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Global Scenario of Millets Cultivation
Millets are staple food in the develo** world, especially in the drylands of Africa and Asia. Most of the millets are indigenous to Africa and later domesticated to other parts of the world. Globally, millet...
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Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria: Mechanisms and Alleviation of Cold Stress in Plants
Microorganisms have a variety of evolutionary adaptations and physiological acclimation mechanisms that allow them to survive and remain active to face environmental stress. Among the mechanisms identified in ...
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Psychrotolerant Microbes: Characterization, Conservation, Strain Improvements, Mass Production, and Commercialization
Exploring cold habitats offers untapped sites for screening and harnessing potential/novel psychrotrophic microbes bestowed with the characteristic to grow near 0 °C and optima lying in mesophilic range. These...
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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...
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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...
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Towards Plant-Beneficiary Rhizobacteria and Agricultural Sustainability
The increasing demand for crop production, given worldwide increases in the human population, puts pressure on moving natural resources towards sustainable development. This creates a big challenge for the upc...
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Phylogeny and Genetic Divergence of Indian Himalayan Population of Anomala dimidiata (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) Inferred from Mitochondrial DNA Sequences
Anomala dimidiata, a key white grub species associated with substantial crop losses in Indian Himalayan region, belong to one of the largest genera under scarab tribe, Anomalini. This pap...
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Fertilization and Crop Residue Addition Impacts on Yield Sustainability Under a Rainfed Maize–Wheat System in the Himalayas
A 9-year old experiment was conducted at Almora, India to study the effects of mineral sources of nutrients in different combinations with or without crop residue or farmyard manure (FYM) addition on crop prod...
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Impact of dehulling and germination on nutrients, antinutrients, and antioxidant properties in horsegram
The changes in chemical composition, antioxidant activity and minerals content of horse gram seed after dehulling and germination of 12 advance lines were investigated. Dehulled samples had a higher protein co...
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Energy-use efficiency and economic analysis of vegetable crop** sequences under greenhouse condition
Under off-seasonality, high-value vegetable cultivation in the greenhouse is more profitable and gaining more acceptances day by day. This study aims to analyze the energy requirement and energy input–output r...
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Coinoculation of Bacillus thuringeinsis-KR1 with Rhizobium leguminosarum enhances plant growth and nodulation of pea (Pisum sativum L.) and lentil (Lens culinaris L.)
Nodulation and the subsequent nitrogen fixation are important factors that determine the productivity of legumes. The beneficial effects of nodulation can be enhanced when rhizobial inoculation is combined wit...
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Open AccessCutting Management of Dual Purpose Wheat Cultivars: A New Approach for Increasing Fodder Availability
North West Himalaya Region of India faces serious shortage of green fodder up to 60 percent, particularly in winter months of November to March. Possibility of augmenting green fodder availability from cultiva...
