Innovations in Dryland Agriculture

497 3.2 Soil Management Soil is the thin layer of fertile land that nourishes life on earth directly or indirectly. Plants depen ...

498 are low biomass generation, loss of SOC, and erosion of the rich fertile surface. Therefore, management practices that augme ...

499 ST and NT treatments had more SOC and total N stocks, macro-aggregate propor- tions and MBC than the CT treatment. Mohammadi ...

500 retention or the reduced physical disturbance under conservation, reduced and NT practices. Further, these practices have ot ...

501 3.4 Cropping Systems Crops and cropping systems significantly influence the soil microbial population and diversity over tim ...

502 Several studies have reported increased MBC under diversified crop rotations compared to monocropping. Soil MBC increased un ...

503 more residues from the previous crop. However, this experiment only analyzed samples at one time point, when all treatments ...

504 crops is shown in Table 1. Rhizobia are highly specific when forming nodules in legume plants, and are classified into seven ...

505 Table 3 Beneficial effects of bio-inoculants in dryland agriculture Microbial inoculant Crop Effects References Rhizobium Co ...

506 Table 3 (continued) Microbial inoculant Crop Effects References Azospirillum, Azotobacter, Klebsiella Pearl millet Increased ...

507 Table 3 (continued) Microbial inoculant Crop Effects References PGPR Bacillus sp. RM-2 Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L.) Increas ...

508 4.1.2 Non-symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation Among the heterotrophic free-living N 2 -fixing bacteria, Azotobacter is the most- int ...

509 crop specific and can be used in a variety of crop plants across different agro- climatic conditions. Several reports are av ...

510 publication). The isolates enhanced plant growth and macro- and micro-nutrient uptake in maize plants. The use of multinutri ...

511 5 Microbes in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Dryland areas—with an aridity index (precipitation/potential evapotra ...

512 cytokinins and antioxidants by microorganisms results in abscisic acid (ABA) accu- mulation and the degradation of reactive ...

513 readiness is the key to the sustainability of dryland agricultural systems. Among the various strategies being developed, th ...

514 harsh conditions. However, there is a need to select abiotic stress adapted/tolerant microbial strains preferably from stres ...

515 Bandick AK, Dick RP (1999) Field management effects on soil enzyme activities. Soil Biol Biochem 31:1471–1147 Benites J, Cas ...

516 Figueiredo VB, Burity H, Martinez CR, Chanway CP (2008) Alleviation of drought stress in the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris ...