Approaches and Applications of Mentha Species in Sustainable Agriculture

Agrometeorology and sustainable agriculture

Current concerns with the sustainability of agroecosystems in different parts of the world have hightened the awareness for careful use of the natural resource base on which agriculture depends. For proper and efficient use of soils and plant/animal genetic material, knowledge of the role of climate is an essential precondition. Several elements of the chapters in Agenda 21, a global plan of ac...

Paraquat and sustainable agriculture.

Sustainable agriculture is essential for man's survival, especially given our rapidly increasing population. Expansion of agriculture into remaining areas of natural vegetation is undesirable, as this would reduce biodiversity on the planet. Maintaining or indeed improving crop yields on existing farmed land, whether on a smallholder scale or on larger farms, is thus necessary. One of the limit...

Sustainable intensification in agriculture

Biotechnological approaches in the management of plant pests, diseases and weeds for Sustainable Agriculture

INTRODUCTION Biotechnology with its promise to revolutionize agriculture around the world is assuming an increasingly greater role in India’s agricultural research. The indiscriminate use of chemical pesticides has affected humans and their environment and insect pests remains to be one of the major limiting factors in sustaining the productivity of various crops. The concept of IPM for sustain...

Plant microbiomes and sustainable agriculture

B acteria had been around long before multi-cellular eukaryotes evolved and quickly began to colonize these new life forms as another suitable habitat and potential source of nutrients. Nearly all higher organisms across taxa now have bacterial communities living on and within them—from mutually beneficial symbioses to antagonistic parasitic conflicts. They have co-evolved with their microbiota...