Background: Lowering the nitrogen demand is the most cost effective and sustainable option to increase grain yield of maize in poor fertility soil. Aim: This study was conducted to estimate the variability and inter-traits’ association of white and yellow hybrid maize in soil nit...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2019/v29i430147
Aim: To determine the correlation between Ocular axial length (AL) and body mass index (BMI) in a black population. Methods: This was a descriptive cross sectional study carried out in Port Harcourt City LGA, Nigeria. Subjects were selected using multistage random sampling with i...
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Research Article10.9734/ijtdh/2019/v38i130175
A. J. Alhassan, I. U. Muhammad, M. S. Sule, M. A. Dangambo, A. M. Gadanya, Y. Umar, Misbahu A. Dangambo, A. Mohammed & M. Syed·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2019
Correlational study and evaluation of pollution indices of toxic metals distribution in soil and crops of a population are imperative for assessing the risk of chronic diseases associated with these metals. Correlational analysis for the distribution of; lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd),...
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Research Article10.9734/arrb/2019/v32i330086
Weeds are the most prominent of all rice biotic stresses across all the ecologies in terms of yield reduction and increased cost of production. Weed control is therefore one of the most important and suggestive practices for potential rice production. Based on the above, field tr...
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Research Article10.9734/jaeri/2019/v19i130075
The main purpose of the study was to evaluate farmers socio-economic status, attitude and relationship among them towards organic farming. The study was conducted in five upazilas of Chapainawabganj district in Bangladesh. A simple random sampling technique was used to select 40...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaar/2019/v10i230026
The need to find suitable alternative to fossil fuel necessitated the search for non-food oil crops like physic nut (Jatropha curcas L.). Improvement of the crop requires adequate knowledge of extent of genetic variability present. Therefore, a study was carried out to determine...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2019/v38i330303
The present experiment was conducted to study the correlation and path coefficient analyses among some morphological and biochemical traits of twenty-three pomegranate genotypes. Results of correlation analysis showed a high, positive and statistically significant (at 0.1% P) cor...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v35i330186
Clément M. Mbadiko, Koto-Te-Nyiwa Ngbolua, Pius T. Mpiana, Nadège K. Ngombe, Paulin M. Kapepula, Landry L. Kemfine, Gédéon N. Bongo & Théophile F. Mbemba·South Asian Research Journal of Natural Products·2019
Aims: The aim of this research was to evaluate comparatively the anti-sickling activity of aqueous and methanol extracts of different organs of C. longa, to determine the polyphenolic compounds and to evaluate the antioxidant potential of different parts of C. longa. Also, to est...
Dayana Aparecida de Faria, Dryelle Sifuentes Pallaoro, Murilo Ferrari, Aloisio Brigido Borba Filho, Joadil Gonçalves de Abreu, Elisangela Clarete Camili, Anne Caroline Dallabrida Avelino, Kyron Cabral Sales, José Holanda Campelo Júnior & Claudio Guilherme Portela de Carvalho·Journal of Experimental Agriculture International·2019
The sunflower has adaptation for cultivation in Brazilian conditions and the main product is the oil extracted from the seeds. This study aimed to verify the impacts of meteorological attributes on agronomic characteristics of sunflower genotypes cultivated as a second crop, in M...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2019/v34i530186
Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.) is propagated mostly by vegetative method. Although vegetative propagation conserves plant germplasm; it poses challenges in crop breeding. This field study assessed the breeding potential of twelve industrial sugarcane accessions in a humid t...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2019/v27i530087
Aims: To study the physicochemical properties of soil around the cement factory, to examine the effect of the industrial dust on the soil properties and to analyse the relation between the proportion of pollutants and the distance from the cement factory. Study Design: Were used...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2019/v20i230103
Study on correlation and path coefficient analysis for cane yield and yield related traits in 20 accessions of sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.) ratoon crop was conducted in the field of Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2019/v33i230139
The present investigations were carried out on forty genotypes of jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam.) to determine the extent of variability present in the material and association among different traits. The genotypes were collected from six north-eastern states of India v...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v33i430086
Aim: This study deals with the distribution and ecology of euglenoids in relation to physicochemical characteristics of water in four lakes of Tumakuru district. Place and Duration of Study: Guluru, Bugudanahalli, Colony and Teeta are the four lakes of Tumakuru district selected...
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Research Article10.9734/arrb/2018/v30i430019
The experiment was conducted using 140 lentil genotypes at (farm name?) Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour, Bhagalpur in 2017-18. The genetic divergences were estimated using D2 analysis where a number of clusters were formed considering all genotypes of indigenous and exogeno...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v33i230056