Microbes for Legume Improvement
Microbes for Legume Improvement comprises 21 chapters and provides comprehensive information on concepts of microbial technology for the improvement of legumes grown in different agro-ecosystems. The role of microbes including symbiotic nitrogen fixers, a
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Almas Zaidi
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Microbes for Legume Improvement
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Editors Dr. Mohammad Saghir Khan Aligarh Muslim University Fac. Agricultural Sciences Dept. Agricultural Microbiology 202002 Aligarh India [email protected]
Dr. Almas Zaidi Aligarh Muslim University Fac. Agricultural Sciences Dept. Agricultural Microbiology 202002 Aligarh India [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Javed Musarrat Aligarh Muslim University Fac. Agricultural Sciences Dept. Agricultural Microbiology 202002 Aligarh India [email protected]
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Preface
The farmer folks around the world are facing acute problems in providing plants with required nutrients due to inadequate supply of raw materials, poor storage quality, indiscriminate uses and unaffordable hike in the costs of synthetic chemical fertilizers. Beside these factors, the fertility of soil, largely dependent on metabolic activities of microbes, is deteriorating very fast, which further aggravate the agronomic problems. Considering such alarming situations, there is an urgent need to find an alternative so that the chemical based high input modern agricultural practices could be shifted to an economically viable, ecologically sound, and sustainable production system. In this regard, heterogeneously distributed microbial communities play a vital role as organic fertilizers in facilitating uptake of nutrients by crops. Hence, provides a viable and inexpensive alternative to offset dependence on chemical fertilizers applied in modern agriculture on large scale by majority of the progressive farmers around the world for raising the productivity of crops including legumes. Legumes that play an important role in the traditional diets of many regions throughout the world can provide a multitude of benefits to both the soil and other crops grown in combination with them or following them in a rotation. The ability of legumes to fix atmospheric nitrogen is perhaps the most bodacious countenance that distinguishes them from other plants. In addition, legu
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