Micronutrient deficiencies in soil have been identified as one of main factors affecting crop
yield, food quality, and human health. Soil micronutrient availability to plants is determined …

The practice of agriculture has always been a source of food production. The increase in the
global population leads to improvements in agriculture, increasing crop quality and yield …

Food and nutrients are the essential components for proper growth and development of
plants just like all other living organisms. Plants require sixteen essential nutrient elements …

In this chapter, a brief overview of the history of plant mineral nutrition is provided. Soil
serves as the source of nutrient elements, and so the availability of nutrients is governed by …

Agriculture is a complex network of interactions of plants with microorganisms. There is a
growing demand for ecologically compatible, environment friendly technique in agriculture …

The provision of sustainable, sufficient, and nutritious food to the growing population is a
major challenge for agriculture and the plant research community. In this respect, the …

Plants can achieve their proper growth and development with the help of microorganisms
associated with them. Plant-associated microbes convert the unavailable nutrients to …

Plant diseases are one of the major limiting factors to shrink agricultural production and
farmers use high amounts of toxic chemicals to control plant diseases, unaware of the fact …

Nowadays the global food demands of a growing human population and need for an eco-
friendly strategy for sustainable soil-plant-microbes-environmental system, require …

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 …