Considering the food and nutritional security concerns, and post green revolution second generation problems i.e. increasing input use with declining efficiency trends, deteriorating soil health, depleting water resources, pollution, and narrowing profits at the end of farmers, an investigation was carried out on Wheat (Triticum aestivum) crop during 2019-20 at the crop research centre of SVPUA & T, Meerut (U.P.) to overcome these problems. Novel nutrient sources and their modes of applications with 14 treatments consisting of control, basal applications of recommended 100% NPK (150:60:40), 75% NPK (112.5:45:30) + water spray + nano N (4 ml l-1) + bio nano P (40 ml l-1) + bio nano K (40 ml l-1) + bio nano Zn (10 ml l-1) in various combinations were attempted on wheat variety DBW17 in randomized complete block design (RCBD) with three replications. The results of the study revealed that wheat grown with 75% NPK + nano nutrients (N + P + K + Zn) attainted significantly better growth as reflected by taller plants (91.7 cm), more no. of tillers m-1 row length (61.8), and higher dry matter accumulation m-1 row length (239.2), recorded at harvest with grain yield of (52.4 q ha-1). The crop contained 53.2 ppm Zn in grain and 31.8 ppm Zn in straw. Applications of nano nutrients – N, P, K, Zn and N +P + K + Zn +75% NPK worked synergistically and increased grain yields by 17.9, 15.7 14.5, 16.5 and 26.9% over 100% NPK. Thus, the wheat crop grown with the application of Nano-N + 75% NPK followed Nano-Zn + 75% NPK by had attained better growth (plant height, no. of the tiller, dry matter accumulation, yield (grain), nutrient content, and nutrient uptake.

This study was conducted at Crop Research Farm, Nawabganj, C. S. Azad University of Agriculture and Technology, Kanpur (U. P.) during rabi 2021-22 for estimating the components of variance and other genetic parameters through 8 x 8 parent diallel cross excluding reciprocals for 11 characters in bread wheat. The variance component analysis indicated significant role of additive (D̂) and dominant (Ĥ1 and Ĥ2) genetic components for all the traits viz., days to 75% heading, days to maturity, plant height (cm), number of productive tillers per plant, spike length (cm), number of grains per spike, biological yield per plant (g), harvest index (%) and grain yield per plant (g) except additive component for 1000-grain weight (2.60) and dominant component for number of spikelets per spike (2.91 and 2.53). The estimates of dominant components (Ĥ1 and Ĥ2) were mostly greater than additive component (D̂) for all the characters indicating the greater role of non-additive gene action in the expression of attributes. The relative magnitudes of Ĥ1 component were higher than Ĥ2 component for all the characters except spike length (0.39) indicating unequal distribution of positive and negative alleles in the parent. Over dominance expression for all the attributes was due to the involvement of asymmetrical distribution of dominant genes with positive and negative effects in the parents for all the characters except spike length. Based on study, it was revealed that both additive and non-additive genes were responsible for expression of almost major of the traits.

Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), often known as gramme or Bengal gramme, is a self-pollinated leguminous crop with diploid annual (2n = 16 chromosomes) that belongs to the family Leguminosae and subfamily Papilionaceae. During the Rabi season, it is the most significant crop in India. Chickpeas are a high-energy, high protein, and low carbohydrate food. Gram is a grain that is utilised for both human consumption and animal feed. It comes in flour, whole grain, roasted, and cocked varieties. The most common forms consumed by people are salted Dahl or sweet concoctions, as well as green foliage and grain as vegetables. In the Rabi season, 60% of pulses are grown, and 40% in the Kharif season. Chickpeas are high in calories, protein, minerals, vitamins, and fibre that may be useful to one's health. For biochemical characteristics on selected potential genotypes/varieties of chickpea [Cicer arietinum (L)], seeds of chickpea genotypes/varieties were obtained from legume Breeder, Department of Genetics and Plant breeding, CSAUAT, Kanpur. The experiment was planned in the Department's Research Laboratory in order to achieve the goals of their research. Dhal percent, husk percentages, broken dal, percentage loss in processing, protein, test weight, grain yield quintal/ha, were 71.40-82.92g, 7.50-17.74 percent, 2.00-5.60 percent, 20.85-23.95 percent, 21.45-27.70g, 21-30q/ha, respectively. In genotypes K3256, Avrodhi, KGD1296, KGD2021, K3256, K3256 of the varietal trail, lower husk percentage, broken percentage, and processing loss were identified, as well as greater nutritional elements such as protein content also identified.

In this study, it was evaluated that the growth performance of broiler chicken supplemented with the edible P. florida mushroom, 20g/kg of dried P. eoes mushroom, and 20g/kg of dried P. sajor caju mushroom. Day-old broiler chicks from a single hatch were weighed individually and divided into 4 groups of six birds each at random. The birds will be given a basic diet for starter (0–3weeks) and finisher (4-6 weeks) rations. One group (G1) was kept as the control, while the remaining three groups (G2, G3, and G4) given their chicks the same basic food as G1 combined with various types of mushrooms. Groups G2, G3, and G4 were fed dry P. florida mushroom, P. eoes mushroom, and P. sajor caju mushroom at the dose rate 20g/kg. Throughout the six-week testing period, food and drink were freely available. Feed consumption, body weight, and feed conversion ratio values were monitored weekly. It was found that, the supplementation of Pleurotuus sp. mushroom (P. florida, P. eoes, P. sajor caju respectively) in different groups did not show any effect on feed consumption but improved the growth rate in summer season. It was concluded that Pleurotous florida mushroom required for improvement in growth performance during the summer.