Mia. M. Howard, Alena A. Plotkin, Amelia R. McClure, Vanja Klepac-Ceraj, Alden B. Griffith, Daniel J. Brabander & Kristina N. Jones·International Journal of Plant & Soil Science·2018
Comfrey (Symphytum spp.) is thought to accumulate plant nutrients such as potassium (K) in its leaves and is consequently used widely as a green mulch. We sought to investigate the efficacy of comfrey as a soil amendment by measuring its nutritional composition and the effects o...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/40403
A well-established limiting factor for the survival of plant under normal growth and developmental stages is water stress. Several living (Biotic) and nonliving (abiotic) factors unfavorably affect rice growth and as well yield, and this is connected with the adverse and intense...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/40397
The study characterized and monitored changes in soil nutrients under different ages (1.5, 3, 6, 12, 20 and 40 years) of Eucalyptus grandis tree plantations and its tissues (litter and fresh leaves) before and during intercropping. Soil sampling for characterizing tree plantation...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/38388
The experiment was conducted between April and July 2017 to evaluate the effect of spacing and weeding regimes on cucumber production. The study site was the Teaching and Research Farm of the University of Port Harcourt, Choba, Rivers State, Nigeria, in a humid forest agro-ecolog...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/39638
Phosphorous is a major limiting factor for plant growth, and its behaviour varies significantly under different soil drainage conditions. Understanding the chemistry of phosphorus availability of wetlands remain imperative for sustainable management of paddies under intensive agr...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/38687
The present experiment was conducted with the objectives: (i) To evaluate the performance of onion varieties (ii) To study the effect of N levels (iii) To find out the interactive effect of varieties and N levels on chlorophyll content, dry matter accumulation, marketable bulb yi...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/39257
In the rhizosphere of sodic soil, aluminium (Al) and silicon (Si) are present in soluble forms. Hence, plants growing in sodic soils suffer Al toxicity, which can be ameliorated by Si. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of Al and Si on the growth of Puccinellia c...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/39559
Okra production in Nigeria is particularly under smallholder and resource-poor farmers. This study therefore investigated the influence of aerobically composted cowdung (CWD), singly and in combination with Ogun rock phosphate (ORP) applications on the yield of okra and soil orga...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/38716
Land is a major factor to fulfill human needs by serving as the backbone of agricultural, industry, mining, public housing, and other human activities. Land use change is necessary and essential for economic development. Degraded land in Indonesia was 24.3 million ha in 2013, cau...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/39460
Field experiments were conducted to study the effects of Phosphates on growth components of Lucerne during the long and short rain seasons of 2016-2017 at Kenyatta University farm in Kiambu County in Kenya. The experiments were laid out in split-plot arrangement in a Randomized C...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/39789
In conventional furrow irrigated agriculture, excess water often causes leaching of nitrate-nitrogen. This experiment was aimed at quantifying nitrate leaching under farmers’ fertilizer and irrigation water use practices. It involved factorial combination of four rates of nitroge...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/39076
This paper presents the study of the influence of 3 types of organic fertiliser of industrial origin (Chap liquid, Biofert and Guano) on the most important quality parameters of immortelle seedlings. The study was performed under protected conditions through 3 repetitions, with 1...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/39592
Variety- and location-specific plant density recommendation is one of the agronomic practices used to increase the production and productivity of chickpea. However, there is a blanket recommendation across locations and varieties of chickpea in Ethiopia. Hence, field experiment w...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/19120
The effect of carboxylic acid on the growth and yield of two varieties of pepper grown in Mubi, Adamawa State was investigated in this study was investigated after treatment with carboxylic acid. Two different cultivars of pepper Capsicum annum (sweet and hot) were obtained from...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/35135
Experiment was conducted to study the effect of different doses of plant nutrients on growth, yield and economics of Maize (Zea mays L.), at Regional Research Station, Karnal during Kharif 2015 consisting of 12 treatments combination viz., T1 - Control (no fertilizer), T2 - N (15...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/39441