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Potassium as an Important Plant Nutrient in Sustainable Agriculture: A State of the Art

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Potassium Solubilizing Microorganisms for Sustainable Agriculture

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The current scenario of potassium (K) depletion in soil is slowly increasing due to K fixation or the unavailable form of K in soil. Presently, farmers are faced with a problem of higher price of K fertilizer or other fertilizers in market so farmers are unable to fulfill the demand of potassium in soil for plant growth. Potassium deficiency affects the nutritional quality, mechanical stability, and also pathogen resistance of crops. Therefore, that times needs to fallow the sustainable technology for sustainable agricultural production through use of microbial consortia of potassium-solubilizing microbes or biofertilizer/PGPR under organic farming system. The potassium-solubilizing microorganism is one of the best sustainable technologies, which solubilizes the fixed form of K available for plant uptake. Thus, the bio-formula of the potassium-solubilizing microorganism as biofertilizer offers environmentally sustainable approach and also fulfills the requirement of potassium for crop production.

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  1. Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 22100, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Durgesh Kumar Jaiswal & Jay Prakash Verma

  2. Geological Survey of India, Northern Region, Aliganj, Lucknow, India

    Satya Prakash

  3. Crop Production Division, Vivekananda Institute of Hill Agriculture, (ICAR), Almora, 263 601, India

    Vijay Singh Meena

  4. Department of Agronomy, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221005, U.P., India

    Ram Swaroop Meena

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Jaiswal, D.K., Verma, J.P., Prakash, S., Meena, V.S., Meena, R.S. (2016). Potassium as an Important Plant Nutrient in Sustainable Agriculture: A State of the Art. In: Meena, V., Maurya, B., Verma, J., Meena, R. (eds) Potassium Solubilizing Microorganisms for Sustainable Agriculture. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2776-2_2

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