Soil aggregate fractions serve as functional units of a soil ecosystem, providing ecologically
diverse microhabitats for microbial communities. Manure application has been previously …

Biological fixation of atmospheric dinitrogen (N 2) is an important process that replenishes
biologically available nitrogen (N) in soil and helps minimize the use of inorganic N fertilizer …

Background: Weeds are unwanted and undesirable plants which deteriorate the quality of
agricultural products and interfere with farming activities. Most of the weeds (indigenous and …

Complete ammonia oxidizers (comammox Nitrospira) were recently discovered to be
capable of oxidizing ammonia and nitrite in a single microorganism, which refutes the long …

Different land use management practices eg native forest vegetation, pastures and the
agricultural management practices (eg tillage, cropping system, crop residue mulching and …

Mitigating nutrient loss is a prerequisite of sustainable agriculture in the tropics. We
evaluated three soil and water conservation technologies (mulching, minimum tillage and …

In response to the intensive tillage in maize, operating under high seasonal rainfall
variability, this study examined the agronomic and economic responses of tillage and water …

The newly discovered comammox Nitrospira has fundamentally overturned the perception of
labor division in nitrification and attracted growing interests in the niche preferences of …

Mulching plays an important role in production of agricultural and horticultural crops in the
current scenario of declining water table, soil degradation and climate change. The main …

The concerns on weed control through herbicides are increasing due to their negative
impacts on environment and human health. Therefore, alternative weed management …