Ripening in sugarcane refers to an increase in sugar content on a fresh weight basis prior to commercial harvesting. Ripening is often prompted by use of chemicals and environmental cues such as moisture stress. The aim of this research was to determine the effects of Fluazifop-...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/20596
Field trials were conducted in 2009, 2010 and 2011 in the University of Benin, Nigeria to determine influence of NPK fertilizer and varying cropping ratios on nutrient uptake and quality components of maize and egusi melon. Cropping ratios and application of NPK 20:10:10 fertiliz...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/21614
A field experiment was conducted at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University teaching and research farm Bauchi state of Nigeria, during the 2013 rainy season, to investigate the effect of variety and intra-row spacing on growth and yield of maize (Zea mays L.) in Bauchi state. The T...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/23225
Iron has limited solubility in alkaline soils and, consequently, alkaline soils may have insufficient available iron for optimal plant growth. Plants of the family Gramineae secrete phytosiderophores, plant-derived compounds such as mugineic acid (MA) that chelate iron, enabling...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/22571
Studies on the effect of long term land use management practices on the temporal variability of soil properties are limited. This study addressed the temporal variability of soil properties under a long term fertilizer trial in a northern guinea savannah of Nigeria. The long-term...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/22161
Two field experiments were conducted at the Multipurpose crop nursery of the University of Education, Winneba, Mampong campus from May to September, 2013 and June to October, 2014 respectively to investigate into the effect of number of nodes (4, 5 and 6) and vine part (apica...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/22776
Isaac Osei-Bonsu, Beloved Mensah Dzomeku, Kwasi Bonsu Offei, Michael Kwabena Osei, Kennedy Agyeman, Seth Obosu Ekyem & Joseph Nketiah Berchie·International Journal of Plant & Soil Science·2015
Aims: To assess flood tolerance potential of papaya germplasm and determine physiological basis of observed tolerance. Study Design: Both Experiment 1 and 2 were in RCBD with 2 and 3 treatments respectively. Place and Duration of Study: Experiments were conducted in a screen-hous...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/20191
Larrea tridentata (creosote bush) growing in contaminated tailings of the Techatticup Mine in Nelson, Nevada were sampled and analyzed for trace metals. Samples were also collected outside the mine tailings to measure geogenic trace metal levels. These data show that some trace m...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/22837
This investigation was carried out to study the effect of four levels of nitrogen (0,90,180,270) and three levels of sulphur (0,25,50) application on growth and yield attributes of potation a split plot design with three replication, at lovely professional university, Phagwara, P...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/20237
Aims: Among the abiotic stresses, salinity is one of the most important environmental constraints which provokes grave threats for agriculture and environment. It is a growing threat to agricultural crops and its impacts have already started becoming visible as expansion in the a...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/22877
This experiment was conducted in the laboratory of the Department of Field Crops, Faculty of Agriculture, Akdeniz University in 2012. As a material the seeds of dichondra (Dichondra repens) which is a green area plant were used and the study was performed as randomized plots desi...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/14284
An experiment was carried out to investigate the effect of planting density on growth, development, yield and yield components contributing characteristics of maize during the period of November, 2012 to March 2013 in the Research Field and Laboratory of Crop Physiology and Ecolo...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/22228
Conventionally, crop production in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) depends primarily on natural soil nutrients. Application of inorganic and organic fertilizers is an important way for maximizing agriculture in SSA that targets the full utilization of the agricultural lands for food to...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/13928
Salinity is an important growth-limiting abiotic stress factor. Salicylic acid (S.A), Benzoic Acid (B.A) and p-coumaric acid (p-CA) are substances generally thought to play a crucial role in the enhancement of salt tolerance and regulation of growth and development in plants. Thi...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/22396
The agricultural use of sewage sludge have been presented as an alternative both to reduce the volume of this environmental liability as to obtain a product to be used in agricultural soils as fertilizer. However, when the household sewage is also composed of water from the indus...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/22570