Herbicide effect on Soil Microbial Biomass and Productivity in Tropics

ISBN-13: 9786200241795 / Angielski

Pratibha Singh; Ajeet K. Srivastav

Opis

The work highlights the effect of herbicide both singly and in combination with soil amendments of varying resource quality on soil fertility indices, inorganic N dynamics and total biological productivity in a tropical dryland agroecosystem. The crop sequence taken in this study was rice-barley-summer fallow during two consecutive annual cycles. The soil fertility indices were determined in terms of soil microbial biomass C and N. Inorganic N dynamics was assessed via estimating the soil available nutrients as ammonium N and nitrate N. The sum of both forms of N represent the inorganic N available in soil at a time. Rate of N mineralization was estimated by buried bag technique following the method of Eno. N uptake by plants was estimated by Kjeldahl method. Total biological productivity was calculated by summation of crop and weed productivity during the crop cycles and annually. All estimations were done on dry weight basis and statistically analyzed via SPSS tool. The present investigation emphasized that the negative effect of herbicides were masked when applied in combination with soil amendments of high resource quality.

O autorze

Singh, Pratibha
Dr. Pratibha Singh is working as DST- Women Scientist under Kiran division in the Department of Botany, University of Allahabad, India. Her expertise falls under the domain of sustainable agriculture as well as side effect of abiotic stresses present in environment on soil and plants. Srivastav, Ajeet K.
Ajeet K Srivastav is Assistant Manager- R&D and Production (Product Division) at Aryan Essentials Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi, India.