{"title":"Evaluation of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) genotypes under irrigated and rainfed conditions in intermediate zone of Jammu and Kashmir","authors":"N. Panotra","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2021.10138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2021.10138","url":null,"abstract":"Field experiments were carried out at the research farm of Regional Agricultural Research Station, Rajouri, SKUAST-Jammu during 2013 – 2016 rabi season under irrigated (IC) and rainfed conditions (RC) of inter-mediate zone of UT of Jammu & Kashmir in order to determine the high adaptive yielding with high quality bread wheat genotypes.The experiments were laid out in a randomized block design with 4 replications and six varieties of wheat. Genotypes were significantly different among themselves for all the phenological traits under irrigated and rainfed conditions. The pooled results of three years revealed that wheat genotypes VL 804 and HS 562 performed better in terms of growth, yield attributes and yield under irrigated condition compared to genotypes cultivated under rainfed condition. However, genotypes VL 907 and HS 507 ‘Improved’ found better in growth and yield than other genotypes under rainfed condition. The highest net returns of Rs. 76924 ha-1 and B:C ratio of 2.86 was recorded with in genotype VL 804 under irrigated condition and net returns of Rs. 39903 ha-1 and B:C ratio (2.78) in genotype VL 907 under rainfed condition.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89580113","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":"Response of broccoli (Brassica oleracea var. italica) to integrated nutrient management","authors":"Imkongsunep Walling","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2021.10133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2021.10133","url":null,"abstract":"A field experiment was conducted at Experimental Farm, Nagaland University, Medziphema campus, Nagaland during rabi season of 2019-2020 to study the response of broccoli (Brassica oleracea var. italica) to integrated nutrient management.The 12 treatments were evaluated in RBD with three replications. Results revealed that application of different levels of fertilizes and organic manures either alone or in combination significantly increased the growth, yield and quality of broccoli as compared to control. Application of full dose of RDF exhibited maximum plant height (50.3 cm), number of leaves (18.2), stem diameter (20.7 mm), plant spread (69.2 cm), ascorbic acid content (60.9 mg 100-1 g), protein content in head (1.58%) and yield (8.20 t ha-1). However, these parameters were found statistically at par with poultry manure 2.5 t ha-1 + ½ of RDF. There was a significant build up of organic carbon and available nutrients in post harvest soil with INM practices and maximum values of organic carbon (19.0 g kg-1), available P (20.9 kg ha-1) were recorded and available K (171.2 kg ha-1) with poultry manure 2.5 t ha-1 + ½ of RDF. While maximum value of available nitrogen (221.6 kg ha-1) in post harvest soil was recorded with full dose of RDF as inorganics. The highest net return (Rs. 1,96,145.51)along with benefit: cost ratio (2.16) were recorded in full dose of RDF followed by poultry manure 2.5 t ha-1 + ½ of RDF with net return of Rs.1,81220.35 and cost benefit ratio of 1.90.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90659106","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":"Citrus nutrition: An Indian perspective","authors":"A. Srivastava","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2021.10116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2021.10116","url":null,"abstract":"Diagnosis and management of nutrient constraints are the two important pillars of sound citrus fertilizer program, although its history in India is as old as cultivation of citrus. Of the different diagnostic tools (leaf nutrient standards, soil thresholds of soil available nutrients, metalloenzyme activity, inflorescence analysis, juice nutrient standards, xylem sap analysis); leaf and soil-based nutrient standards have established their superiority over rest of the diagnostic methods. Optimum leaf nutrients standards developed for different commercial cultivars in Indiahave further warranted the necessity of identifying nutrient constraints through cultivar specific diagnostics in order to inflict precision diagnosis. Similar observations were envisaged through optimum soil fertility limits suggested for Indian citrus cultivars, primarily governed by prevailing soil fertility constraints. Multi-location nutrient specific field response studies lacked heavily on the point of uniformity in yield and quality improvements when replicated at other locations. Site-specific nutrient management studies demonstrated soil type-based fertilization, suggesting the fertilizers to be tailored as per canopy size within an orchard to derive rationality in fertilizer use within an orchard. Fertigation has further reduced the optimum fertilizer requirement by 30-40%, in addition to microbial consortium-based integrated nutrient management saving 30% cut from conventional RDF. Many other significant advances have taken place to improve the fertilizer-use-efficiency e.g. sensor-based variable rate application, fertigation using magnetized irrigation, open field hydroponics and dual purpose microbially loaded substrate (organic manure) enriched with limited inorganic fertilizers collectively known as INM a plausible alternative.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73465789","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":"Wheat productivity and its profitability as influenced by targeted yield approach versus nutrient management practices","authors":"K. A. Chobhe","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2021.10145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2021.10145","url":null,"abstract":"Field experiments were conducted on wheat cv. HD-2967 at farmer’s field during 2015-16 and 2016-17 to evaluate fertilizer management practices vis-a-vis farmer’s practice on wheat productivity and its profitability in Rajpura village of Aligarh, (U.P.) wherein three trials for each site were studied. Results indicated that, maximum average yield of wheat was 4.58 and 4.60 t ha-1 at site I and II, respectively under targeted yield approach for 5.5 tonne (TY5.5t) which were higher by 39.5% at site-I and 41.8% at site-II over farmer’s practice (FP). The application of nutrients under soil test based targeted yield approach; nearly 39-42% wheat yield could be increased over FP. Moreover, the higher net profit was recorded as Rs. 32,110 ha-1 and 28,400 ha-1 at site-I and II, respectively with targeted yield approach fertilizer management. The improvement in available nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium was noticed at both sites (I and II) under targeted yield based fertilizer management approach in post-harvest soil after two years of trials.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82607821","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 heterogeneity: A comparative assessment of soils from two different AESR, southern India","authors":"C. M","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2021.10119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2021.10119","url":null,"abstract":"A comparative study was carried out to assess the nature and characteristics of soils from two agro-ecological sub regions (AESU and AESR) from two states of South India. Using sentinel-2 satellite data, google imagery and top sheet, a detailed soil survey was taken up in AESU and AESR. Major soils from upland as well as from lowlands were compared to assess the soils heterogeneity. Results showed that there was a high heterogeneity between properties of soils AESU and AESR. Variability existed in climatic conditions (tropical humid region in AESU and semiarid condition in AESR), physiographic (valley plain to gently, very gently, moderate, steep and very steep slopes in AESU and levelled to gently and very gently slopes in AESR ), geology (charnockite and granite gneiss in AESU whereas granite gneiss in AESR), land use (rubber, paddy, coconut in AESU and paddy, mango, pigeon pea, groundnut in AESR), soil classification (Ultisols and Alfisols in AESU whereas Alfisols and Inceptisols in AESR) and land capability (soil and water conservation measures must in AESU and slope was manageable with agronomic management practices in AESR). Soils varied in texture (clay, sandy clay and clay loam in AESU whereas sandy clay loam to sandy loam in AESR), consistency and depth of soils (shallow to very deep in AESU and shallow to deep in AESR). Clay content (32.9 to 63.5%) was dominant fraction in AESU whereas sand (52.1 to 72.1%) was in AESR. Soil acidity (strongly acid to very strongly acid) was a major problem (both hydrogen and aluminium saturation) in AESU whereas slightly acidic to neutral and slightly alkaline in AESR. Organic carbon content was high (up to 25.9 gkg-1) in AESU whereas it was up to 10.0 gkg-1 in AESR. Base saturation was <35% in AESU and >75% up to 100% in AESR. Calcium carbonate equivalent is >5% in AESR and not a problem in AESU. CEC was low (<12 cmol (p+) kg–1) in AESU and good (>12 cmol (p +) kg–1) in AESR.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75840737","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":"Foliar application of calcium and micronutrients for yield, quality and fruit shelf life enhancement in papaya var. Surya","authors":"P. Anju","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2021.10140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2021.10140","url":null,"abstract":"An experiment was carried out to assess the effect of foliar application of micronutrients (boron and zinc) and calcium on yield characteristics, quality attributes and fruit shelf life of papaya (Carica papaya L.) var. Surya at College of Agriculture Vellayani during 2019-20.The field experiment was laid out in randomized block design with nine treatments and three replications. Among different treatments, foliar application of borax (0.5%), zinc sulphate (0.5%) along with calcium nitrate (0.5%) had most favorable effect in increasing the yield characters likefruit weight (722 g), fruit length (21.0 cm), fruit girth (39.8 cm), fruit volume (709.3cc), pulp percentage(82.1%), flesh thickness (3.2cm), number of fruits plant-1 (50.5) and total yield plant-1 (36.5kg), qualitative attributes like TSS (14.5ºbrix), total carotenoids (2.2 mg 100g-1), ascorbic acid (65.3 mg 100g-1), total sugar (9.8 %)and shelf life of papaya fruits (7.0 days). The control plants showed the lowest values for fruit weight (384.2 g), fruit length (14.5 cm), fruit girth (26.8 cm), fruit volume (309cc), pulp percentage(61.3%), flesh thickness (1.8cm) and total yield plant-1 (13.6kg), qualitative attributes like TSS (11.1ºbrix), total carotenoids (1.4mg 100g-1), ascorbic acid (43.2mg 100g-1), total sugar (6.6%) and shelf life of papaya fruits (4.2 days). water spray recorded lowest value for number of fruits plant-1(35.2).","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"88 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91551010","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 test crop response approach for optimizing integrated plant nutrients supply to achieve targeted yield of hybrid maize (Zea mays L.) in Mollisols","authors":"Nidhi Luthra","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2021.10123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2021.10123","url":null,"abstract":"A field experiment was conducted during 2017-18 at Crop Research Centre, G.B.P.U.A.&T., Pantnagar with the objective of developing fertilizer adjustment equations and quantifying doses for achieving targeted yield of hybrid maize (Zea mays L.) by using STCR approach. Response of hybrid maize to four levels of N, P and K and two levels of FYM under different fertility levels was studied. Nutrient requirements (NR) were reported as 2.17, 0.46 and 2.74 kg q-1 for N, P and K, respectively. The contribution of nutrients N, P, and K from fertilizers (%CF) was found as 58.2, 62.7 and 420.4% , from soil (%CS) as 33.1, 26.8 and 22.7%, from organic matter FYM (%CFYM) as 45.2, 14.4 and 239.4% , from fertilizer with FYM (%CF*) as 62.4, 63.5 and 427.6%, respectively. Fertilizer adjustment equations and ready reckoners were developed with and without FYM for different targeted yield and soil test values of N, P and K. It was observed that response of hybrid maize to N, P and K fertilizers was higher when integrated with FYM application as compared to N,P and K alone. The average saving of fertilizer by application of 10 tonnes FYM was 24.52 kg ha-1 N, 7.11 kg ha-1 P and 3.50 kg ha-1 K within the range of soil test value and yield targets on Mollisol.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"184 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76772515","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":"M. Yadav","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2022.10130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2022.10130","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 per cent of mean were observed for seeds/fruit. High estimate of heritability along with high genetic advance in per cent of mean provides good scope for further improvement in advance generations.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78050256","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 various doses of salicylic acid, naphthalene acetic acid and gibberellic acid on vegetative growth and pod yield of broad bean (Vicia faba L.)","authors":"Kratika Rathore","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2021.10129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2021.10129","url":null,"abstract":"To investigate the efficacy of various doses of plant growth regulators on vegetative growth and pod yield of broad bean (Vicia faba L.), a field experiment was accomplished at Vegetable Research Farm, B.H.U., Varanasi during the winter season of 2019-20. Ten treatments were evaluated in randomized block design with three replications. Results indicated that the growth parameters like plant height, number of branches/plant significantly increased with foliar spray of gibberellic acid followed by NAA and salicylic acid. The yield attributes like pod width, fresh pod weight, number of pods/plant as well as fresh pod yield significantly enhanced by NAA followed by gibberellic acid and salicylic acid with various concentrations, respectively. The foliar spraying of 120 ppm GA3 tended to produce plant with maximum height (116.4 cm), number of branches/plant (6.3), pod length (7.5 cm), number of seeds/pod (4.6) as well as early 50 % flowering (57.3 days) whereas, spraying of 40 ppm NAA exhibited the maximum pod width (1.3 cm), fresh pod weight (4.6 g), number of pods/plant (87.5) as well as fresh pod yield (105.0 q ha-1) as compared to other treatments. The maximum net return (Rs. 337326.5 ha-1) was recorded with 40 ppm NAA with B: C ratio of 3.65 followed by 30 ppm NAA and 20 ppm NAA. The lowest net income (Rs. 162382.5 ha-1) and B: C ratio (1.76) was obtained from control. The spraying of NAA was found superior in terms of yield and yield attributes as well as benefit cost ratio followed by GA3 and salicylic acid.","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":"73145491","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 new generation herbicides on weeds in direct seeded rice (Oryza sativa L.)","authors":"S. S. Kumar","doi":"10.47815/apsr.2021.10139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2021.10139","url":null,"abstract":"A field study was conducted during Kuruvai season of 2020 to evaluate the efficacy of new generation herbicides at Pattathikadu village, Karambakudi Taluk, Pudukkottai district, Tamil Nadu. Eleven treatments were evaluated in RBD design and replicated thrice. Early post emergence application of bispyribac sodium 10 % SC @ 200 ml ha-1 on 15 DAS fb hand weeding on 40 DAS suppressed both weed population (20.16 m-2)andweed dry matter production (33.59 kg ha-1) and recorded highest weed control index (90.70 %) at 60 DAS over unweeded check. Growth and yield attributes of ricewere significantly improved with early post emergence application of bispyribac sodium 10 % SC @ 200 ml ha-1 on 15 DAS fb hand weeding on 40 DAS. Growth attributes viz., plant height (48.80, 78.56 cm at 30, 60 DAS and 94.54 cm at harvest respectively), leaf area index at flowering stage (6.89), number of panicle m-2 (434.14), number of tillers hill-1 (26.21), dry matter production (6,946, 11,917 and 13,646 kg ha-1 at 30, 60 DAS and harvest respectively) and yield attributes viz., number of filled grain panicle-1 (94.14)and grain (6540 kg ha-1) and straw (8522 kg ha-1) yieldswere recorded under early post emergence application of bispyribac sodium 10 % SC @ 200 ml ha-1 on 15 DAS fb hand weeding on 40 DAS hence appeared to be a viable strategy for weed control in direct seeded rice.","PeriodicalId":8031,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Plant and Soil Research","volume":"71 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85633506","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}