{"title":"Nano technology based P fertilizers for higher efficiency and agriculture sustainability","authors":"K. Tiwari","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2022.10149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2022.10149","url":null,"abstract":"Nutrient use efficiency (NUE) is a critical parameter for determining sustainability of crop production systems. Under the current fertilization practices involving conventional fertilizers, the NUE ranges 30–40% for N-fertilizers and 18–20% for P-based fertilizers. Apparently, only a fraction of these nutrients is available for crop growth and yield formation. In contrast, a relevant amount of fertilizers is released into the environment annually, resulting in eutrophication and groundwater contamination that threatens environmental resources, public health, and economic investments. Thus, it will be essential to introduce agro technological innovations and revolutionary agri inputs. Nanotechnologies have the potential to produce a significant boost in crop yield along with improvement of food production systems. This innovation can lead to more precise application of nutrients along with saving of the nutrients. This review provides a critical view of the latest advances in nano fertilizer research, mainly referring to nano-hydroxyapatite based nanoparticles and other alternative nanotech based nanofertilizers.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"2003 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72795773","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":"Identification of potential hybrids for heterosis breeding in sesame (Sesamum indicum L.)","authors":"Ravinder Kumar","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2022.10170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2022.10170","url":null,"abstract":"The extent of heterosis for eleven traits, including seed yield per plant, was investigated in sesame. During summer 2019, 21 F1 crosses from 7 parents (GT 03, SKT 1501, AT 413, AT 383, AT 338, AT 307 and AT 345) were developed by using a diallel mating (7 x 7) design that excluded reciprocals. In Kharif 2019, twenty-nine entries (genotypes) which including a check (GT-04), seven parents, and their 21 F1 hybrids were evaluated in randomized block design (RBD) with three replication at the 'Agronomy Instructional Farm, S. D. Agricultural University, Sardarkrushinagar, Gujarat'. The highly significant and positive standard heterosis with high per se performance for seed yield per plant and some of its component traits were recorded in the crosses viz GT 03 x SKT 1501, GT 03 x AT 307, GT 03 x AT 345, SKT 1501 x AT 307, AT 413 x AT 307, and AT 307 x AT 345. Five hybrids showed highly significant positive heterobeltiosis for seed yield per plant, while six hybrids showed highly significant positive standard heterosis for seed yield per plant. In Sesame, the current research shows that there is a lot of potential for isolating pure lines from heterotic F1s progenies as well as commercialising heterosis.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74048113","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":"Efficacy of fungicides against Alternaria blight disease of linseed (Linum usitatissimum)","authors":"K. Amisha","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2022.10166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2022.10166","url":null,"abstract":"The study on efficacy of fungicides against Alternaria blight disease of linseed caused by Alternaria lini was conducted at Research farm of Bihar agricultural university, Sabour, Bhagalpur (Bihar) during Rabi season of 2020-21 to select suitable fungicides against this disease. Six fungicides were evaluated in vitro and in vivo condition. The results revealed that all the tested fungicides showed significantly better performance to minimize the Alternaria blight disease over control. Among the tested fungicides, Propiconazole 25 EC proved the best at all the concentrations (100, 150 and 200 ppm) as it showed 100% of mycelial growth inhibition over control. In the field condition too, Propiconazole 25EC proved superior among all the fungicides with the lowest disease severity (10.66%). It showed the highest disease control over check (77.6 %) and also highest yield (884.33 kg ha-1) which was followed by Azoxystrobin 23%SC and Carbendazim 12% + Mancozeb 63% WP.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85011937","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":"Nutrient management in salt affected soils for sustainable crop production","authors":"Sandeep Singh","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2022.10147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2022.10147","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Soil salinity and sodicity are the global problems and pose a serious threat to agriculture sustainability. The distribution of salt affected soils exist mostly under arid and semi-arid climates where rainfall is inadequate to leach salts from/out of the root zone. These soils have poor fertility, generally with low availability of nitrogen, calcium, zinc, iron and manganese. Therefore, judicious nutrients management on the principle of INM in these soils is as important as their reclamation. In these soils, crops respond differently to applied nutrients due to their diverse chemical composition impacting precipitation-dissolution reactions and adsorption-desorption kinetics. Nutrient transformation and loss mechanisms of applied nutrients are also affected by the magnitude of soil salinity and sodicity. The paper aims at discussing efficient nutrient management in salt affected soils for sustainable crop production.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82581358","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":"Long term effect of fertilizers, manure and lime on biological health of an acid soil","authors":"S. Verma","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2022.10150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2022.10150","url":null,"abstract":"The study was conducted under long term fertilizer experiment (LTFE) to assess the impact of nutrient management practices on biological health of acid soils under soybean-wheat cropping system at Birsa Agricultural University, Kanke, Ranchi, Jharkhand. Ten treatments were evaluated in randomized block design with three replications. The integrated nutrient management involving the use of organic manure together with inorganic fertilization exerted a significant positive effect on soil microbial biomass carbon, CO2 evolution, dehydrogenase activity (DHA), urease and microbial population. Similarly, use of lime along with NPK also showed improvement in enzymatic activities, soil microbial biomass carbon, and CO2 evolution compared to 100% NPK and control. The microbiological properties were drastically reduced in 100% N only treatment. Application of 100% NPK was found to superior over 100% NP, 100% N and 50% NPK and 100% N(S)PK while the same was significantly at par with 150% NPK. The effect between weedicide applied and hand weeded treatments was also statistically at par for the grain and straw yield of wheat as well as for the biological properties of the soil. Long term application of FYM/lime with NPK significantly increased the mean grain and straw yield of wheat over the years (1972-2019) compared to only inorganic fertilization and control. Overall, continuous application of FYM or lime along with 100% NPK improved the soil biological health and increased the crop yield in acid soil under wheat based cropping system.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"124 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85701997","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 irrigation and nitrogen on yield and water productivity of groundnut (Arachis hypogaea) and clusterbean (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba)","authors":"R. Mandeewal","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2022.10162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2022.10162","url":null,"abstract":"An experiment was carried out at village Bajju, Bikaner, (Rajasthan) during kharif season of 2016 to evaluate the effect of irrigation and nitrogen levels on groundnut and clusterbean. The treatments comprised of 3 levels of irrigation i.e. 250, 500 and 700 mm for groundnut and 100, 200 an 300 mm for clusterbean and 4 levels of nitrogen i.e. 0, 20, 40 and 60 kg N ha-1 for both the crops. These treatments were evaluated in split plot design with four replications. The results showed that increasing levels of irrigation had significant beneficial influence on the kernel/pod/seed and haulm/stover yield, nitrogen uptake by kernel/seed and haulm/stover and water productivity of groundnut and clusterbean. Application of nitrogen levels significantly enhanced the kernel/pod/seed and haulm/stover yield, nitrogen uptake by both the crops and total water productivity of groundnut and clusterbean. The increase in kernel, pod and haulm yield of groundnut with 40 kg N ha-1 were 49.6, 57.0 and 39.3 per cent over control and 15.9, 15.6 and 14.7 per cent over 20 kg N ha-1, respectively. Similarly, the increase in seed and straw yield of clusterbean with 40 kg N ha-1 were 47.3 and 37.2 per cent over control and 14.0 and 14.1 per cent over 20 kg N ha-1, respectively. Interaction of irrigation and nitrogen had significant beneficial effect on yield, nitrogen uptake and water productivity of groundnut and clusterbean and maximum values of these parameters were recorded under I3 N3 treatment in both the crops.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"303 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79772810","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":"Impact of integrated nutrient management on soil fertility and yield of onion (Allium cepa) on an alluvial soil","authors":"V. Singh","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2022.10172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2022.10172","url":null,"abstract":"A field experiment was conducted during rabi season of 2015-2017 at Panwari village of Agra district with a view to investigate the effect of integrated nutrient management on soil fertility, productivity and uptake of nutrients by onion (Allium cepa). Eight treatments were evaluated in randomized block design with three replications. Results indicated that the availability of N (222.0 kg ha-1), P (13.1 kg ha-1), K (150 kg ha-1) and Zn (0.55 mg kg-1) was improved with the conjoint use of organics and fertilizers. However use of 75% NPK along with 40 kg S ha-1 resulted in substantial increase in sulphur status of soil (18.0 kg ha-1). Minimum amounts of these nutrients in post harvest soil were recorded in control. Application of 75% NPK + 10 t FYM ha-1 significantly increased the growth, yield attributes, bulb yield ( 34.02 t ha-1) and dry matter yield of bulb (5.34 t ha-1). The increase in bulb yield due to 75% NPK + 40 kg S ha-1) was 44.6 % over control. The content and yield of protein also improved with conjoint use of NPK fertilizers and FYM and sulphur. The minimum values of content and yield of protein were recorded in control. The uptake of nutrients increased with increasing level of NPK fertilizers and showed further increase in the presence of 10t FYM ha-1. The residual soil fertility was recorded minimum under control treatment.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78020245","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}
Appoothy Angayarkanni, A. Dhimate, Sannaila, Arun Kumar
{"title":"Watershed approach for studying soil preferential flow: A case study","authors":"Appoothy Angayarkanni, A. Dhimate, Sannaila, Arun Kumar","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2022.10155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2022.10155","url":null,"abstract":"Preferential flow (PF) is a generic term used for water flow paths through biopores, fractures and macro pores. Many studies and models were already established to describe the PF. In semi-arid regions, the connecting aboveground and below ground processes to investigate how soil redistribute rainfall and nutrient and their impact on subsurface flow, is a fairly overlooked phenomenon. In this era of fast changing climate, erratic rainfall and rain water management, soil constitution plays an important role. In semi-arid regions, watershed is the basic hydrologic unit which gives study of the soil preferential flow a holistic look. In this regard, a study was conducted in Hayath nagar micro-watershed, Hyderabad, during 2020-2021.results revealed that the micro-watershed mainly comprises of heterogeneous matrix flow and fingering at surface while at sub surface macropore flow with low and mixed interaction prevails. This suggested that subsurface soils were mainly responsible for spatial redistribution of flows and generating lateral flow than vertical flow. Thus, the watershed under study requires better management practice to harvest water and check runoff at the time of high intensity rainfall. The results and the methodology of the present study have relevance in studying the preferential flow of diverse watersheds.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82139966","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 foliar application of nutrients and growth regulators on yield and quality in pineapple (Ananas comosus L.)","authors":"Animesh Sarkar","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2022.10165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2022.10165","url":null,"abstract":"The efficacy of plant nutrients and growth regulators were investigated in the field of summer pineapple (Ananas comosus) cv. Kew to improve the post harvest quality and shelf life of fruit in a subtropical, subhumid and acidic soil of Nagaland during 2018-19 at SASRD, Nagaland University. Calcium chloride (0.5% and 1.0%), borax (0.5% and 1.0%), 100 ppm GA3 and 200 ppm NAA were taken to carry out an experiment following randomized block design with nine treatments and three replications. Plant nutrients and growth regulators were sprayed separately two times in plant population at 15 days interval right after fruit set and the integrated approach showed a significant response in fruit growth, yield and quality. The plants treated with 1.0% CaCl2 + 200 ppm NAA showed a quite better results in physiological matrix of fruit volume (825.5 cc), fruit weight (1.5kg), juice content (67.7 ml 100g -1 pulp), yield (60.8 t ha-1) and fruit firmness (23.0 lb) while the highest pulp recovery percentage (73.0%) was noticed in 1.0% borax + 200 ppm NAA. The maximum TSS (17.6 0Brix), total sugar (13.0%), TSS:acid ratio (51.9), less acidity (0.34%) and maximum shelf life (12.7 days) was observed in pineapple treated with 0.5% CaCl2 + 100 ppm GA3.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78220627","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":"Analysis of variance components for quantitative traits in muskmelon (Cucumis melo L.)","authors":"K. Harsh","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2022.10163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2022.10163","url":null,"abstract":"An experiment with different contributing charactersof 26 genotypes of muskmelon (Cucumis meloL.) was performed in a randomized block design with three replications during the Zaid season (Feb-May) of 2019, at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi in order to understand the genetics of yield formation characteristics with yield enhancement potentials. Analysis of varian cerevealed the presence of significant differences among all genotypes for almost all the characters indicating that there is a plenty of room to improve the population for these traits. The range of variation was documented widest for the characters viz.; fruit weight (179.7 to 777.1 g), yield of fruit per plant (360.3 to 3109.5 g), pulp weight (107.0 to 557.2 g), and seeds per fruit (183.6 to 477.3). Genotypic coefficients of variation values were lower than phenotypic coefficients of variation for all characters.The fruit yield per plant revealed the highest phenotypic and genotypic coefficients of variation values followed by titratable acidity, pulp weight, total number of female flowers and seed weight. Also, fruit yield per plant, total number of female flowers, node to first female flower, total number of fruits, fruit weight, and total soluble solids had high estimates of heritability and high genetic advance as per cent of mean, suggesting that selection for these traits might be effective.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74696892","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}