A field trial was conducted at rice research station, Kaul (Kaithal) of CCSHAU, Hisar during the Rabi season to study theeffect of tillage practices and residue retention on nutrient content in seed and straw of different wheat varieties. The six wheat varieties viz; HD 2967, HD...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2021/v33i530437
After the green revolution excessive use of inorganic fertilizers increased, which resulted in affecting the activities of soil microflora and macrofauna, thus posing an environmental risk and decreasing crop production. The use of organic sources which include biochar, carpet wa...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2021/v33i530436
A technical report was conducted for checking performance assessment of drip irrigation system which was used for cultivating tomato in premises of the Centre of Excellence Protected Cultivation, Raipur (Chhattisgarh). A uniformity coefficient was found for drip irrigation system...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2021/v33i530435
Soybean MAGIC lines are highly variable breeding material which utilizes both recent and historic genetic recombination events. Present investigation was carried out to assess the genetic diversity present among 95 soybean MAGIC lines along with six checks for 10 different quanti...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2021/v33i530433
Evidence-based synergistic effects of Nanoscale materials, which size typically falls below 100 nm, exhibit novel chemical, physical and biological properties which are different from their bulk counterparts. Here, we report for the first time comparision of nanoscale zinc oxide...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2021/v33i530434
Soil is a living and dynamic natural reservoir and source of plant nutrients that play numerous key roles in terrestrial ecosystems. This study investigated the impact of three adjacent land use systems (Acacia senegalensis plantation (ACP), pilostigma raticulatum plantation (PRP...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2021/v33i530432
Rhizoctonia solani (teleomorph: Thanatephorus spp.) is a plant pathogenic fungus which had a wide host range. It is best known to cause many diseases in plants such as collar rot, root rot, damping- off, sheath blight, stem canker, web blight and wire stem throughout the world. I...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2021/v33i530431
The objective of the study was to determine the effect of plant population on the growth and yield of maize. The study was conducted during the short rainy season of December 2018 and April 2019 in Mwea, Kirinyaga County and Bura, Tana River County, in Kenya. An experiment was se...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2021/v33i430427
Weder Ferreira dos Santos, Lucas Carneiro Maciel, Osvaldo José Ferreira Junior, Gabriel Mesquita da Rocha, Joênes Mucci Peluzio, Layanni Ferreira Sodré, Lucas Alves de Faria, Adriano Silveira Barbosa & Diogo Claudio da Silva·International Journal of Plant & Soil Science·2021
Aims: The present study evaluated the efficiency and response to phosphorus (P) use of corn cultivars in the tropical climate in southern Para State, Brazil. Study Design: Two experiments were carried out, in low P (50 kg ha-1) and high P (200 kg ha-1) applications in Randomized...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2021/v33i430428
The concentrations of selected potentially toxic metals and other soil physico-chemical variables in soil receptacles of a solid waste dumpsite at Onne, Nigeria were assessed to ascertain the levels of contamination and ecological risks. Surface soils (0 – 20 cm depth) from four...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2021/v33i430429