Book Review: Microbial Inoculants in Sustainable Agricultural Productivity- Vol. II: Functional Application

Book Review: Microbial Inoculants in Sustainable Agricultural Productivity- Vol. II: Functional Application

Ecologically sustainable agricultural practices are essential to ensure food security, and efficient agriculturally beneficial microbes (microbial inoculants) are playing potential role in sustainable crop production due to their immense plant growth promoting attributes, better adaptability to survival under stresses, and other uses that result in attenuating the pesticides/fertilizers use in ...

Doomsday Book, Vol. II

For humans, power is in part control over their lives. History is a collection of past experiences that empower informed actions. A repertoire is the catalog of your things. A large diverse repertoire can be critical or it can be irrelevant. A great hammer is nice if the job involves a nail. You might have lots of wrenches, but not the one that bends the right way for the “tough nut”. The wrong...

Information, indicators, agricultural productivity and sustainable practices

Recent Trends in Microbial Inoculants in Agriculture

Soil microbes have great potential for agriculture. A wide variety of microbes have been utilized to enhance crop production. In the current issue, enhanced growth of rice plants is reported with the inoculation of a nitrogen (N)-fixing bacterium, Azospirillum sp. B510 (2), which possesses a disease-suppressive property against the rice blast fungus (Magnaporthe oryzae) and the bacterial leaf b...

INVITED REVIEW Sustainable intensification in agricultural systems

†Background Agricultural systems are amended ecosystems with a variety of properties. Modern agroecosystems have tended towards high through-flow systems, with energy supplied by fossil fuels directed out of the system (either deliberately for harvests or accidentally through side effects). In the coming decades, resource constraints over water, soil, biodiversity and land will affect agricultu...