Owing to the increasing importance of aquaculture to compensate for the progressive worldwide reduction of natural fish and to the fact that several fish farming plants often suffer from heavy financial losses due to the development of infections caused by microbial pathogens, including multidrug resistant bacteria, more environmentally-friendly strategies to control fish infections are urgentl...

856 I. 856 II. 857 III. 858 IV. 859 V. 860 VI. 862 VII. 863 VIII. 864 IX. 866 866 References 866 SUMMARY: The mediation of volatile secondary metabolites in signalling between plants and other organisms has long been seen as presenting opportunities for sustainable crop protection. Initially, exploitation of interactions between plants and other organisms, particularly insect pests, foundered b...

Water and phosphorus (P) are two critical resources for high nature value farming in semi-dry mountains. ey are major drivers of grassland productivity but can negatively a€ect plant diversity. Soil moisture is known to a€ect soil microbial activity and plant P nutrition but the e€ects of irrigation on soil P status, soil microbial P and plant P nutrition in semi-natural grasslands remain larg...

Powdery mildew disease of beans in India causes major economic losses in agriculture. For sustainable agriculture, detection and identification of diseases in plants is very important. In this review, we are trying to identify the powdery mildew disease of beans crop by using some image processing and pattern recognition techniques and comparing with molecular and spectroscopic techniques. Earl...

1 Colonization and Internalization of Salmonella enterica in tomato plants 2 3 Jie Zheng, Sarah Allard, Sara Reynolds, Patricia Millner, Gabriela Arce, Robert J. 4 Blodgett, Eric W. Brown 5 6 1 Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition, U.S. Food & Drug Administration, College 7 Park, Maryland, 20740 8 2 Environmental Microbial and Food Safety Laboratory, Agriculture Research Service, 9 U.S. D...

One of the important and necessary practices for improving nutrients availability in sustainable agriculture is using microorganisms. Beside the negative effects of chemical fertilizers on the soil and human health, plant growth promoting rhizobacteria are known as an alternative to supply the organic nutrients of plants during the past two decades. Enriching soil fertility by eco-friendly meth...

Huge yield losses and deterioration of quality of cultivated plants occur due to continuous exposure of plants to pathogens and insect pests. The excessive use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers in modern agriculture result in a deterioration of soil fertility and through intracellular accumulation pesticide-resistant mutants of insects and plant pathogens have emerged worldwide. A number o...

Across the world, a heavenly use of chemical fertilizer is major environmental issue in agricultural fields for sustainable growth of plants. Hence, the chemical fertilizers show adverse environmental effects in human life along with degrade the quality of soil fertility and polluting the water. So there is a need to develop an alternative approach to minimize the high consumption of chemical f...