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Item Alleviation of Drought Stress in Tomato (Solanum lycopersicon) Using Organic Mulch(Nigerian Institution of Professional Engineers and Scientist, 2022-05-29) Isiaka, K; Oluwasogo, I.I; Yusuf, S.Y; Lawal, M.T; Abdulkareem, K.A; Olayinka, B.UDespite the importance of tomato in human nutrition, occurrence of drought stress constitutes a major bane to its bountiful production. Therefore, this experiment was conducted to determine the effectiveness of organic mulch in improving growth, yield and quality of water stressed tomato. The experiment was laid out in randomized complete block design (RCBD) with three replications. The six treatments used in the experiment were normal irrigation with zero mulch, drought stress with zero mulch and drought stress with mulch at the rates of 10tons/ha, 15tons/ha, 20tons/ha and 25tons/ha. The organic mulch material used was maize husk and the tomato variety tested was Platinum 107 F1. Water deficit treatment was imposed at flowering stage (five weeks after transplanting (5WAT)) by applying 50% field capacity as irrigation water. Data were collected on plant height, number of leaves per plant, number of branches per plant, number of flowers per plant and mass of fruit yield per plant. Furthermore, leaf proximate compositions (crude fat, crude protein, crude fibre, ash content and dry matter) and leaf chlorophyll content were determined. All the data collected were subjected to analysis of variance (ANOVA) and significant means were separated using least significant difference (LSD) at 5% probability level. Results from this research work showed that stressed plants without mulch application had a drastic reduction in all the measured parameters. The plants subjected to drought and treated with 20tons/ha mulch showed higher plant height, number of branches and yield as well as chlorophyll, fiber and ash content compared to the plants treated with 10tons/ha, 15tons/ha and 25t/ha mulch. It is, therefore, concluded that 20tons/ha mulch be used for alleviating drought stress condition in Platinum 107 F1 tomato variety in the study area when all the conditions in this research are maintained.Item INFLUENCE OF SEED PRIMING ON YIELD, MORPHOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF WATER-DEFICIT STRESSED LOWLAND RICE(West University of Timisoara, Romania, 2021-08-28) Kareem, I; Ismail, M.R; Puteh, A.B; Kareem, S.A; Lawal, O.I; Adekola, O.F; Faseyi, A.F; Olaniyan, J.O; Yusuf, S.Y; Lawal, M.T; Abdulkareem, K.A; Olayinka, B.U; Abdulaziz, A.; Ahmed, O; Baba, H.S; Kuranga, H.A; Lawal, Q.O; Musa, A.I; Oyelade, H.YOne of the potential ways of increasing rice production to cater for ever increasing population of Malaysia is to extend the production area of lowland rice through its production as upland rice. Therefore, this research was conducted to determine the effects of seed priming in alleviating water deficit stress in lowland rice produced as upland rice. The treatments used were 100mM calcium chloride dihydrate for duration of 48hours and temperature of 25oC, 40% w/v polyethylene glycol (PEG) 6000 for a duration of 48hours and temperature of 25oC, 100ppm kinetin for a duration of 24hours and temperature of 4oC, 200ppm methyl jasmonate for a duration of 24hours and temperature of 4oC, stressed control (unprimed seeds) and the unstressed control (unprimed seeds with adequate irrigation). The experiment was laid out in randomized complete block design (RCBD) with three replications. Data were collected on classical growth parameters, germination pattern, gas exchange characteristics, yield and yield components. It was found that priming MR219 rice with PEG could enable the variety to be produced as upland rice with little yield reduction because PEG priming was the best in individual seed mass, final yield, harvest index and water use efficiency. It is, therefore, concluded that 48hours of priming with 40%w/v polyethylene glycol at 25oC be used for MR219 rice seeds whenever MR219 rice variety is to be cultivated as upland rice.Item Stressful Effect of Different Rates of Nitrogen Starter Dose on Nodulation, Growth, Proximate Composition and Yield of Soybean (Glycine max)(Nigerian Institution of Professional Engineers and Scientist, 2022-05-29) Isiaka, K; Lawal, Q.O; Olayinka, B.U; Abdulkareem, K.A; Lawal, M.T; Yusuf, S.YDespite the fact that high nitrogen content in the soil can impede nodule formation in soybean, the need for addition of nitrogen fertilizer as a starter dose to supplement the actions of N-fixing bacteria is a necessity because it restores the drained nutrient and results in high yield. To evaluate the stressful effects of different rates of N fertilizer starter dose, a pot experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of N fertilizer starter dose on nodulation, growth, proximate composition and yield of soybean. Urea was applied at the rates 0, 50, 75 and 100 kgN/ha at planting using side placement method. The experiment was laid out in Randomized Completely Block Design (RCBD) with three replications. Growth assessment was through taking data on plant height, number of branches, number of leaves and internode length. Also, data on nodulation, yield and yield attributes were taken. Proximate compositions (crude protein, crude fat, crude fiber and ash content) were also determined. It was found that 100 kgN/ha of N-fertilizer improved the total nodulation by 33.95% compared with the control. The yield was greatest with application of 100 kgN/ha compared with other application rates because there was 20% yield increase compared with the control. For the proximate composition, crude protein content was 7% above the control with application of 50 kgN/ha. Furthermore, crude fat content was 37% better than the control with the application of 100 kgN/ha. It was concluded that for profitable soybean production in the study area, the use N fertilizer like ureaat 50 kgN/ha as a starter dose is recommended because of its cheapness and high yield that resulted from its application to the crop. Finally, nitrogen starter dose up to 100kgN/ha did not constitute stress to production of soybean variety under test.