Plant Growth-Promoting Microbes from Herbal Vermicompost

cg.contactR.Vijayabharathi@cgiar.orgen_US
cg.contributor.centerInternational Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics - ICRISATen_US
cg.contributor.crpCGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes - GLen_US
cg.contributor.funderNot Applicableen_US
cg.coverage.regionGlobalen_US
cg.creator.idGopalakrishnan, Subramaniam: 0000-0003-4053-7016en_US
cg.date.embargo-end-date2020-12-31en_US
cg.isbn978-3-319-13401-7en_US
cg.subject.agrovocplant breedingen_US
cg.subject.agrovocentomologyen_US
cg.subject.agrovocplant growthen_US
cg.subject.agrovocearthwormsen_US
cg.subject.agrovocnutritional valueen_US
dc.contributorArumugam, Sathyaen_US
dc.contributorGopalakrishnan, Subramaniamen_US
dc.creatorVijayabharathi, Rajendranen_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-16T05:33:56Z
dc.date.available2017-08-16T05:33:56Z
dc.description.abstractOverreliance on chemical pesticides and fertilizers has resulted in problems including safety risks, outbreaks of secondary pests normally held in check by natural enemies, insecticide resistance, environmental contamination, and decrease in biodiversity (Lacey and Shapiro-Ilan 2008). The increasing costs and negative effects of pesticides and fertilizers necessitate the idea of biological options of crop protection and production. This includes the use of animal manure, crop residues, microbial inoculum (Rhizobium, Azotobacter, Azospirillum, and blue green algae), and composts. They provide natural nutrition, reduce the use of inorganic fertilizers, develop biodiversity, increase soil biological activity, maintain soil physical properties, and improve environmental health (Hue and Silva 2000; Vessey 2003). On the other hand, a progressive increase in world’s population, intensive industrialization of food and beverage processing, and animal husbandry production leads to the generation of large volumes of organic wastes. As per the estimation of World Bank, municipal solid waste alone from the urban areas of Asia is projected to be 1.8 million tonnes/day in 2025 (Chandrappa and Das 2012). These can be disposed by landfilling, pelletization, incineration, biomethanization, and composting. Organic wastes act as a major source of environmental pollution and create serious disposal problem, release odor and ammonia into air, contaminate groundwater, and thereby pose health risks (Inbar et al. 1993). This problem can be solved by vermicomposting, a process of decomposing organic wastes into a valuable product of organic fertilizer and soil conditioner by the use of earthworms.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationRajendran Vijayabharathi, Sathya Arumugam, Subramaniam Gopalakrishnan. (17/2/2015). Plant Growth-Promoting Microbes from Herbal Vermicompost, in "Plant-Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) and Medicinal Plants". Cham, Switzerland: Soil Biology. Springer International Publishing.en_US
dc.identifier.statusLimited accessen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/7411
dc.languageenen_US
dc.publisherSoil Biology. Springer International Publishingen_US
dc.rightsCC-BY-NC-4.0en_US
dc.subjectherbal vermicomposten_US
dc.titlePlant Growth-Promoting Microbes from Herbal Vermicomposten_US
dc.typeBook Chapteren_US
dcterms.available2015-02-17en_US
dcterms.issued2015-02-17en_US

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