Tuberose (Polianthes tuberosa L.) is one of the potentially valuable cut flower and is an important commercial flower of our country. The long flower spikes of tuberose are excellent cut flower and the individual florets are used for making garlands, ornaments for bridal make up and for button holes. Due to lack of standard production technology, the yield of quality flowers per unit area is low hence growth regulators can play a very important and remarkable role for production of good yield with quality flowers. Soaking of bulbs in GA3 before planting and its foliar application improves the...

Cowpea cultivation is neglected due to low yielding ability. The low potentiality may be due to genotype adaptable to poor management, as it is grown continuously on marginal land hence, there is need to give more attention for systematic study and developing high yielding varieties in order to solve mal-nutritional problems. Cowpea being a self pollinated crop, the diversification of genotypes is expected to be limited compared to cross pollinated crops. The divergence studies of parents involved and their F1 s may provide a tool for selection for ensuring occurrence of more number of...