Agriculture faces challenges to fulfil the rising food demand due to shortage of arable land
and various environmental stressors. Traditional farming technologies help in fulfilling food …

Biofortification through plant breeding is a sustainable approach to improve the nutritional
profile of food crops. The majority of the world's population depends on staple food crops; …

Phosphate solubilizing bacteria (PSB) has ability to convert insoluble form of phosphorous
to an available form. Applications of PSB as inoculants increase the phosphorus uptake by …

Land plants directly contact soil through their roots. An enormous diversity of microbes
dwelling in root-associated zones, including endosphere (inside root), rhizoplane (root …

Phosphorus (P) is one of the major essential macronutrients for biological growth and
development of plants. Phosphorous in soil is mainly found as mineral phosphorous or …

Phosphate‐solubilizing microbes (PSMs) drive the biogeochemical cycling of phosphorus
(P) and hold promise for sustainable agriculture. However, their global distribution, overall …

Globally, the chemical fertilizers use increases day by day for higher crop yield, which
negatively affects the soil ecosystem. Over the past few decades, microbial bio-inoculants …

In the midst of the major soil degradation and erosion faced by tropical ecosystems,
rehabilitated forests are being established to avoid the further deterioration of forest lands. In …

Two billion people worldwide take rice (Oryza sativa L.) as a staple food. Phosphorus (P)
and Nitrogen (N) are the major requirements of rice; although these are available in limited …

Wheat is the staple food crop in many countries. Judicial cultivation methods need to
increase wheat productivity for future food security. Modern cultivation methods are fully …