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Approaches to Degrading Polystyrene (PS) Using Diverse Microorganisms
Use of plastics in the modern world has significantly increased and its persistent nature in an environment is still a major area of concern. Polystyrene (PS) is a synthetic derivative of plastic which is comp...
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Influence of Microbial Inoculants on Soil Health
The escalating world population is directly affecting food production leading to a rapid fall of agriculture land resources which is posing a major commination to sustainable agriculture. The resident soil bac...
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Plant Growth-Promoting Psychrotrophic Microbes: Current Research and Future Challenges
Food production should be raised to keep up with the growing world population, yet not at the expense of the environment by reducing the use of agrochemicals. This key insight has encouraged the development of...
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Barnyard millet (Echinochloa spp.): a climate resilient multipurpose crop
Crop diversification can help to reduce the existing pressure on agriculture and to meet food requirements of the mushrooming population. Millets are a viable choice for sustainable agriculture and belong to u...
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Bioremediation: A Sustainable Way for E-waste Management
Electronic waste (E-waste) describes discarded electronic devices. E-waste at present days becomes a prime concern around the globe and poses a serious threat to community health wise on a large scale. Chemica...
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Bioremediation of E-waste Through Microbial Exopolysaccharides: A Perspective
The industrial revolution followed by technological development successively paved the way to a new era in human civilization. In no case, this revolution will decline, thus, making anthropogenic environmental...
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Heavy Metal Pollution in Water: Cause and Remediation Strategies
Heavy metals are naturally present in earth’s crust, and some of them are essential to living organisms for carrying out life processes. Due to their high persistence and nonbiodegradable nature, heavy metal a...
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Cold-Adapted Microorganisms: Survival Strategies and Biotechnological Significance
Thermal stress either cold or heat stress is one of the major factors that influence microorganisms, and to survive from these adverse conditions, microorganisms have to adapt different survival strategies. So...
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Microbial Fuel Cells for Wastewater Treatment
Disposal of untreated wastewater directly into the water is obnoxious to the environment and human health. Current methods commonly used to treat wastewater include activated sludge process and anaerobic treat...
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Contribution of zinc solubilizing bacterial isolates on enhanced zinc uptake and growth promotion of maize (Zea mays L.)
Zinc-solubilizing bacteria, namely Burkholderia cepacia and Acinetobacter baumannii (H1 and H3, respectively), able to grow in liquid basal medium supplemented with ZnO, Zn3 (PO4)2, and ZnSO4·7H2O (0.1%), showed ...
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Mechanism and application of Sesbania root-nodulating bacteria: an alternative for chemical fertilizers and sustainable development
Chemical fertilizers are used in large-scale throughout the globe to satisfy the food and feed requirement of the world. Demanding crop** with the enhanced application of chemical fertilizers, linked with a ...
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Stress Alleviation in Plants Using SAR and ISR: Current Views on Stress Signaling Network
Plants are armored with several defense mechanisms that are inducible in the presence of stress stimuli to protect them from pathogen attack, insect mediated herbivory or to increase systemic tolerance towards...
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Influence of nanosilicon dioxide along with bioinoculants on Zea mays and its rhizospheric soil
Application of nanocompounds along with plant growth promoting rhizobacteria is gaining attention to improve agriculture productivity. In the present study, attempts have been made to observe the impact of nan...
