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Is there an effect of AMF in germination? What I mean can AMF have an ability to infect the hypocotyl, in order to increase the germination percentage, germination rate, and seed vigor? If you...
21 December 2019 9,507 12 View
I want to set up a pot experiment of which phytoremediation techniques should be used as to remove metals. So, which plant I should use or who are the most effective accumulators.
13 October 2019 6,735 12 View
Unlike crop science where we grow again the crop in 3/6/9 months to have data of 2 years and take pool analysis of two years. But in forest science, silviculture and ecological studies we can not...
21 December 2017 1,820 3 View
Kindly suggest procedures to be followed for evaluation of Cacao (Theobroma cacao) for shade tolerance. Methodology for conducting the study? What are the parameters which need to observed?. Thank...
25 July 2017 8,564 3 View
I was given a maize SNP dataset in the HapMap format and I was curious how I can infer the genotype given this particular format (see picture below). I understand that for HapMAp data the second...
21 May 2017 6,023 21 View
Can you help me to identify this plant? I am confused if this plant is a Brassica juncea or Brassica integrifolia. If not of the two, what is their scientific name? This picture was taken from...
19 May 2017 5,520 5 View
Seed of same variety when grown in conventional system with chemical fertilisers, it( seed) may not get all the nutrients in its natural requirement while in organic system through compost it may...
10 May 2017 732 3 View
I want to analyse (using R software) the response of cabbage yields cropped in 2 different locations when different doses of fertilizer have been applied . For each location, I have designed the...
18 April 2017 3,784 5 View
I need a mechanistic crop growth model to give me the irrigation timetable, directly or indirectly!
29 March 2017 7,540 3 View
As we know annual and one season cultivating crops need minimum amount of nutrients for growth during initial period. But most of the cereals, pulses and flowers recommended 50% N, 100% P & K....
29 March 2017 7,406 10 View
Is it possible that, plants with a better vegetative growth can show lower reproductive growth, whereas, plants showing lower vegetative growth can give a better reproductive growth? Let me...
14 March 2017 4,370 10 View
The alkaline KMnO4 method as used in India is not at all a reliable index of available nitrogen in the soil. In recent years, fertilizer N management in rice, wheat and maize based on measurement...
19 February 2017 667 25 View
I am looking for lab and field trials with soybean expose to low temperature during emergence and early growth
06 February 2017 4,756 4 View
seek information in context of the biofertilizer and improvement of yield
11 January 2017 5,569 4 View
Salt and drought tolerant crop cultivars produced/developed through screening, selection, breeding, mutation breeding, tissue culture, molecular breeding or through transgenic approaches are very...
01 January 2017 3,274 6 View
What are the reasons for nutritional alteration of pea species when sown with fertilizer applications? and how we can compensate the nutritional values we loss to add productivity? Because I have...
21 November 2016 5,643 5 View
I am looking for some information on the effect of doubled haploids on inbreeding depression in crop plants. Attaining homozygosity through several cycles of selfing leads to inbreeding depression...
15 November 2016 9,210 5 View
A field of tomato is highly affected by the parasitic weed, Orobanche romosa. Farmer has tried to control it using selective herbicides available in the market and by following crop rotations but...
10 November 2016 1,564 6 View
Rice soil specially wetland rice soil is different from other upland crop soil. There are many chemical, physical and biological changes occur in rice soil. On the other hand rice plant is a...
08 November 2016 2,849 26 View
I am looking for information and protocol to study gene expression in crops under competitive conditions with weeds. What to consider? and what would be a proper technique to do so? Any article or...
07 November 2016 1,598 4 View
I wish to know much about field pea Harvest index. Presently I am working on the crop which is not popular among our farmers.
26 October 2016 711 5 View
Hello 1- Is GDD constant for same crop in different latitudes? 2-Is there same To,Tc,Tmin and....(Cardinal temperatures) for same crops (such as a variety of Weat) in different geographical...
23 October 2016 8,983 3 View
Hello everyone, I am working on resistance induction in wheat crop through silicon. Can anyone please tell me at which stage of wheat (after how many days of wheat sowing), it is better to apply...
21 September 2016 7,652 3 View
I think density investigations are more efficient only when relevant yield-density equations are applied to quantify data
20 September 2016 2,418 4 View