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Open AccessSimultaneous determination of bromoxynil and MCPA in commercial samples and raw materials using reversed phase high performance liquid chromatography
This study encompasses a quick, efficient, repeatable and reproducible analytical method for simultaneous determination of Bromoxynil (3, 5-Dibromo-4-hydroxybenzonitrile) and MCPA (2-methyl-4-chlorophenoxyacet...
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Integrated OMIC Approaches for Bioenergy Crops
This book chapter discusses the application of integrated OMIC approaches for bioenergy crops. OMIC technologies such as genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics have been increasingly used to i...
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Potential, Mechanism and Molecular Insight of Melatonin in Phyto-Remediation
Melatonin act as a plant growth stimulator under plant stress condition. Various factors induce stress on plants like heavy metals accumulation, salt uptake, and environmental factors. Regarding environmental ...
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Modern Aspects of Phytoremediation of Arsenic-Contaminated Soils
Pollution from potentially toxic metalloids such as arsenic is becoming a major concern for living organisms all over the world. Arsenic (As) is a non-essential metalloid in plants that can build up to toxic l...
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Strategies to Evaluate Nanoremediation Efficiency
Water, soil, and air contamination pose serious dangers to both the environment and human health, on a global scale. There are several developed remediation strategies, including traditional ones like heat tre...
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Advances in the Development and Applications of Clay-Based Composites
Natural are known for their unique characteristics such as higher surface area and cation exchange capacity, layered structure, and porosity. However, due to negative surface charges and crystal structure, t...
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Role of Nanotechnology in Phenolic Compound Dynamics
Nanotechnology has become a promising technique in almost every field of today’s life. Nanoparticles, which range in size from 1 to 100 μm, are usually prepared by a conventional chemical and physical process ...
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Biofertilizers: A Viable Tool for Future Organic Agriculture
Organic farming acts as alternative nutrient management practice to maintain soil health, environment, and sustainable crop productivity. The major barriers in adoption of organic farming were economic and mar...
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Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) as Biofertilizers and Biopesticides
Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) play an important role in sustainable agriculture through the improvement of plant growth via different processes like biological nitrogen fixation, phosphate solubi...
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Chemical Fertilizers, Formulation, and Their Influence on Soil Health
The world population continues to increase at an alarming rate. To meet the increasing demand for food, intensive cultivation using more cropland areas and increased use of fertilizers had been practiced. Acco...
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Genomics of Mustard Crops
Mustard, known as Brassica, is a significant crop utilized mainly for its oil contents. Owing to its extensive use, it has been cultivated and studied since many past years. Scientists have been thriving to impro...
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Historical Background, Development and Preparation of Nanomaterials
Nanotechnology has developed as a field of science with broad applications in different fields. The reduction of particle size and tuning the particle morphology of materials from micro- to nanosize leads to t...
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Antidiabetic Property of Aloe vera (Aloe barbadensis) and Bitter Melon (Momordica charantia)
The pharmacological treatments of diabetes are costly and therefore necessitate the mutual usage of alternate medications. Aloe barbadensis (Aloe vera) is a medicinal plant which has got varied beneficial applica...
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Understanding the Role of Bacterial Fertilizers in Stressed Agriculture: Actions, Mechanisms and Future Prospects
Environmental stresses are among the major problems which are decreasing crop productivity at an alarming rate. Several biotic and abiotic stresses such as salt stress, water shortage, high temperature, waterl...
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Values of Composting
Decomposition of organic matter and conversion into a stable form during a thermophilic process generate a product known as “compost.” It is considered a viable tool for sustainable agriculture practice. The p...
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Chemical fractionation and risk assessment of trace elements in sewage sludge generated from various states of Pakistan
In the develo** world, rapid urbanization and industrialization produces an enormous volume of wastes daily. This study was aimed to explore the potential and risks associated with sewage sludge through the ...
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Open AccessPartial root-zone drying (PRD), its effects and agricultural significance: a review
Water resources are very important to agricultural crop production due to increasing demand for food, feed, and fiber. There is a growing requirement for more use of our natural resources of land, soil, and wa...
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Bio-fertilizers: Eco-Friendly Approach for Plant and Soil Environment
The bio-fertilizers have attained a huge attention in the crop lands due to improving harvest yields, decreasing the chemical fertilizers cost, and being less harmful to the environment. Bio-fertilizers could ...
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Biofortification Technologies Used in Agriculture in Relation to Micronutrients
Micronutrient malnutrition is a serious public health problem in many develo** countries. Different interventions are currently used, but their overall coverage is relatively limited. Biofortification—that i...
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Strategic use of water: a step toward cadmium-free basmati rice (Oryza sativa L.)
Sewage contains several trace elements of environmental concern, and cadmium (Cd) is one of the most mobile elements in soil–plant system that can pose drastic effects on plants and human health due to its lon...
