Introduction of arbuscular mycorrhiza-(Am) to soils in which they are lacking, present in low numbers or to soils having inefficient species is limited due to the non-availability of a commercially viable proper inoculum. ...

Pearsom product moment correlation coefficient (r) was employed to ascertain the relationships between certain independent variables and three categories of information sources, namely, personal localite, personal ...

The high degree of plant mortality and slow growth rate are major problems during the establishment phase of black pepper and other perennial crops in the degraded sloping Sands of mid country in Sri Lanka. Therefore, ...

Gamma irradiation at 5 kGy and 7.5 kGy reduced the bacterial and fungal contamination of cardamom, nutmeg and pepper to commercially acceptable levels. Bacillius sp, Aspergillus sp and Penicillium sp were the predominant ...

Balanced application of fertilizer at appropriate time by proper method is important to improve P uptake efficiency in wheat. Due to widespread deficiency of Zn in Pakistan soil, Zn was applied along with P by fertigatiom ...

Heterosis over better parent was estimated for yield, its components and quality related traits in 36 rice hybrids produced in line x tester analysis. The crosses manifesting significant and positive heterosis for grain ...

A technique was developed on the use off l4COz rapid labelling of foliage and to ascertain photosynthesis and partitioning characteristics of labelled assimilate into other parts of the coconut palm. An eight-year-old Tall ...