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Chapter and Conference Paper
Characterization of Nanocrystalline ZnS Thin Film on p–Si by Chemical Bath Deposition Method
The nanocrystalline thin film of zinc sulfide (ZnS) was fabricated using the potentially effective chemical bath deposition method on silicon p-type substrates. Zinc chloride (ZnCl2) and thiourea (CH4N2S) were us...
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Book and Reference Work
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Conservation agricultural practices for minimizing ammonia volatilization and maximizing wheat productivity
A large amount of ammonia volatilization from the agricultural system causes environmental problems and increases production costs. Conservation agriculture has emerged as an alternate and sustainable crop pro...
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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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Nutritional Composition of Stone Fruits
Stone fruits are emerging in the market in response to increased consumer desire for health-promoting foods. These fruits have an important role in mitigating nutritionally related diseases because of their hi...
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The potential of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in C cycling: a review
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) contribute predominantly to soil organic matter by creating a sink demand for plant C and distributing to below-ground hyphal biomass. The extra-radical hyphae along with glo...
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Electrophysiological Study in Acute Spinal Cord Injury Patients: Its Correlation to Neurological Deficit and Subsequent Recovery Assessment by ASIA Score
To investigate the relationship between neurological deficit and subsequent recovery as assessed by ASIA score and findings of electrodiagnostic study in acute spinal cord injury (SCI) patients.
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Endophytic bacteria promote growth of the medicinal legume Clitoria ternatea L. by chemotactic activity
Part of the native root nodule endophytic microflora referring to members of the genera Proteobacteria and Sphingobacteria were used to test their bioefficacy as seed biopriming. These were quantified for their p...
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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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Agriculture, dairy and fishery farming practices and greenhouse gas emission footprint: a strategic appraisal for mitigation
Rising global population would force farmers to amplify food production substantially in upcoming 3–4 decades. The easiest way to increase grain production is through expanding crop** area by clearing uncult...
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Post-harvest processing and valorization of Kinnow mandarin (Citrus reticulate L.): A review
Kinnow is a prevalent fruit crop of the mandarin group and belongs to the Rutaceae family. It is nutritionally rich in vitamin C, vitamin B, β-carotene, calcium, phosphorous and other health beneficing compoun...
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Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi: Abundance, Interaction with Plants and Potential Biological Applications
Beneficial microbes associated with plant roots play an important role to achieve higher agriculture production for burgeoning population in sustainable way. Among various microbes, arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM)...
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Arbuscular mycorrhiza: a viable strategy for soil nutrient loss reduction
Arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi’s (AMF) role in plant nutrition and stress management is well known, but very few researches and studies have been conducted so far on the fungal ability to reduce different nutrien...
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Open AccessNullifying phosphatidic acid effect and controlling phospholipase D associated browning in litchi pericarp through combinatorial application of hexanal and inositol
The role of phospholipid modification initiated by phospholipase D (PLD) in enzymatic browning has been revoked through this study. Various alcohols and aldehydes were tried to read out their PLD controlling b...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Modeling & Simulation of Thermal Evaporated CdTe Thin Film
The paper represent the modeling of CdTe deposited thin film by thermal evaporation by computing the film thickness, mass transfer rate and heat flux using time dependent model with Backward Differentiation Fo...
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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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Role of Rhizobia for Sustainable Agriculture: Lab to Land
Rhizobia is symbiotic diazotrophic soil bacteria infecting the roots of leguminous plants to form root nodules to fix molecular atmospheric nitrogen (N2) with the aid of nitrogenase enzyme, turning it into a more...
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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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Rhizospheric Microbiomes: Biodiversity, Mechanisms of Plant Growth Promotion, and Biotechnological Applications for Sustainable Agriculture
Soil consists of diverse microscopic life forms such as actinomycetes, algae, bacteria, fungi, nematodes, and protozoans. But, the rhizospheric region is the most widely colonized regions of the soil due to th...
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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...
