Soil quality protection under intensive land use and fast economic development has become a major challenge for sustainable resource use in the developing countries such as Nigeria. Conventional tillage practice is commonly practiced at land preparation and effect of this on soil...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2014/9402
Forest situated at the vicinity of communities hardly attained a fixed climax community over long period due to anthropogenic and natural factors. We investigated the density, population structure and regeneration status of six tree species (Annickia chlorantha, Baphia nitida, Ir...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2014/10367
A study was carried out during 2009 and 2010 growing seasons on olive cv. ‘Picual’, (12 years old), planted in a farm located at 50 kilometer from Cairo. The trees were planted at 6×6meters apart and grown in sandy soil and irrigated with drip irrigation from well (underground wa...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2014/10607
Three Musa cultivars (false horn, french, and cooking banana) and eight roots/tubers (Colocasia esculenta, C. esculenta var antiquorum, Xanthosoma sagittifolium, Dioscorea alata, D. dumentorum, D. rotundata, sweet cassava and bitter cassava) were assayed for their relative suscep...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2014/10739
This study was conducted to assess the morphological, chemical and genetical diversity among eight carob female strains through two successive seasons (2011 and 2012) in Bourg El-Arab region of Alexandria governorate. The analyzed strains were highly significant for characters of...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2014/10519
Aims: to understand the effect of various polygenic traits on grain yield of traditional rice cultivars at four different fertilizer levels namely no fertilizer, x ½ recommended dose (x ½ RD), recommended dose (RD) andx2 recommended dose (x 2 RD). Study Design: Randomized complet...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2014/11329
Beach bean (Canavalia maritima Thouars) is a wild legume distributed exclusively on coastal sand dunes, with potential of being domesticated for its nutritional attributes and utility in agriculture. A pot experiment was conducted to investigate its seedling performance under san...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2014/11555
The productivity of wetland rice is constrained by the reduced availability of sulfur (S) and micronutrients like boron (B), copper (Cu), and zinc (Zn) in acid alluvial soil of West Bengal, India. A greenhouse study was conducted for two seasons (wet and winter 2007) using acid a...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2014/6660
Leaf area, plant pigments, leaf content of N, P, K, Mg, Ca, Zn, Fe and Mn, yield and berry quality of Thompson seedless grapevines in response to spraying green tea extract, ascorbic acid and citric acid each at 250 to 1000 ppm as well as salicylic acid at 50 to 200 ppm were inve...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2014/8611
The commercial backing yeast of Saccharomyces cereivisae [Meyen ex E. C. Hansen] and/or chitosan was evaluated for their in vitro activity against the fungal growth of P. digitatium the causal agents of kumquats fruit decay. Baker yeast S. cerevisiae at 2% resulting a highly and...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2014/9021