Two factorial pot experiments arranged in a Completely Randomised Design (CRD) with three replications were carried out to assess the impact of different levels of soil compaction and fertilizer amendments on root growth and biomass yield of maize (Zea mays L.) and soybean (Glyci...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2019/v27i630094
Marcio Paulo Czepak, Valmor Sornberger, Weslley do Rosário Santana, Luã Víthor Chíxaro Almeida Falcão Rosa, Vinicius de Souza Oliveira, Karina Tiemi Hassuda dos Santos, Omar Schmildt & Edilson Romais Schmildt·International Journal of Plant & Soil Science·2019
Wheat has great economic importance, especially in the Southern states of Brazil, is a good option for winter cultivation period. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of mechanical damages in the induction of tillering, development and productivity of wheat. Treatment...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2019/v27i630092
Plant propagators must take two technological critical decisions: the plug-cell size and the growing medium, both of which have been mentioned as abiotic stress sources for bedding pot plants. However, only a few recent reports on bedding pot plants have simultaneously included l...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2019/v27i630091
Hot pepper is an important vegetable and spice crop in Ethiopia. However, the productivity of hot pepper is limited by poor soil fertility and lack of proper soil and water conservation measures under irrigated condition. Therefore, hot pepper crop response to nitrogen (N) fertil...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2019/v27i530089
Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.) is propagated mostly by vegetative method. Although vegetative propagation conserves plant germplasm; it poses challenges in crop breeding. This field study assessed the breeding potential of twelve industrial sugarcane accessions in a humid t...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2019/v27i530087
Aims: To calibrate and evaluate a rain simulator, with automatic operation, as well as determine the average size, the effect of the height of the equipment (2.12; 2.42 and 2.72 m) and of the oscillations of the spray nozzle of the rain simulator (21, 29 and 40 oscillations min-1...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2019/v27i530088
This study aimed to investigate the performance of three cotton (Gossypium barbadense L.) genotypes as affected by drought stress at three irrigation regimes; 14 (S-0), 21(S-1) and 28 (S-2) days that were started after the first irrigation. To achieve this goal, a field experimen...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2019/v27i530086
Seed protein profile of 12 accessions belonging to 7 species of the genus Solanum of the family solanaceae were investigated through poly acrylamide gel electrophoresis. The accessions were selected based on their overlapping morphological associations observed on the field. Occu...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2019/v27i530085
An experiment was conducted at the Farmer’s Field, Boyra village, Mymensingh, Bangladesh during the period from February to May 2016 to study the yield performance of boro rice for seed production as influenced by nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization with different levels of rog...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2019/v27i430084
Traditional rice cultivars in Sri Lanka have diverse characteristics that prove the excellent potential for utilizing them for varietal improvement. Seventy-one Sri Lankan traditional rice cultivars obtained from Plant Genetic Resources Center, Gannoruwa, Sri Lanka were used for...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2019/v27i430083
Acidic soils with high exchangeable aluminium ions occur in most parts of Kenya, western Kenya inclusive. Aluminium toxicity is a serious environmental problem that affects crop productivity in Western Kenya region. The county governments of Kakamega, Bungoma, Vihiga, Busia and T...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2019/v27i430082
Aims: A short term field study was conducted to investigate the yield performance of selected African rice genotypes inoculated with biofertilizers. Study Design: A randomized complete block design laid out in a split-plot arrangement was used to evaluate response of yield comp...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2019/v27i430080
Onion and garlic are the major bulbous vegetable crops grown throughout the world. They are commercially used in the form of spice, vegetable or medicine. India ranks second in world production of both onion and garlic. These are mostly grown in states of Maharastra, Uttar Prades...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2019/v27i430081
This study investigated carbon stock in above-ground biomass across different physiognomies in Obafemi Awolowo University tropical rainforest ecosystem. This was with a view of increasing the understanding of carbon cycle in tropical rainforest in Nigeria. Two 20 m x 20 m plots w...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2019/v27i330075
The research experiment was carried out to evaluate the effects of various nitrogen sources combination on biochemical indices in Swietenia macrophylla and Swietenia mahogany at Forest College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Mettupalayam. The study con...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2019/v27i330077