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Utilization of actinomycetes having broad-spectrum of plant growth promoting and biocontrol traits in chickpea, sorghum and rice
Plant pathogens such as Sclerotium rolfsii (causes collar rot), Fusarium oxysporum (causes wilt) and Macrophomina phaseolina (causes charcoal rot/dry root rot) have a broad host range, affecting several agriculturally ...
Intercontinental Networks Between Africa and Asia Across the Indian Ocean: What Do Village Chickens Reveal?
The prehistory of the Indian Ocean world can be likened to a complex historical jigsaw puzzle, and has attracted deep interest from various dis- ciplines (Chaudhuri 1985; Pearson 2011). The objective has been to find and ...
The role of trees in regulating soil erosion
Book Chapter on the role of trees in regulating soil erosion
Dealing with critical challenges in African innovation platforms: Lessons for facilitation
There is growing scientific recognition of innovation platforms (IPs) and the role of facilitation in catalyzing agricultural innovation (see
Klerkx and Gildemacher 2011; Hounkonnou et al. 2012; Klerkx, Mierlo, and Leeuwis ...
Gendered technology adoption and household food security in semi-arid Eastern Kenya
Hunger and malnutrition are scientific and moral problems that lie at the root of most other global development challenges, since
malnutrition effectively blocks development and achievement across generations (Kavishe ...
Sahelian bocage: an integrated approach in Burkina Faso
The deterioration of the rural landscape in the Sahel region in general has worsened
in the last decades, endangering local populations.
• The creation of Sahelian bocage, or live fence perimeters, in this rural landscape
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Use of Genomic Approaches in Understanding the Role of Actinomycetes as PGP in Grain Legumes
The advancement in molecular technologies has given a breakthrough to
explore the untapped and novel microbial isolates for characterization in
every aspect as we can consider microbes as an important primary natural
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