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It is predicted that the world population will reach about 9.7 billion by the year 2050 and to feed this population the food production has to be increased proportionately. Further we are all concerned about climate which in turn results in abiotic stresses like drought, salinity, etc. These abiotic stresses will seriously affect crop productivity. This approach has gained popularity in the recent years and seems to be a potential option for the future. The ...
Fast growing human civilization and industrialization have resulted in increased amounts of pollutants such as pesticides, electronic wastes, etc. in the environment. Thesr polllutants have hazardous impacts on living organisms including human health. Remediation of these contaminants is a serious environmental issue of current interest. Recent research has shown that soil microorganisms play an important role in remediating and improving disturbed ecosystems. ...
Forests play a very important role in maintaining the environmental and ecological processes in the terrestrial systems and microbes being ubiquitously distributed across the varied soil types, also has equally important role particularly in the nutrient cycling in soil plant-microbe system. In this tripartite relationship, the microbes being in between the soil and plant, has a key role to perform various important biochemical processes and also act a bridge ...
The present book has great Mycological significance and will update the knowledge of Resupinate Aphyllophorales of Maharashtra, which presently lacks in the scenario of Indian Mycology. This book will be of immense help for further studies and investigations. Taking into consideration the taxonomic study of Wood Rotting Fungi, this kind of approach is studied for the first time for understanding thoroughly the compilation of the Resupinate Aphyllophorales from a ...
We are living in the ocean of microbes. These tiny microorganisms are responsible for creating atmosphere for the present day life forms. These microorganisms have immense potential to fulfill the need of the human kind. They can provide us food, fuel, fertilizer. They act as a sequesters, remediators, scavengers, and what not. The recent era is the era of biotechnology once we equipped ourself with the modern technology. It is easy to harness the potential of ...
Fungal Flora of India is considerably rich and diverse. Biodiversity of Fungal flora in region is represented by a number of taxonomic groups in different habitats. This is in consequent upon the tendency of fungi, particularly non-host specific saprobes, to have wider distribution than vascular plants. This statement may not be universal for host specific fungi and some polypores. It is a well established fact that smaller the area surveyed the more the species ...
Classification of plants in general and fungi in particular is a neglected discipline and there are very few institutions where the work is going on. This may be due to the modern approach of molecular biology for taxonomic determinations. It is also due to the indirect relation of human being with fungi. There are only few fungi directly related and utilized by human being. Although mycophagy (using fungi as foot) is a practice since ancient time of Buddha but ...