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Liquid Biofertilizer: A Potential Tool Towards Sustainable Agriculture
During the green revolution, India became self-dependent for food production. The major outbreak of green revolution is deterioration of soil quality due to excessive use of agrochemicals to maximize crop yiel...
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Revisiting the plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria: lessons from the past and objectives for the future
Plant beneficial rhizobacteria (PBR) is a group of naturally occurring rhizospheric microbes that enhance nutrient availability and induce biotic and abiotic stress tolerance through a wide array of mechanisms...
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Evaluation of potassium solubilizing rhizobacteria (KSR): enhancing K-bioavailability and optimizing K-fertilization of maize plants under Indo-Gangetic Plains of India
Imbalanced potassium (K) fertilization in agricultural fields has led to considerable negative impacts and remains to be the foremost challenge for maize production in India-Gangetic region. Plant growth-promo...
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Importance of Soil Microbes in Nutrient Use Efficiency and Sustainable Food Production
Microorganisms that sustain the fertility of soils, resulting in improved plant nutrition, have continued to magnetize attention because of the increasing cost of agricultural inputs and some of their negative...
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The Indian Himalayan Ecosystem as Source for Survival
The Indian Himalayan Region (IHR) covers ~95 districts of the Indian union, which starts from the foothills in the south (Siwalik); the region extends to the Tibetan Pla...
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Can Bacillus Species Enhance Nutrient Availability in Agricultural Soils?
One major challenge for the twenty-first century will be the production of sufficient food for the global human population. The negative impacts on soil–plant–microbes–environmental sustainability due to injud...
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Potassium-Solubilizing Microorganism in Evergreen Agriculture: An Overview
Increasing cost of the fertilizers with lesser nutrient use efficiency necessitates alternate means to fertilizers. Soil is a storehouse of nutrients and energy for living organisms under the soil-plant-microo...
