Eighteen explorative field experiments were conducted in 2012/2013 seasons in three representative areas in central highlands of Ethiopia, to evaluate the effects of sulfur (S) vis-à-vis nitrogen (N) and phosphorous (P) on wheat. Furthermore, an assessment was made on the status...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/20055
Twelve Egyptian Rice (Oryza sativa L.) genotypes have been used in Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) experiment with three replicates to study their tolerance to lead at seedling stage Those genotypes were: Giza 177, Giza 178, Giza 179, Giza 181, Giza 182, Sakha 101, Sakha...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/20115
Leaf area is an important indicator of crop growth and productivity. There are different instruments besides mathematical empirical models to estimate leaf area of crops, vegetables and fruits. This study investigates an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model in prediction cotton...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/19686
Using high-analysis fertilizers lacking adventitious sulfur (S), coupled with traditional cropping-systems that mine S from native soil, leads to S deficiency. However, under field conditions, S deficiency symptoms are not easily identifiable in cereals, because they are mistaken...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/20513
The need for recycling organic wastes should be one of the priorities of urban as well as rural regions under the climate change impacts to minimize the consumption of natural sources. Two studies were conducted out during two successive winter seasons at the Central Laboratory f...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/20009
Soil conservation and quality improvement under intensive land use and fast economic development has become a major challenge for sustainable natural resource use in developing countries such as Nigeria. Conventional tillage is commonly practiced at land preparation and effect of...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/19628
Aims: The effects of chromium (0, 100 and 200 ppm) and cadmium (0, 50 and 100ppm) on shoot dry weight, content of chlorophyll, soluble protein content and activity of superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase (CAT) were investigated. Study Design: The experimental design was compl...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/19242
Barley requires adequate nitrogen (N) for high grain yields and quality malting, but the balance between adequate and excessive N is important therefore field experiments were set up between July 2011 and July 2012 to evaluate the effects of nitrogen fertilizer rates and liming o...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/6239
This study examined the awareness, preference and adoption of soil conservation practices among arable crop farmers in Zing Local Government Area of Taraba State. The study was a community based cross sectional study of a sample of 200 food crop farmers drawn from ten communities...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/19090
A morphological study on the genus of Stachytarpheta found in Awka, South Eastern region of Nigeria was carried out. This was done by physical observation and measurement of physiognomic features of fresh floral and vegetative parts of the plants. From the result of the analyses...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/19409
The objective of the present investigation was to study the effect of different NaCl concentrations (0, 50, 75, 100, 125 and 150 mM) on seedlings of Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz. On these seedlings, we determined their appearance after 3 days of salt stress, soluble sugar and tota...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/20270
Aims: The study aimed at assessing the uptake of essential nutrients by tuber crops from soils at Ikot Oborenyin where small scale oil refining occurs. Study Design: Experimental study was employed to achieve the aim of the study. Place and Duration of Study: The study was conduc...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/19922
Compost quality has been described using different techniques. However, none of these techniques is efficient enough to provide a universal answer at all time and place to the question of when compost could be considered matured. In Nigeria, composition of compost varied accordin...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/19339
A review of common types of lysimeter used in solute transport studies was carried out based on their features, working principle, advantages and disadvantages. The Lysimeters are majorly used for solute concentration measurement at the lower boundary (flux concentrations) in sol...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/18098
Columns experiment was conducted to determine desalinization and desodification leaching curves of a clay saline-sodic soil. Soil samples were collected from Sahl El-Tina plain, Northern Sinai Governorate, Egypt. Soil columns were amended with agricultural normal gypsum "NG", pho...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/18606