National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
India is the largest cotton producing country, covers an area of approximately 36 % area representing about 11.3 million hectares under cotton. It also consumes considerable amount of herbicides and pesticides which are biologically active compounds which may lead to the significant changes in the soil microorganisms. Hence, in this study the herbicides viz., pyrithiobac, pendimethalin and pyrithiobac + quizalofop are sprayed as pre-emergence herbicides and the soil samples were collected at squaring, flowering, boll formation and at harvesting stage. The effects of these chemicals were studied on soil enzymes and microbial populations in soil. The study on the soil enzymes and soil microbial population in the rhizosphere of non Bt cotton and Bt cotton revealed that the microbial population were least effected by pendimethalin followed by pyrithiobac and least activity was seen in pyrithiobac + quizalofop.
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