Soil is a living and dynamic natural reservoir and source of plant nutrients that play numerous key roles in terrestrial ecosystems. This study investigated the impact of three adjacent land use systems (Acacia senegalensis plantation (ACP), pilostigma raticulatum plantation (PRP...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2021/v33i530432
Rhizoctonia solani (teleomorph: Thanatephorus spp.) is a plant pathogenic fungus which had a wide host range. It is best known to cause many diseases in plants such as collar rot, root rot, damping- off, sheath blight, stem canker, web blight and wire stem throughout the world. I...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2021/v33i530431
The objective of the study was to determine the effect of plant population on the growth and yield of maize. The study was conducted during the short rainy season of December 2018 and April 2019 in Mwea, Kirinyaga County and Bura, Tana River County, in Kenya. An experiment was se...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2021/v33i430427
Weder Ferreira dos Santos, Lucas Carneiro Maciel, Osvaldo José Ferreira Junior, Gabriel Mesquita da Rocha, Joênes Mucci Peluzio, Layanni Ferreira Sodré, Lucas Alves de Faria, Adriano Silveira Barbosa & Diogo Claudio da Silva·International Journal of Plant & Soil Science·2021
Aims: The present study evaluated the efficiency and response to phosphorus (P) use of corn cultivars in the tropical climate in southern Para State, Brazil. Study Design: Two experiments were carried out, in low P (50 kg ha-1) and high P (200 kg ha-1) applications in Randomized...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2021/v33i430428
The concentrations of selected potentially toxic metals and other soil physico-chemical variables in soil receptacles of a solid waste dumpsite at Onne, Nigeria were assessed to ascertain the levels of contamination and ecological risks. Surface soils (0 – 20 cm depth) from four...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2021/v33i430429
Aims: Sensing, monitoring and control the micro-climate measurements and environmental conditions of greenhouse prototype to create a smart hydroponic greenhouse for maximizing the food production as well as minimizing the ecological footprint under the climate change impacts, Co...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2021/v33i430430
The most prevalent aromatic polymer in nature is lignin, produced by higher plants and thought to make up 30-35 percent of the non-fossil organic carbon on the planet. Lignin hydrolyzing enzymes such as lignin peroxidase, laccase, manganese peroxidase, and others produce a variet...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2021/v33i430458
The field experiment was carried out at the south-west portion of Shall El-Tina region, north Siena Governorate Egypt. The study investigated evaluations of different nitrogen fertilizers sources (ammonium nitrate, ammonium sulphate and urea fertilizers) and rates (100%, 75% and...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2021/v33i430425
Rice (Oriza sativa) is one of most important kharif cereal crop. The availability of nutrients in the soil for plant utilization is known to be affected not only by the inherent soil characteristics but also by the use of fertilizers and management practices followed for crop pro...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2021/v33i430426
A field experiment was conducted on student instructional farm (SIF) of Chandra Shekhar AzadUniversity of Agriculture and Technology, Kanpur, U.P. during kharif season 2019 and 2020, the present experiment having 32 treatments replicated thrice in factorial randomized block desig...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2021/v33i430424
This study was conducted to evaluate the growth and yield of maize to compost, organomineral fertilizer, and mineral fertilizer at Iyaganku and Moniya farm sites in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. Treatments consisted of Organomineral fertilizer (A), Compost (B), Fresh compost (C), M...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2021/v33i330422
Looking into the variations in the design of greenhouses and cost factor, a two-span saw tooth type low cost naturally ventilated greenhouse (NVG) of 250 m2 area was designed and developed. The galvanized iron (GI) framed NVG covered with 200µ ultra-voilet (UV) stabilized plastic...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2021/v33i330423
Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Monech) is one of the important fodder crops for ruminants and it is a dual-purpose crop used as a food and fodder but one of the great limiting factors with the forage sorghum is that it is having an anti-nutritional factor cyanogen, which is extrem...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2021/v33i330421
Quality and storage attributes are major concern for potato cultivators as well as processors. Therefore an investigation was carried out to study influence of different levels of sulphur and potassium on different quality and storage parameters of potato. The experiment was laid...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2021/v33i330420
Aims: The K3237-80 groundnut variety from IRAD Nkolbisson is widely preferred in the Central African sub region for its sizable seeds and high yields, thus its contribution to livelihoods and food security. Apart from yield rating studies, responses to abiotic stress have not bee...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2021/v33i330418