Modern intensive agricultural practices face numerous challenges that pose major threats to
global food security. In order to address the nutritional requirements of the ever-increasing …

Phytoremediation is a cost-effective and sustainable technology used to clean up pollutants
from soils and waters through the use of plant species. Indeed, plants are naturally capable …

With the increase in world population, the demography of humans is estimated to be
exceeded and it has become a major challenge to provide an adequate amount of food …

Cobalt is a transition metal located in the fourth row of the periodic table and is a neighbor of
iron and nickel. It has been considered an essential element for prokaryotes, human beings …

Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) have multifarious beneficial activities for plant
growth promotion; act as source of metabolites, enzymes, nutrient mobilization, biological …

High food demand for the world's teeming population necessitates the intensification of crop
production in modern agriculture, which requires the extensive use of synthetic fertilizers for …

Background Cadmium (Cd) is a highly toxic heavy metal. Its emission is suspected to be
further increased due to the dramatic application of ash to agricultural soils and newly …

The modern agricultural system has issues with the reduction of agricultural productivity due
to a wide range of abiotic and biotic stresses. It is also expected that in the future the entire …

While salinity is increasingly becoming a prominent concern in arable farms around the
globe, various treatments can be used for the mitigation of salt stress. Here, the effective …

Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.) is one of the world's highly significant commercial
crops. The amounts of synthetic nitrogen (N2) fertilizer required to grow the sugarcane plant …