Quality characteristics of certain promising varieties/genotypes of urd bean (Vigna mungo L.)

The present work on quality characteristics of promising varieties/genotypes of urd bean was carried out in the laboratories of the Department of Agricultural Biochemistry, Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and Technology, Kanpur (U.P.) Variety Shekhar-1 gave highest grain yield of 13.85q/ha while genotype Ku-16-07 showed maximum test weight of 46.70 g. In processing characteristics, highest dhal recovery of 73.90% and lowest husk recovery of 4.0% was obtained in urd bean variety/genotype Shekhar-3, Ku-16-07, Azad-2 respectively as compared to rest of the varieties/genotypes of urd bean and significantly minimum broken dhal per cent (4.12%) was recorded in urd bean genotype Ku-303, whereas genotype Ku-16-04 was having lowest percentage loss in processing (8.78%). Different biochemical parameter such as protein, methionine and tryptophan contents were estimated and it was found that variety Shekhar-3 showed highest value of protein and methionine contents (25.79%, 0.75mg/16g N, respectively) while genotype Ku-16-07 gave highest value of tryptophan content (0.70mg/16g N).