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Organic farming in India: a vision towards a healthy nation

Food Quality and Safety, 2020
Food quality and safety are the two important factors that have gained ever-increasing attention in general consumers. Conventionally grown foods have immense adverse health effects due to the presence of higher pesticide residue, more nitrate, heavy ...
Suryatapa Das, A. Chatterjee, T. Pal
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Implementation of the concept of sustainable intensification to a real farm – Was its development over 17 years a sustainable intensification?

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 2020
‘Sustainable intensification’ (SI) in agriculture is the objective of several contributions. An important question concerns whether farms have already reached SI? To answer this question, an assessment approach is required.
Norman Siebrecht, Harald Schmid
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Spatial Distribution of the Pepper Blight (Phytophthora capsici) Suppressive Microbiome in the Rhizosphere

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022
The properties of plant rhizosphere are dynamic and heterogeneous, serving as different habitat filters for or against certain microorganisms. Herein, we studied the spatial distribution of bacterial communities in the rhizosphere of pepper plants ...
Huixiu Li, Huixiu Li, Ning Wang, Ning Wang, Jia Ding, Yingjie Liu, Xiaoyan Ding, Yuquan Wei, Yuquan Wei, Ji Li, Ji Li, Guo-chun Ding, Guo-chun Ding   +12 more
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Enhanced soil quality with reduced tillage and solid manures in organic farming – a synthesis of 15 years

Scientific Reports, 2020
Demands upon the sustainability of farming are increasing in step with climate change and diversity loss. Organic farming offers a viable approach. To further improve organic management, three strategies with potential to enhance soil quality are being ...
M. Krauss, A. Berner, Frédéric Perrochet, R. Frei, U. Niggli, P. Mäder   +5 more
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Legume-based crop rotation sustain the soil biodiversity, fertility levels, productivity, and profitability: evidence from a long-term study under Indian subtropical conditions

Frontiers in Agronomy
Prolonged cultivation of the rice–wheat system in the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) has led to soil degradation, groundwater depletion, and reduced input use efficiency, necessitating resilient and diversified cropping systems.
Sohan Singh Walia, Neeraj Rani, Natesan Ravisankar, Rakshit Bhagat, Tamanpreet Kaur, Karmjeet Kaur   +5 more
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A Comparative Study on the Effect of Biogas Residue Soil Conditioner on Dryland Maize

Agronomy
To investigate the adaptability and efficacy of biogas residue soil conditioner in conjunction with other commercially available soil conditioners in arid conditions, a study was conducted using dryland maize as the experimental crop.
Jing Zhou, Xiuhong Wang, Baoping Wang, Jitao Zhang, Xiaochen Zhang, Xiangyuan Shi   +5 more
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Genome-wide association study for plant height and ear height in maize under well-watered and water-stressed conditions

BMC Genomics
Background Both plant height (PH) and ear height (EH) are critical traits in maize and are closely associated with grain yield and mechanized harvesting.
Xin Wen, Hao-Yang Li, Ying-Lu Song, Peng-Yan Zhang, Zheng Zhang, Hua-Hu Bu, Chun-Lin Dong, Zhi-Qiang Ren, Jian-Zhong Chang   +8 more
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The effects of farming systems (organic vs. conventional) on dairy cow welfare, based on the Welfare Quality® protocol

Animal, 2021
Animal welfare in livestock production is of great interest to consumers. The organic farming approach strives to ensure animal welfare based on preventive measures, but there are very few scientific studies that compare the actual differences in animal ...
K. Wagner, J. Brinkmann, A. Bergschmidt, C. Renziehausen, S. March   +4 more
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Landscape context affects the sustainability of organic farming systems

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020
Significance Organic agriculture promotes environmental and socioeconomic sustainability to a greater degree than conventional agriculture. However, it is unknown whether effects of organic agriculture on sustainability metrics such as biodiversity, crop
Olivia M. Smith, Abigail L. Cohen, J. Reganold, Matthew S. Jones, Robert J. Orpet, J. M. Taylor, Jessa H. Thurman, K. A. Cornell, Rachel L. Olsson, Y. Ge, C. Kennedy, D. Crowder   +11 more
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Mechanisms of IgE‐mediated food allergy and the role of allergen‐specific B cells

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Food allergy arises when allergen‐specific B cells preferentially produce immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies against harmless foods. This article explains the mechanisms driving IgE‐mediated reactions, highlights the central role of these B cells, and discusses how natural tolerance (NT) and oral immunotherapy (OIT) can reshape allergic immune responses.
Juan‐Felipe López, Özge Yilmaz Ardicli, Mübeccel Akdis   +2 more
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