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Bioactive Compost for Managing Plant Growth Under Stress Environment

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Augmenting Crop Productivity in Stress Environment

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With the progression of global human population, degradation of environment, and climate change, agricultural productivity is declining, threatening the world food security. To safeguard the need of present as well as future generation to access adequate amount and quality of food, focusing toward agricultural practices that ensure food security while maintaining harmony with environment is imperative. Application of organic compost and beneficial microorganisms has gained worldwide attention for improving plant growth and productivity under normal and stressed environment. Organic compost is regarded as natural soil conditioner and fertilizers due to their ability to improve soil structure and chemical properties such as soil pH, water holding capacity, organic carbon content, nutrient level, etc. Similarly, the beneficial microorganisms promote development and yield of associated plants even under stress conditions by stimulating root elongation through production of phytohormones; facilitating absorption of essential and limited nutrients; reducing growth of pathogens; fortifying plant defense mechanism; improving antioxidant, osmolyte, and other enzymes activity in plants; etc. Thus, actively applying compost rich in beneficial microorganisms, i.e., bioactive compost, or manipulating microbial population of poor compost through microbial enrichment can help plants to combat and sustain growth under influence of biotic and abiotic stresses.

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Sachdev, S., Ansari, S.A., Ansari, M.I. (2022). Bioactive Compost for Managing Plant Growth Under Stress Environment. In: Ansari, S.A., Ansari, M.I., Husen, A. (eds) Augmenting Crop Productivity in Stress Environment. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6361-1_15

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