Drought and Heat Stress in Cool-Season Food Legumes in Sub-Tropical Regions: Consequences, Adaptation, and Mitigation Strategies by Venugopalan Visha Kumari, Anirban Roy, Roshni Vijayan, Purabi Banerjee, Vivek Chandra Verma, Arpita Nalia, Madhusri Pramanik, Bishal Mukherjee, Ananya Ghosh, Md. Hasim Reja, Malamal Alickal Sarath Chandran, Rajib Nath, Milan Skalicky, Marian Brestic, Akbar Hossain

“…The stresses during the terminal stage of cool-season food legumes may affect numerous physiological and biochemical reactions that may result in poor yield. …”
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Herbicide in Weed Management of Wheat (<i>Triticum aestivum</i> L.) and Rainy Season Rice (<i>Oryza sativa</i> L.) under Conservation Agricultural System by Taslima Zahan, Md Faruque Hossain, Apurba K. Chowdhury, Md Omar Ali, Md Akkas Ali, Eldessoky S. Dessoky, Mohamed M. Hassan, Sagar Maitra, Akbar Hossain

“…In a non-puddled field of rainy season rice, eleven weed species were found in the first year and twelve species were found in the second year. …”
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Carbon and Nitrogen Mineralization in Dark Grey Calcareous Floodplain Soil Is Influenced by Tillage Practices and Residue Retention by Nazmus Salahin, Md. Khairul Alam, Sharif Ahmed, Mohammad Jahiruddin, Ahmed Gaber, Walaa F. Alsanie, Akbar Hossain, Richard W. Bell

“…Increased residue retention and minimum tillage practices after nine consecutive crops has altered the C and N cycling by slowing the in-season turnover of C and N, reducing the level of nitrate-N available to plants in the growing season and increasing retained soil levels of SOC and TN.…”
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Optical sensor-based nitrogen management: an environmentally friendly and cost-effective approach for sustainable wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) production on Eastern plains of India by Biplab Mitra, Prantick Singha, Arnab Roy Chowdhury, Abhas Kumar Sinha, Milan Skalicky, Alison M. Laing, Saud Alamri, Akbar Hossain

“…An optical sensor like Green Seeker (GS) is an emerging tool for site-specific in-season fertilizer nitrogen management strategy. The objective of this study was to establish an in-season estimate of yield (INSEY)–grain yield (GY) relation in wheat grown under Eastern plains of India using normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) at 45 and 65 days after sowing (DAS). …”
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Productivity and Nutrient Balance of an Intensive Rice–Rice Cropping System Are Influenced by Different Nutrient Management in the Red and Lateritic Belt of West Bengal, India by Tanmoy Shankar, Ganesh Chandra Malik, Mahua Banerjee, Sudarshan Dutta, Sagar Maitra, Subhashisa Praharaj, Masina Sairam, Duvvada Sarath Kumar, Eldessoky S. Dessoky, Mohamed M. Hassan, Ismail A. Ismail, Tarek Saif, Milan Skalicky, Marian Brestic, Akbar Hossain

“…The experiment was laid out in a Randomized Completely Block Design with 12 treatments and three replications, with different rates of N:P:K:Zn:S application in both of the growing seasons, namely, <i>kharif</i> and <i>Boro</i>. The recommended (ample) dose of nutrients was 80:40:40:25:20 and 120:60:60:25:20 kg ha⁻¹ of N:P₂O₅:K₂O:Zn:S in the <i>Kharif</i> and <i>Boro</i> season, respectively. …”
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Persistence and Exposure Assessment of Insecticide Indoxacarb Residues in Vegetables by Sandip Patra, Anupam Das, Rajiv Rakshit, Suborna Roy Choudhury, Shyamashree Roy, Tilak Mondal, Arunava Samanta, Pritam Ganguly, Amnah Mohammed Alsuhaibani, Ahmed Gaber, Marian Brestic, Marian Brestic, Milan Skalicky, Akbar Hossain

“…Indoxacarb was found to dissipate quickly with a half-life ranging between 1.55 and 2.76 days, irrespective of the vegetable, dose, and season, and the safe waiting period was very less. …”
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Genetic Diversity of Wheat Stripe Rust Fungus <i>Puccinia striiformis</i> f. sp. <i>tritici</i> in Yunnan, China by Md. Ashraful Alam, Haoxing Li, Akbar Hossain, Mingju Li

“…In this study, 352 isolates were sampled from 11 spots of the Yunnan Province during the wheat growing season from 2004 to 2015 and analyzed with SNPs markers of housekeeping genes. …”
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Preliminary report on the comparative weed suppressibility of Bangladeshi Wheat varieties by A. K. M. Mominul Islam, Md. Nasir Uddin, Sabina Yeasmin, Sinthia Afsana Kheya, Md. Shafiqul Islam, Sharif Ahmed, Akbar Hossain, Md. Parvez Anwar

“…To assess the weed suppressibility of Bangladeshi wheat varieties, a field test was carried out in 2018 throughout the winter season at the Agronomy Field Laboratory, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Bangladesh. …”
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Physiology, Growth, and Productivity of Spring–Summer Black Gram (<i>Vigna mungo</i> L. Hepper) as Influenced by Heat and Moisture Stresses in Different Dates of Sowing and Nutrien... by Purabi Banerjee, Visha Kumari Venugopalan, Rajib Nath, Yusuf S. Althobaiti, Ahmed Gaber, Hatim Al-Yasi, Akbar Hossain

“…In addition, this nutrient schedule proved to be efficient enough to promote satisfactory growth and optimum seed yield of late sown blackgram through relief of stress during the spring–summer season.…”
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Detection of water deficit conditions in different soils by comparative analysis of standard precipitation index and normalized difference vegetation index by Sunil Kumar Medida, P. Prasuna Rani, G.V. Suneel Kumar, P.V. Geetha Sireesha, K.C. Kranthi, V. Vinusha, L. Sneha, B.S.S.S. Naik, Biswajit Pramanick, Marian Brestic, Ahmed Gaber, Akbar Hossain

“…The detection of water deficit conditions in different soils of Prakasam district, Andhra Pradesh, India was assessed in consecutive two seasons of 2017–18 to 2019–20 cropping seasons using combined indicators developed from Standard Precipitation Index (SPI) and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). …”
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Precision Nutrient Management in Zero-Till Direct-Seeded Rice Influences the Productivity, Profitability, Nutrient, and Water Use Efficiency as Well as the Environmental Footprint... by Rahul Sadhukhan, Dinesh Kumar, Suman Sen, Seema Sepat, Avijit Ghosh, Yashbir Singh Shivay, Mahesh Chand Meena, Anjali Anand, Rajesh Kumar, Laimayum Devarishi Sharma, Kiranmoy Patra, Vijay Pratap, Amnah Mohammed Alsuhaibani, Ahmed Gaber, Akbar Hossain

“…Keeping this in mind, during the <i>kharif</i> season of 2018 and 2019, a trial was carried out at the ICAR-IARI in New Delhi to investigate the varying nutrient management approaches following a precise manner in DSR. …”
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Labile Soil Organic Matter Pools Are Influenced by 45 Years of Applied Farmyard Manure and Mineral Nitrogen in the Wheat—Pearl Millet Cropping System in the Sub-Tropical Condition... by Ranjan Laik, B. H. Kumara, Biswajit Pramanick, Santosh Kumar Singh, Nidhi, Majid Alhomrani, Ahmed Gaber, Akbar Hossain

“…Application of FYM at 15 Mg ha⁻¹ in both the seasons + 120 kg ha⁻¹ mineral N resulted in significantly higher MBC and DOC as compared to all of the other treatments. …”
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Weed Management and Crop Establishment Methods in Rice (<i>Oryza sativa</i> L.) Influence the Soil Microbial and Enzymatic Activity in Sub-Tropical Environment by Sarthak Pattanayak, Satyananda Jena, Priyanka Das, Sagar Maitra, Tanmoy Shankar, Subhashisa Praharaj, Prasannajit Mishra, Santanu Mohanty, Madhusmita Pradhan, Deepak Kumar Swain, Biswajit Pramanick, Ahmed Gaber, Akbar Hossain

“…Keeping these in view, a field experiment was conducted at the Agronomy Main Research Farm, Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT), India, during the <i>kharif</i> season of 2016 and 2017, on the impact of crop establishment methods and weed management practices on soil microbial and enzymatic status. …”
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Supplementing Nitrogen in Combination with Rhizobium Inoculation and Soil Mulch in Peanut (<i>Arachis hypogaea</i> L.) Production System: Part I. Effects on Productivity, Soil Mois... by Mousumi Mondal, Milan Skalicky, Sourav Garai, Akbar Hossain, Sukamal Sarkar, Hirak Banerjee, Rajib Kundu, Marian Brestic, Celaleddin Barutcular, Murat Erman, Ayman EL Sabagh, Alison M. Laing

“…Considering these aspects of soil health, a field study was conducted over two consecutive winter (November–March) seasons in 2015–2016 and 2016–2017 at the research farm of the agricultural university Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya in West Bengal, India. …”
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Xenia and Deficit Nitrogen Influence the Iron and Zinc Concentration in the Grains of Hybrid Maize by Sajjad Akhtar, Maryke Labuschagne, Gernot Osthoff, Kingston Mashingaidze, Akbar Hossain

“…Eighteen maize hybrids derived from parents with varying concentrations of Fe and Zn were planted at Potchefstroom, Cedara and Vaalharts in South Africa for two seasons, 2017 and 2018. Open- and self-pollinated seeds were compared. …”
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Performance valuation of onion (Allium cepa L.) genotypes under different levels of salinity for the development of cultivars suitable for saline regions by Md. Ashraful Alam, Md. Atikur Rahman, Md. Marufur Rahman, Md. Mahmudul Hasan, Shamsun Naher, Abu Hena Faisal Fahim, Md. Abdul Mottalib, Srabanti Roy, Md. Rafiqul Islam, Shailendra Nath Mozumder, Amnah Mohammed Alsuhaibani, Ahmed Gaber, Akbar Hossain

“…Therefore, a number of germplasm were studied during the 2019–2020 and 2020–2021 seasons under different salt concentrations to identify tolerant genotypes as well as to study the plants’ responses at different growth stages against elevated salinity levels. …”
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Soil Test Based Fertilizer Application Improves Productivity, Profitability and Nutrient Use Efficiency of Rice (<i>Oryza sativa</i> L.) under Direct Seeded Condition by Vijay Kant Singh, Poonam Gautam, Gangadhar Nanda, Salwinder Singh Dhaliwal, Biswajit Pramanick, Shiv Singh Meena, Walaa F. Alsanie, Ahmed Gaber, Samy Sayed, Akbar Hossain

“…A field investigation on direct seeded rice (DSR) was carried out in the two consecutive rice growing seasons of 2017 and 2018 at Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India for the development and validation of soil test crop response (STCR) to fertilizer and for assessing the performance of STCR-treatments as compared to the general recommended dose (GRD) in terms of yield, nutrient uptake and use efficiency, and the economics of DSR. …”
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Supplementing Nitrogen in Combination with Rhizobium Inoculation and Soil Mulch in Peanut (<i>Arachis hypogaea</i> L.) Production System: Part II. Effect on Phenology, Growth, Yiel... by Mousumi Mondal, Milan Skalicky, Sourav Garai, Akbar Hossain, Sukamal Sarkar, Hirak Banerjee, Rajib Kundu, Marian Brestic, Celaleddin Barutcular, Murat Erman, Ayman EL Sabagh, Alison M. Laing

“…Therefore, the present investigations were carried out during the winter seasons 2015–2016 and 2016–2017 at the district seed farm of Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, an agricultural university in West Bengal, India (23°26’ N, 88°22´ E, elevation 12 m above mean sea level) to facilitate the comprehensive study of plant growth, productivity and profitability of an irrigated peanut crop under varied levels of nitrogen: with and without a rhizobium inoculants and with and without polythene mulch. …”
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Study on the genetic variability and adaptability of turmeric (Curcuma longa L.) genotypes for development of desirable cultivars. by Md Ashraful Alam, Srabanti Roy, Md Atikur Rahman, Md Riazul Islam, Md Mushfiqur Rahman, Abu Jafor Obaidullah, Md Nasirul Farid, Md Marufur Rahman, Md Rafiqul Islam, Shailendra Nath Mozumder, Riyadh S Almalki, Ahmed Gaber, Akbar Hossain

“…High heritability (0.58-0.99) and genetic advance characterized plant height (PH), mother rhizome weight (WMR), primary and secondary finger weights (WPF and WSF), and yield per plant (YPP) across seasons. Genetic gain (GG) was prominent in these traits. …”
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Prediction of the Effect of Nutrients on Plant Parameters of Rice by Artificial Neural Network by Tanmoy Shankar, Ganesh Chandra Malik, Mahua Banerjee, Sudarshan Dutta, Subhashisa Praharaj, Sagar Lalichetti, Sahasransu Mohanty, Dipankar Bhattacharyay, Sagar Maitra, Ahmed Gaber, Ashok K. Das, Ayushi Sharma, Akbar Hossain

“…For the training of the model, data obtained from two consecutive crop seasons over two years (a total of four crops of rice) were used. …”
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