The burgeoning global market for soil microbial inoculants for use in agriculture is being
driven by pressure to increase sustainable crop production by managing pests and diseases …

Biological nitrogen fixation by Rhizobium-legume symbioses represents an environmentally
friendly and inexpensive alternative to the use of chemical nitrogen fertilizers in legume …

Annual-based arable agroecosystems experience among the greatest frequency, extent and
magnitude of disturbance regimes of all terrestrial ecosystems. In order to control non-crop …

Inoculants or biofertilizers aiming to partially or fully replace chemical fertilizers are
becoming increasingly important in agriculture, as there is a global perception of the need to …

Aims Liquid and granular rhizobial inoculants have some practical advantages for delivering
rhizobial inoculants to legume crops in terms of ease-of-use and in separating rhizobia from …

Context or problem Selective herbicides control weeds in cereal crops and break down over
time, allowing safe planting of legumes in the following years. However due to climatic …

Many farms use leguminous cover crops as a nutrient management strategy to reduce their
need for nitrogen fertilizer. When they are effective, leguminous cover crops are a valuable …

Successful agriculture is dependent on soil quality and nutrition. Soil is the primary source of
nutrients that are assimilated by plant root-systems to promote plant growth and …

Experiments conducted under controlled conditions can be poor predictors of the field
performance of rhizobial inoculants. In this study, five field experiments were conducted over …

Background Pulses are cultivated across a range of soil and climatic conditions that often
have many abiotic constraints to production. Whilst water stress has been identified as the …