The present study characterizes the floristic and phytosociological characters in the paraibano semiarid in Caatinga area. For the phytosociological survey 25, sample units with dimensions of 20 m x 20 m distributed randomly were used in order to collect the name of the species,...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2019/46435
The SPR is an indicator that describes the physical strength that the soil exerts on the root that tries to move through along the profile, being directly influenced by bulk density, porosity and, mainly, by soil moisture at the time of evaluation. The soil resistance to penetrat...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2019/46589
Amélia Laísy do Nascimento, Emanoel Di Tarso dos Santos Sousa, Fernando Ferreira Lima dos Santos, Samira Luns Hatum de Almeida & Domingos Sárvio Magalhães Valente·Journal of Experimental Agriculture International·2019
Management zones can be delimited using fuzzy logic, a technique that assigns values of degrees of pertinence to each pixel of a map. When the value tends to 1, these degrees indicate that there is certainty that the pixel belongs to a certain class of the management zone. Howeve...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2019/46239
O. Ratsiatosika, L. Bernard, B. Rabary, I. Rainihanjarimanana, R. Randriamanantsoa, T. Razafimbelo, M. Razafindrakoto, J. Trap & E. Blanchart·Journal of Experimental Agriculture International·2019
Aims: In Madagascar, agroecological practices to increase and sustain upland rice productivity are based on an intensification of soil ecological processes. Study Design: The effects of earthworm presence and identity (Pontoscolex corethrurus, Dichogaster saliens, or no earthworm...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2019/46965
The field experiment was conducted at ZARS, V. C. Farm, Mandya during Kharif season of 2016 and 2017 in Southern Dry Zone of Karnataka to optimize levels of major nutrients for interspecific hybrid cotton. The experiment on nutrient management was laid out in RCBD with three repl...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2019/47402
The present study was conducted at Agricultural and Horticultural Research station, Kathalagere, Karnataka. The experiment consisted of sixty four rice genotypes that were evaluated to study genetic variability, heritability and genetic advance for grain yield along with four yie...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2019/42305
The phenomenon of allelopathy, whereby a plant species chemically interferes with the germination, growth or development of other plant species has been known and documented for over 2000 years. Allelochemicals are secondary metabolites of plants, released into the environment th...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2019/43100
The available maize germplasm contains sufficient genetic variability for pro-vitamin A content which could be utilized for development of pro-vitamin enriched varieties aimed at reducing vitamin A deficiency among millions of resource-limited Africans. Fifty-one maize inbred lin...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2019/46290
In the present study a case study of six community based seed banks established in the six villages viz. Balehalli, Belavaneralu, Hullikere, Hanthanakere, Bellathahalli, Kuriyarapalya villages etc. of Tumkur district Karnataka have been presented. These community based seed banks...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2019/27957
Joselane Príscila Gomes da Silva, Luiz Carlos Marangon, Ana Lícia Patriota Feliciano, Rinaldo Luiz Caraciolo Ferreira, José Edson de Lima Torres & Wedson Batista dos Santos·Journal of Experimental Agriculture International·2019
This research aimed to evaluate under two conditions of luminosity the floristic composition of the seed bank the soil of a remnant of Atlantic Forest inserted in an agricultural matrix located in the northeastern region of Brazil. Sixty samples of superficial soil were collected...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2019/46619