AgroScience Today, Volume 6, Issue 1 : 1066-1068

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OPEN ACCESS | Published on : 31-Jan-2025

Phule Anurag - A New Blast Resistant Bread Wheat Variety for Farmers of Maharashtra and Karnataka

• Nilesh Magar
• Assistant Professor of Agril Botany, Agricultural Research Station, MPKV Niphad Dist: Nashik, Maharashtra, India.
• Bharat Malunjkar
• Senior Research Assistant, Agricultural Research Station, MPKV Niphad Dist: Nashik, Maharashtra, India.
• Umesh Kamble
• Senior Scientist, Seed Technology, ICAR- Indian Institute of Wheat & Barley Research, Karnal, Haryana, India.
• Kiran Gaikwad
• Senior Scientist, ICAR- Indian Agriculture Research Institute, New Delhi, India.

Abstract

Agricultural Research Station, Niphad recently developed a new bread wheat variety Phule Anurag (NIAW 4028) which is resistant to wheat blast as well as both stem and leaf rusts. The variety was identified and recommended by Varietal Identification Committee Meeting in 62nd AGM of All India Coordinated Research Project on Wheat & Barley held at MPUAT, Udaipur during Aug. 26, 2023 to Sept. 01, 2023. It has been released and notified by Central Sub Committee on Crop Standards, India vide Gazette Notification No. S.O.1560 (E), dated 26th of March, 2024 for cultivation in Peninsular Zone under restricted irrigation condition.

Keywords

Phule Anurag, New Blast, Resistant Bread, Wheat Variety, farmers of Maharashtra, Karnataka

References

• Gazette Notification No S.O.1560 (E), dated 26th of March, 2024.

  Proceedings: Variety Identification Committee of Wheat & Barley 05 September, 2023.

  Progress Reports of AICRP on Wheat and Barley 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23.