Background: Maize plays an indispensable role in meeting high food demand. It is globally one of the most widely adopted and cultivated crops. Hybrid development from fixed inbred lines is one of the strategies for the improvement of maize production. The national average maize y...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i2131276
An experiment was carried out using 55 (45 F1’S and 10 parents) genotypes of fenugreek to study the variability, heritability and genetic advance in percent of mean. The analysis of variance (ANOVA) revealed highly significant differences among the genotypes for the characters un...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i2131263
A lab experiment was conducted during winter season of 2021 at Post Harvest technology Laboratory department of Horticulture, Naini Agricultural Institute, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology & Sciences, Prayagraj, and Uttar Pradesh, India to determine the...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i2131264
The most damaging soil and seed-borne disease of sesame (Sesamum indicum L.), which appears every year in Haryana and causes significant output losses, is charcoal rot disease, which is caused by Macrophomina phaseolina (Tassi) Goid. Aim: The current experiment was conducted to l...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i2131265
Curry leaf being perishable commodity and is mostly subjected to excessive post-harvest losses and quantity deterioration in a short span of time. Pre-harvest management system can minimize the losses of curry leaf and by enhancing the shelf life. Thus the present research was co...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i2131266
Using chemical fertilizers or organic manures alone as amendments may be detrimental to the soil health and crop quality and neither of these alone can sustain productivity. Hence the combination of nutrients from different sources together in optimum ratio is a way forward to ac...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i2131267
The experiment was conducted during Rabi, 2021-22, Crop Research Farm, Department of Agronomy, Naini Agriculture Institute, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture Technology And Sciences, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, to study the response of nitrogen and phosphorus on growth and...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i2131268
The field experiment was carried out with title “Effect of foliar application of micronutrients on growth, yield and quality of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) cv. Arka Samrat” at the Department of Horticulture, Naini Agricultural Institute, Sam Higginbottom University of Agricu...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i2131269
The present study aimed to determine the effect of postharvest salicylic acid (SA) treatments on storability and biochemical quality of Bartlett pear fruits at ambient storage conditions. Freshly harvested fruits were treated with salicylic acid solution at 0 (control), 0.5, 1 or...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i2131270
General and specific combining ability (GCA & SCA) for yield and quality traits in tomato were studied by involving fourteen parental line were crossed in line x tester mating design comprising eleven line and three tester at M.E.S department of vegetable science ANDUAT, Ayo...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i2131254