Aims: The main aim of this study was to find out the optimum plant density of onion for intercropping with coriander for higher productivity and economic return. Study Design: The experiment was arranged following randomized complete block design with three replications. Place an...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/12600
Aims: To determine the effect of trellising methods of determinate tomato varieties on fruit diameter, number of fruits per plant, marketable and total yields. Study Design: A 3 x 4 factorial experiment in Randomized Complete Block Design with 3 replications was used Place and Du...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/13070
Objectives: This study aimed at bioremediation potentials of organic pollutants, in particular, used lubricating oil contaminated soils, using commercial microbial nutrient. Other objectives were the evaluation of kinetic model to determine the rate of biodegradation of petroleum...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/11742
Investigations on characterization of various sunflower genotypes regarding their morphological, physiological, chemical parameters, seed oil and its quality through studying fatty acid composition under different salinity levels was carried out at Saline Agriculture Research Cen...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/12086
Joel L. Meliyo, Boniface H. J. Massawe, Leon Brabers, Balthazar M. Msanya, Didas N. Kimaro, Loth S. Mulungu, Nganga I. Kihupi, Jozef A. Deckersbel, Hubert Gulinck & Herwig Leirs·International Journal of Plant & Soil Science·2014
A study was carried out in Western Usambara, Tanzania to assess the status of soil micronutrients across three geomorphic units viz., plain, escarpment and plateau in order to provide essential information for on-going studies on plague epidemiology. Nineteen soil profiles were o...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/13717
Conservation Agriculture (CA) is an important technique for enhancing soil organic carbon (SOC) content in the surface layer and improving structural stability. CA is not widely practiced in dryland soils of developing countries where marginal farming practices are extensively us...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/14328
Aims: The aim of this work was to evaluate ESR (Exchangeable Sodium Ratio), MCARex (Monovalent Cation Adsorption Ratio) and CROSSex (Cation Ratio of Soil Structural Stability) as indices, using exchangeable cations in calculations, to predict clay dispersion behavior in two soils...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/12026
The bryophytes of the genus Orthotrichum (O. affine) are treated in hydroponic conditions with 125, 250, 500, 1000 and 1500 mg/L of two herbicides (Zoom and Sencorate) for 3, 7 and 14 days. The signs of toxicity are manifested by disturbances in chlorophyll contents (a, b and a +...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/13291
In order to clarify contribution of the mugineic acid family of phytosiderophores (MAs) to the iron (Fe) nutrient utilization for the survival of grasses grown in sodic soils, the secretion of MAs from the roots of Puccinellia chinampoensis Ohwi (P. chinampoensis), one of the sod...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/13640
This study used the soil management assessment framework (SMAF) to evaluate the quality of wastewater irrigated soils in urban Kano, Nigeria in the dry season of 2012. Three sites each on Challawa and Jakara rivers receiving industrial and domestic wastewaters respectively were s...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/13472