This study was carried out to investigate the effect of refined petroleum products (diesel and gasoline, RPPs) on Sacciolepis africana (Hubb and Snowden). The parameters measured include number of leaves, plant height, biomass production, chlorophyll content index, leaf area and...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/24503
The aim of this research was to study the physical characteristics and the status of micronutrients in floodplain soils of Mayo-Gwoi in Taraba state, Nigeria. A detailed soil survey was conducted at the Mayo-Gwoi floodplain using rigid grid approach. Observations were made at 100...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/25777
H. Ramírez, M. G. Zavala-Ramírez, A. Sánchez-López, P. Aguilar-Zárate, N. Cristobal-Aguilar, R. Rodríguez-García, D. Jasso-Cantú, A. Zermeño-González, J. A. Villarreal-Quintanilla & A. López-Fabian·International Journal of Plant & Soil Science·2016
Aims: Greenhouse contemporaneous horticulture demands a permanent use of new technologies directed to improve yield and fruit quality. Although, the use of bioregulators has made an important contribution to agriculture by increasing yield in vegetable and fruit crops grown under...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/25682
Wadi Kerak catchment, located in southern Jordan, covers an area of 191 km². It is characterized by high soil erosion rates due to recurrent intense rainfall events and possibly climatic change, land use/land cover changes since the 1950s, and the dependence of people across the...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/25321
Aim: Incubation experiment was conducted to determine nutrient release patterns of tithonia compost and poultry manure in three dominant soils in the southern Guinea savanna, Nigeria. Study Design: Complete randomized design replicated three times. Methodology: Two- kilogram surf...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/25828
Inherent low soil nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) is one of the major hindrances of increased soybean productivity in Malawian soils. Although, inoculation of legumes with rhizobia, has been advocated for decades as a way of boosting leguminous crops’ productivity through biologi...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/24905
Four levels of aluminium activity (0, 5, 50 and 300 μMAl3+) were used to screen soybean seedlings in hydroponics for 3 days (3D) and 13 days (13D). The objective of the research was to determine genetic variation for aluminium stress tolerance in seedlings (primary root length, r...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/25902
Soil quality is defined as the soil’s capacity to function within natural or managed ecosystem boundaries and to sustain plant productivity while reducing soil degradation. It can be assessed by selecting different indicators upon which the functions of soil depend. Researchers a...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/24091
An experiment was conducted at the Wadi Soba farm, Khartoum- Sudan. The aim of this study is to estimate the Exchangeable Sodium Percentage (ESP) function to Sodium Adsorption Ratio. In this study, linear regression model (ESP-SAR model) for predicting soil ESP from SAR was sugge...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/25389
This research work is a field experiment carried out to evaluate the phytoremediation potential of Ricinus communis L (castor oil plant) in Zaria town of northern Nigeria. The sandy loam field (pH 6.78) used in the experiment was contaminated with Cd, Co, Ni and Pb from a metal d...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/21680