Agroforestry systems for soil health improvement and maintenance

S Fahad, SB Chavan, AR Chichaghare, AR Uthappa… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Agroforestry integrates woody perennials with arable crops, livestock, or fodder in the same
piece of land, promoting the more efficient utilization of resources as compared to …

Adaptive resilience of roadside trees to vehicular emissions via leaf enzymatic, physiological, and anatomical trait modulations

A Kumar, H Singh, G Kumari, S Bisht, A Malik… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Unplanned urbanization and heavy automobile use by the rapidly growing population
contribute to a variety of environmental issues. Roadside plants can mitigate air pollution by …

Modulation of plant functional traits under essential plant nutrients during seasonal regime in natural forests of Garhwal Himalayas

A Kumar, P Kumar, H Singh, N Kumar - Plant and Soil, 2021 - Springer
Aim We estimated how seasonality in conjunction with key climatic variables affects
morphological and physiological plant functional traits (PFTs) and soil essential (micro and …

[PDF][PDF] Relationship of physiological plant functional traits with soil carbon stock in temperate forest of Garhwal Himalaya

A Kumar, P Kumar, H Singh, S Bisht, N Kumar - Curr Sci, 2021 - academia.edu
The composition of species can play an essential role in reducing the atmospheric carbon
dioxide. Forest trees are an important part of the functioning of the terrestrial ecosystem …

Agroforestry systems in the mid-hills of the north-western Himalaya: a sustainable pathway to improved soil health and climate resilience

T Verma, DR Bhardwaj, U Sharma, P Sharma… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Identifying the new tree crop combinations plays an important function in transforming the
low input agriculture into land units with high economic returns, increasing carbon (C) sink …

Optimizing phosphorus application rate and the mixed inoculation of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and phosphate-solubilizing bacteria can improve the phosphatase …

X An, J Liu, X Liu, C Ma, Q Zhang - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) is an important legume forage, and phosphorus is a significant
nutrient element of alfalfa with high quality and high yield. However, the effect mechanism of …

Physiological and molecular insights into the allelopathic effects on agroecosystems under changing environmental conditions

N Kumar, H Singh, K Giri, A Kumar, A Joshi… - … and Molecular Biology …, 2024 - Springer
Allelopathy is a natural phenomenon of competing and interfering with other plants or
microbial growth by synthesizing and releasing the bioactive compounds of plant or …

Effects of compost and biofertilizer on carbon dioxide emission, yield, and quality of roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa L.) plants grown on clay loam

HM Al-Sayed, MY Khalafalla, AM Ali - Journal of Plant Nutrition, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Use of compost and biofertilizer provides nutrients to crops and improves the chemical and
physical properties of soils. A pot and incubation experiment was conducted to evaluate the …

Build-up of labile, non-labile carbon fractions under fourteen-year-old bamboo plantations in the Himalayan foothills

R Kaushal, S Tewari, SD Thapliyal, A Kumar, T Roy… - Heliyon, 2021 - cell.com
Carbon fractions under different bamboo species viz., Bambusa balcooa, Bambusa bambos,
Bambusa nutans, Dendrocalamus hamiltonii, Dendrocalamus asper and Dendrocalamus …

Scientific Advancement in Trait Measurement and Quantification

J Maiti, A Joshi - Plant Functional Traits for Improving Productivity, 2024 - Springer
The field of trait measurement and quantification has witnessed significant scientific
advancements in recent years, driven by the growing demand for precise and …