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Mitigation of Climate Change Through Carbon Farming
There is still a lot of disagreement concerning the nature, substance, and, most critically, effect of the policy initiatives that are needed to decrease greenhouse gas emissions. Carbon farming is a viable te...
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Food Security Issues in Changing Climate
The security of food is extremely crucial for humans all around the world. The worldwide climate is continuously changing, and the major cause of the temperature rise is industrialization. Moreover, it is also...
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Biochar and Arbuscular Mycorrhizae Fungi to Improve Soil Organic Matter and Fertility
Increasing feeding mouths are the vital element of increased food production and demand. The required resources (i.e. land, water and nutrients) to produce food are limited and decreasing with the passage of t...
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Management of Crops in Water-Logged Soil
Excessively water saturates the soil pores and creates waterlogging when there is indeed no or very thin coating of water present on the soil. Waterlogging typically causes changes in gene expression that affe...
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Modern Breeding Approaches for Climate Change
Climate-smart agriculture is the emerging and sustainable option to mitigate the adverse effects of climate change (on crop adaptability) before it significantly influences global crop production. Crop develop...
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Use of Biochar for Biological Carbon Sequestration
Biochar (BC) is produced by pyrolysis process, i.e., when crop residues, biomass, grass, trees, or other plants are combusted at temperatures of 300–600 °C under anaerobic conditions; it enables the carbon in ...
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Biochar Application to Soil for Mitigation of Nutrients Stress in Plants
Nutrient stress is a worldwide problem which may alter the biochemical, physiological, and molecular processes in all kinds of plants. In addition, such nutritional stress is the major cause of malnutrition i...
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Rice Physiology Under Changing Climate
There is an inseparable relation between agriculture and climate variables. The role of changing climate on food security has been at forefront of study and policy agendas in recent times. Agriculture and clim...
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World Nations Priorities on Climate Change and Food Security
The present food system (including production, transportation, processing, packaging, storing, retail, and consumption) is a source of nutrition for the great majority of the world population in addition to su...
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Managing Greenhouse Gas Emission
Rice (Oryza sativa) production systems have faced the two opposing challenges all over the world: the need to increase the production to nourish the world’s increasing population and reducing the emissions of gre...