Studies on the effect of long term land use management practices on the temporal variability of soil properties are limited. This study addressed the temporal variability of soil properties under a long term fertilizer trial in a northern guinea savannah of Nigeria. The long-term...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/22161
Two field experiments were conducted at the Multipurpose crop nursery of the University of Education, Winneba, Mampong campus from May to September, 2013 and June to October, 2014 respectively to investigate into the effect of number of nodes (4, 5 and 6) and vine part (apica...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/22776
Isaac Osei-Bonsu, Beloved Mensah Dzomeku, Kwasi Bonsu Offei, Michael Kwabena Osei, Kennedy Agyeman, Seth Obosu Ekyem & Joseph Nketiah Berchie·International Journal of Plant & Soil Science·2015
Aims: To assess flood tolerance potential of papaya germplasm and determine physiological basis of observed tolerance. Study Design: Both Experiment 1 and 2 were in RCBD with 2 and 3 treatments respectively. Place and Duration of Study: Experiments were conducted in a screen-hous...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/20191
Larrea tridentata (creosote bush) growing in contaminated tailings of the Techatticup Mine in Nelson, Nevada were sampled and analyzed for trace metals. Samples were also collected outside the mine tailings to measure geogenic trace metal levels. These data show that some trace m...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/22837
This investigation was carried out to study the effect of four levels of nitrogen (0,90,180,270) and three levels of sulphur (0,25,50) application on growth and yield attributes of potation a split plot design with three replication, at lovely professional university, Phagwara, P...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/20237
Aims: Among the abiotic stresses, salinity is one of the most important environmental constraints which provokes grave threats for agriculture and environment. It is a growing threat to agricultural crops and its impacts have already started becoming visible as expansion in the a...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/22877
This experiment was conducted in the laboratory of the Department of Field Crops, Faculty of Agriculture, Akdeniz University in 2012. As a material the seeds of dichondra (Dichondra repens) which is a green area plant were used and the study was performed as randomized plots desi...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/14284
An experiment was carried out to investigate the effect of planting density on growth, development, yield and yield components contributing characteristics of maize during the period of November, 2012 to March 2013 in the Research Field and Laboratory of Crop Physiology and Ecolo...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/22228
Conventionally, crop production in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) depends primarily on natural soil nutrients. Application of inorganic and organic fertilizers is an important way for maximizing agriculture in SSA that targets the full utilization of the agricultural lands for food to...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/13928
Salinity is an important growth-limiting abiotic stress factor. Salicylic acid (S.A), Benzoic Acid (B.A) and p-coumaric acid (p-CA) are substances generally thought to play a crucial role in the enhancement of salt tolerance and regulation of growth and development in plants. Thi...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/22396
The agricultural use of sewage sludge have been presented as an alternative both to reduce the volume of this environmental liability as to obtain a product to be used in agricultural soils as fertilizer. However, when the household sewage is also composed of water from the indus...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/22570
Aims: Present study is concerned about the leaching kinetics of sulphate anions in soil using glass column method. Study Design: we have focused our attention on the mechanism of solute transport via leaching. Place of Study: Soil samples were collected from the barren field loca...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/22368
The decline in agricultural productivity in Nigeria is merely because the rural farmers which constitute the bulk of Nigerian crop farmers rely on the rainfall for their agricultural activities. Rice farmers in Ebonyi State, regarded as a major rice producing State in Nigeria rel...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/20783
Nano-fertilizer technology is designed to deliver nutrients in a regulated pattern in correspondence with the crop demand thereby nutrient use efficiency can be improved without associated ill-effects. This present study hypothesize that nano-zeolite possesses extensive surface a...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/22103
Row transplanting is one of the good agronomic practices being promoted for lowland rice production in Ghana. The recently introduced ‘Sawah’ system promotes effective land preparation, good water management and row transplanting as well as the use of hand tools for weed control...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/21911