Aim:The aim of the study was to correlate the milk yield of Murrah buffaloes with certain body parts measurements.Materials and Methods:A total of 70 lactating Murrah buffaloes were selected from Buffalo Farm, Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Science, Hisar and were randomly selected in a range from first to fifth parity. Traits studied were 305 days milk yield (MY), body weight (BW), body length (BL), muzzle width (MW), height at wither (HW), abdominal girth (AG), chest girth (CG), body depth fore, body depth rear, hip bone distance (HBD), pin bone distance (PBD), skin thickness (STK), and tail length (TL). Data were collected and statically analyzed by Pearson’s correlation method.Result:The result of this study showed that Murrah buffaloes had the average 2604.8±39.5 kg for MY, 556.1±4.9 kg for BW, and 152.2±0.8 cm for BL. This study showed that buffaloes had positive significant (p<0.05) correlation between MY and BW (0.26). Highly significant (p<0.01) correlation was observed between MY and AG (0.64), MW (0.42). Significant (p<0.01) negative correlation was observed between MY and STK (−0.79). Different body part measurements (BW, BL, HW, AG, CG, MW, TL, BD, PBD, HBD, STK) were significantly correlated with each other.Conclusion:This study can be helpful as a selection tool to enhance and evaluate the production potential by setting standards of Murrah buffalo breed. BW, abdominal growth, muzzle thickness, and STK were found key factors while selecting a dairy Murrah buffalo.

RAPD (random amplified polymorphic DNA) and ISSR (inter simple sequence repeat) markers were screened to test the genetic integrity of jojoba (Simmondsia chinensis) plants multiplied through axillary bud multiplication from nodal segments. The in vitro raised plantlets were maintained for up to 12 in vitro subcultures. During the study a total of 48 (32 RAPD and 16 ISSR) primers were screened, out of which 24 RAPD and 13 ISSR primers produced a total of 191 (126 RAPD and 65 ISSR) clear, distinct and reproducible amplicons. The amplified products were monomorphic across all the selected micropropagated plants and were similar to the mother plant. The micropropagation protocol developed by our group for rapid in vitro multiplication is appropriate for clonal propagation of jojoba. The outcome supports the fact that axillary bud multiplication can also be used as one of the safest modes for the production of true-to-type plants.

A study was carried out to evaluate the potential of exogenously applied potassium nitrate [1.0 g·dm−3(K1), 2.5 g·dm−3(K2) and 5 g·dm−3(K3)] plus gibberellic acid (GA3) [0.005 g·dm−3(G1), 0.01 g·dm−3(G2) and 0.015 g·dm−3(G3)] on the growth and development of the cucumber (Cucumis sativusL.) ‘Seven Star F1’ during various growth stages (40, 55 and 70 days after sowing). Treatment of plants with K plus GA3stimulated growth shortened the fruit maturation period and increased quality compared with non-sprayed control. The combination G2K2resulted in maximum total yield, plant height, and total chlorophyll, phosphorus and nitrogen content in the leaves compared with other treatments. Fruit matured significantly earlier in plants sprayed with G2K2. Total yield and fruit quality dry matter, total suspended solids and antioxidant activity percentages were significantly higher in sprayed plants compared with controls. Potassium content in leaves and fruits reached the maximum level with G3K3treatment. The results clearly showed that the foliar application of G2K2proved to be the best choice for growing cucumber in terms of quantity and quality of yield.

Abstract. The object of this paper is to introduce a new concept of lacunary strong convergence with respect to an Orlicz function and examine some properties of the resulting sequence spaces. We establish some elementary connections between lacunary strong convergence and lacunary strong convergence with respect to an Orlicz function which satisfies ¿^-condition. It is also shown that if a sequence is lacunary strongly convergent with respect to an Orlicz function then it is lacunary statistically convergent. In addition, lacunary strong convergence with respect to an Orlicz function is compared to other summability methods. IntroductionBy a lacunary sequence 9 = r = 0,1,2,..., where ko = 0, we shall mean an increasing sequence of non-negative integers with k r -k r -\ -> oo. The intervals determined by 9 will be denoted byand we let h r = k r -k r -1-The ratio k r /k r -1 will be denoted by q r . The space of lacunary strongly convergent sequences Ng was defined by Freedman et al.[5] as follows

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