Papers by KALIPADA PRAMANIK
Green gram is one of the most widely cultivated pulse crop being rich source of protein with high... more Green gram is one of the most widely cultivated pulse crop being rich source of protein with high quality of lysine and tryptophan. Among the various factors that limit green gram cultivation, insect pest infestation is the major one. With a view to reduce the negative effects of excessive use of pesticides, a field experiment was conducted with the aim to study the combined effect of bio-fertilizers and different varieties of green gram on lepidopteran insect pest infesting the crop. Green gram was cultivated during the pre-kharif season of the year 2014 and 2015 at the Agricultural Farm of Palli-Siksha Bhavana (Institute of Agriculture), Visva-Bharati, Birbhum, West Bengal to determine the incidence of important pest-complexes in Green Gram under field conditions with respect to different crop varieties i.e. VP1, SML-668 and Samrat and also to evaluate the effect of bio-fertilizer treatment on the insect-pest incidence on these three varieties. It was revealed from the experiment ...
Indian Journal Of Agricultural Research
Background: Availability of soil moisture is a serious bottleneck for successful growing of post ... more Background: Availability of soil moisture is a serious bottleneck for successful growing of post monsoon crops in red and lateritic soil. Hence, soil moisture conservation is crucial for post monsoon crops. In this aspect using mulches for conservation of moisture and optimum depth of sowing for proper germination and seedling emergence are important crop management practices in red and lateritic soil. Methods: The experiment was laid out in split plot design with three depths of sowing as main-plot treatments and four mulching practices as subplot treatments replicated thrice. Measured growth parameters were plant height (cm), number of branches plant-1, dry matter accumulation (g m-2) and leaf area index (LAI); yield attributes such as effective branches m-2, number of mature pods branch-1, number of seeds pod-1 and seed index; grain and stalk yield. Economics of cultivation was assessed in terms of cost of cultivation, gross and net return and net return per invested. Result: Chi...
Plants, 2022
Sulfur is a growth-limiting and secondary macronutrient as well as an indispensable component for... more Sulfur is a growth-limiting and secondary macronutrient as well as an indispensable component for several cellular components of crop plants. Over the years various scientists have conducted several experiments on sulfur metabolism based on different aspects of plants. Sulfur metabolism in seeds has immense importance in terms of the different sulfur-containing seed storage proteins, the significance of transporters in seeds, the role of sulfur during the time of seed germination, etc. The present review article is based on an overview of sulfur metabolism in seeds, in respect to source to sink relationships, S transporters present in the seeds, S-regulated seed storage proteins and the importance of sulfur at the time of seed germination. Sulfur is an essential component and a decidable factor for seed yield and the quality of seeds in terms of oil content in oilseeds, storage of qualitative proteins in legumes and has a significant role in carbohydrate metabolism in cereals. In co...
ORYZA-An International Journal on Rice, Mar 31, 2022
A field experiment was conducted during 2011-12 on sandy loam soils with factorial randomized blo... more A field experiment was conducted during 2011-12 on sandy loam soils with factorial randomized block design consisting of four techniques of moisture conservation techniques viz. (control, straw mulching @ 5t/ha, kaolin @ 6% and PMA (Phenyl mercuric acetate) @ 0.3Mm and four levels of biofertilizers inoculation viz., no inoculation, phosphate solubilizing bacteria (PSB), vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizae (VAM) and PSB+VAM. Result showed that the yield attributes like number of pods plant-1 , number of grains plant-1 and test weight were highest in treatment receiving straw mulching and dual inoculation of PSB+VAM. The grain yield was highest (1634 kg ha-1) in treatment receiving straw mulching and lowest grain yield (1169 kg ha-1) at control plot. Grain yield was highest (1653 kg ha-1) in treatment receiving PSB+VAM application over no inoculation. The highest grain yield (2047 kg ha-1) was recorded in crop receiving straw mulching and dual inoculation of PSB+VAM.
Plants, 2022
Sulfur is a growth-limiting and secondary macronutrient as well as an indispensable component for... more Sulfur is a growth-limiting and secondary macronutrient as well as an indispensable component for several cellular components of crop plants. Over the years various scientists have conducted several experiments on sulfur metabolism based on different aspects of plants. Sulfur metabolism in seeds has immense importance in terms of the different sulfur-containing seed storage proteins, the significance of transporters in seeds, the role of sulfur during the time of seed germination, etc. The present review article is based on an overview of sulfur metabolism in seeds, in respect to source to sink relationships, S transporters present in the seeds, S-regulated seed storage proteins and the importance of sulfur at the time of seed germination. Sulfur is an essential component and a decidable factor for seed yield and the quality of seeds in terms of oil content in oilseeds, storage of qualitative proteins in legumes and has a significant role in carbohydrate metabolism in cereals. In co...
A field experiment was conducted during the rainy (kharif) seasons of 2011 and 2012 at Imphal, Ma... more A field experiment was conducted during the rainy (kharif) seasons of 2011 and 2012 at Imphal, Manipur to study the performance of hybrid rice (Oryza sativa L.) "PAC 801"to planting times and nitrogen levels on the production potential, nutrient uptake and nitrogen use efficiency under rainfed shallow land conditionin a split plot design with three replications, consisting of 12 treatments, namely, main plots: three dates of transplanting (July 6, July 21 and August 5) and sub-plots: four levels of nitrogen (0, 60,120 and 160 kg N ha-1). The research results indicated that21 July transplanted hybrid rice produced significantly higher yield, yield attributes and N, P and K uptake of grain and straw. The delayed planting on 5 August significantly reduced these crop parameters. The reduction in grain yield to extent of 12 per cent and a loss of 28 kg grain/ha/day was observed under 5 August planting.Plantingeither on 6 July or 21 July recorded significantly higher Agronomic E...
A field experiment was conducted to study the response of microbes and bioregulators on yield gro... more A field experiment was conducted to study the response of microbes and bioregulators on yield growth and productivity of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) under rainfed condition during 2010-11 and 2011-2012 on sandy loam soils with factorial randomized block design consisting of four levels of biofertilizers inoculation viz., no inoculation, phosphate solubilizing bacteria (PSB), vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizae (VAM) and PSB+VAM with two bio-regulators viz., homo-brassinolide @ 1 ppm and gibberelic acid @ 1000 ppm at pre-flowering and pod-filling stage. Result showed that the yield attributes like number of grains plant -1 and test weight were highest in treatment receiving homo-brassinolide and dual inoculation of PSB+VAM. Grain yield was highest (2139 and 2211 kg ha -1 ) in treatment receiving PSB+VAM application over no inoculation (957 and 1072 kg ha -1 ). The grain yield was highest (1705 and 1797 kg ha -1 ) in treatment receiving homo-brassnolide and lowest grain yield (1481 and...
International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences, 2017
Present study was carried out to evaluate the bio-efficacy of ready-mix herbicide fenoxaprop (5%)... more Present study was carried out to evaluate the bio-efficacy of ready-mix herbicide fenoxaprop (5%) + Chlorimuron (0.6%) + Pretilachlor (50%) ME against complex weed flora in transplanted rice (cv. Sahbaghi) at Agricultural Farm, Institute of Agriculture, Visva-Bharati, West Bengal, India during 2017 and 2018. There were ten weed management treatments. The transplanted rice field was infested with grassy weeds like Echinochloa crus-galli and Panicum repens, sedges like Cyperus iria, Cyperus difformis, Fimbristylis miliacae and Cyperus rotundus and broad leaved weeds like Eclipta alba, Ludwigia parviflora, Marsilea quadrifolia and Monochoria vaginalis. The results revealed that ready-mix application of fenoxaprop (5%) + Chlorimuron (0.6%) + Pretilachlor (50%) ME at 1200 and 1000 ml ha-1 gave higher weed control efficiency against grassy weeds, broad leaved weeds and sedges. Both doses of fenoxaprop + chlorimuron + pretilachlor were better than chlorimuron ethyl, fenoxaprop-p-ethyl, pre...
International journal of Bio-resource and Stress Management, 2013
Seed priming increases seedling vigour of several vegetable crops. Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentu... more Seed priming increases seedling vigour of several vegetable crops. Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentunm L.) and chilli (Capsicum annuum L.) were tested for seed priming at seedling stage (4 tomato and 3 chilli varieties) under lab and vegetative and reproductive sate at field conditions (2 tomato and 2 chilli varieties). The priming techniques improved seedling vigour, growth and yield of tomato and chilli although varieties showed variation in response to different treatments. Especially halopriming increased speed of emergence, seedling vigour index, root length and shoot length over hydropriming in tomato and chilli. At field level halo priming showed better performance than control and hydropriming. Halo priming caused early flowering in tomato (8149, 8152) and chilli (9357). Increased plant height is also noticed in halopriming with respect to tomato and chilli (8149, 8152, 9357 and 9366). Mostly importantly halopriming increased total yield 20 plants−1 in tomato and chilli. This i...
The field experiment on was conducted in the PSB farm Sriniketan, Birbhum during dry season of 20... more The field experiment on was conducted in the PSB farm Sriniketan, Birbhum during dry season of 2015 and 2016 to evaluate yield performance of aerobic rice cultivars under irrigation regimes and seed priming. The experiment was laid out in split-plot design with main plots consisting of irrigation regimes i.e. I75: Irrigation at 75% of CPE, I100: Irrigation at 100% of CPE, I150: Irrigation at 150% of CPE. The sub plots consisting of variety (V) x seed priming (SP) i.e. V1xSP1: Pyari x Hydropriming, V1 x SP2: Pyari x Zinc sulphate @ 4.5g /kg seed, V2 xSP1: CR-Dhan 201 x Hydropriming, V2 x SP1: CR-Dhan 201 x Zinc sulphate @ 4.5g /kg seed, V3 xSP1: CR-Dhan 204 x Hydropriming, V3 x SP1: CR-Dhan 204 x Zinc sulphate @ 4.5g /kg seed. Result showed that Irrigation regime at 100% of CPE (I100) and irrigation regime at 150% of CPE (I150) exerted significant effect on increasing the growth attributes such as plant height, number of tillers m -2 , leaf area index, dry matter accumulation in shoo...
Karonda (Carissa spp.), a minor fruit crop is a source of ayurvedic and unani medicine and widely... more Karonda (Carissa spp.), a minor fruit crop is a source of ayurvedic and unani medicine and widely used in India as a medicinal plants by tribals. Different parts of this plant contain various chemical constitutents i.e. carissol, carissic acid, ascorbic acid, lupeol, β-sitosterol, glucose, galactose, serine, glutamine, alinine, valine, phenylalanine and glycine etc. This plant is commonly utilized for remedy of several diseases like biliousness, anemia and also used as aphrodisiac for women, antiparasitic, antifungal, antimicrobial, topical wound treatment (juice) and skin remedy. This paper reviews the literature supporting evidence for the medicinal and therapeutic uses of fruit, leaves, root and shoot of karonda along with its ethno-botanical relevance.
Seed priming is a simple, low-cost, low-risk intervention and powerful technique for improve seed... more Seed priming is a simple, low-cost, low-risk intervention and powerful technique for improve seedling emergence, seedling vigour and yields of several field crops. There exist different priming techniques viz. Hydro-priming, Halo-priming, Osmo-priming and solid matrix priming. On-farm priming has been practiced on maize, rice wheat and other field crops as well as vegetable crops with success. With respect to vegetable crops, priming techniques have been adopted to study their effect on seedling vigor and agronomic traits including yield of tomato, chilli, cucumber and cabbage. It was observed that few priming technique improved seedling emergence percent, seedling vigor as well as agronomic traits including yield of the crop species although varying among species. It is clearly observed that in all the crops studied the priming techniques improved growth and yield of all the crops although the cultivars showed variation in responses to different treatments. In almost all the cases ...
A field experiment was conducted to evaluate different weed management practices in onion during ... more A field experiment was conducted to evaluate different weed management practices in onion during rabi 2016-17 to 2017-18 at the Agricultural Farm, PalliSiksha Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, Sriniketan, West Bengal. Theexperiment was laid out in randomized block design having eleven treatments with three replications. The pooled results revealed that highest bulb yield (22.07 t ha1) was obtained from weed free treatment over the remaining treatments. Among herbicidal treatments, oxyfluorfen 20% DF at 3000 g ha-1 recorded significantly highest bulb yield (21.85 t ha-1) than oxyfluorfen 23.5% EC (850 ml ha-1), propaquizafop 10% EC (625ml ha-1) and pendimethalin 38.7% EC (1750 ml ha-1). However, bulb yield produced through the treatment oxyfluorfen 20% DF at 3000 g ha-1 was at par with other doses of oxyfluorfen 20% DF at 2000, 1000 and 750 g ha-1. Among herbicidal treatments the weed control efficiency was highest in oxyfluorfen 20% DF at 3000 g ha-1 than the rest of the treatments. Highest B...
A field experiment was conducted during the winter seasons of 2000–2001 and 2001–2002, to study t... more A field experiment was conducted during the winter seasons of 2000–2001 and 2001–2002, to study the effect of levels and mode of phosphorus, and biofertilizers [vesicular arbuscular mycorrhiza (VAM) and phosphate-solubilizing bacteria (PSB)] on yield attributes and yield of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L). Inoculation of biofertilizers significantly increased yield attributes of pods/plant and seeds/plant and yield of chickpea. Among biofertilizers, dual inoculation of PSB+VAM markedly enhanced these yield attributes and yield compared with PSB or VAM alone. Application of phosphorus from 0 to 60 kg P2O5/ha resulted in linear increase in yield attributes and yield. Aqua placement of phosphorus significantly increased grain yield in first year only.
Water is the most valuable natural resource for agriculture. Appropriate time for using of irriga... more Water is the most valuable natural resource for agriculture. Appropriate time for using of irrigation water and the balanced use of NPK with zinc to enhance effective crop productivity and quality of sweet corn at commercial level due to increase demand. In this regard, a field experiment was carried out during the rainy (kharif) seasons of 2016–17 and 2017–18 at the instructional/research farm of MGM college of Agricultural Biotechnology, Aurangabad, Maharashtra to evaluate the growth, quality and yield performance of sweet corn green fodder (cv. Sugar-75) under different irrigation scheduling and nutrient management practices. The treatments comprised of four irrigation scheduling viz., I1: Two irrigations at knee height and tasseling stage, I2: three irrigations at knee height, tasseling and early dough stage, I3: Four irrigations at knee height, tasseling, silking and early dough stage in main plot. The sub-plots comprised of three fertility levels viz., NPK1: 120:60:60 kg NPK/h...
A field experiment was conducted to study the response of microbes and bioregulators on yield gro... more A field experiment was conducted to study the response of microbes and bioregulators on yield growth and productivity of chickpea ( Cicer arietinum L.) under rainfed condition during 2010-11 and 2011-2012 on sandy loam soils with factorial randomized block design consisting of four levels of biofertilizers inoculation viz., no inoculation, phosphate solubilizing bacteria (PSB), vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizae (VAM) a nd PSB+VAM with two bio-regulators viz., homo-brassinolide @ 1 ppm and gibberelic acid @ 1000 ppm at pre-flowering and pod-filling stage. Result showed that the y ield attributes like number of grains plant -1 and test weight were highest in treatment receivi ng homo -brassinolide and dual inoculation of PSB+VAM. Grain yield was highest (2139 and 2211 kg ha -1 ) in treatment receiving PSB+VAM application over no inoculation (957 and 1072 kg ha -1 ). The grain yield was highest (1705 and 1797 kg ha -1 ) in treatment receiving homo-brassnolide and lowest grain yield (148...
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