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    Does PGPR and Mycorrhizae Enhance Nutrient Use Efficiency and Efficacy in Relation to Crop Productivity?

    With the increasing world’s population, higher demand for sustainable food production so as to meet the requirement. It has increased tremendously due to excessive use of agrochemicals. Since, the imbalanced a...

    Mahipal Choudhary, Vijay Singh Meena in Field Crops: Sustainable Management by PGPR (2019)

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    Role of Rhizobia for Sustainable Agriculture: Lab to Land

    Rhizobia is symbiotic diazotrophic soil bacteria infecting the roots of leguminous plants to form root nodules to fix molecular atmospheric nitrogen (N2) with the aid of nitrogenase enzyme, turning it into a more...

    Ashok Kumar, Vijay Singh Meena, Pratiti Roy in Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria for A… (2019)

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    Impact of Land Uses on Microbial Biomass C, N, and P and Microbial Populations in Indian Himalaya

    Changes in land use affect microbial biomass carbon (MBC), nitrogen (MBN), and phosphorus (MBP), and microbial populations, important parameters to sustain ecological systems. MBC, MBN, MBP, and microbial popu...

    R. P. Yadav, B. Gupta, J. K. Bisht in Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria for A… (2019)

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    Rhizospheric Microbiomes: Biodiversity, Mechanisms of Plant Growth Promotion, and Biotechnological Applications for Sustainable Agriculture

    Soil consists of diverse microscopic life forms such as actinomycetes, algae, bacteria, fungi, nematodes, and protozoans. But, the rhizospheric region is the most widely colonized regions of the soil due to th...

    Divjot Kour, Kusam Lata Rana, Neelam Yadav in Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria for A… (2019)

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    Importance of Soil Microbes in Nutrient Use Efficiency and Sustainable Food Production

    Microorganisms that sustain the fertility of soils, resulting in improved plant nutrition, have continued to magnetize attention because of the increasing cost of agricultural inputs and some of their negative...

    Sunita Kumari Meena, Vijay Singh Meena in Agriculturally Important Microbes for Sust… (2017)

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    Bio-stimulants: An Approach Towards the Sustainable Vegetable Production

    In the context of changing climatic scenario, depletion of natural resources and increasing hunger and malnutrition, it is necessary to ensure sustainable agricultural production and resource utilization. Bio-...

    Kumari Shubha, Anirban Mukherjee in Agriculturally Important Microbes for Sust… (2017)

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    Nutrient Solubilizing Microbes (NSMs): Its Role in Sustainable Crop Production

    Nowadays the land degradation, deteorating the soil health, is the major constraint, which led to the nutrient depletion and limited potential yield of crops toward the food security worldwide. To enhance the ...

    Narendra Kumawat, Rakesh Kumar, Sudhir Kumar in Agriculturally Important Microbes for Sust… (2017)

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    Plant Beneficial Rhizospheric Microbes (PBRMs): Prospects for Increasing Productivity and Sustaining the Resilience of Soil Fertility

    The efficient microorganisms in the vicinity of plant roots that exert positive effects on plant growth are known as plant beneficial rhizospheric microbes (PBRMs). One of the salient features for the effectiv...

    Abhijit Sarkar, Madhumonti Saha in Agriculturally Important Microbes for Sust… (2017)

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    Potassium as an Important Plant Nutrient in Sustainable Agriculture: A State of the Art

    The current scenario of potassium (K) depletion in soil is slowly increasing due to K fixation or the unavailable form of K in soil. Presently, farmers are faced with a problem of higher price of K fertilizer ...

    Durgesh Kumar Jaiswal, Jay Prakash Verma in Potassium Solubilizing Microorganisms for … (2016)

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    Can Potassium-Solubilising Bacteria Mitigate the Potassium Problems in India?

    The nutrients are one of the basic inputs for achieving increased crop productivity, and potassium is one of them. In a recently published nutrient budget, it has been shown that potassium became unbalanced th...

    Madhumonti Saha, Bihari Ram Maurya in Potassium Solubilizing Microorganisms for … (2016)

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    Towards the Soil Sustainability and Potassium-Solubilizing Microorganisms

    Potassium (K) is needed in adequate quantities for a crop to achieve its maximum yield. The function of potassium in plant growth has not been clearly defined but it is associated with movement of water, nutri...

    Indra Bahadur, Bihari Ram Maurya in Potassium Solubilizing Microorganisms for … (2016)

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    Potassium-Solubilizing Microorganism in Evergreen Agriculture: An Overview

    Increasing cost of the fertilizers with lesser nutrient use efficiency necessitates alternate means to fertilizers. Soil is a storehouse of nutrients and energy for living organisms under the soil-plant-microo...

    Vijay Singh Meena, Indra Bahadur in Potassium Solubilizing Microorganisms for … (2016)

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    The Molecular Mechanisms of KSMs for Enhancement of Crop Production Under Organic Farming

    The continuous use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides for the enhancement of crop yield and instant action of pest control causes harmful and hazardous effect on the environment due to the accumulation of ...

    Ashok Kumar, Jai Singh Patel, Indra Bahadur in Potassium Solubilizing Microorganisms for … (2016)