Plants, being sessile in nature, are inept to escape biotic stress that adversely impact their
growth, development, and productivity. Rather, plants employ a variety of processes at the …

Environmental circumstances shaping soil microbial communities have been studied
extensively. However, due to disparate study designs, it has been difficult to resolve whether …

Pseudomonas sp. is a well-known rhizosphere growth-promoting bacterium. Our objectives
were to investigate the synergetic effect of using nanochitosan to deliver Pseudomonas …

In the context of sustainable practices and European strategy to reduce the chemical inputs
in agricultural conventional systems, on field crops there are approached agroecological …

The development of modern genomic tools has helped accelerate genetic gains in the
breeding program of food crops. More recently, genomic resources have been developed for …

Peroxymonosulfate (PMS) advanced oxidation is gaining recognition as a promising method
for tackling persistent soil pollutants. However, developing an efficient PMS activator …

In semi-arid to arid climates, soils generally have a low nutrient content, suffer from severe
erosion and desertification, and undergo intensive agricultural practices and continued …

This thesis investigates the effects of agricultural soil amendments on the soil microbial
community and associated soil nutrients to gain an understanding for the potential …

Understanding plant-microbiome interactions in the rhizosphere is essential to developing
microbiome-based strategies for assembling advantageous protective inhabitant microbial …

While the peroxymonosulfate (PMS) advanced oxidation was regarded as an emerging
method to degraded recalcitrant pollutant in soil, the design and synthesis of activator for …