The effects of watering regime and rhizobial inoculation on the growth, nodulation and seed yields of some legume species was evaluated in the screenhouse of the Department of Crop, Soil & Pest Management, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria. The experimental lay...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2017/32891
Drought is the most important factor limiting rice productivity under rainfed system of the humid tropics. Field experiments were conducted to determine the effects of soil water management strategies (growth on residual soil moisture at the vegetative stage supplemented with irr...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/6197
Field experiments were conducted to assess the effects of differential irrigation on the growth, stress development and water- yield functions of dry season fadama-grown pepper in a humid rainforest zone of Nigeria. The aims were to characterize water productivity of pepper (crop...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/9449
This study examined the contribution of water table via capillary rise and irrigation, to soil moisture storage and water use of pepper (Capsicum annuum var. Tatase), grown in an inland valley swamp (flood plain) in the dry season in a humid zone of Nigeria. The contribution of w...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/6870
Aims: Field experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of methods of seedbed preparation via clearing of existing vegetation and organic amendments on some soil properties, growth and yield of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.). Study Design: The treatments consisted of 2 b...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2013/1967
A screenhouse experiment was conducted to determine the growth, yield attributes and bioactive components of thickhead (ebolo) as affected by soil amendments. Treatments were soil type (fertile soil and degraded land respectively amended with NPK @300kg/ha (F1), NPK@150kg/ha (F2)...
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Research Article10.9734/ajob/2023/v19i2359
The effects of plantain shade and dry season irrigation on the growth, field survival, flowering and pod production of cacao was investigated. Treatments were a 2 by 2 factorial combinations of shade regimes (Unshaded/open sun and shaded) and irrigation intervals (5-day and 10-da...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2020/v10i730211
The effects of time of sowing cowpea into pineapple-pepper intercrop on growth and yields of cowpea and pepper in a pineapple-pepper intercropping system was investigated during the rainy and late seasons of 2011 and 2012 in Akure, a humid rainforest zone of Nigeria. The additive...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/36824
This paper reports the effects of progressive drought and wet-dry cycles on water relations, stomatal conductance and photosynthetic carbon fixation of seedlings of two tree species adapted to temperate climate Cercidiphyllum japonicum, Sieb. & Zucc. (Katsura: Cerci) and Tili...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/17154