Aims: This study was conducted to investigate the effect of liquid effluents discharged from a non-alcoholic beverage company on the growth of maize genotypes. Study Design: The screenhouse experiment was laid out in complete randomised design. Place and Duration of Study: The ex...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/45331
Wood ash contains all the components of wood in a concentrated form, except for carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen which evaporate during the burning of wood. The mineral concentration of the ashes from seven selected trees namely Acacia seyal, Acacia etbaica, Acacia albi...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/45727
In the present study, an attempt was being made to use Withania somnifera plant leaf extract for the synthesis of silver nanoparticles and establish the antifungal activity against plant pathogen Fusarium solani NVS671. Among different phytoextract concentration studied, 4% was f...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/45460
Experiments were conducted in the screenhouse to determine the effects of watering and temperature regimes on the growth, seed yield and yield components of rice. The experiment was a split-plot scheme involving 4 x 3 x 2 factorial combinations of rice varieties (Igbemo, Millina,...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/43451
Telfairia occidentalis commonly called fluted pumpkin is an indigenous vegetable of Central Africa particularly in Benin, Nigeria and Cameroon. The leaves and seeds are widely implicated in the local gastronomy of these regions. The potential of this plant in the field of medicin...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/45428
The experiment was carried out for two consecutive growing seasons (2016 and 2017) at the Research Site of Agronomy Section, College of Agriculture, Kabba to evaluate the growth and yield performance of early maturing maize cultivars as influenced by different NPK fertiliser in K...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/43961
Late blight (LB), caused by Phytophthora infestans (Mont.) de Bary, is the most destructive disease of potato. The main objective of this study was to evaluate 72 potato lines, derived from crosses of the recipient cv. ACI Pakri-1 (female) and a LB resistant donor variety (male),...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/45301
Background: The growing use of nitrogen topdressing fertilisation, combined with late sowing of maize crops, causes greater sensitivity to lodging and breaking of plant stems, and poses risks to yield and grain quality. Thus, plant growth retardants are currently an option to mit...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/45254
This study was aimed at soil survey analysis using terrain ruggedness and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) of Wafongo-Yola Terrain, Northeast Nigeria to investigate and characterize geographic bodies such as vegetation, soils and terrain which plays an important role...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/38026
The role of molybdenum (Mo) in greengram in regulating the activities of enzymes such as nitrate reductase (NR) and glutamine synthetase (GS) in particular to nitrogen assimilation was investigated in acid soils of Semi-arid Tropics (SAT) of Tamil Nadu. Incubation studies were t...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/44298