ms-mankotia

Name : Dr. M S Mankotia

Designation : Prof. (Fruit Science)

Qualification : Ph.D

Fellowship/ Award: UNDP fellowship during MSc & Ph.D

programme

Discipline : Fruit Science Phone: 9418110371
Fax: 0177-2740793
Specialization: Pomology Email:
msmankotia2006@yahoo.
Mission : Sustainable quality fruit production with co.in

tree management

Work experience: 24½ years

Teaching experience: NA

Research Activities:

• Projects in hand (as PI in externally funded projects)
• Title of Research scheme: ‘Establishment of field gene bank of temperate fruits’

funded by PPV & FRA, GOI, New Delhi.

Objectives: a) Collection, establishment and maintenance of live repository of
temperate fruits.

b) Creation of facility for development of DUS testing
c) Morphological characterization of available varieties from DUS

testing.
d) Collection of prominent farmer’s varieties.

Competed projects (as PI)

1. Effect of Promalin on fruit set, yield and quality of Starking Delicious apple.
2. Effect of Paras Photosynth (a.i. 0.5% mixtatol) on fruiting of Delicious apple
3. Effect of ethephon on fruit quality and retune bloom of apple
4. Study of chemical fruit thinning in apple
5. Studies on role of Dormex on enhancement of flowering, fruiting and quality of

apple.
6. Bio-efficiacy of agrochemical Biovita in apple
7. Bio-efficiacy of agrochemical Biozeme fruit in apple
8. Studies on the bio-efficiacy of plant growth regulator –Sitofex in Delicious apple
9. Studies on the bio-efficiacy of Herbozyme-biological plant growth enhancer in

apple
10. Testing of Bioproduct Supra amino liquid in apple
11. Evaluation of Godrej Vipul Booster (Triacontanol 0.1% EW) and Godrej Double

(Homobrassinolide 0.04%) in Delicious apple

12. Field evaluation on bio-efficacy of test chemical Super Plant Booster ( SOF) for
improving yield and quality of apple

Publication

Mankotia, M S; 2006. Influence of changing climatic variables on apple productivity
trends.Tempearte Horticulture: Current Scenario, D K Kishore, Satish K Sharma
and K K Pramanick eds PP 379-388.

Mankotia, M S; P S Chauhan and A.Sud;2006. Role of Promalin (GA 4+7+ BA )
application on fruiting and quality of Delicious apples. Temperate Horticulture
Current Scenario. D K Kishore, Satish K Sharma and K K Pramanick eds pp 249-
253.

M S Mankotia; K K Jindal; P S Chauhan and A.Sud;2004. Estimation of effective
chilling hours and GDHoC requirement and its significance in prediction of full
bloom in Delicious apple. Acta Horticulture, 662:83-86

Jindal K K and M S Mankotia;2004.Impact changing climatic conditions on chilling
units, physiological attribution and productivity of apples in Western Himalayas.
Acta Horticulture, 662;111-117

Chauhan P S; A.Sud; L K Sharma and M S Mankotia, 2005.Studies on the effect of
microirrigatin levels on growth, yield, fruit quality and nutrient assimilation in
Delicious apples. Acta Horticulture,696:193-196.

Jindal K K; S. Pal; P S Chauhan and M S Mankotia,2002. Effect of Promalin and
mixtalol on fruit growth, yield efficiency and fruit quality of Starking Delicious
apple. In On-site Programme, XXVth International Horticultural Congress &
Exhibition (IHC 2002) Horticulture, Art and Science for Life.WWW.IHC2002 org.
Metro Toronto Convention center,1340-1440,513-8-125,pp 372.

Mankotia M S; Chauhan Archna and Chauhan Anjana;2008. Impact of climate change on
apple production, methods to overcome weather vagaries and future strategies. In
‘Apple-latest development trends and challenges in India’ National Seminar
organized by National horticultural Board,pp 126-136.

Verma K S; Bhardwaj D R; Bhardwaj S K; Thakur C L; Mankotia M S; Chand K and S.
Goswami;2009,Carbon stacks and CO2 mitigation potential of Agro forestry
systems in Himachal Pradesh. In Global Climate change and Indian Agriculture
chapter 30 Case studies from the ICAR Network Project, ed PK Aggarwal ICAR,
New Delhi, pp 135-139.

Sud, Aswani; P S Chauhan; M S Mankotia and Gopal Singh;2009. Performance of
Potassium, Zink and Boron on growth, yield and quality of apple(Malus domestica
Borkh) Himachal Journal of Agricultural Research Vol 35(2): 241-243

Mankotia M S; P S Chauhan and K K Jindal;2002. Winter chilling of temperate fruits –
Analysis and implication on fruit productivity. In ‘Enhancement of temperate fruit
production’ K K Jindal and D R Gautam (eds) pp 71-78

Jindal K K and M S Mankotia,2005;Produtivity in temperate fruits with special reference
to apple under changing climatic scenario. In Proc. Of the Ist Indian Horticulture
Congress 2004.Vol 1: 424-433.

Jindal K K; P S Chauhan and M S Mankotia;2001. Apple production in relation to
environmental components; Compendium of ICAR Phmsored winter school;
Productivity of temperate fruits-Issues and Strategies K K Jindal and D R Gautam
eds. pp 14-22

Jindal K K; P S Chauhan and M S Mankotia.2002. Apple production in changing climatic
scenario issues and Constarints. In ‘Enhancement of temperate fruit production. K
K Jindal and D R Gautam (eds) pp 51-59

Jindal K K; P S Chauhan and M S Mankotia;2002. Effect of changing climate on
productivity of apple. Horti Vision 2020.JM Singh, RP Sharma and VK Sharma
(eds) Dept. of Hort. HP and NHB publication pp 254-262

Chauhan, P S; M S Mankotia and A.Sud;2002.Advances in hormonal regulation of fruit
growth, fruit thinning, fruit drop and maturity of temperate fruits. In‘Enhancement
of temperate fruit production K K Jindal and D R Gautam (eds) pp 320-324

Sud, A; P S Chauhan and M S Mankotia;2002. Effect of monsoon and winter rains on
growth,yield and quality of temperate fruits. In ‘Enhancement of temperate fruit
production KK Jindal and DR Gautam (eds).

Mankotia, M S; P S Chauhan and A.Sud;2003. Chemical regulation of cropping in apple.
In ‘Abstracts of Poster session’ 6th Agricultural Science Congress, on multi
enterprise systems for viable agriculture, held at Bhopal (MP) wef 13-15
Feb.2003,pp112

Mankotia M S; Chauhan Anjana; Chauhan Archna and Karkara B.K;2008.Influence of
chill unit and growing degree hours accumulated during winters on productivity
potential of Starking Delicious under changing climate, In ‘Abstracts of the third
Indian Horticulture Congress-2008.pp 185.

Mankotia M S; Rana S S; Karkara B.K.; Chauhan Anjana and Chauhan Archna;2008.
Role of Sitofex-CPPU on fruiting and quality of Delicious apple. In ‘Abstracts of
the third Indian Horticulture Congress-200.pp 179

Mankotia M S; P S Chauhan and B K Karkara;2007. Use of Dormex in apple for
enhancing of flowering and improvement of productivity. In ‘Souveuir and
Abstracts II Indian Horticulture Congress 2007-Oppertunities and Linkages for
Horticulture Research and Development .pp 137.

• Books/ Manual- Nil
• Technical bulletin-3

Lab Members: 2 SRF under the project ‘Establishment of field gene bank of temperate
fruits’ funded by PPV & FRA, GOI, New Delhi.