Microbial control agents serve as alternatives to synthetic pesticides for the management of
insect pests and plant pathogens. Naturally occurring microorganisms such as bacteria …

Wheat constitutes pivotal position for ensuring food and nutritional security; however, rapidly
rising soil and water salinity pose a serious threat to its production globally. Salinity stress …

Salinity is one of the most brutal environmental factors limiting the productivity of crop plants
because most of the crop plants are sensitive to salinity caused by high concentrations of …

Background Soil salinity and drought are an enormous worldwide problem for agriculture,
horticulture and silviculture. The initial responses of plants to drought and salinity are similar; …

Soil salinization affecting different crops is one of the serious threats to global food security.
Soil salinity affects 20% and 33% of the total cultivated and irrigated agricultural lands …

Drought accompanied with reduced precipitation is one of the key manacles to global
agricultural throughput and is expected to escalate further hence posing major challenges to …

One of the key tasks of the Sustainable Development Goals connected to Agriculture, Safety
and nutritional quality of food is to raise crop production per unit area without compromising …

Bioaugmentation of Zn solubilizing rhizobacteria could be a sustainable intervention to
increase bioavailability of Zn in soil which can be helpful in mitigation of yield loss and …

Salt stress is an ever-present threat to crop yields, especially in countries with irrigated
agriculture. Efforts to improve salt tolerance in crop plants are vital for sustainable crop …

Worldwide crop productivity hampers severely due to the adverse effects of salinity. Global
warming causes a rapid escalation of the salt-affected area, and new agricultural land is …