{"title":"Effect of nitrogen starter dose and phosphorus fertilizer application on growth, yield characters and grain crude protein content of three varieties of cowpea in anyigba, kogi state, Nigeria","authors":"Yusuf Momohjimoh, M. Tanko","doi":"10.37446/jinagri/rsa/8.1.2021.1-10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37446/jinagri/rsa/8.1.2021.1-10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":394563,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovative Agriculture","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122288996","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":"Hairy root culture: a promising alternative for enhancing the production of biologically active compounds","authors":"Shilpa Anon, Munisha Sharma","doi":"10.37446/jinagri/ra/8.1.2021.1-10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37446/jinagri/ra/8.1.2021.1-10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":394563,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovative Agriculture","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126774529","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":"Phytoremediation - a green technology adapted to eradication of harmful heavy toxic metals from contaminated soil","authors":"N. Thakur, Munish Sharma","doi":"10.37446/JINAGRI/RA/8.1.2021.26-31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37446/JINAGRI/RA/8.1.2021.26-31","url":null,"abstract":"Phytoremediation is an alternative technology which makes use of biological processes for detoxifying the harmful pollutants in the environment. Rapid increase of industrialization and various other factors such as agricultural activities, the excessive use of fertilizers, untreated waste, and untreated laboratory effluents lead to degradation of soil as well as environment. The heavy toxic metals plays major role because these are basically crucial for development of plants. These are generally take part in various reduction and oxidation reactions, elementary role in metabolisms of nucleic acids, electrons transferring as a direct participant and being a fundamental part of some essential enzymes. The presence at a minimum threshold amount of these heavy toxic metals in a normal growing medium is vital, but excessive high amount lead to numerous lethal effects. Hence, it becomes our foremost duty towards sustainable development goals to eradicate the toxic harmful metal ions. Certain physical and chemical technologies are used to eradicate such toxins, but due to certain limitations, natural method is preferred which is plants-based technology for eradication of noxious heavy metals from contaminated soil. This technology used from last two decades to solve the problem of eradication of harmful metal ions through plants metabolic pathway in sustainable, environment friendly way. The plants which are used as phytoremediator are generally hyperaccumulators, that can accumulate metal ions in concentration of more than 1000ppm and they must have certain properties such as branched root system, less biomass, easy harvestable. This review article focuses on the sources, harmful effects and various technologies to eradicate heavy metals by using hyperaccumulating plants.","PeriodicalId":394563,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovative Agriculture","volume":"128 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114459551","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}
K. Bhattarai, B. Maharjan, Suprava Acharya, Bigyan Kc, Rishav Pandit, R. Regmi, B. Bhusal, P. Neupane, M. Poudel
{"title":"Epigenetic modifications and its basic mechanism","authors":"K. Bhattarai, B. Maharjan, Suprava Acharya, Bigyan Kc, Rishav Pandit, R. Regmi, B. Bhusal, P. Neupane, M. Poudel","doi":"10.37446/jinagri/ra/8.1.2021.19-25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37446/jinagri/ra/8.1.2021.19-25","url":null,"abstract":"Heritable changes in the plant's phenotype are attributed to genomic sequence change and also by epigenetic variations. These epigenetic variations are involved in controlling plants' developmental processes. Intense and close breeding has reduced the genetic variations in crop increasing their susceptibility to the changing environment. Epigenetic diversity has now emerged as a new source of variation for coping with changing environmental stresses in plants. Epigenetic modifications like DNA methylation, post-translational histone modifications, histone variants, and involvement of non-coding RNAs have played a major role in gene expression and regulation in plants. These epigenetic modifications have created the variability in phenotypic expression by selective turning on and turning off of the genomic sequence. These variabilities are created in plants in response to the environmental factors to which plants are exposed. These phenotypic variations accumulated by epigenetic modification are transferred and expressed in the next generation as they are heritable. DNA methylation and methylation of histone tails on the lysine 4, 9, and 27 positions are among the best-characterized epigenetic marks observed in both plants and animals. These modifications marks have altered the physical state of the DNA. The alternation in the physical state of DNA has changed the way cell reads the genes. This is the potential new area of the research as it creates phenotypic variability in response to stress factors without changing the chemical properties of the DNA. In this paper, we have presented the epigenetic modifications and the way they controlled the gene expression in plants and animals.","PeriodicalId":394563,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovative Agriculture","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116904870","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}
W. Kebede, Yazachew Genet, T. Fikre, Kidist Tolosa, S. Chanyalew, M. Demissie, K. Assefa, G. Kidu, Meskel, Atinkut Fantahun, Z. Tadele
{"title":"Tef (Eragrostis tef) variety development for moisture stress areas of Ethiopia","authors":"W. Kebede, Yazachew Genet, T. Fikre, Kidist Tolosa, S. Chanyalew, M. Demissie, K. Assefa, G. Kidu, Meskel, Atinkut Fantahun, Z. Tadele","doi":"10.37446/JINAGRI/7.4.2020.1-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37446/JINAGRI/7.4.2020.1-6","url":null,"abstract":"Tef is widely cultivated grain crop in Ethiopia by concerning 6.5 million smallholder farmers on about 30% of the full-scale region distributed to cereal crops. The goal of this experiment was to identify and release stable and high yielding tef genotype for moisture stress areas of country and to determine and understand the effect of genotype, environment, and their interaction on grain yield of tef. Fourteen selected tef genotypes obtained from two autonomous crosses and progressed through alternative for a minimum of eight generations, and a local and standard check varieties, were tested over a two years at seven tef growing sites in moisture stress areas of Ethiopia namely Debre Zeit, Alemetena, Dhera, Axum, Sirinka, Minjar and Mehoni, using randomized complete block design with four replications. Among the genotype tested, DZ-Cr-387 x 3774-13(RIL120B) was found predominant in terms of yield at tested moisture stress environments. This genotype was obtained through targeted cross between DZ-Cr-387 (Quncho) selected as a maternal parent for its high yielding capability and wide adaptability and, 3774-13 as a pollen parent for its extraordinarily white seed quality and earliness. The genotype DZ-Cr-387 x 3774-13(RIL120B) gave the average grain yield 2740 kgha-1 pooled across all environments. This genotype \"DZ-Cr-387 x 3774-13(RIL120B)” was later released as DZ-Cr-453(RIL 120B) or Bora by the National Variety Release Committee in 2019, and with a yield advantage of 5.7% and 24.48% over the standard (Boset) and local check, respectively.","PeriodicalId":394563,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovative Agriculture","volume":"130 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122500247","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":"An overview of the genetics and cytogenetics of Jatropha curcas L. for its improvement","authors":"P. M, S. R., Manivanan N, Parthiban K.T., K. M.","doi":"10.37446/jinagri/ra/7.3.2020.1-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37446/jinagri/ra/7.3.2020.1-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":394563,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovative Agriculture","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133448089","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":"Response of Scirpophaga incertulas Walker to different temperature regimes","authors":"N. Manikandan, J. Kennedy, V. Geethalakshmi","doi":"10.37446/jinagri/7.1.2020.1-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37446/jinagri/7.1.2020.1-4","url":null,"abstract":"The yellow stem borer (YSB) Scirpophaga incertulas (Walker) (Pyralidae: Lepidoptera) is one of the major pests in rice producing areas and accounts for 27 to 34 per cent loss in the crop yield. Climate change especially temperature increase will affect the insect physiology, behavior and development. An investigation was undertaken to study the effect of temperature on Scirpophaga incertulas (Walker) by constructing the stage specific life table to understand its behaviour in the future climate. Experiments were carried out at four different temperature regimes viz., 28.0°C, 30.0°C, 32.0°C and 34.0°C. The results revealed that the survival fraction of a particular stage reduced with increasing temperatures. The calculated apparent mortality indicated that the percentage of insect died, increased with increasing temperatures. The results showed that the Mortality Survival Ratio (MSR) was observed to be increasing with increasing temperatures for all the stages. The value of IM was observed to be decreasing with increasing temperatures. The generation mortality of YSB was increasing with increase in temperatures for all the stages. The experiments revealed that the insects which happened to live under higher temperature would die faster and most of their energy is spent for reproduction rather than for living long time.","PeriodicalId":394563,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovative Agriculture","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121615279","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":"Induction of tetraploids in watermelon (Citrullus lanatus Thunb.) through chromosome doubling","authors":"S. Gurunathan, Bharathi Raja Ramadoss","doi":"10.37446/jinagri/6.4.2019.1-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37446/jinagri/6.4.2019.1-3","url":null,"abstract":"Polyploidy is an important evolution process for the creation of new species. Up to 70% of angiosperms are reported that as polyploids. Tetraploids development in watermelon is the first most step in the seedless fruit development. In this study, the colchicine was used to generate the tetraploid watermelons. The chloroplast counting methodology was adopted to segregate tetraploids. Among the 63 plants treated, one plant showed 11 - 14 chloroplasts in the guard cells. Chimeral stomatal guard cells pertaining to the number of chloroplasts also identified in this investigation.","PeriodicalId":394563,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovative Agriculture","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115518235","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 Sulphur Oxidizing Bacteria (SOB) on sulphur nutrition in Sesame (Sesamum indicum)","authors":"P. Réka, R. Sridar","doi":"10.37446/JINAGRI/6.3.2019.1-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37446/JINAGRI/6.3.2019.1-7","url":null,"abstract":"Sulphur (S) plays an important role particularly in the nutrition of Oilcrops as it is a key element of S containing amino acids. Sulphur is a constituent of three amino acids commonly found in plants viz., cystine, cysteine, and methionine, which are essential components of proteins. Sulphur increase the oil content and gives pungency to oil as it forms certain disulphide linkages. Oil seeds crops like sesame, sunflower, groundnut etc., require more sulphur than cereals as their oil storage organs are mostly protein, rich in sulphur. Certain types of bacteria are able to oxidize, reduced form of sulphur which is unavailable to plants into available form. These types of bacteria are called as Sulphur Oxidizing Bacteria (SOB), which can live in very different environments, from deep in the ocean to freshwater marshes. One of the best examples of SOB is a genus Thiobacillus i.e., Thiobacillus thiooxidans, Thiobacillus ferrooxidans, Thiobacillus thioparus, Thiobacillus novellus. SOB generally improves the production or the conversion of the elemental sulphur to the sulphate (SO4-2) for absorption and results in the plant growth promotion and production process. Because of applying Sulphur Oxidizing Bacteria (SOB) to oilcrops, an amount of available sulphur to the plant is increased, this in turn helps to enhance the oil seed production and productivity.","PeriodicalId":394563,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovative Agriculture","volume":"104 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120862224","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}