The increasing need for environmentaly friendly agricultural practices is driving the use of fertilizers based on beneficial microorganisms. The latter belong to a wide array of genera, classes, and phyla, ranging from bacteria to yeasts and fungi, which can support plant nutrition with different mechanisms. Moreover, studies on the interactions between plant, soil, and the different microorgan...

Consistent use of high RSC water may deteriorate the physical properties of soil and increases pH and SAR of soil. Continuous use may reduce germination / the establishment of seedling, retards plant growth and leads to a significant reduction in yield. Therefore, a field experiment in microplots was displayed at research plot in St. John’s College, Agra to study the effect of sodic water on th...

Intercropping systems can flexibly use resources such as sunlight, heat, water, and nutrients in time space, improve crop yield land utilization rates, effectively reduce continuous cropping obstacles the occurrence of diseases insect pests, control growth weeds. Thus, intercropping is a safe efficient ecological planting mode. The legume–cereal system most common combination. Legume crops fix ...

most areas of the world where rainfall is limiting are characterized by low agricultural output and, ironically, high population growth rates that generate increased food de-mand. arid and semi-arid regions permit a range of vegetative biomass production, from rainfed crops to native pasture, and sparse steppe shrubs to true desert. given the harsh climatic conditions in areas such as west asia...

Introduction Soil organisms facilitate key ecosystem processes such as nutrient cycling and organic matter decomposition, and also influence soil porosity and water infiltration through the production of bacterial polymers and fungal hyphae that hold soil particles together to form aggregates [1, 2]. Rhizosphere microorganisms can greatly influence the ability of a plant to acquire macroand mic...

Crop yield is influenced over time and space, namely, by a wide range of variables linked with crop genetics, agronomic management practices and the environment under which the crop dynamically responds to maximize growth potential and survival. Such variability can pose substantial uncertainty and risks in the use of agricultural sustainability decision-making frameworks that include crop yiel...

In the previous half-century, natural rock phosphates (PN) have been a valuable alternative for phosphorus (P) fertilizer sustainable agriculture; furthermore, phosphogypsum (PG) has widely used as soil amendment since it improves some properties, increases crop yields, and represents an environmental concern that can make good economic profit; this research aimed to study effects of microbial ...

Zinc (Zn) deficiency in major food crops has been considered as an important factor affecting the crop production and subsequently the human health. Rice (Oryza sativa) is sensitive to Zn deficiency and thereby causes malnutrition to most of the rice-eating Asian populations. Application of zinc solubilizing bacteria (ZSB) could be a sustainable agronomic approach to increase the soil available...