Survival of a microbial inoculant in soil after recurrent inoculations [PDF]
Scientific ReportsMicrobial inoculants are attracting growing interest in agriculture, but their efficacy remains unreliable in relation to their poor survival, partly due to the competition with the soil resident community.
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Plant and Native Microorganisms Amplify the Positive Effects of Microbial Inoculant [PDF]
Microorganisms, 2023 Microbial inoculants can be used to restore abandoned mines because of their positive effects on plant growth and soil nutrients. Currently, soils in greenhouse pot studies are routinely sterilized to eradicate microorganisms, allowing for better ...
Chong Li +5 more
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Effects of microbial inoculant and additives on pile composting of cow manure [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 Composting is an effective method of recycling organic solid waste, and it is the key process linking planting with recycling. To explore the reuse of agricultural organic solid waste as a resource in the Yellow River Delta, the effects of microbial ...
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Combined effects of chemical fertilization and microbial inoculant on nutrient use efficiency and soil quality indicators [PDF]
Scientia Agropecuaria, 2020 Microbial inoculant based on beneficial bacteria is a complementary management tool to increase vegetable production. However, its integration with chemical fertilization has been poorly studied.
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Diverse Environmental Microbiota as a Tool to Augment Biodiversity in Urban Landscaping Materials [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019 Human activities typically lead to simplified urban diversity, which in turn reduces microbial exposure and increases the risk to urban dwellers from non-communicable diseases.
Nan Hui +8 more
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Response of Wheat to a Multiple Species Microbial Inoculant Compared to Fertilizer Application [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2018 Microbial inoculants, including those formed from multiple species, may have dual functions as biostimulants and/or biocontrol agents, and claimed agricultural benefits are instrumental for regulatory categorisation.
Salmabi K. Assainar +12 more
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Recent Trends in Microbial Inoculants in Agriculture
Microbes and Environments, 2013 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.
Koki Toyota, Takayoshi Watanabe
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Co-Effects of Nitrogen Fertilizer and Straw-Decomposing Microbial Inoculant on Decomposition and Transformation of Field Composted Wheat Straw [PDF]
Life, 2023 Although straw is an abundant and useful agricultural byproduct, it, however, exhibits hardly any decomposition and transformation. Despite the successful application of chemical and biological substrates for accelerating straw decomposition, the co ...
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Application of microbial inoculants significantly enhances crop productivity: A meta‐analysis of studies from 2010 to 2020 [PDF]
Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment, 2022 Introduction With the rapid development of microbial technology, microbial inoculant is considered as a promising tool in sustainable agricultural systems.
Jiayu Li +4 more
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Microbial Inoculants: Silver Bullet or Microbial Jurassic Park?
Trends in Microbiology, 2020 The appeal of using microbial inoculants to mediate plant traits and productivity in managed ecosystems has increased over the past decade, because microbes represent an alternative to fertilizers, pesticides, and direct genetic modification of plants.
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