Muetanene Muetanene, Álvaro Luiz Mafra, Jackson Adriano Albuquerque, Erbesson Souza Brito, Daibou Alassane, L. Peternelli, Momate Emate Ossifo
{"title":"Soil exchangeable cations and acidity components in different cropping systems for onion","authors":"Muetanene Muetanene, Álvaro Luiz Mafra, Jackson Adriano Albuquerque, Erbesson Souza Brito, Daibou Alassane, L. Peternelli, Momate Emate Ossifo","doi":"10.24297/jaa.v13i.9297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24297/jaa.v13i.9297","url":null,"abstract":"This study aimed to evaluate K, Ca, Mg, Al concentrations and active acidity (pH-H2O) in different cropping systems for onion. The study was conducted on a Humic Dystrudept in Ituporanga, Santa Catarina state, Brazil, where eight different cropping systems for onion were evaluated, namely: T1: maize-onion succession, T2: common vetch-maize/rye+fodder raddish-onion-maize/rye+fodder raddish-common bean, T3: rye-onion-maize/black oat-maize, T4: onion-velvet bean succession, T5: rye-onion-millet/black oat-onion-millet, T6: rye-onion-velvet bean succession, T7: onion-velvet bean+millet+sunflower succession, from T1 to T7 were conducted under no tillage system (NTS), T8, T8: maize-onion succession, was conducted under conventional tillage system. We used the randomized complete block design, with 5 replications. All the chemical samples were collected and evaluated at the 0-5, 5-10 and 10-20 cm soil layers. We observed that the different cropping systems were similar in terms of Ca, Mg and K concentrations in all the soil layers, significant differences were only found for exchangeable Al concentrations at the 0-5 cm layer. More time is needed to observe better the performance of the treatments since their effect on the soil depends a lot on the time of implantation. ","PeriodicalId":14915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Advances in Agriculture","volume":"102 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77441453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wellington Ferrari, Reginaldo Ferreira Junior, Evamaria Perreira da Cunha Marques, Renata Priscila de Oliveira Paula, Dayse Menezes Dayrell
{"title":"Agronomic Performance of Corn Silage Intercropped with Urochloa Ruziziensis","authors":"Wellington Ferrari, Reginaldo Ferreira Junior, Evamaria Perreira da Cunha Marques, Renata Priscila de Oliveira Paula, Dayse Menezes Dayrell","doi":"10.24297/jaa.v13i.9192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24297/jaa.v13i.9192","url":null,"abstract":"The integrated cultivation of corn with forages leads to competition for production factors such as water, light and nutrients however, currently, it is being practiced to improve the chemical, physical and biological characteristics of the soil, in addition to increasing grain and straw production for the next crop. In this sense, the objective of this work was to evaluate the agronomic performance of corn silage intercropped with the species Urochloa ruziziensis. The experiment was carried out on a rural property located in the municipality Abadia dos Dourados - Minas Gerais, Brazil. A randomized block design was used with two treatments (corn cultivated with and without intercropping with U. ruziziensis) and ten replications. The evaluations in the corn crop were carried out at 100 days after planting. The variables analyzed were: plant height, corn cob insertion height, corn cob weight and corn cob size. Data were selected for analysis of variance and level means of Tukey test models at 5% probability test. Urochloa ruziziensis when intercropped with a corn hybrid increased the height of the corn cob insertion, the size and weight of the corn cob reaching satisfactory levels.","PeriodicalId":14915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Advances in Agriculture","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76937293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ana Cristina Fătu, Cristina Maria Lumînare, Daniel Nicolae Cojanu, Mihaela Monica Dinu, Ana Maria Andrei
{"title":"In Vitro Thermal Requirements of Some Beauveria sp. Isolates Under Constant Conditions","authors":"Ana Cristina Fătu, Cristina Maria Lumînare, Daniel Nicolae Cojanu, Mihaela Monica Dinu, Ana Maria Andrei","doi":"10.24297/jaa.v12i.9130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24297/jaa.v12i.9130","url":null,"abstract":"The thermal tolerance of four isolates of Beauveria bassiana and one isolate of Beauveria pseudobassiana was evaluated in vitro, by measuring the colonial diameters, on PDA medium, at temperatures between 5 and 35 ° C, during 14 days. The data obtained were used to calculate the growth rate of fungal colonies (mm / day), using linear regression. The representation of the values corresponding to the minimum, optimal and maximum temperature for vegetative growth was a curve described by a modified beta (ß) mathematical function. The minimum growth temperature of these isolates varied between 3.4 and 4.5 °C, the optimum temperature varied between 21.8 and 22.9 °C, except for one isolate of which optimal temperature was 26.8 °C, while the maximum temperature was varied for all isolates between 35.0 and 35.7 °C.","PeriodicalId":14915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Advances in Agriculture","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82483572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Osuna-García, J. D. Olivares-Figueroa, Peter Martin Albert Toivonen, M. H. Pérez-Barraza, R. Goenaga, María J. Graciano-Cristóbal
{"title":"Novel Nondestructive Technique to Determine Optimum Harvesting Stage of ‘Ataúlfo’ Mango Fruit","authors":"J. Osuna-García, J. D. Olivares-Figueroa, Peter Martin Albert Toivonen, M. H. Pérez-Barraza, R. Goenaga, María J. Graciano-Cristóbal","doi":"10.24297/JAA.V12I.9069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24297/JAA.V12I.9069","url":null,"abstract":"A portable spectrometer was validated to determine optimum harvesting stage of ‘Ataúlfo’ using dry matter and skin color as fruit indicators. To build the model, samples were collected as follows: a. Unripe; b. Green Mature 1; c. Green Mature 2; d. Green Mature 3; and e. Fully mature. Fruit were scanned with a near infrared spectrometer at three temperatures (15, 25, and 35 °C). Skin color (‘a’ value) was measured with a Minolta 400 colorimeter. DM was attained in a conventional oven by drying samples for 72 h at 60 °C. Model was built and validated three times. The best model linearity was obtained on skin color ‘a’ (R2 = 0.98), whereas for DM the R2 was only 0.70. For the first validation, the best predicted value was skin color ‘a’ with an R2 = 0.9144, followed by DM with an R2 = 0.7056. On the second validation, the adjusted predicted value for skin color ‘a’ had an R2 = 0.8798, while DM had an R2 = 0.4445. When comparing NIR versus Heat Units Accumulation, in Nayarit, ‘Ataúlfo’ skin color average difference between the spectrometer vs the colorimeter was only -0.04. For ‘Ataúlfo’ from Sinaloa, skin color average difference was only -0.06, but the correlation was higher (R2 = 0.90). In conclusion, measuring skin color with the NIR spectrometer has potential as a nondestructive technique to determine the optimum harvesting stage of ‘Ataúlfo’ mango.","PeriodicalId":14915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Advances in Agriculture","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78532906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nondestructive Testing of Lettuce Nitrogen Stress Based on Multidimensional Image","authors":"Baoguo Shen, Jingjing Dai, Xiao Dong Zhang, Zhaohui Duan","doi":"10.24297/jaa.v12i.9063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24297/jaa.v12i.9063","url":null,"abstract":"Visible light near infrared (VS-NIR) hyperspectral combined with three-dimensional laser scanning was applied to extract the VS-NIR features of lettuce nitrogen between 400-1700 nm and 3D morphological features of the plants. Such combination realizes the rapid quantitative detection of lettuce nitrogen. This study is based on the hyperspectral image data cube achieved from lettuce leaves with different nitrogen levels. Stepwise regression sensitive area was used and adaptive band selection method was combined to extract the characteristic spectrum and feature image of lettuce nitrogen and characterize the average image intensity. Also; the error caused by moisture variation content in lettuce nitrogen image features was compensated. Then a model of lettuce nitrogen hyperspectral image diagnosis was built. The reverse engineering software Geomagic Qualify was used to repair and smooth interference noise and discontinuous range which are based on the 3D laser scanning data of lettuce. Accordingly, the stem diameter, plant height, leaf area, and biomass features of different nitrogen levels of lettuce are obtained and the model of nitrogen detection about lettuce growth features was built based on reverse engineering and integral method. Multi-scale fusion lettuce nitrogen detection model is built by using the acquired hyperspectral images with growing features of lettuce nitrogen and adopting genetic algorithm combined with partial least squares regression. Results show the correlation coefficient R of the built model is 0.95; the model precision is much better than single feature of hyperspectral images and 3D laser scanning model. The feature extraction algorithm and the eigenvectors provide the reference for development of facilities for online monitoring system of crop growth information.","PeriodicalId":14915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Advances in Agriculture","volume":"220 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75779084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eric Amoah Asante, J. Akowuah, S. Appah, G. Obeng-Akrofi
{"title":"Mechanised Threshing of Pod Grains used as food and Strategies to Optimise the Technique: A Review","authors":"Eric Amoah Asante, J. Akowuah, S. Appah, G. Obeng-Akrofi","doi":"10.24297/jaa.v12i.9045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24297/jaa.v12i.9045","url":null,"abstract":"Pod grains threshing using mechanical devices is essential in understanding the diversities involved in the application of machine–crop parameter combinations towards achieving best quality grain. The integration of pod grains’ physical properties in optimizing product quality which is vital to meet the increasing global requirement is limited. However, with computing and technological advancements into thresher design and evaluation have been found to be capable of meeting these needs which are of interest to researchers. Over the past three–four decades, the applications of the technology in reducing impact force through modification of peg geometry have attracted researchers’ widespread interest and the future looks promising. This review presents an overview of mechanical thresher development and the applications in the field of pod grain production chain. The role of grain physical properties in threshers design, operations and with force sensors to reveal the mysteries surrounding the causes of grain damage and how they can be minimised are stressed. The current trends and future advances of such studies are also presented.","PeriodicalId":14915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Advances in Agriculture","volume":"107 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79130813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) Response to Glyphosate plus Dicamba Combinations","authors":"W. Grichar, P. Dotray, T. Baughman","doi":"10.24297/JAA.V12I.9016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24297/JAA.V12I.9016","url":null,"abstract":"Field studies were conducted in south and the High Plains of Texas as well as in southwestern Oklahoma during the 2014 and 2015 growing seasons to evaluate the effects of glyphosate plus dicamba combinations (1/16 X to 1 X of the 1.68 kg ae ha-1 rate) applied 30, 60, and 90 days after planting (DAP) on Spanish (Oklahoma) and runner (Texas) peanut. Rates were established to evaluate sub-labeled drift and direct application of a 1 X rate. Peanut stunting and death were more prevalent at the 30 and 60 DAP application while peanut were more tolerant of the 90 DAP application. In south Texas, peanut yields were reduced in both years when rates of ¼ X or greater were applied 30 and 90 DAP while rates of 1/8 X or greater reduced yield when applied 60 DAP. At the High Plains location, peanut yields were consistently reduced with rates of ½ X or greater applied 30 and 90 DAP and ¼ X or greater applied 60 DAP. In Oklahoma, peanut yield were consistently reduced with rates of ¼ X or greater applied 30 and 60 DAP and 1/16 X or greater when applied 90 DAP. Peanut grade was more affected by the 60 and 90 DAP application than the 30 DAP application. ","PeriodicalId":14915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Advances in Agriculture","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91210325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using Quinclorac to Control Annual Grasses and Palmer Amaranth in Grain Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.)","authors":"J. Grichar, T. Janak","doi":"10.24297/JAA.V12I.8950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24297/JAA.V12I.8950","url":null,"abstract":"Field studies were conducted during the 2015 and 2016 growing seasons in south-central Texas to determine control of Palmer amaranth and annual grasses along with grain sorghum tolerance to quinclorac alone and in various combinations when applied to weeds < 5 cm (EPOST) or 10 to 16 cm tall (LPOST). When evaluated late-season quinclorac alone at 0.43 kg ae ha-1 controlled broadleaf signalgrass 72% when applied EPOST and 91% when applied LPOST. Combinations of quinclorac with either atrazine, pyrasulfotole + bromoxynil, dicamba, or dimethenamid-P controlled Palmer amaranth 88 to 100% when applied EPOST or LPOST; however, broadleaf signalgrass control with these combination was better when applied LPOST (75 to 95%) compared with EPOST (37 to 72%) applications. Texas millet control with quinclorac was poor in both years and was never greater than 54%. Quinclorac plus either atrazine, pyrasulfotole + bromoxynil, dicamba, or atrazine + dimethenamid-P caused at least 20% sorghum injury at one of three locations. No yield reductions from the untreated check were noted in either year; however, in 2016 all treatments with the exception of quinclorac alone at 0.29 kg ha-1 applied EPOST, quinclorac + pyrasulfotole + bromoxynil applied LPOST, quinclorac + atrazine + pyrasulfotole + bromoxynil applied LPOST, and quinclorac + dicamba at either application timing produced yields that were greater than the untreated check.","PeriodicalId":14915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Advances in Agriculture","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75008565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design of multilayer microfluidic paper chip and its visual detection of pesticide residues","authors":"Li zhi Li, Han-ping Mao","doi":"10.24297/JAA.V11I.8861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24297/JAA.V11I.8861","url":null,"abstract":"With the increase of China's grain production, the use of pesticides is gradually increasing. Traditional pesticide detection takes a long time and requires expensive experimental instruments, which is not conducive to the rapid and accurate detection of pesticide residues in the field. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a visual detection method of pesticide residues based on multi-layer microfluidic paper chips. The internal channel structure of paper chip is designed from the perspective of efficient mixing. Through the simulation of the mixed effect of three kinds of staggered channel structures, which are arc type, triangle type, and ladder type, the \"ladder-type h-0.3, s-2.6\" is selected as the best-staggered structure, and the mixing strength is 0.91534. The best simulation structure was tested by a colored reagent, and the image processing of 15 test results was carried out with MATLAB. The average mixing strength was 0.84, and the and the standard deviation was 0.022. The visual detection experiment of acetamiprid and profenofos in cabbage samples was carried out by using the device,The detection range of acetamiprid was 4~72 μg/kg, and the detection range of profenofos was 3~54 μg/kg . The recovery of acetamiprid was 75%~85%, and the recovery of profenofos was 80%~90%. The detection range and recovery rate indicate that the device has high repeatability and accuracy in the actual sample detection","PeriodicalId":14915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Advances in Agriculture","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91253934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mao Hanping, Wang Jiahui, Xing Gaoyong, Zuo Zhiyu, Li Qinglin
{"title":"Design and Simulation of the Operating Speed Regulation Algorithm of Plot Cabbage Seed Combine Harvester","authors":"Mao Hanping, Wang Jiahui, Xing Gaoyong, Zuo Zhiyu, Li Qinglin","doi":"10.24297/jaa.v11i.8862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24297/jaa.v11i.8862","url":null,"abstract":"Aiming at the problems of the single control scheme, the few aspects of monitoring and diagnosis, and the large delay time of the plot combine harvester, this paper designs the forward speed control algorithm of the plot Chinese cabbage seed harvester. This paper studies the theory of association rules, has used SQL Server to build a database including the job parameters of the main monitoring objects, and has mined the association rules between the job parameters and the feed amount through Analysis Service. Combining the knowledge of association rules and ordinary fuzzy PID algorithm, the article has built a model and performed simulation verification. The results show that the algorithm can adjust the forward speed reasonably and quickly when the feed volume increases.","PeriodicalId":14915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Advances in Agriculture","volume":"85 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77143347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}