Hot pepper production is constrained by declining soil fertility and poor management practices in Assosa area, western Ethiopia. An experiment was conducted at Assosa Agricultural Research Center, during 2017/18 cropping season to evaluate different rates of blended fertilizers o...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/46132
The study was conducted to investigate the effect of the application of cow dung to crude oil polluted soils on the growth of cowpea. It was a screen house experiment. Four rates of cow dung (0, 1, 2 and 3 g) and four rates (0, 5, 10 and 15 ml) of crude oil per 10 kg of soil were...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/41254
A field research trial at experimental station of National Maize Research Program (NMRP), Rampur, Chitwan, Nepal during winter 2015/16 was conducted to study the effects of different tillage and weed management practices on yield and yield attributing characters of winter maize (...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/44398
The work aims to study the mineralization of compost in soils and the availability of the fertilizing elements to plants. A silty sandy soil S1 and a sandy soil S2 have been used to study the elaborated compost mineralization. Soils-compost mixture (100:1) are incubated to 2/3 th...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/46006
Aims: This study was carried out to test various substrates made of a mixture of earth with different proportions of organic fertilizing substances to improve the technique of mass production of plantain plantain material, and the multiplication of shelled strains (MSD). Place an...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/46147
Plant faces iron (Fe) toxicity when the concentration of this mineral is high in soils under anaerobic conditions. Excess soil Fe2+may cause severe impairment in rice photosynthesis, morphological parameters, and may induce oxidative damage with significant alteration in protein...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/46148
Impact of insect infestation on growth and yield of Roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa L.) was evaluated at the Teaching and Research Farm of University of Agriculture, Makurdi, in the 2016 cropping season. An early and late crop (as main plot), of the red (H. sabdariffa sabdariffa) an...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/45446
Soil acidity is one of the major obstacles to crop growth to a great extent. IN different districts of West Bengal, soil acidity has been reported as a considerable factor behind crop growth restriction. Hence, a comprehensive study has been conducted with a view to study the rel...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/45937
Shifting cultivation commonly known as Jhum is a primitive and traditional practice carried out by Jhumiasfor centuries. Soil microbes play a vital role in regulating soil fertility and nutrient cycling in different terrestrial ecosystems. The main objective of the present study...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/46087
Khalid Syfullah, Md. Nasir Hossain Sani, Saifullah Omar Nasif, Sohely Parvin, Md. Mahasab Hossain Rony, Mohammad Saiful Islam & Md. Sarowar Hossain·International Journal of Plant & Soil Science·2018
Genetic variability, heritability, genetic advance, correlation coefficient analysis, path coefficient analysis and genetic divergence between yield and its contributing traits were studied in 28 okra genotypes. The phenotypic coefficient of variations was found slightly higher t...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/45828
Studies on morphological, anatomical and proximate characteristics of Trichosanthes cucumerina L. (Cucurbitaceae) was carried out using morphological observation and microtomy in order to determine the relationship between this species and other cucurbits and complement the exist...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/44982
Aims: This study was conducted to investigate the effect of liquid effluents discharged from a non-alcoholic beverage company on the growth of maize genotypes. Study Design: The screenhouse experiment was laid out in complete randomised design. Place and Duration of Study: The ex...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/45331
Wood ash contains all the components of wood in a concentrated form, except for carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen which evaporate during the burning of wood. The mineral concentration of the ashes from seven selected trees namely Acacia seyal, Acacia etbaica, Acacia albi...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/45727
In the present study, an attempt was being made to use Withania somnifera plant leaf extract for the synthesis of silver nanoparticles and establish the antifungal activity against plant pathogen Fusarium solani NVS671. Among different phytoextract concentration studied, 4% was f...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/45460
Experiments were conducted in the screenhouse to determine the effects of watering and temperature regimes on the growth, seed yield and yield components of rice. The experiment was a split-plot scheme involving 4 x 3 x 2 factorial combinations of rice varieties (Igbemo, Millina,...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/43451