{"title":"Effect of salicylic acid on growth, physiological traits, yield and water productivity of summer mungbean (Vigna radiata L. Wilczek) under different irrigation regimes","authors":"","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2021.10209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2021.10209","url":null,"abstract":"To evaluate the efficacy of salicylic acid in improving water productivity under different irrigation regimes, a field experiment was carried out in 2019-20 and 2020-21 in a split plot design with three irrigation regimes i.e., irrigation water (IW) to cumulative pan evaporation (CPE) ratios of 0.3, 0.6 and 0.9 in main plots and foliar spray of salicylic acid (SA) at four concentrations i.e., 0, 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5 mM in sub plots. Frequency of irrigation significantly affected the morphological and physiological traits. However, foliar application of salicylic acid alleviated the effect of less frequent irrigation on plant height (4.6-10.3%), biomass (10.4%) and leaf area (1.0%). SA application improved the water status of plants with 9.2% higher relative water content as compared to control. Root mass density was higher in I0.3 regime in the lower depths of soil profile as compared to I0.6 and I0.9, which further increased with salicylic acid application. The content of osmolytes was highest in I0.3 which increased up to 34-36% with salicylic acid. Highest seed yield was recorded under I0.6 regime and 1.5 mM SA but it was statistically at par with 1.0 mM SA. Water productivity was highest in the least irrigated regime (3.55 kg ha-1 mm-1) and 1.0 mM SA (3.25 kg ha-1 mm). Foliar application of 1.0 mM SA can be considered as the effective for improving seed yield under all irrigation regimes with more pronounced effect in less frequent irrigation regime.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83291582","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 plant growth regulators on growth, yield and quality characters of chilli (Capsicum annuum L.)","authors":"D. Anbarasi","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2021.10206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2021.10206","url":null,"abstract":"The experiment to assess the effect of plant growth regulators on growth and yield parameters of chilli was conducted during the year 2020 at the farmer’s field, Venanallur, Ariyalur district. The experiment was laid out in randomized block design with seven treatments and three replications. Among all the treatments, the higher dose 60 ppm NAA resulted in increasing maximum plant height (67.82 cm), number of leaves (185.10), number of branches (25.42) and it also increased the, yield attributing characters such as fruit length (12.44 cm), fruit girth (1.15 cm), number of fruits per plant (140.77), number of seeds per plant (49.24), seed weight per fruits (0.81 g), chlorophyll content (2.56 mg/ 100g), capsicum content (0.18%), ascorbic acid content (121.54 mg/ 100g) and fruit yield per hectare (13.34 t) followed by 40 ppm NAA. There was an increase of 35 per cent in fruit yield with application of NAA 60 ppm respectively as compared to control. The minimum values of these characters were recorded under control.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84717969","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 pasteurization methods on physicochemical constituents and optimization of blends for anthocyanin rich guava nectar","authors":"A. Singh","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2021.10204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2021.10204","url":null,"abstract":"An investigation carried out to standardize the pasteurization method for the extraction of maximum pulp/juice from guava and grapes and a process for development of anthocyanin rich guava nectar. The pulp of guava variety Allahabad Safeda and juice of coloured grape variety, Pusa Navrang was extracted and used in different proportions for optimization of blends of extracted pulp/ juice from both the fruits for preparation of anthocyanin rich guava nectar without deterioration of guava flavor. Among the different pasteurization methods in respect of irradiation, microwave with 600 W microwave power level, followed by pasteurization at 700C as thermal treatment, found to be the best methods for maximum recovery of the extracted pulp/ juice and nutritional quality over other methods. After pasteurization, the recovery of pulp 62.3%, TSS 14.42oB and ascorbic acid 193.0 mg/100ml was recorded in guava and whereas the juice recovery 68.7 %, TSS (20.53oB), ascorbic acid (6.76 mg/100ml) and anthocyanin content (38.38 mg/100ml) was recorded in coloured grapes, when the fruits were treated with 600 W microwave power level. However, in case of thermal pasteurization at 70oC the recovery of pulp 55.8%, TSS 12.4oB and ascorbic acid 149.33 mg/100ml was recorded in guava and juice recovery 63.0%, TSS (16.47OB), ascorbic acid (6.26mg/100ml) and anthocyanin content (33.48 mg/100ml) was recorded in coloured grapes. With regards to optimization of different blend proportions, for development of anthocyanin guava nectar, a blend of 50:50 of guava pulp and coloured grapes juice was found to be best proportion in preserving the colour, flavour, taste and overall quality of developed anthocyanin guava nectar with having guava dominant flavour.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89447558","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":"Morpho-physiological and productivity characteristics of two leader cultivars of Karonda trees (Carissa carandas L.)","authors":"Vijay Kumar","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2021.10213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2021.10213","url":null,"abstract":"The present investigation was carried out to study the morpho-physiological and productivity characteristics of two genotypes of Karonda (Carissa carandasL) trees grown under rainfed condition of Jammu.The two leading cultivars of karonda viz. green and pink were used in study at Rainfed Research Sub-station for Sub-tropical fruits, Rayaduring 2020-21. The leaf morphological characteristics were maximum in green cultivar of karonda i.e. leaf length,leaf breadth, leaf fresh weight and leaf dry weight. The green cultivar of karonda had maximum leaf total water content (34.11 %), relative water content (39.25 %) and total chlorophyll (43.68) as compared to pink. The leaf scherophylly was higher in green cultivars of karonda viz. leaf area (30.30 cm2), specific leaf area (197.6 cm2/g) and density of foliar tissue (37.0 g kg-1) than pink. The fruit yield (8.11 kg/plant), fruit weight (4.42 g) and fruit acidity (2.25 %) was maximum in green cultivar of karonda where as TSS (13.650Brix) was maximum in pink cultivar.Thus, green cultivar of Karonda performed better in morpho-physiological and fruit productivitycharacterizations than pink.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85287637","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":"Synergistic Effect of Boerhaavia diffusa and Asparagus racemosus against Aspergillus fumigatus, Aspergillus niger, Fusarium moniliforme and Aspergillus terreus","authors":"Shubhangi Singh","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2021.10210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2021.10210","url":null,"abstract":"Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Dayalbagh Educational Institute (Deemed University), Dayalbagh, Agra (U.P.)-282005","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75629032","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 treatments, packaging and storage on nutritional quality of dehydrated Spine Gourd (Momordica dioica Roxb.)","authors":"V. Sagar","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2021.10212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2021.10212","url":null,"abstract":"Spine gourd (Momordica dioica.) is very nutritive vegetable available in market for very short period. The selected spine gourd fruits were cut manually with stainless steel knife and 0.5 cm thick slices were prepared. Slices were allowed for pre treatments and blanching was carried out in boiling water for 3 min. The spine gourd slices were dried by vacuum and cabinet drier up to a moisture content of 6%. Among the pre treatment KMS (0.2%) solution for 20 min. and dried in vacuum driver showed batter retention of chlorophyll content (26.75 mg/100g) ascorbic acid (56.55 mg/100g) total phenol (19.28mg/100g) antioxidant (61.05 µmole TE/ gm) and higher rehydration ratio with less moisture content. Among the packaging material of 200g ALPE, HDPE and LDPE, sample packed in 200g ALPE pouches followed by stored at low temperature (7±1) was found best for six month of storage, As it retain higher ascorbic acid, total phenol, total antioxidant and total chlorophyll content, rehydration radio and less moisture during storage.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80804600","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":"Microbes Knocking Louder Roles for Next Green Revolution: A Meta-Analysis","authors":"P. Bora","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2021.10208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2021.10208","url":null,"abstract":"Feeding the ever-growing population has always been a daunting challenge to researchers, however on the contrary, itopened the floodgate of innovative technologies, especially of late, with the introduction of meta-genomics unfolding those genetic traits of microbes, which otherwise remained unexplored for a very long time.Learning negative consequences of previous green revolution in terms of various chronic environmental issues, phyto-microbiome analysis(microbiome bioprospecting)leading to identification of many plant growth promoting microbes, disease suppressive antagonists including entomopathogenic microbes and agrochemicals residues cleansing microbes,preferably in a bioformulation mode have evoked a very strong claim to be stitched into modern day agriculture, claimed close to chemical residue free organic as well as natural agriculture, a pre-requisite to stake claim for next green revolution. Such microbial interventions are likely to ensure three major paradigm shifts in agriculture viz., i. over-use of pesticides to residue free precision farming, ii. traditional to intelligent farming and iii.input-intensive (high cost of production) to climate- smart solutions, all collectively look forward towardsmore sustainable development of agriculture. All these issues have been systematically analysed through bibliometric evidences and envisioned the future course of action to realise yet another green revolution through microbial interventions.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90914757","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":"Fluoride induces morphological change in Fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum L) during germination and early seedling","authors":"Upsana Burgohain","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2021.10214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2021.10214","url":null,"abstract":"The goal of this study was to assess the toxicological effects of exposing popular variety of fenugreek [Trigonella foenum-graecum L.] to fluoride during the germination and early seedling stages. In January 2022, the experiment was carried out at Arunachal University of Studies, Namsai. Surface sterilized seeds of uniform size were set for germination in petri-plates over cotton beds, treated with fluoride solutions of varied strengths (0.0, 2.0, 4.0 and 6.0 mM), made from a stock solution of sodium fluoride (50.0mM). The results showed that fluoride might cause considerable phytotoxicity during germination and seedling growth. Fluoride administration resulted 13 to 43.10% suppression of germination from 2.0mM to 6.0mM. Similar results were also found in germination index, germination energy, relative germination rate and seedling vigor index which were significantly reduced by 43.1, 43.1, 34.0, and 84.0% in 150.0 mM, respectively. Fluoride also had significant detrimental impact on seedling length (71.78%) in the intact seven days with increasing doses of fluoride.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87091980","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":"GIS-based soil fertility assessment of a micro-watershed of semi-arid tropics in southern India","authors":"Praveen Kumar","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2021.10216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2021.10216","url":null,"abstract":"Available macronutrient status in the soil of Chotanahalli micro-watershed (468 ha) in Kunigal Taluk, Tumkur district was studied with the aid of GIS. Forty three surface soil samples at 320 m grid were collected from Chotanahalli micro-watershed and assessed for the soil organic carbon, available nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium and sulphur. Results revealed that the ranges of SOC, available N, P and K were 2.1 to 7.5 g kg-1, 282.2 to 526.8 kg N ha-1, 8.0 to 67.6 kg P2O5 ha-1 and 124.3 to 338.5 kg K2O ha-1, respectively. Spatial interpolation revealed that majority (321 ha) of the watershed was low in SOC, whereas the whole watershed was medium in available N, P and K. In case of secondary nutrients, available S was found to be medium in majority (423.4 ha) of the area, whereas, exchangeable Ca and Mg were found sufficient in the whole watershed. The Nutrient Index values indicated that the micro-watershed was under “medium” category for available nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and sulphur, whereas, it fell under “low” category with respect to organic carbon. Measures to improve the status of SOC should be taken up in the study area for sustainable production of crop.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79540500","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":"Relative performance of neem coated urea on the basis of need based nitrogen management using customized leaf colour chart in low land rice (Oryza sativa) of eastern India","authors":"I. Pattanaik","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2021.10205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2021.10205","url":null,"abstract":"An experiment was conducted during the Kharif season, of 2018 to study the effect of NCU in conventional and customized leaf colour chart (CLCC) based approach on rice (Oryza sativa). The eight treatments were evaluated in randomized block design with three replications. It has been found that application of NCU based on CLCC recorded higher yield i.e. by 7.74% in comparison with conventionally applied NCU and 12.5% in comparison with conventionally applied OU. The N2O emission ranged from 14.1–91.6 μg N2O-N m−2 hr−1 and the total N2O-N emission during the season ranged from 0.38 to 0.61 kg ha−1. The loss of N through N2O emission was recorded in the range of 19-23% under NCU applied based on CLCC than those applied under conventionally. 75% RDN in form of NCU based on CLCC recorded the highest N recovery efficiency (REN) (49.62%). CLCC based NCU application recorded notable performance in most of the yield attributing characters such as number of panicles m-2, panicle length, number of grains panicle-1, number of filled grains panicle-1 and harvest index. It also recorded the highest yield (4.59 t ha-1) amongst all the treatments and increases the yield by 7.74% in comparison with conventionally. The results acknowledged that N can be saved by following CLCC approach.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"105 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78381663","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}