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Durgesh Kumar Jaiswal
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Exploring Beneficial Microbes and Their Multifaceted Applications: An Overview
Modern agricultural practices have long relied on chemical inputs, including fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides. However, these inputs come at a cost to crop nutritional value and soil health. Overuse of ...
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Role of Microbes in Dye Degradation
Modern industrialization has high demand for dyes to impart better color to cosmetic, paper, textile and pharmaceutical industry. Dyes are of several kinds depending on the base of their chromophore groups, ch...
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Open AccessSustainable agriculture
Develo** sustainable agricultural practices is currently becoming an increasingly relevant challenge. As the worldwide population rises and climate change affects agriculture globally, new and sustainable ap...
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Biogenic factors explain soil carbon in paired urban and natural ecosystems worldwide
Urban greenspaces support multiple nature-based services, many of which depend on the amount of soil carbon (C). Yet, the environmental drivers of soil C and its sensitivity to warming are still poorly underst...
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Open AccessBiocontrol strategies: an eco-smart tool for integrated pest and diseases management
For the burgeoning global population, sustainable agriculture practices are crucial for accomplishing the zero-hunger goal. The agriculture sector is very concerned about the rise in insecticide resistance and...
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Potential Microbial Consortium Mitigates Drought Stress in Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) Plant by Up-regulating Stress-Responsive Genes and Improving Fruit Yield and Soil Properties
The present study is conducted for the growth and yield improvement of tomato plants under drought stress by inoculation of hexa plant growth-promoting microorganisms (PGPM). Hexa-PGPM consortium (Bacillus megate...
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Bio-fortification of minerals in crops: current scenario and future prospects for sustainable agriculture and human health
Minerals are the key factor determining human beings’ optimum growth and development. The deficiencies of minerals and vitamins hinder the human normal growth and development and economic status. In the 21st c...
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Overexpression of AtDREB1 and BcZAT12 genes confers drought tolerance by reducing oxidative stress in double transgenic tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.)
Double transgenic tomato developed by AtDREB1A and BcZAT12 genes pyramiding showed significant drought tolerance by reduc...
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Whitefly-Transmitted Plant Viruses and Their Management
Whiteflies (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Aleyrodidae) are major agricultural pests that cause economic damage worldwide. These pests commonly referred to a group of tiny, soft-bodied, sap-sucking winged insects ...
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Entomopathogenic Microbes for Sustainable Crop Protection: Future Perspectives
Food security for a growing world population is a challenging task under limited agriculture land and increasing incidences of pest infestation. In the pursuit of this challenging task, modern agriculture has ...
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Toxicity of Organophosphate Pesticide on Soil Microorganism: Risk Assessments Strategies
Synthetic organophosphate pesticide (Op) is used extensively in modern agriculture by farmers to enhance crop yield under a limited agriculture land resource as well as food for the increasing population world...
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Transgenic tomatoes for abiotic stress tolerance: status and way ahead
Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is one of the most important vegetable crops; its production, productivity and quality are adversely affected by abiotic stresses. Abiotic stresses such as drought, extreme temperatu...
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Microbe Induced Degradation of Pesticides in Agricultural Soils
The extensive use of pesticides has played hazard with living beings and the environment and also these chemicals persist and leach in environment for a long time because of more water solubility, tendency to ...
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Screening of bacterial strains for develo** effective pesticide-tolerant plant growth-promoting microbial consortia from rhizosphere soils of vegetable fields of eastern Uttar Pradesh, India
The current study was intended to isolate and characterize the plant growth-promoting properties and pesticide (chlorpyripfos) tolerance ability of microbial strains for sustainable vegetable productions. Pla...
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The Significance of Plant-Associated Microbial Rhizosphere for the Degradation of Xenobiotic Compounds
Currently, remediation of xenobiotic compounds (heavy metals and hydrocarbons, pesticides, persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the soil and water has become a major problem. Xenobiotic compounds in the soi...
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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 ...
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Pesticide relevance and their microbial degradation: a-state-of-art
The extensive use of pesticide causes imbalance in properties of soil, water and air environments due to having problem of natural degradation. Such chemicals create diverse environmental problem via biomagnif...
