Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) is an important industrial crop and mainly grown for the sugar and jaggery production. The major constraint in the sugarcane cultivation is the outbreak of red rot disease and many high yielding and high sugar varieties succumb to the disease-causing hu...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2023/v35i183391
Nowadays, seaweeds are more and more being utilized as plant biostimulants for the improvement of plant performance. Actiwave is a biostimulant product extracted from seaweed Ascophyllum nodosum and three main components of Actiwave are betaines, alginic acid and caidrine. Hence,...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2026/v38i46029
The present investigation in sugarcane (Saccharumspp. hybrids) was carried out to evaluate and validate the performance of early duration clones for cane yield and quality characters at sugarcane Research Station (TNAU) Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu. Observations were recorded fornumber...
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Research Article10.9734/arja/2024/v17i4606
Evaluation and identification of sugarcane clones for different maturity groups is of paramount importance in sugarcane cultivation to get higher recoveries in sugar mills. A field experiment was conducted to evaluate the performance of early maturing sugarcane clones for red rot...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2024/v46i52354
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
A field experiment was conducted to evaluate the performance of mid-late sugarcane pre-release clones for CCS yield and its contributing characters along with red rot disease resistance. Observation on brix per cent, sucrose (%), purity (%), extraction (%), fibre (%), CCS (%), ca...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i242737
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
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
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
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
Hydroponics study was conducted to screen eight rice genotypes (CO 51, ADT 53, ADT 37, IR 64, CO 43, ASD 16, Pokkali; TRY 3) under salinity stress on early seedling stage. Two Saline treatments (75 and 100 mM NaCl) were given at 15 days old seedling; observations were recorded at...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2020/v32i830317
Aim: Salt stress adversely affects plant growth and development. Various mitigating strategies have been employed to enhance the adaptability of plants to salt stress. The present study was conducted with the objective of evaluating the recently developed CO55 rice variety's abil...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2023/v13i102879
Aim: Global food security has become a serious issue, nitrogen fertilizer use has increased agricultural productivity globally, but at a significant environmental cost. The present study was aimed to identification of rice genotypes from the existing germplasm or development of r...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i1131023
Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) is the world's largest vegetable crop after potato and sweet potato. Root knot nematodes, Meloidogyne incognita, pose a significant threat to tomato crops worldwide. To combat this nematode pest, biological control methods have been developed to r...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2023/v35i234243
Aims: Conventional urea fertilizer has been critical in enhancing castor yields. However, nano urea, a game-changing technology in modern agriculture, provides a significant advancement in terms of sustainable and efficient crop production. Study Design: The experiment was condu...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2023/v13i123659
Like other small millets, foxtail millet (Setaria italica L.) is also rich in nutrients and as a short duration crop it fits to different cropping systems . Field experiment was carried out at Eastern block farm, Agriculture college and Research Institute, TNAU, Coimbatore, Tamil...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2023/v35i193733
The field experiment in sugarcane was conducted to evaluate the performance of clone CoC 08336 for cane yield and CCS yield along with national checks. The present study consists of three yield evaluation trials viz., Advanced Varietal Trial- plant- I, Advanced Varietal Trial- Pl...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2025/v47i123953
A field experiment was conducted to study the effect of soil drenching and foliar application of different biostimulants on physiological and quality parameters of curry leaf (Murraya Koenigii Spreng.) at Karamadai, Coimbatore during 2019 to 2021. This study was laid out in fact...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2021/v33i2430807
Cotton, known as “the King of fibers”, is the predominant fiber in the Indian textile industry. Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) represent a potential sustainable alternative for the enhancement and protection of crops. The germination and seedling growth of cotton can...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2021/v33i2430809