{"title":"Survey of Root-Knot Nematodes Infecting Vegetables in Northern Nigeria","authors":"A. Khan, B. Abdulkadir","doi":"10.5958/J.2231-1750.3.2.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5958/J.2231-1750.3.2.010","url":null,"abstract":"Systematic surveys of root-knot nematodes were conducted in three states (Jos, Kaduna and Katsina) of Northern Nigeria. Infected root samples of vegetables were collected in polythene bags and brought to the laboratory. Root galls were dissected for mature females and perineal patterns were prepared from each sample. Species of root-knot nematodes were identified on the basis of perineal patterns. Two species Meloidogyne incognita and M. javanica were found to be associated with vegetables crops. M. incognita was present on all the vegetables, while M. javanica was present on few vegetables. Frequency of M. incognita was greater than M. javanica. Overall, incidence of disease was found 49.3% and intensity (gall index/egg mass index) was ranged from 2–4/0–4 with variation on different vegetables.","PeriodicalId":231568,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Functional and Environmental Botany","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127690445","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}
Keshav Singh Jatav, R. Agarwal, R. Singh, M. Shrivastava
{"title":"Growth and Yield Responses of Wheat [Triticum aestivum L] to Suboptimal Water Supply and Different Potassium Doses","authors":"Keshav Singh Jatav, R. Agarwal, R. Singh, M. Shrivastava","doi":"10.5958/J.2231-1742.2.1.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5958/J.2231-1742.2.1.005","url":null,"abstract":"Laboratory, pot and field experiments were conducted to find out the responses of two wheat cultivars: MP4010 [V1] and Sujata [V2] at different growth stages under water stress with varying potassium doses, namely 20kg/ha [K1], 40kg/ha [K2] and 60kg/ha [K3]. Water stress was imposed by withholding water at different stages, that is, I0 [rainfed], I2[vegetative stage] and I3[before flowering stage] wherein I1served as normal irrigation. In laboratory experiments polyethylene glycol ‘6000’ [15%] was employed as stress treatment. Potassium treatments resulted in an increase in total chlorophylls, carotenoids and yield parameters in both the cultivars. Relative water content [RWC] improved with increasing potassium doses under all the irrigation schedules. Free proline contents were greater in plants grown under rainfed conditions in comparison to normal irrigation and in potassium treatments.","PeriodicalId":231568,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Functional and Environmental Botany","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121555823","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":"Effect of PGRs on Biochemical Parameters and Yield Attributes of Black gram (Vigna mungo L.)","authors":"Manjri, R. Bahadur, S. Gupta, Atar Singh","doi":"10.5958/2231-1750.2015.00012.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5958/2231-1750.2015.00012.8","url":null,"abstract":"An investigation was conducted to find out the effect of GA3 and salicylic acid on biochemical parameters and yield attributes of black gram (Vigna mungo L.) cv. Narendra Urd-1. The crop was grown under field condition, and GA3 concentrations 50, 100 and 150 ppm and salicylic acid concentrations 100, 125 and 150 ppm were applied as a foliar spray at different growth stages. That resulted in the foliar spray of SA 150 ppm at 25, 40 and 55 DAS, and was found most effective to increase the biochemical parameters, namely, total chlorophyll content, nitrate reductase activity, nitrogen content in leaf, protein content in seed and yield attributes viz. number of pod per cluster, number of pod cluster per plant, pod length, number of seeds per pod, number of seeds per plant, seed yield per plant and seed yield quintal per hectare.","PeriodicalId":231568,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Functional and Environmental Botany","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122916340","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":"Salt Tolerance in Mungbean Vigna radiata [L.] Genotypes: Role of Proline and Glycinebetaine","authors":"Shabina Syeed, M. Fatma","doi":"10.5958/J.2231-1742.1.2.016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5958/J.2231-1742.1.2.016","url":null,"abstract":"Salinity is one of the major environmental determinants of plant growth and productivity. A pot experiment was performed using six cultivars of mungbean [Vigna radiata L.] to evaluate the difference in their response to NaCl toxicity under growth chamber conditions. The pots containing reconstituted soil were supplied with different concentration of salinity [0, 50 and 100 mM NaCl]. Increasing concentration of NaCl in the soil resulted in decreased net photosynthesis, plant dry mass and seed yield. Maximum significant reduction in growth, photosynthesis and yield were observed with 100 mM NaCl in all the cultivars. Our results indicate that the cultivar Punt Mung is found to be more tolerant to salinity stress, recording higher net photosynthesis, plant dry mass and seed yield associated with low Na+ and Cl− content and high osmolyte accumulation in the plant leaves. Cultivar T44 experienced maximum damage in terms of reduction in net photosynthesis, plant dry mass and seed yield and emerged as a sensitive cultivar. The data of tolerance index of Punt Mung were found to be higher among all tested mungbean cultivars which indicate its higher tolerance to salinity. Better coordination of osmolytes and lower values of Na+ and Cl− protected Punt mung from NaCl toxicity, whereas lesser accumulation of osmolytes and higer values of Na+ and Cl− in T44 resulted in maximum damage. Cultivars of mungbean were ranked with respect to their tolerance to salinity: Punt mung > Pusa 9531 > Pusa Baisakhi > Samrat > SML 267> T44, respectively.","PeriodicalId":231568,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Functional and Environmental Botany","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127149218","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":"Shannon Diversity Index (H) as an Ecological Indicator of Environmental Pollution - A GIS Approach","authors":"P. Das, S. Joshi, J. Rout, D. Upreti","doi":"10.5958/J.2231-1742.2.1.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5958/J.2231-1742.2.1.003","url":null,"abstract":"The present work deals with the application of Shannon Index to explore the spatial extent and pattern of air pollution around a paper mill. The index measures the change in lichen diversity in response to the polluted environment around a paper mill in Assam, North-East India. The Shannon index around the paper mill ranged from 0.56 at 2.4 km to 1.20 at 13.7 km with a mean value of 0.92. About 47% of the sites have Shannon index value below mean value. The index does not show significant correlation with the distance from the paper mill. The values are plotted with the help of kriging interpolation and an air quality model is prepared. The dark shades in the model indicate highly polluted regions while the brighter shades indicate less polluted to clean areas. Higher polluted areas with low values of Shannon index are the regions around and nearer to the paper mill, town area, and around stone crusher units. It is concluded that the Shannon index is a potential indicator to measure the effect of air pollution and can be used to delineate the pollution zones around any industrial area.","PeriodicalId":231568,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Functional and Environmental Botany","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116034479","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}
R. K. Agnihotri, Gurpreet Singh, D. Singh, Rajendra K. Sharma
{"title":"Lead-and Nickel-Induced Heavy-Metal Toxicity in Vigna mungo L. Seedlings and Detoxification through Exogenous Nitrogen Application","authors":"R. K. Agnihotri, Gurpreet Singh, D. Singh, Rajendra K. Sharma","doi":"10.5958/2231-1750.2015.00006.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5958/2231-1750.2015.00006.2","url":null,"abstract":"Heavy-metal stress is one of the major stresses affecting plant growth and productivity globally. In order to improve the yields of plants, growing under heavy-metal stress became remarkably important for sustainable agriculture. Plants experience oxidative stress upon exposure to heavy metals that lead to cellular damage. In addition, plants accumulate metal ions that disturb cellular ionic homeostasis. This experiment was undertaken with an objective to determine how the rate of seed germination, seedling growth and leaf area is influenced by various concentrations of heavy metals, lead and nickel at 10, 50 and 100 μM/L concentration in black gram (Vigna mungo L.) seedlings. These concentrations significantly affect all these parameters. Lower concentration, that is, 10 μM/L of lead and nickel showed less affect than high concentration, that is, 50 and 100 μM/L. Shoot length was more affected than the root length in Vigna mungo seedlings. Nickel showed more toxic effect than lead at all the aforementioned concentrations as compared to control. However, the addition of 5 mM/L nitrogen (ammonium nitrate) to the plants somehow minimised the effect and was beneficial to the plants. This study suggests that cultivation of Vigna mungo in toxic soils having heavy metals should be avoided or appropriate control measures be adopted to maintain the heavy metal content of the soil below the damaged (threshold) level, for this nitrogen may be used as a good detoxifier.","PeriodicalId":231568,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Functional and Environmental Botany","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132105771","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}
Varucha Misra, S. Solomon, A. K. Shrivastava, S. Shukla, M. Ansari
{"title":"Post-harvest Sugarcane Deterioration: Leuconostoc and Its Effect","authors":"Varucha Misra, S. Solomon, A. K. Shrivastava, S. Shukla, M. Ansari","doi":"10.5958/2231-1750.2016.00001.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5958/2231-1750.2016.00001.9","url":null,"abstract":"Post-harvest sugarcane deterioration is significant vicinity for cane growers as well as sugar millers. These deterioration causes low sugar recovery in mills. One of the major parts is played by the microbial infestation after harvest of cane. The most devastating microbe for it is Leuconostoc that causes large amount of post-harvest sucrose losses in cane. These microbes enter through the cut ends by the contact through soil as they are soil-borne or through contaminated cane cutters. They proliferate at a higher rate as soon as it reaches the interior of the cane, where there is ample amount of sucrose that act as a feast for its proliferation, leading to enhancement in post-harvest cane deterioration. This not only creates problems at field level but also during processing in mills as they get washed away from the cane surface and enters into the juice and thus also reduces the sucrose content by producing the enzyme dextrasucrase that converts sucrose into dextran. This dextran formation also causes troubles during milling, like, increases viscosity as well as alters the shape of sugar crystal. Although many measures have been taken for overcoming these losses caused by it; however, still complete eradication is required. This review emphasises on the effect of Leuconostoc over harvested sugarcane as well as its role in post-harvest cane deterioration.","PeriodicalId":231568,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Functional and Environmental Botany","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123964670","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":"Pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan L.): A Hidden Treasure of Regime Nutrition","authors":"Sheel Sharma, N. Agarwal, P. Verma","doi":"10.5958/J.2231-1742.1.2.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5958/J.2231-1742.1.2.010","url":null,"abstract":"Pigeon pea is a tropical grain legume grown mainly in India. Though largely considered an orphan crop, it has a huge untapped potential for improvement both in quantity and quality of production in India. More than any other legume adapted to the region, pigeon pea uniquely combines optimal nutritional profiles, high tolerance to environmental stress, high biomass productivity and most nutrient and moisture contributions to the soil. Pigeon pea is rich in starch, protein, calcium, manganese, crude fibre, fat, trace elements and minerals. Besides, its high nutritional value, pigeon pea is also used as traditional folk medicine in India, China, Philippines and some other nations.","PeriodicalId":231568,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Functional and Environmental Botany","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116366082","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":"Influence of Different Nitrogen Treatments on the Growth and Yield of Ocimum","authors":"Syed Saad, A. Ahmed, A. Sajjad, A. Khan","doi":"10.5958/2231-1750.2017.00001.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5958/2231-1750.2017.00001.4","url":null,"abstract":"A factorial randomised block designed experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of different levels of nitrogen on growth, herb and seed yield of three species of Ocimum, namely O. sanctum (Holy Basil), O. basilicum (Sweet Basil) and O. amaricanum (Wild Basil or Black Tulsi) with the objective to select the better species under local conditions which ultimately improve the production of the crop. The treatments consisted of four levels of nitrogen, namely 0 (control), 50, 100 and 150 kg N/ha. A uniform basal dose of phosphorous and potassium fertilisers was given to the soil before transplanting at the rate of 20 kg P/ha and 30 kg K/ha, respectively. The sampling was done at 50, 70 and 90 days after transplanting (DAT). The different parameters such as plant height, number of branches per plant, fresh and dry herb yield per plant were investigated at different sampling stages, whereas the yield parameters like oil content in herb, seed and oil yield were measured at harvest (90 DAT). It is revealed from our results that N3 and S3 were found the best among all the tested treatments. However, the interaction (S3 × N3) excelled among all the interactions studied. Thus, the application of nitrogen at the rate of 150 kg N/ha could be recommended for maximising herb and oil yields of Ocimum plants under local agro-climatic condition.","PeriodicalId":231568,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Functional and Environmental Botany","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123406369","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}
Lipiara Khatun, A. Karim, Shafiqul Islam, M. Zakaria, N. S. Sarmin, Satyen Mondal
{"title":"Effect of Integrated Nutrient Management on Growth and Yield of Amaranth (Amaranthus Oleraceus) and Soil Properties","authors":"Lipiara Khatun, A. Karim, Shafiqul Islam, M. Zakaria, N. S. Sarmin, Satyen Mondal","doi":"10.5958/2231-1750.2020.00001.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5958/2231-1750.2020.00001.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":231568,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Functional and Environmental Botany","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122683974","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}