Bio-exploitation for Sustainable Agriculture

Sustainable agriculture is agriculture that is ecologically sound, economically viable and it conserves the resources such as soil, ground and surface water, minerals, petroleum and biodiversity. It also provides the needs of present generation without compromising the ability of future generation to meet their needs. To sustain the agriculture productivity, it becomes imperative to take care of soil health and environment as such. Sustainable crop production is only possible when the natural resources based on which the production activity depends should not be eroded or harmed in any manner. Organic farming is the wise answer to the aforesaid problems. The present book is a well documented comprehensive review of significant investigation on sustainable agriculture and environment. This book contain chapters covering major titles as : Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria: Their potential for development of sustainable agriculture; Transgenics for sustainable agriculture; Azolla : A wonder fern for sustainable agriculture; Role of mycorriza in sustainable agriculture; Recent trends in Nanocomposites towards sustainable environment; Bioresources: Valuable treasure of renewable and sustainable energy; Isolation, identification and characterization of Agrobacterium species from soil of effluent site of pharmaceutical industry for production of amidase; Market assisted selection: A new paradigm in plant breeding. This book is useful to researchers, agriculturist, farmers, plant breeder and teachers engaged in advanced study in sustainable agriculture.

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