Volume 62 Number 3

Table of Contents

Research Papers

Investigation into deep tillage of soil using multiple-tine shares
Winston O'N. Harvey
Effect of different tillage methods on fuel consumption and yield of maize
F.A. Gumbs, D. Summers
Pepper veinal mottle virus infection, host reaction, yield and aphid transmission in pepper plants
G.I. Atiri, H.W. Dele
Effects of plant population and time to plucking on the production and profitability of tea in Australia
F.R. Hobman
Effect of storage time at low temperature on the development of black heart in pineapples
Ron B.H. Wills, Abdullah Hassan, Kevin J. Scott
Yield and nutrient uptake of Bigalta limpograss with liquid and solid N-P-K fertilizers
Galen D. Monso, Von D. Jolley, Laren R. Robison, Sheldon D. Nelson
Effects of two land clearing methods on the physical properties of an Oxisol in the Brazilian Amazon
Antonio Carlos C.P. Dias, Stephen Nortcliff
Split applications of nitrogen for ramie under subtropical conditions
Apurba Sarkar, Gitasree Sarkar
Evaluation of groundnuts (Arachis hypogaea L.) for the wet tropical coast of Queensland, Australia
F.R. Hobman
Leaf photosynthesis and yield potential in green gram (Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek) cultivars
P.S. Srinivasan, R. Chandrababu, N. Natarajaratnam, S.R. Sree Rangaswamy
The effect of time of planting on yield of six varieties of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.) in the southern coastal lowlands of Papua New Guinea
Graham A. King
Seed production of Urena lobata in Sierra Leone: effect of harvest date on yield
P.J.C. Harris
Production and decomposition of Sesbania cannabina (Retz.) Pers. in relation to its effect on the yield of wetland rice
K.K.R. Bhardwaj, S.P. Dev
Diversity pattern elucidating choice of parents for hybridization in varieties of groundnut, Arachis hypogaea L.
M.M.K. Durga Prasad, V. Arunachalam, A. Bandyopadhyay
Insect pollination of tea (Camellia sinensis L.) in Sri Lanka
M.R.T Wickramaratne, S.I. Vitarana
A comparison of conventional tillage and no-tillage for cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.) production
Leslie A. Simpson, Frank A. Gumbs
Yield and growth performance of four plantain (Musa AAB group) cultivars in the Windward Islands
Maddineni M. Rao, Joseph E. Edmunds

Book Review

BOOK REVIEW By A.L. Donawa - Technological handbook on symbiotic nitrogen fixation
FAO
BOOK REVIEW By F. Elango - Coffee rust in the Americas
Robert H. Fulton
BOOK REVIEW By P.I. Gomes - Higher-yielding human systems for agriculture
William Foote Whyte, Damon Boynton
BOOK REVIEW By H.E. Dregne - Introduction to Tropical Soil Science
S.O. Olaitan, G. Lombin
BOOK REVIEW By L.D. Wickham - Management and evaluation of intercropping systems with cassava
Dietrich Leihner
BOOK REVIEW By Peter A. Huxley - The Ecology of tropical food crops
M.J.T. Norman, C.J. Pearson, P.G.E. Searle
BOOK REVIEW By Peter A. Huxley - The physiology of tropical field crops
P.R. Goldsworthy, N.M. Fisher