Twenty-five tomato cultivars were evaluated in two growing season and two growth conditions against bacterial canker (Clavibacter michiganensis subsp michiganensis) at the Vegetable Research Centre (V.R.C.) Pantnagar. The experiment was completely randomized in controlled conditi...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/41563
The study area was the forest area of 111.55 km2 of Mukundpur range of Satna Forest division, Madhya Pradesh, India which was susceptible to illicit felling, encroachment and illicit mining. To re-vegetate the blanks of the forest, the associations of soil parameters like pH, ele...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/40908
Crotalarias are tropical legumes grown as cover crops or green manure crops to improve soil fertility and reduce soil degradation. As understory plants in plantation crop systems, these cover crops receive elevated levels of [CO2] and low irradiance. A greenhouse experiment was c...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/41846
Muhammad Rashid, Obaid ur Rehman, Shahzada Munawar Mehdi, Sarosh Alvi, Aftab Ahmad Sheikh, Hassan Mehmood, M. Imran Akram & Raja Abad Raza·International Journal of Plant & Soil Science·2018
Climate change has greatly affected rainfall distribution and intensity in the rainfed areas of the world which has created water shortage and soil moisture deficiency and causing crop yield reduction. Soil microorganisms have great potential to improve soil fertility and enhance...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/41070
Nigeria soils are depleted as a result of mismanagement, hence, the peasant farmers experience low yield which scares the youths from taking farming as their profession. For any meaningful transformation to occur, the youth must be involved, well fed with a balanced diet that can...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/40183
Aim of this study is to assess and map the retention capacity of the soil in agroecosystem, the capacity of the ecosystem to provide water regulation in Slovak Republic, as well as to describe the use of GIS techniques in creating an uniform spatial units for agroecosystem servic...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/41098
Cabbage (Brassica oleraceae var.capitata (L.)) is one of the most important vegetable crop and cultivated extensively in tropical and temperate regions of the world. Cabbage infected by many diseases among those, black rot of cabbage caused by Xanthomonas campesrtis pv. campestri...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/41020
V. N. Pishchik, N. I. Vorobyev, Yu. V. Ostankova, A. V. Semenov, A. Totolian Areg, A. A. Popov, Y. V. Khomyakov, O. R. Udalova, D. V. Shibanov, V. E. Vertebny, V. I. Dubovitskaya, O. V. Sviridova, O. S. Walsh & S. Shafian·International Journal of Plant & Soil Science·2018
In this study we investigated the mechanisms of action and effect of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) Bacillus subtilis No.2 when utilized alone and in conjunction with a humic fertilizer (HF). Different mechanisms of action of B. subtilis No.2 and HF Stimulife on toma...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/41148
In the long term experiment of continuous use of various inorganic fertilizers and manure in an alfisol the status of soil physical properties their deterioration and improvement in the soil and crop yield of groundnut were studied during kharif 2015 being conducted at Regional A...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/40859
Andréia da Paz Schiller, Jéssica Manfrin, Daniele Cristina Schons Eckhardt, Edleusa Pereira Seidel, Maria do Carmo Lana, Affonso Celso Gonçalves Jr, Marinez Carpiski Sampaio & Carlos Augusto Rocha de Moraes Rego·International Journal of Plant & Soil Science·2018
Several soil functions depend on their physical properties, such as, soil structure, porosity, and the distribution of aggregates. Despite the importance that aggregates have, little is known about the dynamics and the behavior during their formation and stabilization. In this wa...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/41056