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Plant Mycobiome Diversity, Interactions and Uses
Plant mycobiome represents a diverse array of plant-associated communities of endophytic and epiphytic fungi. These communities fundamentally affect...
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Unearthing the Modern Trends and Concepts of Rhizosphere Microbiome in Relation to Plant Productivity
The rhizosphere microbiome is crucial for plant growth and health, providing defense against plethora of surrounding potential pathogens, improving...
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Regulation of Plant Responses to Temperature Stress: A Key Factor in Food Security and for Mitigating Effects of Climate Change
Among the many threats to food security, extremes of temperature, and unpredictable changes in temperature such as unseasonal frost or snowfall...
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Biotechnologies to Improve Sugarcane Productivity in a Climate Change Scenario
Sugarcane plays a central role in sugar and ethanol production. Ethanol from sugarcane is considered sustainable since lignocellulosic residues can...
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Harnessing Rhizosphere Microbiomes in Crop Productivity
Chemical fertilizers and pesticides in present-day agriculture cause real damage to our environment and are a potential hazard to human health too....
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Harnessing of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in agroecosystem sustainability
BackgroundSoil microorganisms including rhizobacteria and fungi play a key role in soil health, biodiversity and productivity of natural and managed...
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Plant System Biology
Modern systems biology emerged owing to the necessity to translate the massive amounts of data produced by genome-scale investigations into...
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Root Plasticity for Adaptation and Productivity of Crop Plants Grown Under Various Water Stresses
Roots play significant functional roles in adaptation and productivity of crop plants especially when grown under various water stresses. The ability...
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Soil Water and Plant Growth
Water is the key input in agriculture. Plants require water continuously from germination until maturity and that too in huge amounts. All the growth...
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Chlorophyll fluorometry in evaluating photosynthetic performance: key limitations, possibilities, perspectives and alternatives
Non-destructive methods for the assessment of photosynthetic parameters of plants are widely applied to evaluate rapidly the photosynthetic...
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Mathematical Modeling of Photosynthesis and Analysis of Plant Productivity
AbstractPhotosynthesis is the basis of the plant production process, which makes it extremely relevant to develop methods for evaluating and...
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Mulberry Breeding for Higher Leaf Productivity
Mulberry (Morus spp. L.) is the sole food plant for mulberry silkworm (Bombyx mori L). It is a perennial, heterozygous, fast growing and hardy plant...
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Plant-Mediated Interactions Between Microbes and Insects in the Management of Plant Pests
Plant pests represent an increasing threat to the global food security. Although pesticides are conventionally controlled, their considerable damages...
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Do gender disparities in socioeconomic status affect Teff productivity? A comparative analysis in Ethiopia
Ethiopia is one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies, and the recent political and economic reforms recognize the importance of empowering women and...
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Vegetation of Cryoarid Soils: Productivity and Species, Elemental, and Biochemical Compositions
AbstractThe extreme weather conditions of Transbaikalia cause phytostress in plants. This results in the formation of protective systems and...
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Beyond 'push–pull': unraveling the ecological pleiotropy of plant volatile organic compounds for sustainable crop pest management
Plants produce an array of different volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that have diverse eco-physiological functions and agricultural applications....
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Plant Molecular Farming for the Bulk Production of Industrial Enzymes
Nearly all industries are looking for biocatalysts for value-added compound production. The key benefits of using biocatalytic enzymes in processing...
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Using Plant Functional Traits to Inform Wetland Restoration
Plant functional trait frameworks have been increasingly used to understand plant community dynamics, linkages between plants and ecosystem function,...
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Humic substances and plant abiotic stress adaptation
BackgroundTraditional agriculture is on the front line of climate change, being most impacted by the increase in the intensity and frequency of...
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A general stochastic model shows that plant-soil feedbacks can buffer plant species from extinction risks in unpredictable environments
Theory and experiments have demonstrated that negative plant-soil feedback (PSF) promotes coexistence between plant species. Plants and soils,...
