{"title":"Soil microbial and enzymatic responses to various sources of potassium in fodder maize and sugargraze","authors":"R. Mahanta","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2022.10144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2022.10144","url":null,"abstract":"The field experiment was conducted during Kharif season of 2018 at NDRI, Karnal to study the influence of various sources of potassium on soil microbial population, enzymatic activities and yield of fodder crops. The experiment was laid out in the split-plot design with 16 treatment combinations and replicated thrice. In the main plot treatment, two fodder crops, viz., maize (Zea mays) and sugargraze (Sorghum bicolor L. × Sweet sorghum × Sorghum sudanese L.), were included while potassium treatments were executed under subplot treatment. The results revealed that, application of K50 + KSB + 2% KNO3 had a significant influence on biomass production and 30.3 and 22.4% green and dry fodder yield, enhancement was recorded over control. Soil microbial biomass carbon (MBC) was not significantly affected by fodder maize and sugargraze crops at 30 DAS and harvest. However, potassium application had significant influence on soil MBC and a higher values (167 and 185 µg/g dry soil) were recorded with K25 + KSB + 2% KNO3 treatment at 30 DAS and harvest over control, respectively. The soil enzymatic activities dehydrogenase (17.4 and 21.9 µg TPF/g soil/day) and phosphatase (55.4 and 72.8 µg PNP/g soil/hr.) and microbial population counts viz., bacteria (17.12 × 106 and 27.45 × 106 CFU/g soil), actinomycetes (28.2 × 105 and 36.2 × 105 CFU/g soil) and fungi (12.8 × 105 and 18.3 × 105 CFU/g soil) were also remarkably influenced with potassium treatments and found significantly higher at 30 DAS and harvest respectively over control under application of K25 + KSB + 2%.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"82 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80197177","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 land leveling and planting pattern on productivity, water use efficiency and economic of sorghum (Sorghum bicolar)","authors":"R. Kumari","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2021.10146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2021.10146","url":null,"abstract":"This study was conducted at Engineering farm, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari, India, during winter 2016-17 using sorghum crop (Sorghum bicolar) to examine the effect of three land leveling (control or unleveled, conventional land leveling and leveling with laser guided land leveler) and three planting systems (ridge and furrow, double row bed planting and triple row bed planting). The laser guided land leveler significantly improved the growth attributes of sorghum as compared to the control whereas the growth attributes were recorded highest under double row bed planting. The highest yield attributes were recorded in laser guided land leveler. The best results of sorghum yield attributes were recorded under double row bed planting. In land leveling, laser guided land leveler significantly improved yield of sorghum (grain and fodder) as compared to control. Whereas, maximum sorghum yield was obtained under double row bed planting over rest planting system. The soil moisture distribution, water saving and water use efficiency were improved under laser guided land leveler with double row bed planting over rest of the treatments. The highest gross return, net return and benefit: cost ratio were obtained under laser guided land leveler with double row bed planting over rest of the treatments.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85318317","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":"Soil microbial and enzymatic responses to various sources of potassium in fodder maize and sugargraze","authors":"Khadeejah Rana","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2021.10144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2021.10144","url":null,"abstract":"The field experiment was conducted during Kharif season of 2018 at NDRI, Karnal to study the influence of various sources of potassium on soil microbial population, enzymatic activities and yield of fodder crops. The experiment was laid out in the split-plot design with 16 treatment combinations and replicated thrice. In the main plot treatment, two fodder crops, viz., maize (Zea mays) and sugargraze (Sorghum bicolor L. × Sweet sorghum × Sorghum sudanese L.), were included while potassium treatments were executed under subplot treatment. The results revealed that, application of K50 + KSB + 2% KNO3 had a significant influence on biomass production and 30.3 and 22.4% green and dry fodder yield, enhancement was recorded over control. Soil microbial biomass carbon (MBC) was not significantly affected by fodder maize and sugargraze crops at 30 DAS and harvest. However, potassium application had significant influence on soil MBC and a higher values (167 and 185 µg/g dry soil) were recorded with K25 + KSB + 2% KNO3 treatment at 30 DAS and harvest over control, respectively. The soil enzymatic activities dehydrogenase (17.4 and 21.9 µg TPF/g soil/day) and phosphatase (55.4 and 72.8 µg PNP/g soil/hr.) and microbial population counts viz., bacteria (17.12 × 106 and 27.45 × 106 CFU/g soil), actinomycetes (28.2 × 105 and 36.2 × 105 CFU/g soil) and fungi (12.8 × 105 and 18.3 × 105 CFU/g soil) were also remarkably influenced with potassium treatments and found significantly higher at 30 DAS and harvest respectively over control under application of K25 + KSB + 2%.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84837784","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":"Genetic variability, heritability and genetic advance in pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata Duch Ex Poir)","authors":"Mahendra Kumar","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2021.10130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2021.10130","url":null,"abstract":"The investigations were carried out to evaluate the 64 genotypes (28 F1, 28 F2 and 8 parental lines) of pumpkin ((Cucurbita moschata Duch. Ex Poir.)’at Department of Vegetable Science, Kalyanpur, CSA. University of Agriculture and Technology, Kanpur (U.P.) during Zaid 2021. The experiments were laid out in randomized complete block design with three replications. The data were recorded for 19 characters including total fruit yield per plant and its component traits. Analysis of variance showed that there was highly significant variation for all the characters studied. In F1 generation, the highest genotypic as well as phenotypic coefficients of variations were observed for fruit yield/plant. In F2 generation, the highest genotypic as well as phenotypic coefficients of variation were observed for fruit yield/plant and average fruit weight. In F1, high heritability in narrow sense coupled with high genetic advance as per cent of mean were observed for equatorial circumference of fruit, polar circumference of fruit and seeds/fruit while in F2, high heritability coupled with high genetic advance as percent of mean were observed for seeds/fruit. High estimate of heritability along with high genetic advance in percent of mean provides good scope for further improvement in advance generations.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"65 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84003218","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":"Growth analysis and grain yield of rice (Oryza sativa L.) varieties under green manure based integrated nutrient management","authors":"S. D. Behera","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2021.10136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2021.10136","url":null,"abstract":"Field experiments were conducted at Bhubaneswar, Odisha during kharif seasons of 2018 and 2019 to study the growth behavior of rice varieties under nutrient management practices. Six treatment combinations comprising of three nutrient management (100% Soil Test Based Nitrogen Recommendation (STBNR), 75% STBNR + in situ green manuring (dhaincha) and 50% STBNR + in situ green manuring of dhaincha) and two rice varieties (Manaswinee of 125d duration and Hasanta of 145d duration) were tried in randomized complete block design (RCBD) with four replications. The results showed that crop growth rate (CGR) was significantly influenced by both nutrient management practices and varieties. Pooled over the years, application of 75% STBNR + green manuring of dhaincha exhibited the maximum CGR of 11.33 and 20.80 g/m2/day during 30-60 and 60-90 DAT, respectively and which were superior to 100% STBNR and 50% STBNR + green manuring of dhaincha. Similarly, rice cv. ‘Hasanta’ recorded CGR of 10.98 and 20.42 g/m2/day during 30-60 and 60-90 DAT, respectively, which were higher over cv. ‘Manaswinee’. The maximum relative growth rate (RGR) of 23.77 mg/g/day was registered with 50% STBNR + green manuring of dhaincha, being at par with 75% STBNR + green manuring of dhaincha during 60-90 DAT. Application of 75% STBNR + green manuring of dhaincha recorded the maximum Net assimilation rate (NAR) of 3.41 and 4.26 g/m2 leaf area/day during 30-60 and 60-90 DAT, respectively. Both cultivars were equally effective for RGR and NAR. The treatment trend for physiological indices led to higher grain yield under 75% STBNR + green manuring of dhaincha among nutrient management practices and cv. ‘Hasanta’ between rice varieties. Grain yield and the three physiological indices were positively correlated, but the correlation coefficient values were significant for CGR and NAR.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"150 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79493301","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":"Combining ability estimates and gene action studies from full diallel mating design in maize (Zea mays L.)","authors":"B. Arunkumar","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2021.10137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2021.10137","url":null,"abstract":"A study was under taken during kharif season of 2016 at College of Agriculture, Bheemarayanagudi and UAS, GKVK, Bengaluru to estimate the combining ability and investigate gene action involved in inheritance of yield and its components traits of maize inbreds through 20×20 full diallel cross analysis. 380 SCHs synthesized through full diallel mating design were evaluated in simple lattice square lattice design at two locations. Analysis of variance revealed significant differences among the hybrids, parents vs. hybrids and straight crosses for all the characters and among the parents for all the characters except ASI, ear circumference and shelling %. Significant differences were also recorded in reciprocal crosses for all the characters except ear circumference and shelling %. Significant GCA variance for grain yield revealed the role of additive components of genetic variance. SCA variance was also highly significant for all characters except ear circumference and test weight indicating the importance of both additive and non additive components of genetic variance. However, there was predominance of additive gene action recorded for all the characters. GCA: SCA variance ratio was less than unity for all the traits, suggesting the predominance of non-additive gene action. Inbreds MAI 283 and VL 109252 were identified as good general combiners as they registered significant gca effects in positive direction for grain yield and its component traits. Straight cross MAI-283×KDMI-16 and reciprocal cross M 04×KDMI 16 registered highest significant sca effects in positive direction for grain yield along with high and significant sca effects in negative direction for ASI.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88768598","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-chemical characterization of broccoli (Brassica oleracea var. italica)","authors":"P. Kundu","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2021.10134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2021.10134","url":null,"abstract":"The present study was carried out at Instructional farm, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University, during two consecutive rabi seasons of 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 with the objective of varietal evaluation on the basis of morpho-chemical characterization. It can be opined that the variety, centauro recorded best yield and quality attributing characters. The variety, centauro documented highest head weight (375.0 g) whereas priya registered lowest yield (104.2 q ha-1). Under different aspects based on quality evaluating factors, it can be inferred that centauro registered best performance in term of cholorophyll-a (2.8 mg g-1), cholorophyll-b (5.7 mg g-1), vitamin-C content (867.7 mg kg-1) and also recorded best shelf life (5.7 days). Biochemical composition found best in florets, leaves and stalks in centauro according to protein, ash, total carbohydrate and crude fibre content. Out of six, the variety centauro has executed satisfactory yield attributing characters and biochemical properties, enhanced the nutritive security under the congenial agro-climatic conditions in coastal belt of south Bengal.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"50 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91453829","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":"Integrated use of Propiconazole, Pseudomonas fluorescens and Bacillus subtilis for the management of rice brown leaf spot","authors":"R. Karan","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2021.10131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2021.10131","url":null,"abstract":"The present investigation was carried out to study the effect of integrated use of propiconazole and bacterial bio control agents (Pseudomonas fluorescens and Bacillus subtilis) on the incidence of rice (Oryza sativa L) brown leaf spot during 2020-2021 at Annamalai University, Chidambaram. Among the various treatments tested in pot culture, seed treatment with consortia of P. fluorescens and B. subtilis + 1st foliar spray with Consortia of P. fluorescens and B. subtilis at 45 DAT + 2nd foliar spray with Propiconazole 25% EC at 60 DAT (T7) recorded minimum disease incidence (7.45%) and maximum number of productive tillers/ clump (17), grain (76.0 g/pot) and straw (127 g/pot) yield. In field studies also T7 treatment produced least disease incidence of brown spot (8.50%) and maximum growth parameters (17 productive tillers/clump) grain (74 qha-1) straw (86.30 qha-1) yield. Per cent disease incidence increased regularly with age of the crop, irrespective of treatments and maximum values were recorded at harvest. The maximum disease incidence and minimum values of growth and yield of rice recorded under control in both pot culture and field condition.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90881989","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 microbial growth and development on chemical properties of saline water","authors":"R. V","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2021.10122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2021.10122","url":null,"abstract":"Secondary soil salinization is a major issue for sustaining food grain production in arid and semi-arid region due to the use of poor quality saline water, whichneeds amelioration before to be used for crop irrigation.In this regard, totally 12 saline bacterial isolates from saline water ecosystem, of which three best isolates, namely C8, C10 and C12, identified and used for amelioration of saline water whose electrical conductivity value (EC) ranged between 0.5 and 8.0 dS m-1 over the incubation period of two, five and seven days under laboratory conditions during 2017-20. The C10 and C12 bacterial isolates were highly efficient recording more than 30 % EC value decline but microbial efficiency decreased with increased salt concentration. The five days incubation optimized with 20 % reduction of EC value. However, the biological amelioration of water salinity was highly specific that five days incubation with C12 culture recording amelioration nearly 64 % decline of EC value only in low saline water. In contrast, all the cultures were equally effective on every saline water studied lowering more than 38% in 2.0 dS m-1 saline water, more than 22 % in 4.0 dS m-1 saline water, more than 16 % in 6.0 dS m-1 saline water, and more than 12 % in 8.0 dS m-1saline water for two days incubation period. On the whole, the microbial techniques based saline water amelioration abated 30% reduction of EC value associated with declining of ionic concentrations, such as Ca2+ by 40 %, Mg2+ by 31 %, Na+ by 24 %, SO42- by 18.4 % and Cl- by 10.5 %. The reduced salt build-up and increased crop performance would be the implication and characterization of the isolates is suggested further studies.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79803583","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 organic sources of nutrients on growth physiology and yield components of scented rice (Oryza sativa L.)","authors":"A. K. Medhi","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2021.10143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2021.10143","url":null,"abstract":"A field experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of different organic sources of nutrientson growth physiology and yield components of scented rice, variety KetekiJoha at Regional Agricultural Research Station, AAU, Titabor during 2017 and 2018. Eight treatments were evaluated in randomized block design with three replications. The results revealed that the application of different proportion of organic sources of nutrients significantly improved the growth physiology and yield parameters of scented rice over the control. Among the treatments,the application of green manure (2.5 t ha-1) + Vermicompost (2.5 t ha-1) + Azolla (20 kg ha-1) + biofertilizer consortium (4 kg ha-1 seedling) as root dip + rock phosphate (17 kg ha-1) recorded the highest grain yield (38.05 qha-1) with significant increase in yield components of the crop.Application of green manure + Vermicompost + Azolla + biofertilizer consortium as root dip + rock phosphate significantly produced higher plant height (78.5cm), leaf area index (4.3), flag leaf area (35.3cm-2), total Chlorophyll content (3.5mgg-1fwt), panicles m-2 (304.3), panicle length (28.2 cm), grains panicle-1(108.4),panicle weight (2.7 g), harvest index (35.2 %) and 1000 grain weight(23.6 g). The organic treatments also significantly enhanced the growth physiology viz., crop growth rate, specific leaf weight and net assimilation rate of the plant.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81543187","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}