The present study aimed to determine the effect of postharvest salicylic acid (SA) application on storability and biochemical quality of strawberry fruits cv. Chandler under ambient storage conditions. Freshly harvested fruits were subjected to salicylic acid treatment at 0 (cont...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2022/v44i930866
The present study aimed to determine the effect of postharvest salicylic acid (SA) treatments on storability and biochemical quality of Bartlett pear fruits at ambient storage conditions. Freshly harvested fruits were treated with salicylic acid solution at 0 (control), 0.5, 1 or...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i2131270
Pears (Pyrus spp.) are important fruit of the temperate and sub-temperate zone worldwide commercially cultivated for its delicate flavour and smooth texture. Although several other species are grown on a large scale, Pyrus communis and P. pyrifolia are the two most important comm...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i130621
Strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa Duch.) fruits are highly perishable and fruit quality decrease rapidly after harvesting, thereby it has a limited scope of long duration storage. Among several synthetic chemicals suggested for minimizing postharvest losses of fruits, Salicylic aci...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2021/v33i2030625
This study investigated the energy input-output relationship in biomass production of cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana L.) grown in Sodic soils of Indo-Gangetic plains with agronomic manipulations of plant spacing (90 x 75 cm, 75 x 75 cm, 75 x 75 cm) and NPK fertilizers (0, 60...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2021/v43i530694
An investigation was carried out to examine the storage behaviour and biochemical quality of pear (Pyrus communis L.) fruits cv. Carmen raised on Quince C rootstock as affected by pre-harvest foliar application of salicylic acid and calcium chloride treatments. The treatments con...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i1030847
The present study aimed to determine the effects of various weed management approaches on the leaf nutrient and chlorophyll content in apple nursery plants raised on clonal rootstock M9-T337. Weed management approaches evaluated consisted of seven treatments viz; manual weeding,...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2022/v41i1231706
Aims: The purpose of this study was to assess the relative economics of various weed management practices in apple nursery in Kashmir valley, India. Study Design: A Randomized Complete Block Design with seven treatments and three replications was employed as the experimental desi...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaees/2022/v40i830958
Aims: The study aimed to evaluate the influence of different weed management approaches on weed density and weed control efficiency in apple nurseries. Study Design: The experimental method used in this study was a Randomized Complete Block Design with seven treatments, each repl...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i1731040
The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of different weed management practices on vegetative growth and graft survival of apple nursery. The experiment was laid out at the Experimental Farm, Division of Fruit Science, Faculty of Horticulture, Sher-e-Kashmir University of A...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2022/v44i630829
Apple trees grown on seedling rootstock often develop into large and vigorous trees making its management difficult. By using vigorous rootstocks only few trees can be accommodated per hectare making the productivity less profitable. Several dwarfing rootstocks of apple are avail...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2023/v13i123719
Jammu and Kashmir enjoys a vital place among temperate fruits due to its agro-climatic conditions. The only apple variety Ambri is indigenous to Kashmir while as all other varieties were introduced from outside. The famous Delicious varieties were introduced by (Samuel Nicholar S...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2023/v35i224157
Rukshanda Hanif, Abu Manzar, M Jamal Ahmad, Angrej Ali, Waseem Hassan Raja, M. H. Chesti, Fahim Jeelani Wani, Iqra Qureshi, Munazah Yaqoob, Sajad Mohi-Ud-Din, Liyaqat Ayub, Rabia Lone, Kshetrimayum Jabaskumar Singh & Showkat Ahmad Shiekh·Journal of Advances in Biology & Biotechnology·2026
The rice moth, Corcyra cephalonica (Stainton), is an important stored-product insect whose growth and developmental characteristics may vary with rearing substrate and environmental conditions. Although morphometric information is available for the species under different rearing...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2026/v29i104461
The main purpose of this study was to analyse the constraints faced by fruit nursery growers in district Kulgam of Jammu and Kashmir. The study is based on personal interview with 218 fruit nursery growers of the district. The study found that the constraints faced by the fruit n...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2023/v45i102196
Rakshanda Anayat, Shahnaz Mufti, Zahida Rashid, Shahnaz Parveen, Angrej Ali, Inayat Mustafa Khan, Faisal Nabi Bhat, Feroz Parray & Mehnaz Shakeel·Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology·2022
Present experiment carried out at Vegetable Farm, FOA (SKUAS-K) Wadura, Kashmir (India) to determine the influence of Farmyard manure (FYM) and Zinc nutrition on pea productivity. The experiment was set up in Factorial RBD with sixteen treatments and three replications. Pea varie...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2022/v41i2131751