Silicon (Si) is the second most abundant element in the earth crust constituting 27.7 per cent. The beneficial effects of Si includes mitigation of various forms of abiotic and biotic stresses. Rice (Oryza sativa), a typical Si accumulator, takes up Si actively in the form of sil...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2023/v35i42793
Rice is a staple food and its demand is substantially increasing with the growth of the global population. Phenological development was found to play a significant role in the distribution of carbon among plant organs, which has an impact on rice yield. Temperature affects plant p...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2023/v13i31677
In recent decades, a large number of crop types have been developed using mutation breeding. In present investigation, gamma irradiated indica rice cultivar Rajendra Mahsuri 1 were morphologically analysed for identify candidate mutants. M3 mutant lines were screened using eleven...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2023/v35i22755
The present investigation was carried out to assess the genetic diversity present among 66 rice landraces along with 4 checks for 14 different quantitative traits. All the genotypes were grouped into 5 clusters by performing Tocher’s clustering method using Mahalanobis D2 distanc...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2023/v13i21649
The research work analyzed the determinants of demand for rice in Sokoto North Local government Area of Sokoto state, Nigeria. Primary data were sourced using quota sampling technique to select 120 respondents from the study area with the aid of questionnaires. Statistical Packag...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2023/v23i6940
Aim: Assess the levels of heavy metals: arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), copper (Cu), lead (Pb), and zinc (Zn) in three different sites of the major rice growing soils and determine its accumulation in the rice grown on the same site in Nnatu St Azuuiyi Udene, Abakiliki, Ebonyi Stat...
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Research Article10.9734/jamps/2023/v25i1593
A study was conducted in the Experimental Farm of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Nagaland University, Medziphema in Kharif 2021. The study consists of 28 genotypes laid in Randomized Block Design (RBD). To choose efficient genotypes in breeding programmes for boosting rice producti...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i121619
Background: The production of rice needs to grow as this is one of the major objective in plant improvement program to fulfill the requirement of the rapidly growing population. Objective and Methods: The field experiment was conducted to study character association among yield a...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i121621
Local rice processing by small scale agro-processor has suffered tremendous setback ranging from stone presence and foreign materials in processed rice. It has become critical to develop a domestic rice de-stoning machine that can be utilized by small scale agro-processors. As a...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaar/2022/v20i4405
This work is centered around the adoption level of Jhelum rice variety among the farmers in Kashmir Valley. The data collected from 120 respondents from four Jhelum growing districts (Badgam, Kulgam, Pulwama and Anantnag) has been subjected to Technology Adoption Index (TAI) to a...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaees/2022/v40i121832
Krishi Vigyan Kendra Satna laid out Front Line Demonstration in the year Kharif 2020 and 2021 direct seeded rice technology on farmer’s field. Direct-seeded rice (DSR) has outperformed farmer’s practices. DSR performance was higher at 43.03 q/ha and 44.14 q/ha in 2020 and 2021, r...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i242713
Diptanu Datta, Akshaya Kumar Senapati, Arya Gautam Panda Panda, Bulbul Boblina, Mihira Kumara Mishra, P. Srinivas, Deviprasad Samantaray, Prajjal Dey & Debanjana Saha·International Journal of Plant & Soil Science·2022
Trichoderma spp. were known to have antagonistic activity against against many soil borne diseases. In this experiment we have prepared five different formulations of Trichoderma asperellum and stored them in normal temperature. Later the efficacy of all the formulations were che...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i242791
Rainfall is the main contributor to provide soil moisture for rainfed rice (Transplanted Aman) cultivation. The aim of the study was to investigate the seed quality of different transplanted Aman rice cultivars that are influenced by rainfed during ripening phases. For this, seve...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaar/2022/v20i4402
A Field experiment was carried out at Crop Research Station, (ANDUAT), Ghaghraghat, Bahraich to evaluate the effect of two levels of fertilizers (F1: 60-30-20 & F2: 120-60-40 NPK kg/ha) on grain yield of Seven Advance Varietal Trial-2 rice cultures (IET 29026, IET 27538, IET...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i242662
The present study on Integrated Pest Management (IPM) of brown plant hopper, Nilaparvata lugens (Stal) in rice has been conducted as a Front Line Demonstration (FLD) in the adopted villages of KVK, Bellampalli, Mancherial district of Telangana state during the kharif (June – Dece...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i242651