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Bioactive Compost: An Approach for Managing Plant Growth in Environmentally Stressed Soils

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The use of bioactive compost for improving the quality of plants and to increase their growth and yield in environmentally stressed soils is a promising approach as they contain beneficial microorganisms as one of the components applied to the soil supplying the plants with its nutritional needs by converting elements through their biological activity from unavailable form to available form which can be absorbed and assimilated. They may also provide the plants with growth stimulating factors such as hormones and other plant growth regulators.

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  1. Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Shivani Chaudhary, Barkha Vaish, Rajeev Pratap Singh & Vishal Prasad

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  1. Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, IAR, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Amitava Rakshit

  2. Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, IAR, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Harikesh Bahadur Singh

  3. Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, Delhi, India

    Anand Kumar Singh

  4. Center (ISARC), Director of IRRI South Asia Regional, New Delhi, Delhi, India

    Uma Shankar Singh

  5. Department of Environmental Engineering, São Paulo State University, Sorocaba, Brazil

    Leonardo Fraceto

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Chaudhary, S., Vaish, B., Singh, R.P., Prasad, V. (2020). Bioactive Compost: An Approach for Managing Plant Growth in Environmentally Stressed Soils. In: Rakshit, A., Singh, H., Singh, A., Singh, U., Fraceto, L. (eds) New Frontiers in Stress Management for Durable Agriculture. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1322-0_15

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