium species and hybrids have developed over the past few decades, driven by their ornamental charac...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2024/v27i101502
An investigation was carried out with eighteen Oncidium orchid genotypes for the assessment of genetic variability and heritability in 2023. In this investigation, variation due to genotypes for all the traits under study was found significant indicating high amount of variabilit...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2024/v27i101458
Gladiolus is one of the most popular cut flowers cultivated in India, and it is excellent for inducing physical mutagenesis. The present study was carried out to determine the optimal lethal dose for gamma rays and to induce mutations through gamma irradiation in two gladiolus va...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2024/v27i91395
Raja Sekhar Reddy Noru, Beena Thomas, Shubhangi Kshirsagar Maraskole, Vinutha Patil S, Narinder Panotra, Janapareddy Rajesh, Aroulradj Karthickraja & Vivek Kumar·Journal of Advances in Biology & Biotechnology·2024
The world faces increasing concerns over climate change's impact on global food security. Fluctuating climate conditions cause farming uncertainty, leading to food scarcity and higher prices worldwide. New strategies are crucial for enhancing food production and agricultural resi...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2024/v27i81253
Yardlong bean (Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis (L.) Verdcourt), is significant among legume vegetable crops. Global warming and climate change can significantly impact its cultivation, yield, and production. This study examined the F3 population of five yardlong bean famil...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i74756
Tomato is one of the most important vegetable crop grown by small farmers and commercial growers for both local uses as well as processing industries. So, it is important to increase its productivity along with desirable attributes through its genetic characters. Therefore, prese...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2023/v35i183330
Research was undertaken to investigate genetic variability, heritability, and genetic progress in twelve yield-related and seed quality traits of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp.). The study involved evaluating thirty-two cowpea genotypes in a randomized block design at Farming...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2025/v28i103156
Genetic diversity analysis plays a crucial role in plant breeding and horticultural improvements. This study evaluated the morphological and floral characteristics of fifteen nerium genotypes to assess genetic variability and potential for selection. Significant variations were o...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2025/v28i42188
The Brown Plant Hopper (BPH), Nilaparvata lugens (Homoptera: Delphacidae) is one of the most destructive insect pests causing significant yield loss in most of the rice cultivars of Asia. Marker-assisted backcrossing is used to introgress the genes for BPH resistance in which the...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2023/v35i122960
The present study evaluated the performance of fifteen pot anthurium genotypes based on vegetative, floral and post-harvest traits and examined the relationships among these characters through correlation analysis. The experiment was laid out in Completely Randomized Design with...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2026/v32i104528
Tabernaemontana divaricata is an important ornamental shrub valued for its lovely white flowers, continuous blooming habit, and potential as a loose-flower crop. Aim: The present investigation was undertaken to evaluate the morphological variability among ten accessions of Tabern...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2026/v29i94390
Aims: This study evaluated 123 rice germplasm lines to assess genetic diversity for major biometric and grain iron and grain zinc contents and identify superior donor genotypes for biofortification breeding programmes. Study Design: completely randomized design. Place and Duratio...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2025/v28i103176