Books by Arun Kumar

The field experiment was conducted at Genetics and Plant Breeding Research Farm, Narendra Deva University of Agriculture and Technology, Faizabad, in Augmented Block Design having 10 blocks and each block was divided into 14 plots. Out of these 14 plots in a block, 10 plots were used for accommodating the test genotypes while remaining 4 plots were used for check varieties, during Rabi 2010-11 to assess 100 chickpea germplasm showed wide range of variation for various characters. Data were recorded on different 11 quantitative traits on subjected for estimation of mean, range and least significant differences, correlation, path-coefficient and genetic divergence. The genotypes NDG 93-1, NDG 31, JG 9-3, ICC 4934, BG 3014, ICC 3137, ICCV 05314, RG 2003-28, L 550, IPCK 2004-16, NDG 3-32-2, BDG 1059 and H 02-14 produced higher seed yield per plant, may be used in breeding programme for development of high yielding chickpea varieties.

Cluster bean (guar) is an important arid legume crop of the country. Nowadays, it is gaining importance as an industrial crop due to the presence of galactomannan content in the seed. The crop generally faces moisture stress conditions at the sowing time, seedling emergence and plant growth. If primed seed sown in the field, then it can tolerate the problem of moisture stress to some extent particularly during the initial stages of germination and plant growth and it helps in optimum plant stand establishment. Improved seed germination and vigour potential contribute to better crop establishment and seed yield. The results of present study revealed that among various priming treatments, the treatments T1(H-D), T6 (KNO3, 0.5%) and T8(Pseudomonas culture) enhanced the standard germination (6.66-12.66%) in good quality seed-lots (L1) of variety HG-365, whereas, the treatments T3 (GA3, 50ppm), T5 ( PEG-6000) and T7 (Rhizobium culture) improved the germination percentage ( 6.67-11.00%) in good quality seed-lot of variety HG-563. Moreover, none of the treatments enhanced the germination effectively over control in marginal seed-lots of both the varieties.

This book primarily deals with themes like flood risk simulation, warning, assessment and mitigation. It is supported with elaborate glossary of related terms, bibliography and detailed subject index. An overview of meteorology, climatology and forecasting of floods is provided. It also reflects on flash floods, flood-meadows, drowned lands, flood bypass, floodplain, rain cloudburst and storm surge. The tropical cyclone meteorology, the tropical cyclone rainfall climatology and tropical cyclone rainfall forecasting are discussed in detail. This book also reflects briefly on Flood Risk Simulation, modelling, tropical cyclone forecast model and catastrophe modelling. Case study is presented on 100-year flood and 2006-2007 floods in Southeast Asia, floods in Malaysia, Hurricane Alberto etc. The book focuses on managing flood warning schemes, services and products with the help of relevant case studies. It also deals in detail issues like flood warning and flash flood warning. A case study of flooding in Scotland is made with focus on flood warning schemes, Indicative River and coastal flood map and role of concerned agency in flooding. This book is user-friendly and will go a long way to serve as a perfect reference book on the subject.