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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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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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Bio-stimulants: An Approach Towards the Sustainable Vegetable Production
In the context of changing climatic scenario, depletion of natural resources and increasing hunger and malnutrition, it is necessary to ensure sustainable agricultural production and resource utilization. Bio-...
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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 ...
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Plant Beneficial Rhizospheric Microbes (PBRMs): Prospects for Increasing Productivity and Sustaining the Resilience of Soil Fertility
The efficient microorganisms in the vicinity of plant roots that exert positive effects on plant growth are known as plant beneficial rhizospheric microbes (PBRMs). One of the salient features for the effectiv...
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Potassium as an Important Plant Nutrient in Sustainable Agriculture: A State of the Art
The current scenario of potassium (K) depletion in soil is slowly increasing due to K fixation or the unavailable form of K in soil. Presently, farmers are faced with a problem of higher price of K fertilizer ...
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Can Potassium-Solubilising Bacteria Mitigate the Potassium Problems in India?
The nutrients are one of the basic inputs for achieving increased crop productivity, and potassium is one of them. In a recently published nutrient budget, it has been shown that potassium became unbalanced th...
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Towards the Soil Sustainability and Potassium-Solubilizing Microorganisms
Potassium (K) is needed in adequate quantities for a crop to achieve its maximum yield. The function of potassium in plant growth has not been clearly defined but it is associated with movement of water, nutri...
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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...
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The Molecular Mechanisms of KSMs for Enhancement of Crop Production Under Organic Farming
The continuous use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides for the enhancement of crop yield and instant action of pest control causes harmful and hazardous effect on the environment due to the accumulation of ...