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Nayak PK, Nayak AK, Panda BB, Senapati A, Panneerselvam P, Kumar A, Tripathi R, Poonam A, Shahid M, Mohapatra SD, Kaviraj M, Kumar U. Rice-based integrated farming system improves the soil quality, bacterial community structure and system productivity under sub-humid tropical condition. ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY AND HEALTH 2024; 46:65. [PMID: 38321197 DOI: 10.1007/s10653-024-01863-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2023] [Accepted: 01/07/2024] [Indexed: 02/08/2024]
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Rice-based integrated farming system improves the productivity and profitability by recycling resources efficiently. In the sub-humid tropics, rice production without sufficient nutrient replenishment often leads to soil health and fertility degradation. There has been very limited research on soil health and fertility after adopting a multi-enterprising rice-based integrated farming system (IFS), notably in the rice-fish-livestock and agroforestry system, when compared to a conventional farming system (CS). Therefore, the present study analyzed the dynamics of soil properties, soil bacterial community structure and their possible interaction mechanisms, as well as their effect on regulating soil quality and production in IFS, IFSw (water stagnant area of IFS) and CS. The results indicated that soil nutrient dynamics, bacterial diversity indices (Shannon index, Simpson index, Chao 1, ACE and Fisher index) and system productivity were higher in IFSw and IFS compared to CS. Moreover, relative operational taxonomic units of dominant bacterial genera (Chloroflexi, Acidobacteria, Verrucomicrobia, Planctomycetes, Cyanobacteria, Crenarchaeota and Gemmatimonadetes) were also higher in IFSw and IFS compared to CS. Mean soil quality index (SQI) was highest in IFSw (0.780 ± 0.201) followed by IFS (0.770 ± 0.080) and CS (0.595 ± 0.244). Moreover, rice equivalent yields (REY) and rice yields were well correlated with the higher levels of soil biological indices (SQIBiol) in IFS. Overall, our results revealed that rice-based IFS improved the soil health and fertility and ensuing crop productivity through positive interaction with soil bacterial communities and nutrient stoichiometry leading to agroecosystem sustainability.
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- ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, Odisha, 753006, India
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- ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, Odisha, 753006, India
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- ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, Odisha, 753006, India
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- ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, Odisha, 753006, India
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- ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, Odisha, 753006, India
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- ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, Odisha, 753006, India
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- ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, Odisha, 753006, India
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- ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, Odisha, 753006, India
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- ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, Odisha, 753006, India
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- ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, Odisha, 753006, India
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- ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, Odisha, 753006, India.
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Cuaton GP, Delina LL. Two decades of rice research in Indonesia and the Philippines: A systematic review and research agenda for the social sciences. HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES COMMUNICATIONS 2022; 9:372. [PMID: 36258775 PMCID: PMC9562066 DOI: 10.1057/s41599-022-01394-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2022] [Accepted: 09/30/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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While rice studies are abundant, they usually focus on macro-level rice production and yield data, genetic diversity, cultivar varieties, and agrotechnological innovations. Moreover, many of these studies are either region-wide or concentrated on countries in the Global North. Collecting, synthesizing, and analyzing the different themes and topic areas in rice research since the beginning of the 21st century, especially in the Global South, remain unaddressed areas. This study contributes to filling these research lacunae by systematically reviewing 2243 rice-related articles cumulatively written by more than 6000 authors and published in over 900 scientific journals. Using the PRISMA 2020 guidelines, this study screened and retrieved articles published from 2001 to 2021 on the various topics and questions surrounding rice research in Indonesia and the Philippines-two rice-producing and -consuming, as well as emerging economies in Southeast Asia. Using a combination of bibliometrics and quantitative content analysis, this paper discusses the productive, relevant, and influential rice scholars; key institutions, including affiliations, countries, and funders; important articles and journals; and knowledge hotspots in these two countries. It also discusses the contributions of the social sciences, highlights key gaps, and provides a research agenda across six interdisciplinary areas for future studies. This paper mainly argues that an interdisciplinary and comparative inquiry of potentially novel topic areas and research questions could deepen and widen scholarly interests beyond conventional natural science-informed rice research in Indonesia and the Philippines. Finally, this paper serves other researchers in their review of other crops in broader global agriculture.
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- Ginbert P. Cuaton
- The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China
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Forecasting Rice Status for a Food Crisis Early Warning System Based on Satellite Imagery and Cellular Automata in Malang, Indonesia. SUSTAINABILITY 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/su14158972] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The increasing population in Indonesia is challenging rice production to feed more people while rice fields are being converted to other land-use land cover (LULC). This study analyzes land use in 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, and 2025 using an artificial neural network cellular automata (ANN-CA) and rice data from Statistics Indonesia to predict future rice status in Malang Districts, Indonesia. The primary LULC change driver was the rapid conversion of rice fields, which had their area reduced by 18% from 2019 to 2021 and 2% from 2021 to 2025. Rice fields are mainly being converted to settlements and buildings. The Kappa coefficient of simulation achieved 88%, with 91 accuracies. The model predicted a 2% lower rate of rice production but a 3% higher demand in 2025 compared to 2021. Lower rice production and higher demand are predicted to reduce the rice surplus by 57% in 2025, suggesting that the Malang district might lower its supply of rice to other areas by 2025. Our study provides a food crisis early warning system that decision makers can use to form adequate strategic plans and solutions to combat food insecurity.
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Brilli F, Dani KGS, Pasqualini S, Costarelli A, Cannavò S, Paolocci F, Zittelli GC, Mugnai G, Baraldi R, Loreto F. Exposure to different light intensities affects emission of volatiles and accumulations of both pigments and phenolics in Azolla filiculoides. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2022; 174:e13619. [PMID: 34988977 PMCID: PMC9305523 DOI: 10.1111/ppl.13619] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2021] [Accepted: 12/03/2021] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Many agronomic trials demonstrated the nitrogen-fixing ability of the ferns Azolla spp. and its obligate cyanobiont Trichormus azollae. In this study, we have screened the emission of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and analyzed pigments (chlorophylls, carotenoids) as well as phenolic compounds in Azolla filiculoides-T. azollae symbionts exposed to different light intensities. Our results revealed VOC emission mainly comprising isoprene and methanol (~82% and ~13% of the overall blend, respectively). In particular, by dissecting VOC emission from A. filiculoides and T. azollae, we found that the cyanobacterium does not emit isoprene, whereas it relevantly contributes to the methanol flux. Enhanced isoprene emission capacity (15.95 ± 2.95 nmol m-2 s-1 ), along with increased content of both phenolic compounds and carotenoids, was measured in A. filiculoides grown for long-term under high (700 μmol m-2 s-1 ) rather than medium (400 μmol m-2 s-1 ) and low (100 μmol m-2 s-1 ) light intensity. Moreover, light-responses of chlorophyll fluorescence demonstrated that A. filiculoides was able to acclimate to high growth light. However, exposure of A. filiculoides from low (100 μmol m-2 s-1 ) to very high light (1000 μmol m-2 s-1 ) did not affect, in the short term, photosynthesis, but slightly decreased isoprene emission and leaf pigment content whereas, at the same time, dramatically raised the accumulation of phenolic compounds (i.e. deoxyanthocyanidins and phlobaphenes). Our results highlight a coordinated photoprotection mechanism consisting of isoprene emission and phenolic compounds accumulation employed by A. filiculoides to cope with increasing light intensities.
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- Federico Brilli
- Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection (IPSP)National Research Council of Italy (CNR)Sesto FiorentinoItaly
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- Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection (IPSP)National Research Council of Italy (CNR)Sesto FiorentinoItaly
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- Department of Chemistry, Biology and BiotechnologyUniversity of PerugiaPerugiaItaly
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- Department of Chemistry, Biology and BiotechnologyUniversity of PerugiaPerugiaItaly
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- Department of Chemistry, Biology and BiotechnologyUniversity of PerugiaPerugiaItaly
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- Institute of Biosciences and BioResources (IBBR)National Research Council of Italy (CNR)PerugiaItaly
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- Institute of BioEconomy (IBE)National Research Council of Italy (CNR)Sesto FiorentinoItaly
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- Institute of BioEconomy (IBE)National Research Council of Italy (CNR)BolognaItaly
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- Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection (IPSP)National Research Council of Italy (CNR)Sesto FiorentinoItaly
- Department of BiologyThe University of Naples Federico IINaplesItaly
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Jones SK, Estrada-Carmona N, Juventia SD, Dulloo ME, Laporte MA, Villani C, Remans R. Agrobiodiversity Index scores show agrobiodiversity is underutilized in national food systems. NATURE FOOD 2021; 2:712-723. [PMID: 37117466 DOI: 10.1038/s43016-021-00344-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2020] [Accepted: 07/14/2021] [Indexed: 04/30/2023]
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The diversity of plants, animals and microorganisms that directly or indirectly support food and agriculture is critical to achieving healthy diets and agroecosystems. Here we present the Agrobiodiversity Index (based on 22 indicators), which provides a monitoring framework and informs food systems policy. Agrobiodiversity Index calculations for 80 countries reveal a moderate mean agrobiodiversity status score (56.0 out of 100), a moderate mean agrobiodiversity action score (47.8 out of 100) and a low mean agrobiodiversity commitment score (21.4 out of 100), indicating that much stronger commitments and concrete actions are needed to enhance agrobiodiversity across the food system. Mean agrobiodiversity status scores in consumption and conservation are 14-82% higher in developed countries than in developing countries, while scores in production are consistently low across least developed, developing and developed countries. We also found an absence of globally consistent data for several important components of agrobiodiversity, including varietal, functional and underutilized species diversity.
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- Bioversity International, Montpellier, France
- Farming Systems Ecology Group, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Tian L, Wang E, Lin X, Ji L, Chang J, Chen H, Wang J, Chen D, Tran LSP, Tian C. Wild rice harbors more root endophytic fungi than cultivated rice in the F1 offspring after crossbreeding. BMC Genomics 2021; 22:278. [PMID: 33865333 PMCID: PMC8052703 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-021-07587-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2020] [Accepted: 04/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Rice, which serves as a staple food for more than half of the world's population, is grown worldwide. The hybridization of wild and cultivated rice has enabled the incorporation of resistance to varying environmental conditions. Endophytic microbiota are known to be transferred with their host plants. Although some studies have reported on the endophytic microbiota of wild and cultivated rice, the inheritance from wild and cultivated rice accessions in next generations, in terms of endophytic microbiota, has not been examined. RESULTS In the present study, the endophytic microbial community structures of Asian and African wild and cultivated rice species were compared with those of their F1 offspring. High-throughput sequencing data of bacterial 16S rDNA and fungal internal transcribed spacer regions were used to classify the endophytic microbiota of collected samples of rice. Results indicated that when either African or Asian wild rice species were crossed with cultivated rice accessions, the first generation harbored a greater number of root endophytic fungi than the cultivated parent used to make the crosses. Network analysis of the bacterial and fungal operational taxonomic units revealed that Asian and African wild rice species clustered together and exhibited a greater number of significant correlations between fungal taxa than cultivated rice. The core bacterial genus Acidovorax and the core fungal order Pleosporales, and genera Myrothecium and Bullera connected African and Asian wild rice accessions together, and both the wild rice accessions with their F1 offspring. On the other hand, the core bacterial genus Bradyrhizobium and the core fungal genera Dendroclathra linked the African and Asian cultivated rice accessions together. CONCLUSIONS This study has theoretical significance for understanding the effect of breeding on the inheritance of endophytic microbiota of rice and identifying beneficial endophytic bacteria and fungi among wild and cultivated rice species, and their F1 offspring.
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- Lei Tian
- Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130102, Jilin, China
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- Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130102, Jilin, China
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- Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130102, Jilin, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130102, Jilin, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130102, Jilin, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Rice Research Institute, Jiangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanchang, 330200, China
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- Rice Research Institute, Jiangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanchang, 330200, China
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- Rice Research Institute, Jiangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanchang, 330200, China
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- Institute of Research and Development, Duy Tan University, Da Nang, 550000, Vietnam.
- Institute of Genomics for Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance, Department of Plant and Soil Science, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 79409, USA.
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- Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130102, Jilin, China.
- Key Laboratory of Straw Biology and Utilization of the Ministry of Education, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun, 130118, Jilin Province, China.
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Zampieri M, Weissteiner CJ, Grizzetti B, Toreti A, van den Berg M, Dentener F. Estimating resilience of crop production systems: From theory to practice. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2020; 735:139378. [PMID: 32480148 PMCID: PMC7374405 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2020] [Revised: 05/04/2020] [Accepted: 05/10/2020] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Agricultural production systems are sensitive to weather and climate anomalies and extremes as well as to other environmental and socio-economic adverse events. An adequate evaluation of the resilience of such systems helps to assess food security and the capacity of society to cope with the effects of global warming and the associated increase of climate extremes. Here, we propose and apply a simple indicator of resilience of annual crop production that can be estimated from crop production time series. First, we address the problem of quantifying resilience in a simplified theoretical framework, focusing on annual crops. This results in the proposal of an indicator, measured by the reciprocal of the squared coefficient of variance, which is proportional to the return period of the largest shocks that the crop production system can absorb, and which is consistent with the original ecological definition of resilience. Subsequently, we show the sensitivity of the crop resilience indicator to the level of management of the crop production system, to the frequency of extreme events as well as to simplified socio-economic impacts of the production losses. Finally, we demonstrate the practical applicability of the indicator using historical production data at national and sub-national levels for France. The results show that the value of the resilience indicator steeply increases with crop diversity until six crops are considered, and then levels off. The effect of diversity on production resilience is highest when crops are more diverse (i.e. as reflected in less well correlated production time series). In the case of France, the indicator reaches about 60% of the value that would be expected if all crop production time-series were uncorrelated.
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- Matteo Zampieri
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy.
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- European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy.
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- European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy.
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- European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy.
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An Exploration of Common Greenhouse Gas Emissions by the Cyanobiont of the Azolla-Nostoc Symbiosis and Clues as to Nod Factors in Cyanobacteria. PLANTS 2019; 8:plants8120587. [PMID: 31835592 PMCID: PMC6963936 DOI: 10.3390/plants8120587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2019] [Revised: 11/30/2019] [Accepted: 12/04/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Azolla is a genus of aquatic ferns that engages in a unique symbiosis with a cyanobiont that is resistant to cultivation. Azolla spp. are earmarked as a possible candidate to mitigate greenhouse gases, in particular, carbon dioxide. That opinion is underlined here in this paper to show the broader impact of Azolla spp. on greenhouse gas mitigation by revealing the enzyme catalogue in the Nostoc cyanobiont to be a poor contributor to climate change. First, regarding carbon assimilation, it was inferred that the carboxylation activity of the Rubisco enzyme of Azolla plants is able to quench carbon dioxide on par with other C3 plants and fellow aquatic free-floating macrophytes, with the cyanobiont contributing on average ~18% of the carboxylation load. Additionally, the author demonstrates here, using bioinformatics and past literature, that the Nostoc cyanobiont of Azolla does not contain nitric oxide reductase, a key enzyme that emanates nitrous oxide. In fact, all Nostoc species, both symbiotic and nonsymbiotic, are deficient in nitric oxide reductases. Furthermore, the Azolla cyanobiont is negative for methanogenic enzymes that use coenzyme conjugates to emit methane. With the absence of nitrous oxide and methane release, and the potential ability to convert ambient nitrous oxide into nitrogen gas, it is safe to say that the Azolla cyanobiont has a myriad of features that are poor contributors to climate change, which on top of carbon dioxide quenching by the Calvin cycle in Azolla plants, makes it an efficient holistic candidate to be developed as a force for climate change mitigation, especially in irrigated urea-fed rice fields. The author also shows that Nostoc cyanobionts are theoretically capable of Nod factor synthesis, similar to Rhizobia and some Frankia species, which is a new horizon to explore in the future.
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