More than one hundred years have passed since the development of the first microbial
inoculant for plants. Nowadays, the use of microbial inoculants in agriculture is spread …

For all living organisms, nitrogen is an essential element, while being the most limiting in
ecosystems and for crop production. Despite the significant contribution of synthetic …

Grain legumes play a key role in smallholder farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA),
in relation to food and nutrition security and income generation. Moreover, because of their …

We conducted a systematic review of literature on the residual effects of grain legumes in
cereal-based systems of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to quantify the magnitude and variability …

Abstract Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) is a non-native and non-staple crop in sub-
Saharan Africa (SSA) with potential to be a commercial crop owing to its wide range of uses …

Soybean is the most widely grown legume in the world. A beneficial feature of soybean is its
ability to associate with rhizobia bacteria in its root nodules to fix atmospheric nitrogen …

Context Collection and analysis of large volumes of on-farm production data are widely seen
as key to understanding yield variability among farmers and improving resource-use …

Low fertility and inefficient management of sub-Saharan African soils have been the major
challenges facing productivity among smallholder farmers. Unfortunately, inorganic fertiliser …

Peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is adorned as the one of the important sources of vegetable
oil, protein, vitamins and several minerals, which could mitigate the nutritional gap …

Plants are associated with hundreds of thousands of microbes that are present outside on
the surfaces or colonizing inside plant organs, such as leaves and roots. Plant-associated …