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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...

    Ashok Kumar, Vijay Singh Meena, Pratiti Roy in Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria for A… (2019)

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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...

    R. P. Yadav, B. Gupta, J. K. Bisht in Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria for A… (2019)

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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...

    Divjot Kour, Kusam Lata Rana, Neelam Yadav in Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria for A… (2019)

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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...

    Sunita Kumari Meena, Vijay Singh Meena in Agriculturally Important Microbes for Sust… (2017)

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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-...

    Kumari Shubha, Anirban Mukherjee in Agriculturally Important Microbes for Sust… (2017)

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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 ...

    Narendra Kumawat, Rakesh Kumar, Sudhir Kumar in Agriculturally Important Microbes for Sust… (2017)

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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...

    Abhijit Sarkar, Madhumonti Saha in Agriculturally Important Microbes for Sust… (2017)