Microbial Inoculants for Improving Crop Quality and Human Health in Africa
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018 Current agricultural practices depend heavily on chemical inputs (such as fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, etc.) which, all things being equal cause a deleterious effect on the nutritional value of farm product and health of farm workers and ...
Elizabeth Temitope Alori +1 more
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Development of liquid rhizobial inoculants and pre-inoculation of alfalfa seeds [PDF]
Archives of Biological Sciences, 2019 Application of liquid microbial inoculants on legume seeds is a sustainable agricultural practice that can improve plant nutrient uptake and increase crop productivity.
Buntić Aneta V. +5 more
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The Efficiency of Enterobacter cloacae Inocula on Growth Properties, Oil Yield and Type Fatty Acids of Rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) [PDF]
Journal of Agricultural Science and Sustainable Production, 2020 Background & Objective: Biofertilizers play major role in sustainable agriculture. Increasing the longevity and survival of the bacteria in the production of inoculants by using different materials, is notable to increase the effectiveness of ...
Aysan Vasli Dizajeyekan +2 more
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Mycorrhizal fungal establishment in agricultural soils: factors determining inoculation success [PDF]
New Phytologist, 2012 SummarySoil biota provide a number of key ecological services to natural and agricultural ecosystems. Increasingly, inoculation of soils with beneficial soil biota is being considered as a tool to enhance plant productivity and sustainability of agricultural ecosystems.
Erik Verbruggen +3 more
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Establishment and effectiveness of mycorrhizal inoculation in agricultural soils. [PDF]
Plant Cell & Environment, 2015 Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are promoted as biofertilizers for sustainable agriculture. So far most researchers have investigated the effects of AMF on plant growth under highly controlled conditions with sterilized soil soil substrates or soils with low available P or low inoculum potential.
Köhl L. Lukasiewicz C.E. +1 more
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Importance of crop phenological stages for the efficient use of PGPR inoculants
Scientific Reports, 2021 During the last decades, the incorporation of beneficial microorganisms in agriculture crop management has become a common practice. Seed coating of these microorganisms still faces technical issues, which limit its implementation in conventional ...
Alexandra Stoll +6 more
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Soil microbial inoculants for sustainable agriculture: Limitations and opportunities
Soil Use and Management, 2022 Abstract The burgeoning global market for soil microbial inoculants for use in agriculture is being driven by pressure to increase sustainable crop production by managing pests and diseases without environmental impacts. Microbial inoculants, based predominantly on bacteria and fungi, are applied to soil as alternatives to ...
Maureen O'Callaghan +2 more
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Metatranscriptomic Sequencing of a Cyanobacterial Soil-Surface Consortium with and without a Diverse Underlying Soil Microbiome. [PDF]
, 2020 Soil surface consortia are easily observed and sampled, allowing examination of their interactions with soil microbiomes. Here, we present metatranscriptomic sequences from Dark Green 1 (DG1), a cyanobacterium-based soil surface consortium, in the ...
Bell, Terrence H +18 more
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Production and use of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi inoculum in sub-Saharan Africa: challenges and ways of improving [PDF]
, 2016 Article purchasedUse of inorganic fertilizer is an essential practice to optimize crop productivity in the poor fertility soils in sub-Saharan Africa, but it has been linked to high cost of crop production, contamination of surface and/or ground water by
AbdelGadir, AbdelAziz H. +5 more
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