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Biofertilizers. --- Microbial inoculants. --- Inoculants, Microbial --- Microbial products --- Agricultural microbiology --- Bio-fertilizers --- Biologically produced fertilizers --- Living fertilizers --- Nitrogen biofertilizers --- Organic fertilizers

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Biological pest control agents. --- Microbial inoculants. --- Microbial products --- Agricultural microbiology --- Inoculants, Microbial --- Natural pesticides --- Pests --- Biocontrol agents --- Biological agents for pest control --- Biological control agents --- Enemies of pests, Natural --- Natural enemies of pests --- Natural pest control agents --- Pest control agents, Biological --- Biological control --- Biological pest control agents --- Microbial inoculants

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Most crop plants grow in environments that are suboptimal, which prevents the plants from attaining their full genetic potential for growth and reproduction. Stress due to abiotic and biotic agents has a significant effect on world food production. Annually, an estimated 15% of global yields are lost, but this figure belies far greater losses for specific food systems and the people whose existence is dependent upon them, particularly in developing countries. Current efforts to mitigate these losses are worryingly over-reliant on the use of sophisticated and costly chemicals /measures with substantial economic and environmental costs, or on the development of efficient and smart crop varieties, which can take decades. What we need is a broad range of safe, robust and equitable solutions for food producers. One under-investigated approach is that of utilizing the crop plant’s innate immune system to resist stress. More specifically, the innate immune system can be sensitized or ‘primed’ to respond more quickly and strongly to protect the plant against stresses. However, a strategy of employing priming in combination with reduced pesticide use can enhance protection, and help to meet commitments to reducing chemical inputs in agriculture. This book discusses in detail different segments of priming in addressing stress factors and traits to increase competitiveness against all odds. Adopting a holistic and systematic approach, it addresses priming to counter climate-change related adverse effects coupled with pest and pathogen related stress on the productivity of crops utilizing natural resources to reap sustainable environmental, economic and social benefits for potential productivity of crops, maintaining synergy between soil, water and plants in ways that mimic nature.

Life sciences. --- Biochemistry. --- Plant anatomy. --- Plant development. --- Plant physiology. --- Plant breeding. --- Life Sciences. --- Plant Genetics and Genomics. --- Biochemistry, general. --- Plant Physiology. --- Plant Breeding/Biotechnology. --- Plant Anatomy/Development. --- Plants --- Development. --- Crops --- Agriculture --- Breeding --- Botany --- Physiology --- Development of plants --- Plant development --- Developmental biology --- Growth (Plants) --- Ontogeny --- Plant genetics. --- Plant structure --- Structural botany --- Vegetable anatomy --- Anatomy --- Biological chemistry --- Chemical composition of organisms --- Organisms --- Physiological chemistry --- Biology --- Chemistry --- Medical sciences --- Genetics --- Structure --- Composition

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This book addresses in detail multifaceted approaches to boosting nutrient use efficiency (NUE) that are modified by plant interactions with environmental variables and combine physiological, microbial, biotechnological and agronomic aspects. Conveying an in-depth understanding of the topic will spark the development of new cultivars and strains to induce NUE, coupled with best management practices that will immensely benefit agricultural systems, safeguarding their soil, water, and air quality. Written by recognized experts in the field, the book is intended to provide students, scientists and policymakers with essential insights into holistic approaches to NUE, as well as an overview of some successful case studies. In the present understanding of agriculture, NUE represents a question of process optimization in response to the increasing fragility of our natural resources base and threats to food grain security across the globe. Further improving nutrient use efficiency is a prerequisite to reducing production costs, expanding crop acreage into non-competitive marginal lands with low nutrient resources, and preventing environmental contamination. The nutrients most commonly limiting plant growth are N, P, K, S and micronutrients like Fe, Zn, B and Mo. NUE depends on the ability to efficiently take up the nutrient from the soil, but also on transport, storage, mobilization, usage within the plant and the environment. A number of approaches can help us to understand NUE as a whole. One involves adopting best crop management practices that take into account root-induced rhizosphere processes, which play a pivotal role in controlling nutrient dynamics in the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum. New technologies, from basic tools like leaf color charts to sophisticated sensor-based systems and laser land leveling, can reduce the dependency on laboratory assistance and manual labor. Another approach concerns the development of crop plants through genetic manipulations that allow them to take up and assimilate nutrients more efficiently, as well as identifying processes of plant responses to nutrient deficiency stress and exploring natural genetic variation. Though only recently introduced, the ability of microbial inoculants to induce NUE is gaining in importance, as the loss, immobilization, release and availability of nutrients are mediated by soil microbial processes.

Life Sciences. --- Agriculture. --- Soil Science & Conservation. --- Life Sciences, general. --- Renewable and Green Energy. --- Biochemical Engineering. --- Models and Principles. --- Life sciences. --- Biochemical engineering. --- Computer science. --- Renewable energy sources. --- Soil conservation. --- Sciences de la vie --- Génie biochimique --- Informatique --- Agriculture --- Energies renouvelables --- Sols --- Conservation --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Agriculture - General --- Plant nutrients. --- Nutrient interactions. --- Plants --- Nutrition. --- Plant nutrition --- Interactions, Nutrient --- Nutrient-nutrient interactions --- Nutrients, Plant --- Renewable energy resources. --- Computers. --- Alternate energy sources. --- Green energy industries. --- Soil science. --- Conservation of soil --- Erosion control, Soil --- Soil erosion --- Soil erosion control --- Soils --- Agricultural conservation --- Soil management --- Pedology (Soil science) --- Earth sciences --- Green energy industries --- Energy industries --- Alternate energy sources --- Alternative energy sources --- Energy sources, Renewable --- Sustainable energy sources --- Power resources --- Renewable natural resources --- Agriculture and energy --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Automatic computers --- Automatic data processors --- Computer hardware --- Computing machines (Computers) --- Electronic brains --- Electronic calculating-machines --- Electronic computers --- Hardware, Computer --- Computer systems --- Cybernetics --- Machine theory --- Calculators --- Cyberspace --- Bio-process engineering --- Bioprocess engineering --- Biochemistry --- Biotechnology --- Chemical engineering --- Biosciences --- Sciences, Life --- Science --- Control --- Prevention --- Metabolism --- Nutrition --- Plant growing media --- Plant physiology --- Informatics

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The book focuses in detail on learning and adapting through partnerships between managers, scientists, and other stake­holders who learn together how to create and maintain sustainable resource systems. As natural areas shrink and fragment, our ability to sustain economic growth and safeguard biological diversity and ecological integrity is increasingly being put to the test. In attempting to meet this unprecedented challenge, adaptive management is becoming a viable alternative for broader application. Adaptive management is an iterative decision-making process which is both operationally and conceptually simple and which incorporates users to acknowledge and account for uncertainty, and sustain an operating environment that promotes its reduction through careful planning, evaluation, and learning until the desired results are achieved. This multifaceted approach requires clearly defined management objectives to guide decisions about what actions to take, and explicit assumptions about expected outcomes to compare against actual outcomes. In this edited book, we address the issue by pursuing a holistic and systematic approach that utilizes natural resources to reap sustainable environmental, economic and social benefits for adap­tive management, helping to ensure that relationships between land, water and plants are managed in ways that mimic nature.

Soil management. --- Environment. --- Agriculture. --- Environmental management. --- Soil science. --- Soil conservation. --- Sustainable development. --- Soil Science & Conservation. --- Environmental Management. --- Sustainable Development. --- Soil management --- Environmental aspects. --- Soils --- Management --- Soil science --- Agronomy --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable development --- Sustainable economic development --- Economic development --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Conservation of soil --- Erosion control, Soil --- Soil erosion --- Soil erosion control --- Agricultural conservation --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Environmental aspects --- Control --- Prevention --- Conservation --- Pedology (Soil science) --- Agriculture --- Earth sciences