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Hafiz Muhammad Rashad Javeed
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Food waste: causes and economic losses estimation at household level in Pakistan
Food waste is one of the major sustainability issues that need to be addressed due to its negative impacts on the economy, environment, and food security. To develop food waste reduction policies on regional a...
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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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Coupling biochar with microbial inoculants improves maize growth and nutrients acquisition under phosphorous-limited soil
Coupling of biochar along with microbial inoculants could increase the phosphorus (P) availability and efficiency under the P-deficient environment. However, the effects of biochar and microbes on soil P reten...
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Open AccessEvaluating the efficiency of coarser to finer resolution multispectral satellites in map** paddy rice fields using GEE implementation
Timely and accurate estimation of rice-growing areas and forecasting of production can provide crucial information for governments, planners, and decision-makers in formulating policies. While there exists stu...
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Open AccessSilicon Seed Priming Combined with Foliar Spray of Sulfur Regulates Photosynthetic and Antioxidant Systems to Confer Drought Tolerance in Maize (Zea mays L.)
The present study evaluated the effect of silicon (Si) seed priming and sulfur (S) foliar spray on drought tolerance of two contrasting maize hybrids viz. drought tolerant Hi-Corn 11 and susceptible P-1574. Th...
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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...
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Open AccessPhysiological insights into sulfate and selenium interaction to improve drought tolerance in mung bean
The present study involved two pot experiments to investigate the response of mung bean to the individual or combined SO42− and selenate application under drought stress. A marked increment in biomass and NPK acc...
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Cadmium Partitioning, Physiological and Oxidative Stress Responses in Marigold (Calendula calypso) Grown on Contaminated Soil: Implications for Phytoremediation
Marigold (Calendula calypso) is a multipurpose ornamental plant, but its cadmium (Cd) tolerance and phytoremediation potential is unknown. The proposed study was carried out to unravel Cd partitioning, physiologi...
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Assessment of flood-induced changes in soil heavy metal and nutrient status in Rajanpur, Pakistan
Flood events around the globe have severely impaired the soil functioning resulting in compromised food security in several parts of the world. The current study was aimed to explore the impacts of floods on s...
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Maximizing maize quality, productivity and profitability through a combined use of compost and nitrogen fertilizer in a semi-arid environment in Pakistan
In Pakistan, low crop yields are a common problem of sandy-loam arid and semi-arid agroecosystems. Poor nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) and widespread soil nitrogen (N) deficiency resulting from higher N losses...
