Maria Beatriz Ferreira, Olaf Andreas Bakke, Geovana Gomes de Sousa, Ivonete Alves Bakke, Sebastiana Renata Vilela Azevedo & Wesley Costa Ferreira·Journal of Experimental Agriculture International·2020
Aims: Percentage of native thorny and thornless Mimosa tenuiflora (Willd.) Poiret trees, and their growth, height and/or diameter class distribution and clustering pattern were determined in a pure stand of this species. Study Design: A survey of the adult and juvenile plants was...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2020/v42i330491
Luiz Leonardo Ferreira, Ivan Ricardo Carvalho, Roselaine Lages Fonseca Prado, Manuel Rodriguez Carballau, Alexandre Igor de Azevedo Pereira, Marilaine de Sá Fernandes, Carmen Rosa da Silva Curvêlo, Ariana Bertola Carnevale & Núbia Sousa Carrijo dos Santos·Journal of Experimental Agriculture International·2020
The objective of this study was to evaluate the yield of corn hybrids in west Bahia and south-west Goias in the agricultural year of 2017/2018. The study was carried out in the municipalities of Luís Eduardo Magalhães in west Bahia - BA and Mineiros in south-west Goias – GO, Bras...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2020/v42i330492
Taro (Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott) is an important staple food crop for millions of people in developing countries. Taro production is constrained by many diseases of which leaf blight, caused by Phytophthora colocasiae Raciborski, is the most destructive and it accounts for...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2020/v42i330490
Jean Pierre Cordeiro Ramos, Wellison Filgueiras Dutra, Yrlânia de Lira Guerra, Lucas Nunes da Luz, José Jaime Vasconcelos Cavalcanti, Carliane Rebeca Coelho da Silva, Soraya Leal Bertioli, David Bertioli & Roseane Cavalcanti dos Santos·Journal of Experimental Agriculture International·2020
Genotypic values and selection gains were estimated in peanut lines derived from backcrossing with synthetic amphidiploid (A. batizocoi x A. duranensis)4x and a commercial cultivar, based on agronomical traits. Thirteen BC1F3 lines were grown in the field and submitted to 21 d of...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2020/v42i330489
No other element can match the essentiality of nitrogen in soil for growth and development of plants and its transformations among various forms viz., nitrite, nitrate, ammonium are mostly mediated by microbes. As its transformation depends on major microbial activity and thus, t...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2020/v42i330488
Raquel Elvira Cola, Anne Carolyne Silva Vieira, Lucas Galdino da Silva, Sthéfany Carolina de Melo Nobre, Maurício Leodino de Barros, Mayara Dalla Lana, Regis Villanova Longhi & Carlos Frederico Lins e Silva Brandão·Journal of Experimental Agriculture International·2020
The main objective of this study is to characterize the floristic richness, phytosociological structure, and classify the ecological groups of the adult tree component species in an area of ecological tension (Seasonal Forest and Caatinga) in Pernambuco - Brazil. The study was co...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2020/v42i330487
Aims: The present study aimed to assess the performance of three drought-tolerant maize genotypes (DTSTRSYNY-2 (V1), WHITE DTSTRSYN (V2) and TZL COMP.4DTF2 (V3)) developed by IITA under water deficit stress conditions. Place and Duration of Study: Experiment was carried out at Sa...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2020/v42i330485
Background and Objective: Unproductive soil has been a major problem to farmers, recent interest in the use of a stable organic manure (biochar) as soil amendment and poultry manure to increase soil fertility is also increasing. Hence, the experiment was conducted to assess the c...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2020/v42i330484
Supplement in mushroom production boosts yield. Fluted pumpkin parts were assessed as an alternative to wheat bran as supplement in mushroom production. Sawdust, lime and wheat bran or fluted pumpkin (Pod, seed, stem) were mixed in ratio 180: 1: 30. There were 10 replicates for e...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2020/v42i330483
Aims: A field experiment was conducted at the Research Farm of Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Abdou Moumouni University of Niamey - Niger, from November to March 2018 to determine the effects of different rate of bat guano fertilizers on growth and yield parameters of tomato (...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2020/v42i330482
Based on the results of the first phase research in 2018, it was found that regional food security in the Province of Bali is in a resistant and guaranteed condition. However, the problem is how to sustainably maintain Bali's regional food security in the Province of Bali? The ob...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2020/v42i330480
The Alliaecae family is a widely cultivated vegetable family in Nigeria, with nutritional, culinary and medicinal usefulness. The objective of this study was to assess the genetic diversity using SSR and ISSR markers among ten (10) cultivars of spring onions. This study was carri...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2020/v42i330481
Maria Eunice Lima Rocha, Mayra Taniely Ribeiro Abade, Fernanda Ludmyla Barbosa de Souza, Luane Laíse Oliveira Ribeiro, Letícia do Socorro Cunha, Robson Christie Lacerda Siqueira & Jackeline Araújo Mota Siqueira·Journal of Experimental Agriculture International·2020
Brazil is one of the largest producers of sweet orange (Citrus sinensis L. Osbeck) in the world. The State of Pará is responsible for 1.02% of the production of Orange in Brazil. Of this amount, the municipality of Capitão Poço is responsible for 57% of the total produced by the...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2020/v42i330479
The present study on different characteristics of some selected varieties of paddy was undertaken to study dimensional, gravimetric and frictional properties of paddy. The physical properties such as average length, width, thickness, geometric mean diameter, aspect ratio, spheric...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2020/v42i230477
Aim: This study is to evaluate the effects of using bread waste fortified with moringa leaf meal on broiler chickens. Methodology: Bread wastes were sun-dried and moringa leaves air-dried. The two dried products were milled separately. Thereafter, the meals were mixed in ratio 9:...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2020/v42i230478