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Plant diversity increases spatial stability of aboveground productivity in alpine grasslands
Plant diversity can significantly affect the grassland productivity and its stability. However, it remains unclear how plant diversity affects the...
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Plant interactions can lead to emergent relationships between plant community diversity, productivity and vulnerability to invasion
Understanding what makes a community vulnerable to invasion is integral to the successful management of invasive species. Our understanding of how...
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Implications of bacteria–bacteria interactions within the plant microbiota for plant health and productivity
Crop production currently relies on the widespread use of agrochemicals to ensure food security. This practice is considered unsustainable, yet has...
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Dilution of specialist pathogens drives productivity benefits from diversity in plant mixtures
Productivity benefits from diversity can arise when compatible pathogen hosts are buffered by unrelated neighbors, diluting pathogen impacts....
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Soil Physical Productivity and Plant Growth
Plant growth is a complex phenomenon impacted by a series of factors including soil properties, climatic conditions, plant genetics and management...
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Integrating multiple plant functional traits to predict ecosystem productivity
Quantifying and predicting variation in gross primary productivity (GPP) is important for accurate assessment of the ecosystem carbon budget under...
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Plant Microbiome for Plant Productivity and Sustainable Agriculture
This edited book deals with latest comprehensive information on conventional and high throughput techniques and technologies that are recently used...
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Plant Functional Traits for Improving Productivity
This book discusses how plant functional trait selection can help researchers to understand the plant-environment relationship, identify desirable...
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Plant spacing and pruning effect on yield productivity of jatropha
The study examined the effect of plant spacing on yield productivity and assessed yield after pruning for jatropha. The experimental design was...
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Effects of plant diversity on productivity strengthen over time due to trait-dependent shifts in species overyielding
Plant diversity effects on community productivity often increase over time. Whether the strengthening of diversity effects is caused by temporal...
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Application of algae for enhanced plant growth and food productivity
Ensuring our survival primarily hinges on nourishment, as it provides the energy essential for various metabolic functions within our bodies. In the...
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and belowground herbivores interact to determine plant productivity and performance of subsequently feeding conspecifics by changing plant metabolites
Insect herbivores and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) often occur simultaneously on a host plant, altering plant morphological and biochemical...
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Nano-elicitation and hydroponics: a synergism to enhance plant productivity and secondary metabolism
Main conclusionThis review has explored the importance of using a synergistic approach of nano-elicitation and hydroponics to improve plant growth...
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Fuzzy and Data Mining Methods for Enhancing Plant Productivity and Sustainability
The agriculture sector plays a pivotal role in addressing global food security challenges while also grappling with the imperative of sustainability....
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Potash State of the Soil and Crop Productivity When Applying Mineral Fertilizers and Plant Residues
AbstractIn microfield experiments conducted on gray forest soil, changes in the forms of potassium under the influence of mineral fertilizers and...
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Meta-analysis shows that plant mixtures increase soil phosphorus availability and plant productivity in diverse ecosystems
Soil phosphorus (P) availability is critical to plant productivity in many terrestrial ecosystems. How soil P availability responds to changes in...
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Evaluating Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria to Improve the Productivity of Forage Pearl Millet
India’s livestock industry is grappling with a shortage of green fodder, necessitating concerted efforts to boost organized production and ensure a...
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Global Warming and Sexual Plant Reproduction: Impact on Crop Productivity
In the last two decades, there has been an unprecedented increase in extreme climatic events which are closely related to the earth’s warming. The...
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Effects of disturbance on functional diversity-productivity relationships of aquatic plant communities depend on nutrients and life-forms
Numerous studies note the overwhelming influence of functional diversity on ecosystem functioning. It remains unclear how functional diversity...
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Number of simultaneously acting global change factors affects composition, diversity and productivity of grassland plant communities
Plant communities experience impacts of increasing numbers of global change factors (e.g., warming, eutrophication, pollution). Consequently,...
