The influence of land management on soil structural stability of National Animal Production Research Institute (NAPRI) farm Shika Zaria in Northern ecological zone of Nigeria was studied. Soil samples were collected from depth of 0-15 cm in fields under three perennial pasture fi...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/19691
Background: Despite that the protein composition is one of the main characteristics of plant organism, there are not many studies dedicated to the fern proteins characterisation. Protein composition as a part of biochemical characterisation of Ophioglossum vulgatum (an evolutiona...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/21695
The effect of Brassinolide (BL) sprayed in three concentrations viz., 0.5 mM, 1.0 mM and 2.0 mM on the shoot growth, root growth and foliar growth (plant fresh weight, leaves per plant and leaf area) of mustard plants grown in the semi-arid tropics of Nizamabad was studied. The s...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/21617
Sea level rise is one of the most risky climate change impacts under Egyptian conditions to increase the salinity of northern Delta. Increasing the tolerance for salinity in current and future crops is strongly desirable. The current experiment was carried out in the experimental...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/19992
A field experiment was conducted during the two successive seasons of 2012/2013 and 2013/2014 at El-Bosaily farm, El-Behira governorate, Egypt, to study the effect of different nitrogen rates and mulch treatments on plant growth and yield of cauliflower (Brassica oleracia var. bo...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/19880
Aim: The experiment on pineapple (Ananas comosus) was conducted in 2013 at the Teaching and Research Farm of Faculty of Agriculture, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria using soil enrichment materials. The experiment was aimed at comparing the best soil enrichment material that...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/19228
Screening wheat germplasm based on grain yield (GYPP) and nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) under contrasting N environments may be useful in identifying N-efficient (low-N tolerant) and responsive genotypes of great value in breeding programs. The main aim of the present study was t...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/21915
The study on soil quality assessment in red sandy soils (chemical Theri soil) of Punnai Nagar (Kachanavillai) in Tuticorin district, Tamilnadu, south India was carried out during 2014(Oct) to 2015(Jan). Investigations were carried out on the surface (15 cm depth) of soil samples...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/20519
Spider plant (Cleome gynandra L.) is among some of the African Leafy Vegetables whose consumption is on the increase in Kenya. Production of the vegetable is constrained by low leaf yields resulting from, among others causes, the short vegetative phase of the plant. In trying to...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/21331
Billions of people all over the world are being affected by zinc deficiency that causes stunted growth and poorly developed immune system. The approach to enrich the grains of food crops with nutrients is biofortification. To overcome the human zinc deficiency, improving wheat gr...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/19739
Structural porosity is a dynamic soil property with high spatio-temporal variability affected by many factors. In order to develop a quantitative understanding of root driven changes in soil hydraulic properties adequate measurement setups are required. A modular soil column setu...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/20604
Aims: The objective of this study was to describe and photograph the initial symptoms and the development of nutritional deficiencies in cucumbers, and determine the concentration of the omitted macronutrient in leaves, on which symptoms of deficiency were observed. Study Design:...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/20243
The present storage experiment was conducted at Seed Testing Laboratory, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology & Sciences (SHIATS), Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh during 2014 - 2015 with black gram cv. T-9 obtained from Dep...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/20369
Boron is directly or indirectly involved in the enhancement of quality and quantity of crops especially vegetables and fruits so this study was planned to assess the boron uptake, yield and quality of carrot in response to boron application at Institute of Soil Chemistry and Envi...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/19667
This study employed the use of NH2OH.HCl in the pre-treatment of Aspilia africana for the phytoremediation of waste engine oil-contaminated soil for a period of three months. 8 kg of soil was obtained, weighed and polluted at 5% W/W of waste engine oil which was replicated in 18...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/19099