Plant health is strongly impacted by beneficial and pathogenic plant microbes, which are
themselves structured by resource inputs. Organic fertilizer inputs may thus offer a means of …

Apple trees host diverse communities of bacteria, fungi, viruses, and other microbes that
occupy all plant surfaces and internal tissues. In the past two decades, our understanding of …

In agriculture, soil health is disturbed by various anthropogenic activities, including
applications of chemicals, and highly mechanized cropping methods, leading to a gradual …

It has become necessary to use various techniques in agriculture including nanotechnology
since it is gaining interest as one of the promising approaches to increase crop production. It …

Introduction We now recognize that plant genotype affects the assembly of its microbiome,
which in turn, affects essential plant functions. The production system for crop plants also …

A field experiment was conducted during spring seasons of 2017 and 2018 in Al-Hindiya
Barrier Region, Babylon Province, Iraq to study the effect of foliar spraying of seaweed …

The microbial genera, both cultivable and uncultivable, associated with the host plant
inhabiting in or on different tissues or organ and the environment surrounding the plant body …

Prairies were once the largest ecosystem in North America, but agriculture and settlement
has destroyed up to 99% of their pre-colonization extent. Prairie restorations are a strategy …

Four experiments were conducted at research field, Agric. College, Samawa, Iraq during
2017-2018 growing season to investigate the growth responses of barley, lettuce, Swiss …

Endophytic bacteria are ubiquitous in agricultural settings and have the potential to
drastically affect plant growth both positively and negatively. These complex relationships …