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Role of Soil Microbes to Assess Soil Health
Maintaining healthy soils are necessary for develo** healthy ecosystems and sustainable agricultural production. It is widely accepted that soil health is a very important management tool to correct unproduc...
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Reference Work Entry In depth
Type of Soil Pollutant and Their Degradation: Methods and Challenges
Soil pollution is everywhere and poses a serious threat to human and ecological health. Growing population pressure on natural resources beyond the recycling capacity of soil is creating soil pollution. Differ...
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Sustaining Productivity Through Integrated Use of Microbes in Agriculture
In intensive agriculture, integrated plant nutrient management takes care of both crop nutritional needs as well as soil fertility considerations leading to increased crop yields through judicious consumption ...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Type of Soil Pollutant and Their Degradation: Methods and Challenges
Soil pollution is everywhere and poses a serious threat to human and ecological health. Growing population pressure on natural resources beyond the recycling capacity of soil is creating soil pollution. Differ...
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Carbon and Nitrogen Mineralization Dynamics: A Perspective in Rice-Wheat Crop** System
Rice-wheat crop** system (RWCS), one of the prominent agricultural production systems, at an area of ~26 M ha is confined to the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGPs) in South Asia and China. Crop residues obtained fr...
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Silicon (Si)- and Zinc (Zn)-Solubilizing Microorganisms: Role in Sustainable Agriculture
Across the world today, loss of the health of the soil is a key constraint causing reduced soil productivity and fertility, and also influencing crop yield, all major threats to food security. Intensive use of...
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Conservation Agriculture: Perspectives on Soil and Environmental Management in Indo-Gangetic Plains of South Asia
Bread and rice basket of South Asia is feeding ~20% of the global population. The agricultural production system in South Asia is predominated by exhaustive cereal production system including rice, wheat, and ...
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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 ...
