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Microbial nanotechnology for agriculture, food, and environmental sustainability: Current status and future perspective
The field of nanotechnology has the mysterious capacity to reform every subject it touches. Nanotechnology advancements have already altered a variety of scientific and industrial fields. Nanoparticles (NPs) w...
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Untapped indigenous PSB potential from forest ecosystem for enhancing soil enzyme activity and agronomic traits of different wheat genotypes
Phosphate solubilizing bacteria (PSB) are well known potential candidate for improving soil health and thus plant growth promotion. Impact of PSB isolated from forest ecosystem on wheat crop still remains a ma...
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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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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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Emerging Technologies for the Recovery of Microbial Bioactive Compounds
For agriculture, industry, and society as a whole, microbially derived bioactive compounds are extremely important. They are frequently used as active components in food additives, medicine, and agriculture. A...
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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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Microbial Symbiosis in Marine Ecosystem
Symbioses between eukaryotic hosts and microorganisms are significant at all scales, from the individual organism to the entire ecosystem, and they support the health of the planet’s most endangered marine eco...
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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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Advancement of Omics Approaches in Understanding the Mechanism of Salinity Tolerance in Legumes
Grain legume crops are important to meet global food security and crop rotation with legumes also enhance the soil fertility through symbiotic fixation of atmospheric nitrogen. Globally, legume crop production...
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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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Dissecting Structure and Function of Plant Rhizomicrobiome: A Genomic Approach
Rhizomicrobiome is the most diverse and highly dynamic environment primarily influenced by root exudates of the host plant. It is a hotspot region for total microbial activities that imparts a beneficial effec...
