Aim: The effect of 4 different nitrogen dosages (7, 10, 13 & 16 mM) on the Plant Height, Dry Matter Yield, Number of Fruit per Plant, Fruit Yield per Plant, and Total Nitrogen Concentration of the Spring S1, which is one of the parthenocarpic hybrid cucumber types grown in N...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/25499
To accelerate the acclimation of novel crops for bio-energy feedstock supply chain, a pilot study focused on Miscanthus giganteus was conducted in the piedmont area of North Carolina to determine region specific productivity. The main aim of the study was to determine the growth...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/26907
Fast-metabolism clones of rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) are appreciated for their good agronomic performance with little hormonal stimulation, due to their high intrinsic metabolic activity. They are highly demanded and therefore exposed to a significant risk of overexploitati...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/26930
Aims: This research aimed at evaluating the response and morphological effects of salt stress on Oryza species at vegetative and reproductive growth stage. Study Design: Salt tolerance was evaluated by adopting the Standard Evaluation System of IRRI for salt tolerance under modif...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/26796
A field study was carried out in Experimental Farm of Division of Agronomy, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Shalimar, Srinagar, J&K, India during kharif 2011 and 2012 to study the influence of integrated nutrient management on yie...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/16710
Aims: This study was carried out with the aim of assessing the post harvest insect and moulds that infest Vigna subterranea. Study Design: The randomized complete block experimental design with three replications for each variety was used to for the assessment of these varieties....
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/24865
This research was conducted to test the benefits of priming treatment and its effects on the pre-treatment germination percentages of pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) seed lots. Germination percentages of 12 pepper seed lots which ranged between 66 and 98% before treatment were treate...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/26810
Aim: The aim of our study was to evaluate commercially available cauliflower genotypes against Pieris brassicae (Pieridae: Lepidoptera) infestation. This would be helpful in evolving resistant varieties of cauliflower (Brassica oleracea L. var. botrytis L.) against P. brassicae....
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/25620
Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq) establishment, growth and yield depend to a large extent on physical and climatic characteristics of the environment in which the palm is established. A ten (10) year researcher managed on-station experiment was conducted from 1995 to 2005 to ass...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/18307
This work aimed to improve the efficiency of continuous deficit irrigation (CDI) on plum tree through using symbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). Thus, an experiment was conducted in pots to evaluate the effects of arbuscular mycorrhization on the growth of young plu...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/26467