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{"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":"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":"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":"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 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}

{"title":"Diversity of wheat (Triticum aestivum) genotypes deciphered by biplot analysis","authors":"","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2021.10127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2021.10127","url":null,"abstract":"Diversity of hundred and seventy six wheat genotypes had been studied as per fifteen relevant morphological traits in research farm of Haryana Agricultural University during cropping season 2016-17. Maximum range was observed for flag leaf area followed by number of grains per ear and plant height. The least deviation also expressed by flag leaf breadth trait. The phenotypic diversity were estimated by the Shannon-Weaver diversity index (H’), by bifurcating set of genotypes in five classes, revealed maximum values for days to heading (cluster 2), number of tillers per plant (cluster 3), flag leaf length (cluster 2), flag leaf breadth (cluster 2), flag leaf area (cluster 4), plant height (cluster 5), ear length (cluster 2), ear weight (cluster 4), number of grains per ear (cluster 4), weight of grain per ear (cluster 2), number of spikelet per ear (cluster 2), thousand grains weight (cluster 4), Grain yield per plant (cluster 2), biological yield per plant (cluster 2) and Harvest Index (cluster 2). Simpson’s index (1/D) varied from 0.44 for biological yield to 0.54 for flag leaf breadth followed by ear weight. Association analysis among traits exhibited significant positive correlation of grain yield observed with number of tillers per plant, thousand grains weight and biological yield expressed high degree of linear association with grain yield per plant, number of tillers per plant, thousand grains weight, ear weight and weight of grains per ear. Harvest Index maintained positive and negative correlation with other traits though magnitudes were of small values. Biplot analysis had seen strong bondage of grain yield per plant with number of tillers per plant and biological yield per plant as well as of flag leaf length with thousand grains weight evident from group 1 as acute angles had exhibited by traits rays. Weight of grains per ear along with ear weight expressed strong relationship with number of spikelet per ear, number of grains per ear whereas similar behavior evident from plant height & flag leaf area as evident by acute angles among corresponding rays. Darwin software exploited to import the dissimilarity matrix for multivariate hierarchical clustering of genotypes. Two broad categories had seen which further partitioned into five and six sub groups as evident from respective nodes.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82853719","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 conjoint use of fertilizers and soil amendments on soil fertility and yield of groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.)","authors":"S. S. Ransing","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2021.10121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2021.10121","url":null,"abstract":"The field experiment was conducted during 2017-18 and 2018-19 at Oilseeds Research Unit, Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola (Maharashtra) to study the effect of fertilizer and soil amendment on soil fertility and yield groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.). The experiment was laid out in randomized block design with three replications and nine treatments. The pooled data revealed that the application of gypsum and phosphogypsum did not influence significantly the soil pH, EC, organic carbon and calcium carbonate content. However, the fertility status of soil in terms of available nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and sulfur as well as exchangeable calcium, magnesium was found significantly higher with the application of RDF-sulfur free + 400 kg phosphogypsum ha-1. The available nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, sulfur, exchangeable calcium and magnesium contents were increased by 10, 23, 7, 122, 42, and 14% with RDF-sulphur free + 400 kg phosphogypsum ha-1 as compared to control, respectively. Significantly higher pod (2.0 t ha-1) and haulm yield (2.5 t ha-1) of groundnut was observed with RDF-sulphur free + 400 kg phosphogypsum ha-1. Similarly, the oil and protein contents were also increased with phosphogypsum level and maximum oil (51%) and protein (29.4%) contents were observed with RDF-sulphur free + 400 kg phosphogypsum ha-1 treatment. This treatment was statistically at par in terms of soil fertility, yield, oil and protein content of groundnut with RDF-sulphur free + 300 kg phosphogypsum ha-1.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85958199","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":"Development of DRIS based soil fertility and leaf nutrient standards for improving the efficiency of Kinnow mandarin (Citrus reticulata Blanco) in semi-arid region of Rajasthan","authors":"A. Srivastava","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2021.10120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2021.10120","url":null,"abstract":"The study was carried out during 2015-16 at district Sriganganagar under semi arid region of Rajasthan India with the aim to diagnose the soil fertility indicator by using DRIS norms to improve the kinnow orchards efficiency. A total 105 kinnow mandarin orchards were selected through the preliminary survey, all the selected orchards were divided equally 35 each in low, medium and high efficiency based on the yield. The soil and plant sample were collected from the orchards and subjected to analyze by using standard analysis protocols. Five tier DRIS norms were used for determining the soil properties limiting factor. The high efficient orchards had low pH (8.1) and CaCO3, (23.4 g kg-1) whereas, comparatively more organic carbon (2.7 g kg-1) , phosphorus (38.2 kg ha-1) and potassium (296.2 kg ha-1) than medium and low efficient orchards. The nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium contents were also high in high yield orchards and ultimately responsible for the better quality parameters viz. fruit weight (170.35 g), Juice (49.51 %), total soluble sugar (12.88 %) and low acidity (0.81 %) in high efficient orchards. The five tier DRIS norms suggested that < 8.8 pH, < 89.0 g kg-1 CaCO3, < 2.5 g kg-1 organic carbon and 14.2 kg ha-1 phosphorus were limiting soil fertility indicators in relation to fruit yield less than 14.5 t ha-1 for kinnow mandarin orchards of semi arid region of Rajasthan. It is evident from the DRIS norms in relation to soil properties and plant tissue concentration yield should be considered as low when it is less than 14.5 to 20.2 t ha-1. It is therefore imperative to manage these parameters for the better quality production and sustainability of kinnow orchards","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78481446","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 and productivity of maize (Zea mays L.) as influenced by organic weed and nutrient management practices in Western Rajasthan","authors":"L. Jain","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2021.10124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2021.10124","url":null,"abstract":"An experiment was conducted during 2019 and 2020 at College of Agriculture, Sumerpur (Rajasthan) to study the effect of organic weed management and organic nutrient management treatments practices on maize (Zea mays L.)in split plot design with 3 replications.The two years mean data revealed that the minimum weed infestation (79.1%) and maximum weed control efficiency (93.1%) was recorded in weed free check as against weedy check among various weed management treatments at harvest. Most of the growth attributes, grain (3.36 t ha-1) and stover (6.26 t ha-1) yield of maize were significantly affected by weed management and nutrient management practices and found maximum in weed free check maintained up to 60 DAS closely followed by stale seedbed+ hoeing once at 20 DAS + straw mulch applied @ 5 t ha-1 at 30 DAS against weedy check. The application of vermicompost @ 75% of recommended dose of nitrogen (RDN i.e. 90 kg N equivalent) in two splits (75% at sowing +25% as top dressing at 30 DAS) along with seed treatment with fermented beejamurt and two sprays of jeevamurt registered significantly hgher growth parameters besides grain yield of 3.17 t ha-1as compared to 100% RDN through FYM. The mean gross return, net return and B:C ratio were significantly affected by various weed and nutrient management practice and maximum values were recorded with weedy check and 755% RDN through vermicompost + STB + JT, respectively.","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":"78700750","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}