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Rice is the principle food for more than half of humankind. Over the past two and a half decades, farmers have become increasingly dependent on chemical sources of N for obtaining higher yields of rice to meet the demands of enlarging population. With the gradual depletion of petroleum reserves, increased environmental concerns as well as production costs and low use efficiency of chemical N fertilizer, now is the time for supplementary and/or alternate sources of N to be seriously considered for rice, besides exploring ways for efficient use of soil and fertilizer N, in order to meet increasing demands in coming years. It is in this context that biological nitrogen fixation (BNF)- derived N assumes importance in the lowland soils that provide about 86% of the world’s rice.
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Reddy, P.M., Ladha, J.K. (1995). Can Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation be Extended to Rice?. In: Tikhonovich, I.A., Provorov, N.A., Romanov, V.I., Newton, W.E. (eds) Nitrogen Fixation: Fundamentals and Applications. Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture, vol 27. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0379-4_72
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