To help farmers in the mid hills of Nepal improve their crop management and rice yields, we conducted a study testing different nursery management options and their effect on grain yield and yield components under rainfed conditions. The experiment was conducted in a farmer’s field during the cropping season 2009 and 2010 at Sundarbazar, Lamjung, Nepal, using a 3-factor factorial RCB design wit...

A pot culture study was undertaken to the effect of slag based gypsum as a source nutrient rice crop in an alkaline soil. The treatments included recommended dose fertilizer (RDF) control, 450, 600, 750 and 900 kg ha-1 (SBG) along with RDF. were replicated thrice complete randomized design (CRD) followed for statistical analysis. results revealed that application SBG recorded significantly high...

We investigated optimum nitrogen rates and different growth substrates for short-term fi nish production of container and bare root shade tree liners in a pot-in-pot production system in the Intermountain West. In one study, nitrogen ranging from 0–27 g N·tree–1 (0–36 lbs N·1000 ft–2) as urea was applied to quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), ‘Autumn Blaze’ maple (Acer × freemannii ‘Autumn Bla...

Disposal of heavy metal contaminated biomass after phytoremediation is still unfeasible. This paper presents a viable phyto-extraction approach in which metals in contaminated soils are stabilized by nursery stocks before transplantation for greening. In this respect, two pot-experiments are reported comparing seven nursery stocks species exposed to different Cd levels. The first experiment rev...

Objectives: The main objective of this study is to cultivate Trichoderma harizanum using agricultural waste as a substrate for the management of damping of disease and growth promotion in Chilli plants. Methods: T. harizanum was isolated from MCRC Main Agricultural Research Station, Chennai, and identified through microscopic observation by using standard keys. F. oxysporum, R. solani, and A.al...

A pot culture experiment was conducted on Karaikal soil series (Vertic Ustropept) to study the response of rice genotypes boron addition and screening efficient using stress indices. Ten were tested at two (0, 2 mg kg-1) level boron. The result revealed that highest grain yield (88.40 g pot-1) straw (114.7 pot-1), maximum uptake (2192.3 µg (3291.9 recorded with application 2.0 kg-1. Amongst gen...

A pot trial was conducted with 52 rice cultivars of different types collected from different origins. The results showed that there were great differences in Cd concentrations in straw, brown rice and grain chaff among the rice cultivars grown in a soil containing a Cd concentration of 100 mg kg−1; the Cd concentrations in brown rice ranged from 0.22 to 2.86 mg kg−1. The great genotypic differe...

Rice consumption is a major dietary source of Cd and poses potential threat to human health. The aims this study were examine the influence Fe application on yield components, dynamics in pore water, translocation factors, daily intake, estimation health risks. A pot experiment was performed under glasshouse conditions where rice cultivars (Langi Quest) cultivated two dissimilar soils different...