Cocoa is a crop highly influenced by climate change and growing environment, which make it necessary to have long term and dynamic breeding programme. Yield improvement was the prime objective of most of the earlier breeding ...

Banana (Musa spp.) is infected by four well characterised plant viruses viz., Banana bunchy top virus, Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), Banana bract mosaic virus and Banana streak virus. Among these, CMV causes devastating ...

An investigation on molecular absorption of urea by flooded rice was conducted at the Radio Tracer Laboratory , College of Horticulture, Vellanikkara, during the period 1990-1992. The effect of soil submergence on soil ...

An incubation study and a potculture experiment were conducted to assess the suitability of magnesite in comparison with that of magnesium sulphate and dominate in karappadam (Moncompu, Alappuzha district) and laterite ...

The present investigation "Heterosis in snakegourd" was conducted at the College of Horticulture during 1988-1990. Assessment of genetic variability showed significant differences of 25 characters in 48 snakegourd genotypes. ...

An investigation was carried out at Department of Olericulture, College of Horticulture, Vellanikkara, Thrissur during 1989-90 to study effect(s) physical, chemical and biological agents on fruit characters and yield in ...

Investigations on "Effect of spacing and planting material on the growth, yield and active principle in Plumbago rosea L." was conducted at the Department of Plantation Crops and Spices, College of Horticulture, Vellanikkara ...

A study of the soils of South Kerala has been undertaken to investigate the variation in fertility status in relation to their physiographic position. Twelve locations from the districts of Trivandrum and Quilon were ...

The study on the reproductive mechanism in cardamom was undertaken at the Cardamom Research Station, Pampadumpara in three popular cultivars viz., Malabar, Mysore and Vazhukka, Laboratory studies were conducted at the ...