Invasive plants can affect native plants through competition or allelopathy, and researchers often use pot experiments as a tool to measure the strength of these interactions. Recently, such pot experiments provided inconsistent estimates of the impact and allelopathic potential of invasive...

Greenhouse experiments were conducted in order to determine the impact of seed-borne Microdochium nivale var. nivale and var. majus inoculum, and seed treatment with a carboxin+thiram mixture, on the development of seedling blight, and on subsequent stem colonisation and growth of winter wheat (cv. ...

Pot studies under natural conditions were undertaken to determine the effect of various exotic Bradyrhizobium japonicum strains viz., TAL 377, 379, 102 used alone or in mixture with and without phosphorus on soyabean growth, yield and nitrogen fixation parameters. Surface sterilized soyabean seeds...

Seeds of chickpea variety AUG424, susceptible to Fusarium oxysporum ciceri (FOC), were surface sterilized with sodium hypochlorite, thoroughly rinsed with sterilized water and immersed in two concentrations of Salicylic acid (1.0 & 1.5 mM) and Bion (0.3 & 0.4 mM). Seeds treated with 2%...

Laboratory and greenhouse experiments were conducted to determine the efficacy of antagonistic microorganisms, i.e. Trichoderma harzianum, Trichoderma viride, Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus terreus, Aspergillus flavus and Pseudomonas fluorescens, against Sclerotium rolfsii [Corticium rolfsii] that...

Laboratory and pot experiments were carried out in 2000 at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria to asses the soil improvement potential and the best form of application of Tithonia diversifolia. The laboratory experiment was conducted to determine the nutrient content of...

A pot experiment was conducted in Bangladesh during 2003 to study the effect of different levels of added As on the growth and arsenic accumulation by nine naturally grown weeds, i.e. barnyard grass (Echinochloa crus-galli), joina (Fimbristylis miliacea), mutha (Cyperus rotundus), water cress (...

Effects of picolinic acid (2-pyridinecarboxylic acid) and chromium(III) picolinate was studied on the chromium (Cr) accumulation of fodder radish (Raphanus sativus L. convar. oleiformis Pers., cv. Leveles olajretek) and komatsuna (Brassica campestris L. subsp. napus f. et Thoms. var. komatsuna...

Plants forage for nutrients by increasing their root length density (RLD) in nutrient-rich soil microsites through root morphological changes resulting in increased root biomass density (RBD), specific root length (SRL), or branching frequency (BF). It is commonly accepted that fast-growing species ...

Background and Aims: Nassella trichotoma is an unpalatable perennial grass weed that invades disturbed native grasslands in temperate regions of south-eastern Australia. This experiment investigated whether elevated N levels, often associated with disturbance, increases the competitiveness of N....