Aims: This investigation was conducted to profile and evaluate the response of Oryza species to salt stress at seedling growth stage. Study Design: Salt tolerance was studied by evaluations, using the Standard Evaluation System of IRRI for salt tolerance under hydroponic system...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/26703
Aim: To determine efficacy of organic amendments in the management of root-knot nematodes. Design of the Study: Experiments were arranged in a Complete Randomized Design (CRD) with five treatments replicated five times and Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with 11 treatment...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/24638
Aims: To estimate the general and specific combining ability (GCA and SCA) of some cocoa clones for some vegetative and pod trait and to quantify the extent of variability among the studied cocoa genotypes. Place and Duration of Sample: The experiment was performed at Local Clone...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/24806
Two (2) month-old leaves of fourteen (14) breeding lines of cassava, consisting of five (5) parental lines and nine hybrids, were evaluated for their phytochemical constituents. The objective of the study was to determine total flavonoid, phenolic and antioxidant activity in the...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/18087
Irrigation is one of the essential issues in agriculture in developing countries. Usually, in the developing countries, traditional farmers are likely to use more water than the required for crop production, thus wasting water. Hence, soil water sensors are typically needed in su...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/26237
The ecological diversity in Turkey has a great role on formation agricultural systems. Turkey has been the fourth largest vegetable producer after China, India, and the United States, with 29.522.290 million tons of production over an 809.000 ha agricultural area. Even though pro...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/25778
Turkish farmers who engage in soil cultivation have to face a number of serious problems, ranging from the loss of agricultural land to the climate change. Moreover, they cannot earn a living from agriculture due to high production costs, intermediation system in the trade of agr...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/24629
Restriction fragment length Polymorphism (RFLP) marker was used to investigate the effect of location on polymorphism, relationship and population structure with respect to prolactin gene (PRL gene) in Japanese quails in Nigeria. Blood samples were collected from thirty quails ea...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/25575
The aim of this research was to determine the effect of Jasmonic Acid (JA) application on some morphological parameters of money maker tomatoe. This research was undertaken in Lancaster Environmental centre glasshouse, Lancaster university, United kingdom. Results showed that Tom...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/25622
Eggs of matured Clarias gariepinus size ranging from 500-600 g total body weight (TBW) were treated with dettol concentrations 0.00 ml, 0.10 ml, 0.20 ml and 0.30 ml (T1, T2, T3 and T4) respectively for 60 seconds to determine their effect on hatching, survival and growth performa...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/24687