Aim: To understand the influence of nutrients and plant growth regulators on growth attributes of greengram. Study Design: Factorial and randomized complete block design. Place and Duration of Study: Wetland farms, Department of Agronomy, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coim...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2023/v35i193686
Aim: Salt stress negatively affects the growth and development of plants. An effective and important strategy to develop salinity tolerant crops is to harness the genetic diversity within the crop germplasm by identification of salinity tolerant genotype. The present study was ca...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i1130986
Greengram (Vigna radiata L. Wilczek) is the third most important pulse crop and drought is the most severe constraint to greengram growth and productivity. The present study was conducted to identify the drought tolerant greengram genotypes. Four greengram varieties used for stan...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2021/v11i1030495
Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is one of the major cereals and the staple food crops which is cultivated all over the world. In order to meet the growing demand of population, it is important to increase the productivity of crop. The productivity of crop is influenced by nutrients and...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2023/v35i193537
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
Field experiment was conducted at wetland farm of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, during summer season, 2022 with an objective of maximizing the productivity and profitability of greengram by adopting varied dose of basal nitrogen and foliar application of nano an...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i2231362
Arsenic (As) pollution is a major environmental and agricultural issue across the world. Due to industrialization and over exploitation of ground water are the two most important factors for the occurrence of arsenic in the water. The irrigation of arsenic contaminated water pose...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i1130950
Rice false smut, caused by the fungus Ustilaginoidea virens is one of the most destructive and re-emerging disease in many rice growing areas of Tamil Nadu, India. The current study was carried out to characterize different isolates of Ustilaginoidea virens collected from major r...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2023/v35i193773
Direct wet seeded rice is eminent due to low energy and cost required for the cultivation. The only disadvantage is difficulty to manage weeds due to which farmers rely mostly on herbicides for the effective management. Herbicides are bioactive compounds which will affect the soi...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2023/v13i92405
Heat waves and droughts are projected to become more widespread as a result of climate change. At the same time, CO2 levels are predicted to have doubled by 2100. The stomatal regulation and gas exchange characteristics were assessed in 25 days old plants of green gram (var Co 8)...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2021/v11i1030498
Drought affects the rainfed groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) at different phases of development and it is the serious threats on groundnut productivity causing losses than any other abiotic factor under rainfed agriculture. In the world's semiarid regions, groundnut accounts for...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2021/v33i2330723