Genetic variability parameters were studied in 2879 germplasm accessions of rice for 11 quantitative traits. Moderate value of genotypic coefficient of variation (GCV) and phenotypic coefficient variation (PCV) was observed for the traits, 100 seed weight, seedling height, L:B ra...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i34411
Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is one of the most economically significant annual vegetable crops occupying the fourth position worldwide among all the food crops. The main drawbacks of the traditional seed production method are the seed tubers' high size, which drives up seed pro...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i34412
Sheath blight of rice, caused by Rhizoctonia solani Kuhn, is emerging as a very destructive disease that causes significant yield losses. The present study was conducted at experimental field of College of Agriculture, Rewa, (M.P.) during 2018-2019. The experiment was laid out...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i34413
Sugar cane Saccharum officinarum (Poaceae) is an important industrial crop in the Ivory Coast. Cane production involves two types of culture. The irrigated cultivation of sugar cane which is that practiced by industrialists and the cultivation in rainy conditions which is that of...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i34414
This study was conducted at Centre for Quality Plant Material, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar during 2015-16 to 2017-18 to determine the effect of different substrates and their combinations on vegetative growth and flowering of winter annuals (Lark...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i34403
A research project was conducted to assess the viability of three soil series (CLK, CKB, and HNL) in the Chikkumbi-3 micro-watershed of Dharwad district, located in the Northern dry zone (Zone-3) of Karnataka. Using criteria such as texture, depth, slope, erosion, graveliness, an...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i34404
A field experiment was conducted during kharif 2020 and 2021 to study the weed management in organic sweet corn through phyto-extracts at the Main Agricultural Research Station, University of Agriculture Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka. The experiment with randomized complete block...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i34405
The vegetative growth of gerbera varieties (Szogun, Kormoran, Salsa and Feliks) was studied at Agri-Tourism Centre, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar during the year 2019-20 under different growing conditions. Among the varieties Szogan recorded maximum plant spread (74....
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i34406
Brinjal is a warm–season vegetable that belongs to the Solanaceae family. Among the biotic stresses of brinjal, bacterial wilt is a major disease caused by a soil-borne bacterium, Ralstonia solanacearum. Both cultural and chemical disease control methods are not effective due to...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i34407
The present investigation was carried out in forty genotypes of ber at the Department of Fruit Science, College of Horticulture, Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and Technology, Kanpur (UP) from 2021–22 to 2022–23. Phenotypic correlations were worked out among eight...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i34408
Field experiments were conducted during Kharif season of 2022 at the Research Farm, WMRC, SKUAST- J, Chatha. The soil of the experimental site was sand clay loam in texture, slightly alkaline in reaction, low in organic carbon and available nitrogen but medium in phosphorus and p...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i34398
A study was conducted to find out the influence of weather factors, temperature, relative humidity, bright sunshine hour, rainfall, evaporation and wind speed and spore load on the incidence of Alternaria solani (Ellis and Martin) Jones and Grout induced early blight of potato (S...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i34399
A field experiment was conducted during kharif 2020 at farm of College of Agriculture, Kaul (Kaithal) of CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar to investigate the response of short duration non-scented rice variety HKR-48 to nitrogen under two different methods of crop establ...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i34401
The soil and leaf nutrients play a key role in the flowering and fruiting parameters of a plant thus contributing to yield. Thus, a study was undertaken to evaluate the effect of organic sources on the soil and leaf nutrient status of sapota [Manilkara achras (Mill.) Fosberg] cv....
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i34402
An experiment was carried out to investigate the influence of Naphthalene acetic acid, Gibberellic acid and Calcium chloride on quality parameters of Kagzi lime (Citrus aurantifolia Swingle) in the Garden, Dept. of Fruit Science, C. S. Azad University of Agriculture and Technolog...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i34393