Background: The growing use of nitrogen topdressing fertilisation, combined with late sowing of maize crops, causes greater sensitivity to lodging and breaking of plant stems, and poses risks to yield and grain quality. Thus, plant growth retardants are currently an option to mit...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/45254
Aims: The aim of this study was to evaluate, under field conditions, the effect of lowering previously the of pH of the water used in the tank mixture spraying of trinexapac-ethyl, (imidacloprid + beta-cyfluthrin), (trifloxystrobin + tebuconazole) and iodosulfuron-methyl on plant...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2017/38178
Triazoles and strobilurins group of fungicides have been reported to have dual properties (growth regulator and fungicide) and have been used to prevent the plant lodging. In this study four subsequent field experiments with oat cultivars with and without fungicide application we...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2017/35506
Virgílio Gavicho Uarrota, Cristiane Segatto, Camila Pereira Barbosa, Daicon Godeski Moreira, Deivid L. V. Stefen, Emanuel Mattos, Gustavo Viana Junkes, Camila Corrêa, Marcelo Eduardo Tormem, Maira Maier Bisato, Cileide Maria Medeiros Coelho & Clovis Arruda Souza·Journal of Experimental Agriculture International·2017
Greenhouse experiment was conducted with two cultivars of common beans and four concentrations of potassium (1, 2, 10 and 20 millimolar –mM ) were supplied to the soil pots aiming to access variations in plant antioxidant defense systems (secondary metabolites and enzymatic mecha...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2017/36359