Breeding of Vegetable, Spice and Tuber crops (2+1)

Achievements

• Synthetics and composite approaches have been often used in improvement of cross pollinated vegetables like onion, cauliflower, carrot, cabbage and spinach. Some examples of synthetic varieties are Pusa Early Synthetic 78-1, Pant Gobi -3 and Pusa Synthetic in cauliflower. Composites in some vegetables have been developed at SKUAST-J, Chatha, Jammu. Super Lal in carrot and C-13 in spinach beet are in advanced stage of testing.