Aim: To find out the effect of continuous use of chemical fertilizers in the mulberry ecosystem. Study Design: CRBD Place and Duration of Study: Potential sericulture cluster in Erode district of Tamil Nadu, India, between January 2015 and December 2016. Methodology: Standard met...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/41812
Germplasm collections invariably contain duplicate accessions, both within and between genebanks. These redundancies are a burden for curators because they do not contribute to the diversity in the collection, but do require genebank budget for maintenance. Thus, both from a gene...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrcs/2024/v9i4317
Sunnhemp is the important multifaceted legume crop which is used as fodder, fibre and green manure. While incorporation into the soil, it supplies Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potassium at the level of 50-75 kgha-1, 15-20 kgha-1 and 40-65 kgha-1 respectively. In sunnhemp, the seed p...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i1130998
Twenty two indigenous mulberry accessions were evaluated for growth and yield traits in three seasons. ANOVA on growth and yield showed significant variation among the accessions for the traits. The interaction between accession and season was highly significant for all traits. T...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i64611
Weed causes heavy yield loss when it competes with crops especially for light, water, nutrient and space. In crop production, weed management is a necessary operation to get a higher yield. Manual weeding operation is an easy and environmentally friendly method but it increases t...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i1130936
Abiotic stresses strongly affect plant growth, nutrient composition and quality of production; final crop yield can be really compromised if stress occurs in plants’ most sensitive phenological phases. The present field study was conducted to evaluate the effect of biostimulants...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2021/v33i2330717
In cotton, mechanized harvesting has gained popularity in recent years due to labor-intensive process and shortage of labor. Moreover, mechanized harvesting of cotton depends on plant morphological characters like plant height, internodal length and synchronized boll maturity and...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i2031198
Aims: To evaluate the time and type of chemical defoliants to improve the mechanical and manual picking of high density cotton CO 17 in terms of higher defoliation and increase boll opening percentage. Study Design: The study was performed in split plot design with seven treatmen...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2020/v32i1030337
Aims: A study was conducted to determine the effect of temperature on defoliation process, physiology and yield of cotton during defoliants application. Study Design: The experiment was laid out in split-plot design with four replications. Place and Duration of Study: Field exper...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2020/v10i1030251