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ICAR-Indian Institute of Rice Research Vol.14 No.1, 2017 Vol.14 Newsletter Volume: 17 Number: 1 RICE IS LIFE January - March 2019 Launching of Pradhanmantri Kisan Samman Nidhi

On the occasion of launching of ‘Pradhanmantri Kisan Samman Nidhi’ a programme was organised at ICAR-IIRR on 24 February, 2019. Hon’ble Member of Parliament, Shri. Bandaru Dattatreya graced the occasion. Dr. Ch. Srinivasa Rao. Director, NAARM; Dr. A. Vishnuvardhan Reddy, Director, IIOR; Dr. Y. G. Prasad, Director, ATARI; Dr. Ravindra Chary, Director (A), CRIDA; Dr. R. N. Chatterjee, Director, DPR; Dr. S. Vaithiyanathan, Director, NRC on Meat; Dr. R. Jagadeeswar, Director of Research, PJTSAU and Dr. P. Ananda Kumar, Emeritus Scientist, IIRR also present on the occasion. Dr. S.R. Voleti (Director-Acting, IIRR) welcomed the guests. Hon’ble member of the Parliament spoke about the salient features of the scheme and felicitated the progressive farmers in recognition of their services. Scientific fraternity of Hyderabad and farmers attended the programme in large numbers.

Smart Rice Hackathon 2019 (24 hours continuous) has been organised at ICAR-Indian Institute of Rice Research during 9-10th February 2019 in connection with National Science Day. This was the First Hackathon in ICAR involving engineering students for developing IT based solutions to farmers using Artificial Intelligence.

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1 IIRR Newsletter Vol.17 No.1, 2019 June and15 and 3subplots with differentdates of sowing i.e. 15 conventional manualtransplantinganddirectwetseeding treatments of twomain trial consisted kharif the at 45days and incorporatedintothesoil. In harvested In summer season (April and May) dhaincha was grown, system. of rice-maize economics andsystemproductivity establishment methods,mulchingstubbles and tillage on raising anddirectsowinginwetseedingwas same. Artificial screening techniqueof ricegenotypes to identifythepromisingsourcesagainst Artificial the grainsandreduces economic yield.Identification as itdirectlyinfects areas inIndia many ricegrowing in (teleomorph: Astudywasconductedontheeffect of differentrice Rice falsesmutcausedby Ustilaginoideavirens Grain yield (t/ha) agriculture Sustainable intensificationofrice-maizesystemthroughconservation 3 4 5 6 Mangal DeepTuti, MahenderKumar, R. B.Sreedevi,SoumyaSaha,M.N.Arun,Nirmala, Indian InstituteofRiceResearch, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad-500030,Telangana, India Indian InstituteofRiceResearch, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad-500030,Telangana, India th July, replicatedfourtimes.Dateofnursery ) is gaining importance Villosiclava virens) is gainingimportance D. Ladhalakshmi*, M.Sundaram,D.Krishanaveni, G.S.Laha, M.SrinivasPrasad, R. Fig. 1.Effectofestablishmentmethodonproductivityriceinrice-maizecroppingsystem false smutdiseaseunderfieldconditions B. Divya,P.C. andN.Sarala Latha, D.SanjeevaRao Research Highlights T. Vidhan SinghandBandeppa [email protected] th , 30 i.e. th

2 162 genotypes belonging to differentcategoriesviz.,HWR 162 genotypesbelonging types resistant tofalse smut disease. During 2018Kharif thegeno- is essential to identify number of germplasms to evaluatelarge technique screening of suitableartificial the highergrainyield(5.0t/ha). In rice varietyRNR15048wastakenin yielding High tillage) were minimum imposed over the khariftreatments. Similarly, in rabitwo tillage treatments (conventionaland among the3dateofsowings,1 wet seededrice(Fig.1).Similarly,direct 4.3 t/hain ha than grain yieldof5.3t/ method resultedsignificantlyhigher Manual transplanting followed as perrecommendation. taken. All the agronomicpackage and practiceswere rabi single cross maize hybridvarietyDHM 117 was st date of sowing resulted dateofsowing

kharif. , 15 DAI (days after inoculation)onwardstillmaturity.15 DAI(days after Outof of expressionfrom forsymptom The plantswereobserved period ofgenotypes). maturity 2018 (duetodifferencein 2018 tofirstweekofSeptember of August middle during inoculated. Plant inoculation was done lers were artificially syringe duringeveninghours.For each genotype, 2- 4 til- a sterilehypodermic tillers using jected intotheindividual of 15 varieties weretestedatfourlocations during biofortification CRP- under grains atrialwasconstituted (Zn) in zinc and theirinfluenceonyield, and content of iron (Fe) and 2 ml of conidial suspension (2 x10 suspension 2 mlofconidial and suspendedinsteriledistilledwater centrifugation through with 125rpmfor2 weeks. Conidia were harvested plied in potato sucrose broth in a rotary shakerat27±2 a rotary potato sucrosebrothin plied in Pure cultureof the false smut pathogenwas mass multi- stage. selected forinoculationofthepathogenatbooting ent ricegenotypesweregrowninthefieldandplants inoculationunderfieldconditions.Differ artificial through nivara Oryza entries andSwarna/ lines (wildriceintrogressionlines),selected germplasm NPS lines Germplasm lines2018 Germplasm lines2017 Germplasm HWR lines Details ofgenotypes To studytheinteractionof genotype andenvironment GenotypexEnvironment interactiononrice grainyield,ironandzincconcentration Figure 1: Under artificial inoculation, rice genotypes expressed varying levelofsusceptibilityagainstfalsesmutdisease inoculation,ricegenotypesexpressed varying Figure 1:Underartificial Table withU.virensandpercentageofinfection 1:Detailsofricegenotypesinoculatedartificially 1 Surekha, K., 5 Sireesha, A., Sireesha, A., -2016. Improved germplasm kharif-2016. Improvedgermplasm Total no.ofgenotypes 1 ICAR-IIRR, inoculated 1 Madhu Babu,P., lineswerescreened 50 67 12 33 1 5 Sanjeeva Rao, D., Sanjeeva Rao, conidia/ml)wasin- 2 viz., Chinsurah Chinsurah, *[email protected] Total no.ofgenotypes expressed symptom 2 Bhowmick, M.K., O 3 C 1 Faizabad, - Ravindra Babu,Vand Ravindra 20 38 10 28 3 false smutdiseaseofrice. theresistantsourcesagainst toidentify der fieldconditions can befollowed un- screeningtechnique dardized artificial condition. Itwas concluded fromthestudythatstan- inoculation underglass house orfield either by artificial disease. However, thesegenotypeswillbere-evaluated disease and aregoodsources of resistance to false smut HWRandNPSlines(2018)didnotshowany germplasm, from 40-80%(Table 1). Numberof entries fromselected infection amongdifferentcategoriesofgenotypesranged balls/panicle ranging from 28 to31(Fig1). Percentage of of smut number with level ofsusceptibility showed highest 1-31). Thegenotypesviz.,GP235(2018)andHWR4 ceptibility (withnumberofsmutballs/panicle ranging from 92 genotypesshowedvariedlevelofsus- pathogen, smut inoculated withfalse 162 genotypesthatwere artificially (estimated inAtomicAbsorption Spectrophotometer) The yielddatafromall the fourlocationsandFe andZn at most of the locations. did notgerminate and ARB-45 (MTU) (Table 1).ThevarietiesTaroari Basmati,Akutphou (CHN), Faizabad (FZB), Karaikal (KRK) and Maruteru 4 Karaikal, 3 Alok Pandey., Percentage of infection 5 83.33 % 56.17% 84.84% Maruteru 1 40% *Neeraja, C.N. 4 Baskar, A., Maximum no.ofsmut balls perpanicles 20 28 17 31

IIRRIIRR Newsletter Newsletter Vol.14Vol.17 No.1, No.1, 2017 2019 IIRR Newsletter Vol.17 No.1, 2019 the rice crop. Off late it’s occurance is becoming frequent the ricecrop.Offlateit’soccurance isbecoming pest of rice which occasionally causes severe losses to mauritia Boisduval (Noctuidae: Lepidoptera)isasporadic recorded high Ferecorded high yielders. they arenothigh andthough at MTU Mutyalu at CHN andKRKChittimutyalu Chitti yields. ThevarietyImproved locations recordedhigher all 4 locationsandDRRDhan45BPT5204 atthree Zn inKalinga-3andChittimutyalu. Fe andhigh 45 andChittimutyalu Kalinga-3,DRRDhan in Pokkalihigh yields with 45 recordedhigher DRR Dhan and Kadamakudy Kalinga-3. AtMTU, Improved CM, ARB-45, in KadamakudyPokkali, BPT/CM MS,BPT5204and At FZB,thegrainyieldrecordedwascomparativelyhigher in Kalinga-3, High IronRiceand ImprovedChittiMutyalu. in Chittimutyalu andImproved Chitti Mutyalu and highZn Fehigh that orderwith yields in and Kasturirecordedhigher varieties BPT5204,DRRDhan45,Kadamakudypokkali Zn inKasturiandImprovedCM.Similarly,high atKRK,the (CM)MTU1010, ChittimutyaluandImprovedCM Fehigher similar yieldswith BPT/CM MS, in content and almost DRR Dhan45andBPT5204recordedhigher varieties werepresentedinTable 2. concentration inbrownricefromthreecentres for top three SNo 4 3 2 1 Rice swarming caterpillar or armyworm, Spodoptera caterpillar or armyworm, Rice swarming Among thetopthreevarieties, Kadamakudy pokkali at At CHN,thevarietiesKadamakudyPokkali, Kalinga-3, Maruteru Karaikal Faizabad Chinsurah Location Pathogenicity ofentomopathogenicnematodestoriceswarming caterpillar 3 2 1 3 2 1 2 3 1 3 2 1 Kadamakudy pokkali ARB-45 Improved ChittiMutyalu Kasturi &Kadamakudypokkali DRR Dhan45 BPT 5204 BPT XCMMS BPT 5204 Kadamakudy pokkali Kadamakudy pokkali Kalinga-3 DRR Dhan-45 Variety Name Satish N.Chavan,Somasekhar, Y. SridharandGururajKatti ICAR-Indian InstituteofRiceResearch, Hyderabad,500030 Grain Yield(t/ha)

Table 2:Grainyield,Fe andZnlevelsintop3Varieties Spodoptera mauritia 5.39 6.61 4.50 5.25 5.55 5.68 5.78 6.34 4.98 5.05 5.18 7.8 GY DRR Dhan45 Kalinga -3 Chitti Mutyalu MTU 1010 Improved ChittiMutyalu Chitti Mutyalu MTU 1010 Chitti Mutyalu BPT XCMMS Variety Name 4 Fe content(ppm)inGrain studies areneededfordrawingclearcutconclusions. confirmation and further concentration and micronutrient yield case ofgrain is evidentin is clearthatGxEinteraction study,most of the locations. Thus,from this preliminary it levels high yieldershave not recordedhighmicronutrient at content atmorethanonelocation.Ingeneral, micronutrient other entriesandsome common entriesrecorded higher locations andrecordedcomparativelyyields than higher wellatall performed at CHNandFZB.Thus,someentries and MTUhighFe at MTU though itis a high yielder FeThe varietyKalinga-3recordedhigh andZnatKRK species viz.Steinernemaglasseri,Heterorhabditis indica, crop. In thepresent studythepathogenicityof three EPN severewet seasonrice losses causing in India southern country, ofthe and eastern especiallyin several parts in Kanchana Akut phou Mutyalu Improved Chitti Taroari Basmati Kasturi Variety Name ofthe - Table 1:Varieties testedacrosslocations 43.3 47.1 62.5 37.8 45.1 53.0 26.4 26.8 40.9 Kalinga -3 NC 365 pokkali Kadamakudy High IronRice ARB-45 Variety Name ofthe Fe - Improved ChittiMutyalu Kalinga -3 Chitti Mutyalu Improved ChittiMutyalu High IronRice Kalinga -3 - BPT XCMMS Kasturi Improved ChittiMutyalu Variety Name Zn content(ppm)inGrain BPT 5204 Chittimutyalu BPT XCMMS MTU 1010 DRR Dhan45 Variety Name ofthe

19.7 21.8 30.2 36.4 36.8 41.3 27.9 31.1 31.9 Zn - V Shilpakala,JhansiLakshmi, MSeshumadhav, NCVenkateswarlu, GururajKatti,PMChirutkarandGPadmavathi and specific-SSR-markers. Genotyping data of SSR markers data ofSSR Genotyping specific-SSR-markers. CTAB method andwas analyzed by PCR using 98BPH ing-Technique (SSST). evaluated in Glasshouse by Standard-SeedBox-Screen- derabad and theirreactiontohost plant differentials was Godavari-AndhraPradesh, Toopran-Telangana, IIRR-Hy- Kampasagar-Telangana,Gangavathi-Karnataka, West- Raipur-Chattisgarh,India viz.,Bargarh-Orissa, regions in the diversity. BPHpopulationswerecollectedfromdifferent markerstostudy SSR were characterised using country of the spot regions from hot BPH populations investigation, plant differentialsandinIndiabiotype-4ispresent.Inthis tance. Presentlybased onhost four biotypesareidentified biotypes thatareabletoovercomethehostplantresis- suckingpestof rice hasbeenevolvingintonew important lugens cultivars, brownplanthopper-BPH, Nilaparvata were killed in about The insect mortality. insect larvae causedcomplete which H. indicawasfoundhighlyvirulent exposure. Among theEPNspecies tested, 48 hours after caterpillar causing morethan62percentinsectmortality to therice swarming M. amsactaewerefoundpathogenic EPN speciestestedviz. three bioassays. All S. mauritiawas evaluated inlaboratory Molecularcharacterizationofricebrownplanthopper Metarhabditis amsactae DNA was extracted from eight BPH populationsby DNA wasextractedfromeight Owing totheextensivecultivationofresistantrice Larvae ofSpodopteramauritiafeedingon Larvae rice plantsHeterorhabditis indica ICAR-Indian InstituteofRiceResearch, Hyderabad,500030 to rice swarming caterpillar, to rice swarming (Homoptera: Delphacidae) S. glasseri,H.indicaand *Email: [email protected] Healthy larvae ofS.mauritia Healthy larvae an 5 tion inthreegenedifferentials (ARC 10550,Chinsabaand Nellore andNalgondapopulations sharedcommonreac- and Nelloreintoanothersub-group withsimilarityof 0.40. Nalgonda, Westsimilarity of0.43 Godavariasonewith two subgroupsviz., Group- 2isseparated into RP 2068. only Gangavathi populationsharedcommonreactionwith and whereasIIRR RP 2068,MTU1010andSinnasivappu) common reactioninfourgenedifferentials (ARC 10550, andRaipur populationshowed population.Bargarh garh population showed similarity of 0.50 withIIRRandBar population. Raipur Bargarh showed similarityof0.51with glasshouse population populations. InthisclusterIIIR only similarityof0.39fromotherthree grouped byhaving Raipur,Bargarh, out- Gangavathi.Gangavathipopulation of fourpopulationsi.e.,IIRR,groups: Group1consisting This analysis clustered eightBPH populations intothree V6.0. DARwin using (UPGMA) Mean method Arithmetic method with pairgroup Unweighted were analyzedusing 24-48 h after inoculation with EPN. TheLD inoculationwith 24-48 hafter management of rice swarming caterpillarinrice. management ofriceswarming and theseEPNscanbeusedasbiocontrolagentsfor the glasseri andM.amsactae of EPNviz.H.indica,S. demonstrated thepathogenicity 48 and72hofexposurerespectively. Thisinvestigation against populations ofIndia was 41, 26 and 19 IJs/larvae at24, S. mauritiawas 41, 26and19IJs/larvae Nilaparvata lugens (Stål) BPH, Nilaparvata nematode Heterorhabditis indica larvae infectedwith S. mauritialarvae to rice swarming caterpillar toriceswarming 50 ofH.indica -

IIRRIIRR Newsletter Newsletter Vol.14Vol.17 No.1, No.1, 2017 2019 IIRR Newsletter Vol.17 No.1, 2019 Bapatla Mahsuri(BPT2295):AvarietyreleasedforsinglecroppedareasofAndhraPradesh quite different. are similarwhereasIIRRandWest Godavari population are value. populations This indicatesthatRaipur andBargarh populationwith0.47 between Raipur andBargarh served is highestwith0.84value and lowest dissimilarity was ob- and WestDissimilarity betweenIIRR Godavaripopulations genedifferentials. seven outof thirty showed itsreactionin This population of 0.35. similarity the 3) with one (Group RP 2068).Toopran BPH population alone grouped into to harvest within 150 -155daysduring within to harvest Bapatla Mahsuri isa photo insensitivevariety and comes muchsuitablefor mechanical harvesting. nature, itisvery conditions. Duetonon-lodging of grains under normal more numberofgrains(250-300)andnoshattering foliage, profuse tilleringability, long&densepaniclewith Kharif longdurationvariety suitable for cultivation during dwarf, also. It haslightbrowncolouredglumeandmedium to October)conditions (up and issuitableforlateplanting S.No 14 13 12 11 10 15 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

season. It has erect plant typewithmediumgreen BPT 2295 isahighyielding,non-lodging,semi- Quality parameter Cooking quality Keeping quality cooking(mm) lengthafter Kernel Water uptake Gelatinization temperature Volume expansionratio Chalkiness 1000 grainweight(g) (%) Head ricerecovery Milling (%) Hulling (%) L/B ratio breadth Kernel length Kernel Elongation ratio(mm) Physico-chemical andbiochemicalqualityparametersofBapatlaMahsuri Krishna Veni,B., Suneetha,Y., C.V Rao, Mrudhula,K.AandRama Agricultural Research Station,Bapatla,Guntur,Agricultural Research AndhraPradesh Excellent &nonsticky DESCRIPTION Intermediate Absent Kharif 16.52 Good 60.2 70.4 80.6 2.77 1.81 5.02 1.91 340 9.6 4.2 season 6 suitable for single croppedwetlandsof Andhra Pradesh. much is very BPT2295 conditions, t/ha) underirrigated yield potential(6.5-7.0 high also for about7-10days.With conditions Machilipatnam) andcantoleratewaterlogging screening trial conducted undersaline condition at ARS, diseases. Itistoleranttosalinity(recordedscore4in neck blast tolerance toBPH,leafblastand exhibited quality.eating and goodcooking has very and BPT2295 physic-chemical qualityparametersindesirablerange head ricerecovery, BapatlaMahsuripossessallthe comes under finegraincategory. With high millingand arewhiteandtransluscent slender grains,kernels Based ongenotypingdata S.No 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 Quality parameter Aroma Resistant starch(%) Slowly digestiblestarch(%) Rapidily digestiblestarch(%) Total starch(%) rice (mg/100g) Total phenolcontentinbrown (mgAAE/100g) Antioxidant activityinbrownrice Zn contentinpolishedrice(ppm) Zn contentinbrownrice(ppm) Fe contentinpolishedrice(ppm) Fe contentinbrownrice(ppm) Protein content(%) Gel consistency(mm) Amylose content(%) Alkali spreadingvalue Toofran Nalgonda Gangavathi Nellore Westgodavari Bargarh Glasshouse Grouping ofBPHpopulations Based onphenotypingdata Raipur DESCRIPTION Nalgonda Non scented Toopran Nellore 38.69 58.49 63.88 75.59 26.87 Bargarh 2.84 12.0 6.03 24.8 Glasshouse 9.5 2.2 7.9 5.0 22 Westgodavari Gangavathi ranging from 53.16% (BPT 2858) to 81.78%(BPT 3145). Genotypes showedwiderangeofvariationfortotalstarch amyloseis desirable. contentwhich manifested intermediate (26.36 %)andHarsha (25.4%). All other genotypes recorded maximumvalue(27.4%)followed by Samyuktha was exhibited by BPT 3137 (16.4%)whileMatta Triveni Technology Centre(PHTC), Bapatla. Lowamylose content Starch (SDS)andResistant Starch(RS)atPost harvest Rapidly Digestible Starch(RDS)&SlowlyDigestible color wereestimatedfortotalstarch,amylose content, genotypes possessingred,blackandlightbrownpericarp and beneficialeffectofdifferentcerealstarches.Eighteen functional foods, research has beenfocussed on health awareness about related healthproblemsandconsumer’s with sharpincreaseinlife-style intake. Now-a-days, role in meetingenergy requirements andnutrient important sourceofcarbohydrates, rice plays an dietary the primary and staple food of over half of theworld’s population. As sativa (Oryza Rice Black pericarpcoloredgenotypes Light brownpericarpcoloredgenotypes Red pericarpcoloredgenotypes Red S.No. 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 9 8 BPT 2858 BPT 2848 BPT 3136 BPT 3145 BPT 3137 BPT 3111 Samyuktha Jyothi Harsha BPT 2776 BPT 2660 BPT 2782 BPT 2595 BPT 2295 BPT 2270 BPT 5204 Annapurna MathaTriveni Designation Oryza sativa Starch profileindifferentcoloredrice(Oryza

L.) is the most important cereal crop most important the L.)is 1 Post Harvest TechnologyPost Harvest Centre, Bapatla, Amylose content Starch profilesofdifferentcoloredricegenotypes( Sandeep Raja, D Sandeep Raja, 24.3 20.9 21.1 21.7 16.4 23.0 26.4 22.0 25.4 23.6 21.1 21.5 23.9 24.1 20.9 22.6 18.9 27.4 (%) Total Starch content (%) 1 53.16 70.49 81.66 81.78 75.33 68.77 69.35 69.42 77.11 70.80 64.16 63.41 62.52 63.88 62.78 65.39 71.84 79.33 , KrishnaVeni, B 7 BPT 2595(3.21%). followed by BPT3111(3.52%), 3145 (3.41%)and while maximumRSwas manifested byBPT 2848 (3.97%) study,Jyothi (1.1%) in RS contentwasobserved minimum the genotypesunder colonhealth.Among help tomaintain as energy source for colonocytes and thus may serve fermentation during and themetabolitesformed intestine inlarge and getsfermented hydrolysis insmall intestine BPT 5204 (41.02). The resistant starch escapes enzyme SDS includeBPT2270(42.84),2660(41.14)and high recorded diabetic diet.Othergenotypeswhich in inclusion SDS values with high will havelow GI andaredesirable for and steadyreleaseofbloodglucose.Hence,genotypes is digestedmore slowly,or otherreasonit slow in resulting to becompletely digested inthesmallbutforone intestine, is expected (BPT 2848).LikeRDS,SDS 2858) to43.34% (BPT varied from32.21% 2776 (65.97%)whereasSDS in BPT2848(49.75%)andmaximum minimum starch is genotypes tested,rapidly digestible Among the Rapidly Digestible Rapidly 2 ARS, Bapatla, Starch (%) 2 andSridevi,P 61.32 49.75 65.03 58.69 60.59 64.20 62.77 64.59 60.59 65.97 56.64 60.69 64.46 58.49 54.59 56.53 61.74 63.88 Oryza sativa Oryza 3 Agril. College, Bapatla College, Agril. L.)genotypes Slowly Digestible 3 L.) Starch (%) 32.21 43.34 32.43 37.90 38.16 32.28 34.34 34.31 36.85 32.85 41.14 37.05 32.33 38.67 42.84 41.02 36.94 34.91

Starch (%) Resistant Resistant 2.89 3.97 2.54 3.41 1.25 3.52 2.89 1.10 2.56 1.18 2.24 2.26 3.21 2.84 2.57 2.45 1.32 1.21

IIRRIIRR Newsletter Newsletter Vol.14Vol.17 No.1, No.1, 2017 2019 IIRR Newsletter Vol.17 No.1, 2019 RDF; T manuring withDhaincha+residuemulch@2t/ha75% residue mulch @ 2 t/ha + 50% RDF; andT @ 2t/ha+50% residue mulch (PSB) 3.5 kgeach+brownmanuringwithDhaincha There weresixtreatmentcombination{T during change. Forwas conducted purpose anexperiment this climate predicted system under and ricebasedcropping managementpracticeswere of tested inrice nutrient a combination climatic conditions on accountofchanging Effect of crop growth stages on microbial diversity in different rice establishment methods diversity indifferentrice Effect ofcropgrowthstagesonmicrobial seed and soil application +FYM @ 5t/ha + 50%RDF}. bacteria (PSB)3.5kgeachboth + Phosphatesolubilising as rhizodeposition. NTP method at harvesting stagewas NTPmethodatharvesting as rhizodeposition. up to20percentof photosynthetically assimilated carbon to release of rootexudates,as plantsareknown utilization andbetter of rootsurface stage isthecolonization ering number ofmicrobesat flow probable reason for higher and thesubsequentfallow period, the off towards harvest communities peaked at theflowering stage and itlevelled (25 CFU/gramofsoil).Microbial gram ofsoil)andfungi bacteria (270CFU/gramofsoil),actinomycetes(120 highestmicrobialpopulation; stage were found tosupport cific media.Sample collected from AR method atflowering (AWD) NTP. and drying spe- Sampleswereanalyzedusing namely,method and wetting (AR), alternate aerobicrice fromdifferentriceestablishment flowering, andharvesting at differentcropgrowthstagesviz.tillering, enumeration fortotal microbial collected from theIIRRresearch farm Samples were rice establishmentmethods. different in ence of rice crop growth stages on microbial population bacteria (PSB) 3.5 kgeach+75%RDF;T 75% RDF; T RDF; 75% + Dhaincha with + PSB3.5kgeachbrownmanuring & KasBasal); T (50% Basal+25% Active tillering +25%floweringandP (RDF)(splitapplicationofNitrogen dose ofNPKfertilizers To addresstheissueofsustainabilityfoodproduction An experimentwas conducted tostudytheinflu- Climate resilientmanagementpracticesinriceandbasedcroppingsystems rabi 5 Bandeppa*, P.C. M.Sundaram,D.Tuti Latha, K.Surekha,Kalyani.M.B,R. andC.Chandrakala : Azotobactor + Phosphate solubilisingbacteria Mangal DeepTuti,* MahenderKumar, R. Singh,SoumyaSahaandK.Surekha B.Sreedevi,Aarti 2015-16 andkharif 4 : Azotobactor + PSB 3.5 kgeach+brown : Azotobactor+PSB 2 : Azotobactor+Phosphatesolubilising Indian Institute of Rice Research, Hyderabad-500030,India Indian InstituteofRiceResearch, 2016 atsevenlocations. ICAR-IIRR, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad-500030

1 : Recommended 3 6 : Azotobactor *E-mail: [email protected] : Azotobactor - 8 AR (3.9t/ha). NTP (7.3 t/ha)followedin byAWDhighest (5.9t/ha)and fungi (12CFU/gramof soil) (Fig.1). Thegrainyieldwas gram ofsoil),actonomycetes(50CFU/soil)and found withlowest microbial population;bacteria (150 CFU/ productivity (12.5t/ha)atPuducherry. the system 75% RDFwasthebesttreatmentforenhancing dhaincha +residuemulch@2 t/ha+ with manuring revealed that Azotobactor + PSB3.5kg each + brown was it MoncompuandPuducherry) 3 locations(Maruteru, t/ha. Similarly, Amongtherice-ricesystems conducted at 75% RDFresultedthehighestsystem productivity of 9.48 dhaincha +residuemulch@2t/ha with manuring wheat system, Azotobactor + PSB3.5kgeach + brown flowering andP&Kas basal). + 25%However,rice- in (50% basal + 25%activetillering application ofnitrogen (split (9.67 t/ha) with recommendeddose of NPK fertilizers system productivitywasrecordedinrice-rice to rice-linseedandrice-chickpeasystems.Thehighest compared and rice-wheatsystemweremoreproductive of respective places. Rice-rice tested atresearchfarm and Rice-chickpeasystematVadagaonat Chinsurah were Rice-wheat atKanpur, Rice-linseed Rice-riceatMaruteru, Fig.1 Total NumberofMicrobesatdifferentcropgrowth stagesand

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guest fortheInauguralsessionheldon9 Dr. S.K.Soam,Joint Director, ICAR-NAARM was the chief the Hackathon. in forparticipating each wereshortlisted of 4studentsandonementor and fiveteamscomprising Totallydetection”. pest rice abstracts werereceived eleven was “MobilebasedAImodulefor The problemstatement Intelligence. Artificial using based solutionstofarmers students fordevelopingIT in ICARinvolvingengineering with NationalScienceDay. This was the FirstHackathon Technologicalstood firstfollowedbythe University A teamfromJawaharlal Nehru were announced. prizes of mobileapp.Two bestprizesandtwoconsolation their methodologies,outputs followed by demonstration Research 9-10 during has been organisedat ICAR-Indian Institute of Rice for thebenefitofwomen staff of theInstitute. at ICAR-IIRR intelligence moduleforRicePest Detection RiceHackathon(SRH 2019) onartificial Smart Inauguration ofWomen’s Cell held at10AM on 10 enthusiasm. much theHackathonwith throughout actively participated mentors andevaluators for theHackathon.Allteams and R. NagarjunaKumar, ICAR-CRIDA)actedasexternal M. Balakrishnan and N.SrinivasaRao, ICAR-NAARM (Drs. evaluators theHackathon.ComputerExperts during and R. mentorsand MahenderKumar) actedas Internal G. Katti, M. S. Prasad, S.Hariprasad D. Subrahmanyam, A. Entomology, Pathology, Physiology andAgronomy(Drs. from matter experts colleges. Subject teams fromdifferent Dr. S.R. Voleti, Director, welcomedchiefguestandall the Smart RiceHackathon2019(24hourscontinuous) Smart 2019,‘Women’s Cellwasinaugurated On 1January Closing session of Smart RiceHackathon(SRH)was Closing sessionofSmart th February 2019. Theteamspresented February th February 2019 February Panorama ofInstitutionalActivities th February 2019. February in connection in 9 Krishnaveni. occasion. Finally, voteofthankswaspresented byDr. D. on this RiceHackathon”weredistributed “Smart in block chain technologies.Theawards teams for winning need tofocus on imageanalysis based applications and based applications in Agriculture.He emphasised the He elaborated on potentialareas for development of AI special lectureon“Artificial IntelligenceinAgriculture”. Director (Acting),NAARM,Hyderabaddelivereda Joint The chiefguest,Dr. intelligence. artificial in S.K.Soam, of high qualitypublication that Indiaranksthirdinterms (AI) andsaid intelligence about artificial a briefintroduction (AICRIP) activities andsignificantachievements.He gave and apprisedthemofIIRRresearchco-ordination R. Voleti,welcomed thestudents Director(A),ICAR-IIRR Dr.Padmavathi, ICAR-IIRRwelcomed the participants. S. inthescience day celebrations. Dr.participated Ch. from IIRR 20 scientists mentors and colleges alongwith 28 Institute of Rice Research, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad on February 2019 IIRRon28 Day celebrationsatICAR- National Science AICRIP workshop. validated at field level and will be released during be further intelligence.Thisappwill of Artificial techniques learning deep real timeimagescaptured at fieldlevel with using canbe done pest detectionbythefarmers Engineering, The “Aavishkar App”developed by JNTU college of D. KrishnavenandB.Sreedevicoordinatedtheevent. of Drs.B. Sailaja, Ch. Padmavathi,scientists comprising College receivedconsolationprizes.Ateamof Engineering from Vasavicollege andMahatmaGandhi engineering College. Teamsteam fromNarayanammaEngineering th February 2019. Sixty students from localengineering 2019.Sixtystudents February National ScienceDaywascelebratedatICAR–Indian

IIRRIIRR Newsletter Newsletter Vol.14Vol.17 No.1, No.1, 2017 2019 IIRR Newsletter Vol.17 No.1, 2019 achievements, raising awareness againstbiasand achievements, raising staff cadre. Theneedforcelebratingwomen’s farm the scientific,technical,administrative andsupporting representing of allthewomenpersonnel oftheinstitute the significantcontribution appreciated andhighlighted Speaking onthe occasion the Director(A), Dr. S.R. Voleti toachievegenderequality. ofefforts women attheheart Innovate for Change’, Build Smart, Women’sThe themefor International Day, ‘ThinkEqual, on March8,2019attheInstitute. 8, 2019byICAR-IIRR was conducted at ICAR –IIRRHyderabad from 6 grower” International women’sdaycelebrated grower Skill developmenttrainingprogrammeonQualityseed February to4 February enterprises. theirown employed andsomestarted in govtinstitutes programme, traineeswere of thetraining completion seed companies andseed growers association. After private trainees weretakentodifferentresearch institutes, management, seedtesting,processingandstorage. The pest anddisease pollination, supplementary techniques, package of practices for quality seed production, crossing in was imparted and othercrops.Handsontraining like Rice, sorghum,maize,sunflower, millets,vegetables were trained inqualityseed production indifferentcrops unemployed youthfromninedistrictsofTelangana state Agriculture Skill Council of India (ASCI). A group of 20 sponsored byRastriyaVikas Yojana Krishi (RKVY)through International Women’sInternational Day was celebrated on March programme on“Qualityseed Skill developmenttraining th March 2019. The training programme was March2019.Thetraining puts innovationby th

10 program. Dr. andDr. B.Nirmala AmtulWaris coordinatedthetraining and integratedpestmanagement. ment, timelyirrigation, and manures,timelyweedmanage- dosage offertilizers ricultural practicessuchasquality seed,therecommended good ag- advised toreducethecostofcultivationbyusing farmer-scientist interactionwas organized. Farmers were in theprogram. A participated angana. About70farmers nized on 7 nized systems’ wasorga- rice-basedcropping through income through rice-basedcroppingsystems’ Training income program on enhancingfarmer’s for Crop Improvement” was conducted on 10 was conducted for CropImprovement” application & Biopesticidesandtheir of Biofertilizers application inCropImprovement &Biopesticidesand their usage of Biofertilizers Training programmefortribalfarmwomenon Outreach Programmes Women’s Daycelebrations. reiterated uponbyDr. AmtulWaris, thecoordinatorof the of womenwas for collectivegrowth coaching mentoring, Thestrengthandpower of of ETVchannelforfarmers. on ‘Jaikisan’of womenscientistswashighlighted program world was stressed upon. As a special feature thework committed actionforequalityabetterandbalanced participated inthetrainingprogramme. participated Devarakonda Mandal, Telangana’. A total of 80 farmers systems in rice-based cropping development in agricultural practicesandeco-entrepreneurship womenthrough good of tribal farm empowerment DST sponsoredcollaboratingprojecton‘Technological Biotech Foundation incollaboration withICAR-IIRRunder 2019 atDevarkonda Mandal, Nalgonda District by Agri An off-campus training program ‘Enhancing farmers’ farmers’ program ‘Enhancing training An off-campus Training womenon“Usage programme fortribalfarm th February 2019 atDeverakonda Mandal,Tel February - th January January

Andhra Pradesh coordinatedtheinteraction. and Dr.IIRR Scientist, Officer,Agriculture S.Narasimham, tion of water savingtechnologies.Dr. Senior B.Nirmala, were advisedtoreducethecostof cultivation byadop- The farmers rice production. water savingtechnologiesin Awareness wascreatedaboutthe farmers among the particular.general anddirectseededricein nologies in raised queriesrelatedtoadoptionof water saving tech- shared their experiences related to paddy cultivation and the program.Theparticipants in participated 50 farmers coordinated byDr. AmtulWaris. production of biopesticide, Trichoderma. The program was families. Dr.their V.on Sandhya gavehands-on-training to enhance theyieldandtherebyincomeof on theirfarms practices visit andadoptimprovedvarieties, management their during farm IIRR the on various researchactivities the to keenlyobserve them womenandurged dressed thefarm practices’. TheDirector, ICAR-IIRR, Dr. S. R. Voleti ad- good agricultural womenthrough offarm empowerment the DSTsponsoredproject,‘Technologicalunder District from Devarakonda Mandal,Nalgonda women tribal farm dation, Hyderabadwasorganizedon vari District,AndhraPradesh on6 manpally village, Mummidivaram Mandal, East Goda Farmer-scientist interactionmeeting tribal farmwomen Exposure visit& An ExposurevisittoICAR–IIRRandAgribiotechFoun- A farmer-scientistwas organizedatKom interaction - eco-entrepreneurship trainingfor th March2019.About March 16,2019for - 11 store/apps/details?id=in.iirrmobapp.hava.myapp5_4_18) installed onall android mobiles.(https://play.google.com/ achievements ofIIRR. Thiscanbedownloaded and the success stories andsignificant This Apphighlights sites. Store andlinkisavailable in IIRRandKrishiPortal application andpublishedsuccessfully on Google Play IIRR Profile mobileappdeveloped maps were successfully published in this portal. maps weresuccessfullypublishedinthisportal. riod of rice crop,soil quality maps, agro-climatic zones flowering pe- during heat zonesidentified seed production, suitableareasforhybrid generated fromSpatialRiceDSS, maps, riceyield map and ricepestdiseasedistribution maps ofAICRIPfundedcentres,riceareaandyield Geo-referenced effectively this portal. visualised through based applicationsdevelopedinIIRR,work was theentire Since there are many GIS be easily published inthisportal. and GeoExt. Geo-referenced maps can nologies GeoServer (http://www.iirr-geoportal.inIIRR Geoportal .) developed Developed a Mobile App on “IIRRProfile” using android IIRR geoportal was developed using open sourcetech- wasdevelopedusing geoportal IIRR

IIRRIIRR Newsletter Newsletter Vol.14Vol.17 No.1, No.1, 2017 2019 IIRR Newsletter Vol.17 No.1, 2019 Dr. • Dr. • Dr. • Awards &Fellowships varipirusasyarakshana&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.iirr. available in googleplay store. Thisiscurrently farmers. guage, demonstratedandinstalled successfully for 75 Rice IPMmobileappdeveloped yellow stemborerdamage”inFieldcropsresearch enhances siliconavailability to riceplantsandreduces the paper on “Ricehuskash and imidazoleapplication Foundationreceived bestpaperawardonIIRR day for Society ofIndia,NewDelhi was elected asLifeFellowEntomological ofthe post-doctoral fellowship under Indo-Japanese Joint Developed a mobile App on ‘Rice IPM’ in TeluguIPM’ in ‘Rice Developed amobileAppon lan- Editorial Committee:Drs.Y. Sridhar, C.Gireesh, P. Senguttuvel,DivyaBalakrishnan, Bandeppa,Mr. U.Chaitanya A. A. Divya P. P. Padma Padma Staff Activities Balakrishnan Fax: +91-40-24591217e-mail:[email protected] ;URL:http://www.drricar.org Kumari Kumari Principal Principal selected icar Rajendranagar, Hyderabad–500030,Telangana, India. Scientist Scientist -Indian Instituteof Rice Research for Phone: +91-40-24591216, 24591254 INSA-DST-JSPS (Entomology) (Entomology) Photo Credits:K.Chaitanya Published by Director 12 Mr. • Satish • Dr. • Dr. • Deputations Dr. • Dr. • Trainings/Symposium attended Mr. • Retirements February 2019. February on 28 the ageofsuperannuation onattaining service 2019. superannuation on28February onattainingtheageof retired fromtheservice Fellowship Programme 2018-2019”Jan-July2019 Projectof Young on“Establishment Researcher studies atGhentUniversity, Ghent,Belgium. FellowshipInternational 2018-19” from 30March2019to29June2019. outstandingYoungBahadur Shastry scientistAward Heine University, underLal Germany Düsseldorf, of Molecular Physiology,to Institute is ondeputation 27 Jan2019to26July2019. INSA-DST-JSPSunder post-doctoralfellowshipfrom to workwithDr.deputation Y. Fukuta, JIRCAS, Okinawa Chennai. Sivasubramaniya NadarCollegeofEngineering, at Sri versiontookplaceon2-3March,2019 software at NewDelhi. 2019 20-23, Science Congress,February Agriculture Divya B. Satendra Anata V. N. Sailaja Chawan Srinivasa Sarla Balakrishnan, Reddy, attended Mangrautia, (National selected Rao, Technical

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