{"title":"Assessment of mungbean (Vigna radiata L.) cultivars in relation to phosphorus utilization efficiency under phosphorus stress environment","authors":"V. R. P. Reddy","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2022.10169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2022.10169","url":null,"abstract":"The present study was conducted during kharif season of 2019 with 24 diverse mungbean cultivars under the hydroponic system at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi to assess the phosphorus utilization efficiency of genotypes under a phosphorus stress environment. Cultivars differed significantly for biomass accumulation, P concentration, total P uptake and PUtE. Categorization based on PUtE and total dry weight, cultivars MH 521, MH 805 and PM 5 were identified as efficient and responsive (ER) under LP condition. The phosphorus stress factor values indicated the varied response of cultivars to P stress. The identified efficient genotypes could be used in themungbean breeding programme for P efficiency improvement.","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":"80918217","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":"Litter decomposition dynamics of Taxus contorta Griff. in western Himalayan region","authors":"V. Panwar","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2022.10154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2022.10154","url":null,"abstract":"Litterfall is the essential source of organic matter and soil nutrients. The quality and quantity of litter production affect the carbon and nutrient fluxes in forest ecosystems. This study aims to determine the litter decomposition rate and macronutrients (N. P, K, Ca and Mg) in Taxus contorta Griff forests. The results showed that the maximum weight loss due to decomposition was recorded from June to October, and decay constant (K) was 0.534 during two years of study. Decomposition was significantly affected by climatic variables and positively correlated with temperature, rainfall, number of rainy days and relative humidity. The decomposing needles showed a continuous increase in nitrogen (0.97-1.27%) and phosphorus (0.11-0.13%) concentration and a gradual decrease in potassium (0.35-0.31%), calcium (0.93-0.45%) and magnesium (0.21-0.16%). Total nutrient return (37.33 kg ha-1) from the decomposing litter were observed in the order of Ca (15.09) > N (12.13) > K (5.73) > Mg (2.87) > P (1.50) through the input from different litter components, which were found in the order of needles > twigs > bark > miscellaneous litter > reproductive litter. Maximum nutrient return (15.82 kg ha-1) was observed through needle litter and was recorded as N (6.49), P (0.85), K (2.84), Ca (4.39) and Mg (1.24). Out of the total nutrients returned through needle litter, an annual release of 67% and accumulation of 33% nutrients over the forest floor of Taxus contorta was recorded.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87778303","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":"Character association and path analysis for yield improvement in fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill.)","authors":"M. Jat","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2022.10167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2022.10167","url":null,"abstract":"A total of 18 genotypes of the fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill.) were evaluated for estimation of correlation and path analysis for yield improvement during Rabi season of 2016-17 at Mandor, Jodhpur, Rajasthan. Results indicated that the variation among genotypes was highest for biological yield (54.3-88.3 q ha-1), followed by seed yield (15.8-25.2 q ha-1). The analysis of genotypic (GC) and phenotypic correlations (PC) indicated that the seed yield per ha was significantly and positively correlated with seed yield per plant (GC r=0.978**; PC r=0.842**), number of seeds per umbel (GC r= 0.752**, PC r=0.505*) and number of umbels per plant (GC r=0.543*). Path coefficient analysis suggested that the highest positive direct effect on seed yield per ha was exerted by biological yield per ha (0.953) followed by the number of umbels per plant (0.484), harvest index (0.463), number of seeds per umbel (0.387), 1000-seed weight (0.289), oil content (0.150), days to maturity (0.102) and the number of umbellets per umbel (0.070). Therefore, it is inferred that for initiating breeding programmes of fennel, the primary emphasis should be given for selecting characters having a positive and higher magnitude of correlation and have direct effects on characters associated with higher yield.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87215821","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":"Distribution of phosphorus fractions in different soil orders of Indo-Gangetic plains of India","authors":"Arbind Kumar Gupta","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2022.10152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2022.10152","url":null,"abstract":"The status and distribution of phosphorus fractions in some soil orders and their relationship with soil characteristics under Indo-Gangetic plains of India was studied at Mohanpur, Nadia (W.B.). Soil samples were collected from three depths (0-15, 15-30 and 30-45 cm) covering Entisols, Inceptisols and Alfisols during 2016. Results revealed that soil pH and clay content increased whereas EC and organic carbon tended to decrease with increasing soil depth. Among different phosphorus fractions, Ca-P was dominant contributing 35% and 20% of total phosphorus content in Entisols and Inceptisols, respectively followed by Fe-P, RS-P and OC-P. In Alfisol, Fe-P fraction constituted 21% of the total soil P followed by Ca-P, RS-P and Al-P. The fractions Al-P, RS-P and Ca-P increased whereas organic P decreased with increasing soil depth. Soil pH was positively correlated with Ca-P and negative with Al-P, Fe-P of all the soil orders. Calcium-P was the highest in Entisols (35%) and Inceptisols (20%) while Fe-P (21%) in Alfisols. Among the inorganic P fractions, Ca-P was the dominant contributor to the availability of phosphorus in Entisols and Inceptisols. The dominant fraction for the release of P in Alfisols was iron phosphate. In general, inorganic P fractions increased while organic available P decreased with soil depth. Various P fractions also had relationships among themselves.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"78 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73737294","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 soil fertility and yield of rainfed cotton (Gossypiumspp.) in Vertisols","authors":"Aishwarya Sahare","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2022.10173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2022.10173","url":null,"abstract":"A field experiment was conducted during kharif season of 2020 at research field of AICRP for Dryland Agriculture, Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vid¬¬¬¬yapeeth, Akola, (Maharashtra) to study the effect of organic sources of nutrients on soil fertility and yield of rainfed cotton(Gossypiumspp.) in Vertisols. The experiment was laid out in randomized block design with three replications and nine treatments. The results revealed that, there was a reduction in bulk density, pH and electrical conductivity and an increase in hydraulic conductivity and organic carbon content with application of 50% N through FYM + 50% N through gliricidia green leaves. This treatment also resulted in significantly higher available N (193.2 kg ha-1) and K (331.1 kg ha-1) content whereas available P (15.98 kg ha-1) content was higher with application of 50% N through FYM + 50% N through vermicompost. Improvement in the seed and stalk yield of cotton was observed with application of 50% N through FYM + 50% N through gliricidia green leaves. Seed and stalk yield was increased by 8.9% and 7.7% with application of 50% N through FYM + 50% N through gliricidia green leaves as compared to inorganic treatment, respectively. The minimum seed (540.9 kg ha-1) and stalk (997.2 kg ha-1) yield were recorded with application of 12 t FYM ha-1.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83576986","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 saline water and integrated approach based treatments on chemical properties of water and soil and growth and development of black gram","authors":"R. V","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2022.10158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2022.10158","url":null,"abstract":"The twelve treatments comprised in series of physical, cultural and biological methods were imposed on 2, 4 and 6.0 dS m-1saline water (SW)for assessing water EC and ions concentrations. Of which, two treatments viz.SW exposure to 0.44 T MFs (6 min) + incubation with Amla stem powder @ 6 g 6 hrs L-1 + five days incubation with C10 bacterial culture (BC)@ 4 ml L-1,and SW exposure to 0.44 T MFs (6 min) + incubation with Muringa seed powder @ 6 g 6 hrs L-1 + five days incubation with C10BC solution @ 4 ml L-1were carried out for assessing the treated SW effect on soil properties and growth and development of black gram (Vigna mungo) grown in saline and non-saline soils. The treatment efficiency decreased with increased salt content. The treatments of cultural and saline bacterial combinations, and integration of all approaches were equally effective.The integrated approach treatment reduced on an average 30.3 % EC, and 64.3% Ca2+, 51.6 % Mg2+, 24.9 % Na+, 26.5 % SO42- and 18 % Cl-ions concentration. The salt accumulation from saline water lowered for treatments and both the treatments were equally effective. As a whole, it reduced nearly 50-56 % salt accumulation, and >57% Ca2+, >44 % Mg2+, >36% Na+, >22 % SO42- and >13 % Cl- in both the soils. Improvement of plant growth parameters and eventually 13.4 % yield increase were achieved.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77580629","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 studies in Indian garlic (Allium sativum L.) accessions using agro-morphological traits","authors":"Shivam Sharma","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2022.10159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2022.10159","url":null,"abstract":"To assess the dispersion of genetic variation among Indian garlic accessions, twenty-five genotypically diverse accessions were studied through analysis of genetic variability, mean performance, heritability and genetic gain for 17 yield contributing agro-morphological traits.The study involving 25 Indian garlic accessions was undertaken at Vegetable Farm, CSK HPKV, Palampur during 2017-2018. Based on mean performance, Kanaid Local Selection and Chambi Local Selection were the top-ranking genotypes for bulb yield per plant which significantly out yielded all the genotypes with a significant increase of 28.7 % and 12.7 %, respectively over standard check, (GHC-1). In general, the magnitude of PCV was higher than their respective GCV for all the traits studied which reflected the considerable influence of environment on the manifestation of these traits.High estimates of phenotypic and genotypic coefficients of variation were obtained for bulbils per plant, clove weight and clove equatorial diameter indicating better scope for improvement through selection.The high heritability coupled with high genetic gain for bulbils per plant, clove weight, leaf width at middle portion, clove equatorial diameter, cloves per bulb and pseudo stem diameter showed active involvement of additive gene action in the inheritance of these traits and selection for these traits will directly increase bulb yield per plant.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88712135","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 low molecular weight organic acids on soil phosphorus release in Inceptisol and Alfisol","authors":"M. K T","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2022.10171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2022.10171","url":null,"abstract":"Secretion of LMWOAs by plants is one of the important mechanisms to make fixed soil phosphorus (P) bioavailable to plant. But the effectiveness of different LMWOAs in enhancing the soil available P varies significantly with the pH of the soil. Therefore the present study was undertaken at ICAR-IARI, New Delhi during 2018-19 to assess the effect of oxalic and citric acid in increasing the soil available phosphorus in two soil orders i.e. Inceptisol and Alfisol, during different intervals of incubation (i.e. 0, 15, 30, 45, 60 and 90 days). The results showed that there was an increasing trend in soil available P release pattern under both the LMWOAs treatments up to 60 and 45 days of incubation in Inceptisol and Alfisol, respectively and after reaching this threshold value, it attained declining trend. Citric acid was found to be most effective than oxalic acid in mobilizing soil phosphorus in the acidic soil (Alfisol), whereas oxalic acid was superior in neutral soil (Inceptisol). With increasing rates of both LMWOAs, the soil available P increased significantly. Thus, the application of LMWOAs will reduce the excess application of phosphorus and its build-up in soils and causing eutrophication of water bodies.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76692199","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 organic carbon fractions under different land use systems of Jorhat district","authors":"Ravindra Kumar Rekwar","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2022.10151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2022.10151","url":null,"abstract":"The present study was conducted using soil profiles of Jorhat district under different land use systems (LUS) i.e. Bamboo field, tea plantation and rainfed rice. The total soil organic carbon content at 0-15 cm depth varied from 7.86 to 8.43 g kg-1, wherein rainfed rice land use system recorded significantly higher total organic carbon (TOC) than tea plantation but at par with that of bamboo field. However, at 15-30, 30-60 and 60-100 cm soil depths bamboo field recorded significantly higher over other land use systems. Among these LUS, rainfed rice showed significantly higher very labile carbon (CVL) in soil than tea plantation and bamboo field at 0-15 cm depth whereas in 15-30 cm depth CVL in tea plantation was found to be significantly higher than bamboo field and rainfed rice. However, Bamboo field and tea plantation had CVL significantly higher than rainfed rice under 30-60 and 60-100 cm depths, respectively. In all the depths, labile carbon pool (CL) was significantly higher in bamboo field ranging from 1.01 to 1.67 g kg-1 whereas under bamboo field, less labile carbon (CLL) pool 0-15, 15-30 and 30-60 cm depths was significantly higher than tea plantation and rainfed rice soils. However, the recalcitrant carbon (CR) pool did not vary significantly among different LUS. Soil organic carbon stock in soil at 0-15 cm depth was found to be significantly higher in rainfed rice soil than tea plantation and bamboo field whereas in the remaining depths the SOC stock was significantly higher under bamboo field. Moreover, the interaction between LUS and depths varied significantly. Among different fractions (CL, CLL, CVL and CR fractions), CR fraction had the smallest variation among land uses, which indicate that the non-labile fraction was less sensitive to land use systems.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"33 4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73778342","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 micronutrients on growth, yield and economics of turmeric (Curcuma longa L.)","authors":"S. Bairagi","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2022.10160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2022.10160","url":null,"abstract":"A field experiment was conducted during 2018-19 and 2019-20 at Amar Singh College, Lakhaoti, Bulandshahr (Uttar Pradesh) to assess the influence of micronutrients on growth, yield and economics of turmeric (Curcuma longa L.). Eight treatments were evaluated in randomized block design with three replications. Results revealed that all the growth and yield attributing characters of turmeric responded significantly to the application of micronutrients, whether alone and/or in combination. Application of Zn was more effective in improving the growth, yield and economics as compared to Fe and B. Application of25 kg ZnSO4 + 50 kg FeSO4 + 10 kg borax ha-1 along with RDF resulted in the maximum plant height (95.5 cm), highest number of tillers per plant (2.96), number of leaves per plant (25.0), number of rhizomes per plant (20.2); maximum fresh weight of rhizomes per plant (297.7 g) and the highest yield of turmeric (33.07 tha-1).The yield increment with RDF + 25 kg ZnSO4 + 50 kg FeSO4 + 10 kg borax ha-1 was 20.3% over the control. The performance of RDF + 25 kg ZnSO4 + 50 kg FeSO4 ha-1 and RDF + 25 kg ZnSO4 + 10 kg borax ha-1 wasat par with RDF + 25 kg ZnSO4 + 50 kg FeSO4 + 10 kg borax ha-1 for the growth and yield attributes of turmeric. The lowest values of these parameters were recorded under control.An eeconomic assessment of different treatments revealed that the maximum net return (Rs.4,54,445ha-1) with the highest B:C ratio (2.89)was realized from the combined application of Zn + Fe + B along with RDFas compared to control with a net return of Rs. 3,43,517 ha-1and B:C ratio of 2.47.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"186 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72795932","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}