Improving Yield and Quality of Processing Potato Crops Grown in the Argentinian Pampas: the Role of N, P and S and Their Impact on CO2 Emissions

2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. O. Caldiz ◽  
P. G. Viani ◽  
C. M. Giletto ◽  
E. C. Zamuner ◽  
H. E. Echeverría
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Semra Kilic ◽  
Hatice Tuğba Aca

Soil salinity is a serious threat to agricultural ecological environment and agriculture sustainability. Ever increasing salinity negatively affects processes such as plant growth and development, ultimately causing diminished economic yield and quality of production, and it might cause a worldwide famine in the future. Thus, helping plants adapt to saline soils and increasing their yield and quality is a must. Our study focused on the enhancing role of exogenously applied folic acid (FA) in mitigation of toxicity caused by salt (NaCl). Barley seeds were pre-treated with 50 <span>µ</span>M FA for 24 h and then exposed to salt. Morphological and anatomical changes in seed germination and seedling growth stages were compared between different treatments of salt in laboratory conditions. Adverse effects of salt in both germination and seedling growth stages depended on the concentration of salt treatment (0.0, 0.25, 0.275, 0.30, 0.325 and 0.35 M). It was shown that the application of FA effectively alleviated the salt-induced inhibition, and reduced the negative effects of salt on germination (germination index and vigour index), seedling growth (radicle and coleoptile lengths, fresh weight) and leaf (stomata and epidermis number, stomatal index, stomata sizes of adaxial and abaxial surfaces) parameters. Moreover, FA elevated all examined parameters of barley also under non-stress conditions. Especially, germination and vigour indices were significantly higher than the control. Our results suggest that exogenous FA is involved in the resistance of barley to salt-stress.


2020 ◽  
Vol 01 (03) ◽  
Author(s):  
Osama A. Nofal ◽  
Abdelhalim I Rezk ◽  
Mahmoud M. Abbas
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1984 ◽  
Vol 102 (1) ◽  
pp. 253-255
Author(s):  
B. Singh ◽  
B. S. Badhoria

Green gram is one of the most important kharif pulse crops of India. It is of short duration, can fit well in crop rotation and, therefore, can be grown throughout the year. Information has been accumulating concerning the role of potassium and zinc in cereal crops but very little information is available regarding the nutrition of potassium and its interaction with zinc on the yield and quality of pulses. However, Malewar, Budhewar & Jadhav (1980) and Ghildiyal, Saini & Sirohi (1975) have reported significant positive effect of zinc treatment on growth attributes in green gram. The present investigations were, therefore, planned to study individual and interaction effects of potassium and zinc on growth, dry-matter and grain yield and quality of green gram.


2005 ◽  
pp. 134-138
Author(s):  
Kinga Diána Ungai ◽  
Zoltán Győri

Producing sugar beet, as it is a demanding field crop, has contributed to the raising standard of plant production. It has an outstanding place among the plants that are cultivated in the intensive plant production system. Rentability of sugar manufacture is determined by the stability of yield and the quality (saccharose content) of sugar beet. In this way, the fundamental interest both of the producers and the processing industry is high yield and quality, year by year. The yield and the quality of the sugar beet are mainly determined by the plant production system, so we studied the effect of fertilization, irrigation and plant protection.


Author(s):  
L. I. Petrova ◽  
Yu. I. Mitrofanov ◽  
N. K. Pervushina ◽  
V. N. Lapushkina

The article presents the results of studies in 2011-2019. to study the effect of various fertilizer norms, weather conditions on the yield and quality of potato products, soil water regime, photosynthetic activity, payment of 1 kg a.v. fertilizers with a crop increase in the conditions of the Tver region. The experiment is based on sod-podzolic light loamy drained soil with closed drainage. Potatoes were grown in 3 variants: without fertilizers, average norms and high norms. Weather conditions during the years of research (according to G.T. Selyaninov) are divided into groups: excessively humid, moist and arid. The moisture content of the arable layer of the soil under planting of potatoes, according to the gradations of these years, the average vegetation period was 73, 60, 39% of the lowest moisture capacity. A more favorable state of the water-air regime of the soil during the cultivation of potatoes according to the ridge technology during the growing season was formed in excessively wet years, in the wet years the plants experienced a lack of moisture in certain phases, especially during the period from tuberization  to ripening. In dry years, plants experienced a large lack of moisture throughout the growing season. On average, according to the experimental variants, a higher potato crop was formed in excessively wet years compared to wet years by 21%, and with dry ones by 68%. The use of fertilizers had a positive effect on the formation of potato crops and depended on weather conditions. A greater effect from the use of fertilizers was noted in excessively wet years, with average rates the yield increased by 32.2 t / ha, at high - by 41.5, in wet - by 10.3 and 14.9, respectively, in dry - by 11.0 and 16.8. The share of weather conditions in crop variability was 23%, fertilizers - 61%.


Author(s):  
H Galbraith ◽  
J J Baloyi ◽  
J R Scaife

There is a developing interest in the use of fibre-producing goats in the United Kingdom. Information on nutritional requirements under UK conditions and for different genotypes of goats is limited. The aim of this study was to investigate further the role of dietary protein in determining the yield and quality of (a) mohair Fibre and (b) meat with emphasis on fat composition in Angora goats.Ten Texan cross male castrate Angora goats aged about 10 months and weighing 21.6 kg initially were used. They were individually penned and allocated to good quality diets containing (per kg dry matter (DM)) approximately 10 MJ metabolisable energy and either 110 (LP) or 178 (HP) g crude protein. The diets were restricted to intakes of 37 g/kg liveweight (LW) and the study lasted for 70 days. The goats were weighed weekly and food intake was recorded daily. Blood samples were collected pre-feeding by jugular venepuncture at approximately 0900 hrs on day 0, 35 and 70 and at 07.30,09.00,10.30,12.00 and 13.00 hrs on day 63.


Catalysts ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 692
Author(s):  
Helen Uchenna Modekwe ◽  
Messai Adenew Mamo ◽  
Kapil Moothi ◽  
Michael Olawale Daramola

The role of the effect of the support on the reactivity of heterogeneous catalysts cannot be over-emphasized. Therefore, the study documented in this article investigated the effect of different metal oxide supports (MgO, CaO and TiO2) and mixed oxide supports (CaTiO3) on the performance of a bimetallic NiMo catalyst prepared via the sol–gel method during the catalytic growth of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) from waste polypropylene (PP). Waste PP was pyrolyzed at 700 °C in a single-stage chemical vapor deposition reactor and off-gas was utilized in-situ as a cheap carbon feedstock for the growth of CNTs under similar conditions for all the prepared NiMo catalysts (supported and unsupported). The structures of the prepared catalysts and deposited carbon were extensively characterized using X-ray diffraction (XRD), temperature-programmed reduction (TPR), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), etc. The catalytic performance of NiMo supported and unsupported catalysts was evaluated in terms of the yield, purity, and morphology of synthesized CNTs. The results revealed that the stabilizing role of supports is fundamental in preventing nanoparticle agglomeration and aggregation, thereby resulting in improved yield and quality of CNTs. Supported NiMo catalysts produced better aligned graphitic and high-quality CNTs. The NiMo/CaTiO3 catalyst produced the highest carbon of 40.0%, while unsupported NiMo produced low-quality CNTs with the lowest carbon yield of 18.4%. Therefore, the type of catalyst support and overall stability of catalytic materials play significant roles in the yield and quality of CNTs produced from waste PP.


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