Rice is an important cultivated food crop which feeds more than half of the world's population. Even though the area under rice cultivation is large, the productivity is low due to various interaction factors. The imbalance in usage of fertilizers is one of the main factors respo...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i4031110
Improvement of rice proteins is important in rice breeding for high nutritional quality. The objective of this study was to identify protein associated regions in the chromosomes in F2 population of the cross derived from swarna and Mahamaya, Parental polymorphism survey between...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i3731085
This study performed to determine the correlation, their comparison and path coefficients of yield and yield contributing characters by using F2 (BPT-5204 /IR-64Drt1) their two parents separately and the joint parental populations. In this study, the computations for testing the...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i3731082
The present investigation was carried out with F2 plants from a cross between two parents i.e., BPT-5204 and IR-64Drt1. The selection of parents for crosses was made based on genotypes that were tolerant and susceptible to drought condition. BPT-5204 was drought susceptible and I...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2020/v10i1230282
Rice is a major energy source food crop and a staple food for more than half of the world’s population. The knowledge of mean performance and stability of high grain Zinc rice genotypes from a multi-location trial is a way to assess the genotypes so as to achieve food and nutrit...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i3431042
The study was conducted on Rice and Poultry entrepreneurs in Memari-1 block, Purba Barddhaman district of West Bengal, India. This has been conducted to assess their socio-personal, agro-economical and techno-managerial skills. Several entrepreneurial aspects are considered in th...
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Research Article10.9734/jemt/2020/v26i930286
Aim: Test the effect of Azadirachta indica fruit extract on seed-borne fungi and seed performance of different rice varieties. Study Design: Neem fruits harvested in the locality of Pala in Chad were used to assess the antifungal effect on rice seeds. Samples of eight rice variet...
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Research Article10.9734/sajrm/2020/v8i130185
The experiment was conducted in the research farm at Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) to investigate the nutrient biofortification ability of rice grain at different doses of zinc fertilization. In this experiment two rice varieties (BRRI dhan28 and Binadhan-16) and five...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaar/2020/v14i230129
Earlier, the agriculture system was oriented more towards achieving higher agronomic yields than the nutritional quality of food. Green revolution significantly enhanced the crop production primarily rice, wheat and maize production was boosted to meet the energy needs of growing...
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Research Article10.9734/irjpac/2020/v21i1630257
Water footprints (WFs) of rice are quite higher viz. 992 billion cubic metres per year (Gm3 yr−1) than from the other cereals which further responsible for the lower water productivity. Out of global WFs for crop production viz. 7404 Gm3 yr−1 corresponds to 78 % green, 12 % blue,...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i3030966
A newly released jasmine type, aromatic, high yielding, long slender grain and exportable rice variety viz., BRRI dhan80, suitable for rain-fed low land ecosystem of Bangladesh is advancement over existing premium quality rice varieties. The variety has reasonably conceded the Pr...
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Research Article10.9734/ejnfs/2020/v12i930294
Silicon (Si) is known to improve salt tolerance in rice. However, the correlation of silicon with different physiological and biochemical indices of salt tolerance is not properly understood. Two rice genotypes with different silicon accumulation ability were evaluated along with...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i2830937
Low crop yields due to constant monocropping systems and deteriorating soil health in a smallholder farmers’ field of Indo-Gangetic plains of India have led to a quest for sustainable production practices with greater resource use efficiencies. The aim of the study was to elucida...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2020/v10i1030244
Drought is the second most treacherous climate-related risk for rice production in rainfed lowland areas. To counter this climate vulnerability, a new rice variety with enhanced drought tolerance was developed. The promising line IR82589-B-B-84-3 was subjected to advanced yield t...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2020/v32i1230347
The aimed of this study to evaluate the antifungal activity of essential oils of Ocimum basilicum L. on some fungi isolated from commercial rice sold in Cameroon. Fungal isolates were primarily identified based on morphological characteristics, while representative isolates were...
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Research Article10.9734/sajrm/2020/v7i330177