Thirteen durum wheat genotypes were evaluated in a randomized complete block design with three replications across four locations of north western Ethiopia for two consecutive years (2010 and 2011). The objective of this experiment was to investigate the association of different...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/15568
Defoliation severity and nitrogen fertilization trigger physiological and morphological responses in individual plants. The objective of this study was to evaluate the capacity of Aruana guinea grass to respond to severe defoliation and to determine whether nitrogen fertilization...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/17386
Aims: To assess the incidence and severity of viral and fungal diseases infecting pepper in some major producing areas in Ghana and to identify farmers’ agronomic practices that influence disease incidence and severity. Study Design: Descriptive survey involving household and fie...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/16830
The present study aimed to determine the effects of nitrogen fertilization on the chemical properties of Oxissol (Red Latosol), in an area cultivated with Brachiaria ruziziensis cv. Common where crop succession system was used (“safrinha” corn (second growing season) planted in s...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/17601
Aim: This study investigated the influence of applied zinc on the richness and distribution of Zn in the leaves and grain of Zn dense bean genotypes. Study Design: Treatments of this study were laid out in a completely randomised design (CRD), three replications, repeated three t...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/17144
In this work we are interested in evaluating the impact of nitrogen fertilizer urea on the roots of wheat Triticum durum. We followed the percentage of germination. Also biochemical parameters such as average water content, soluble sugar and average of chlorophyll content. The ma...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/16331
Proper management of poultry manure could serve as a sustainable source of fertilizer for increased rice production in Sokoto State of Nigeria. As a result, an experiment was conducted in a screen house at the Botanical Garden, Department of Biological Science, Sokoto State Polyt...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/15912
Studies were carried out to evaluate the effect of organic and inorganic fertilizers on the growth and yield performance of maize (Zea mays L.) at the experimental site of Plant science Department, Faculty of science, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti (7°40′ N, 5°15′ E) and the T...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/16806
Field conservation of vegetative propagated crops poses a major problem to curators of germplasm, especially in developing countries. An alternative method to ensure security of germplasm is the use of tissue culture techniques in media formulated for slow growth. However, tissue...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/17564
Aside from increasing the yield of crops, it is well known that application of fertilizers, especially Nitrogen, to soil has many other positive and negative effects. One of such effects include increasing or decreasing disease expression and/or severity. Information about the ef...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/13208
Phytoremediation has been found to be cost effective in removing heavy metals (HM) from polluted soils. Enhanced phytoextraction with the use of chelating agents for solubility of metal in soils and their uptake in the aerial parts of plants had also been employed. Phytoextractio...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/17379
Aims: To evaluate the effects of soil K levels (deficit to excess) on nutrient uptake parameters (concentration, uptake, influx, transport and use efficiency ratios) of macro and micro nutrients in different cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) genotypes. Methodology: Seedlings of three ca...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/17368
Aims: To determine the level of acid or aluminium tolerance provenances in Leucaena (Leucaena leucocephala) a favourite agroforestry tree in Kenya. Study Design: The set up was a 2-factor (provenance-aluminium) experiment in a completely randomized design with three (3) replicati...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/14704
There is a need to improve the existing germplasm of yellow pitaya (Selenicereus megalanthus), particularly for fruit quality and traits. The genetic transformation requires organogenesis and shoot regeneration protocols. Therefore, the in vitro culture of the plant was successfu...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/16725
Soil texture can modify the content and dynamic of soil phosphorus (P). The objective of this work was to study the P form contents associated to physical fractionation of SOM in soils with different texture. Soil samples (0-0.15 m) were obtained from 27 sites with different text...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/16939