Sustainable vegetable production

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is known as the most important vegetable crop that is widely cultivated throughout the world. Improvements of the growth, development, and productivity have become core strategies for the sustainable development of tomato in many countries. Here, we performed an intensive summary of recent applications of genome editing in customizing the growth habits and fruit quality in tomato plants.

10p viengels 25-08-2023 4 2   Download

The implementation of breeding programs for indoor vertical farms has been increasing to provide new varieties that have higher nutritional contents and morphological traits fitted to these sustainable production systems. Spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) is one of the fastest-growing, nutrient-dense leafy vegetables to grow indoors.

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Cotton is an essential fiber producing crop in the world. It also supports additional industries by providing high quality oil and protein in the form of cottonseed cake. Currently, there is an urgent need to increase lint yield, fiber quality, and resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses due to rising pressure from a global population and possible supply shortages from the effects of erratic climate changes. Classic plant breeding and transgenic strategies need more genetic breakthroughs to support the increasing pressure for fiber quantity and quality.

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Plants grown under shade are exposed to low red/far-red ratio, thereby triggering an array of altered phenotypes called shade avoidance syndrome (SAS). Shade negatively influences plant growth, leading to a reduction in agricultural productivity. Understanding of SAS is crucial for sustainable agricultural practices, especially for high-density indoor farming. Brassicaceae vegetables are widely consumed around the world and are commonly cultivated in indoor farms.

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Dependence on marine natural resources threatens the sustainability of Atlantic salmon aquaculture. In the present study, Atlantic salmon fed for 14 weeks with an experimental diet based on animal by-products and vegetable oil (ABP) exhibited reduced growth performance compared with others fed a fish meal/fish oil based experimental diet (MAR) and a plant protein/vegetable oil-based experimental diet (VEG). To characterize the molecular changes underlying the differences in growth performance, we conducted a 44 K microarray study of the liver transcriptome of the three dietary groups.

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The aim of this research was to evaluate the fertilizing capacity of an innovative zeolite product, characterised by an encapsulated structure with an organic matrix on vegetable and ornamental plants and the interaction with soil microorganisms present in the cultivation substrates. The experiments, started in January 2021, were conducted in the greenhouses of CREA-OF in Pescia (PT), Tuscany.

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Water supply limits agricultural productivity of many crops including lettuce. Identifying cultivars within crop species that can maintain productivity with reduced water supply is a significant challenge, but central to developing resilient crops for future water-limited climates.

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This paper discuss the impact of watershed interventions on bio-physical, hydrological, agricultural and socio-economic indicators. Changes were detected in land use for agriculture crops, water body coverage and area under very good soil moisture. Ground water table and crop productivity were improved. Migration of workers from rural to urban areas was declined.The mean gross income of households was increased. Overall, the watershed interventions provided resilience by ensuring sustainable multiple outputs, besides soil and water conservation.

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Continuous use of chemical fertilizers without organic sources poses soil health issues whereas organic manures using alone without inorganics could not be able to fulfill the requirement of high nutrient demanding crops due to the bulk and slow-acting nature of these organic fertilizer sources. However, neither organic fertilizers nor inorganic fertilizers alone can maintain productivity. The major yield limiting factors in crops production in Indian soils are NPS deficiencies.

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Researchers have found an eco-friendly alternative by the way of incorporating microbial biofertilizers to supersede chemical fertilizers. Microbial biofertilizers has been analysed as substitute in procuring soil fertility and expanding vegetable production. Microbial fertilizers are promising enough to outstand the chemical fertilizers ensuring sustainable agriculture without disrupting the environment.

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As energy source, palm oil has become a serious concern for various palm oil stakeholders because it is related to the vegetable oil needs for 7.7 billion people in the world. Nagan Raya District is a central of palm oil in the western region of Aceh and inseparable from the issue of sustainability. This study is designed using quantitative approach. The data collected by self-administered questionnaire to 300 palm stakeholders. The results indicated that the social variable has strong contribution to sustain the palm oil as one of primary energy source.

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To the maximum extent feasible, it largely rely upon crop rotations, crop residues, animal manures, legumes, green manures, off farm organic wastes, mechanical cultivation, mineral bearing rocks and biological pest and disease control measures to maintain soil productivity and tilth to supply plant nutritions and to control insects, weeds and other pests (USDA Report, 1980).

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The experiment was carried out in the Department of Horticulture (Vegetable and Floriculture), Bihar Agricultural College, sabour to study the role of biofertilizers and chemical fertilizers for onion production. The experiment was laid out in a factorial randomized block design, replicated thrice with onion variety Arka Kalyan.

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Biotechnology has played an important role towards the attainment of production sustainability of crops by using various biotechnological tools. Biotechnology has the potential to provide new opportunities for achieving enhanced crop productivity in a way that will alleviate poverty, improve food security and nutrition, and promote sustainable use of natural resources. Efforts are being made towards nutritional improvement of crops by using the tools of biotechnology by increasing the levels of essential nutrients.

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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal symbiosis has a significant impact on sustainable growth and development of various plants as they help to acclimatize with biotic and abiotic conditions. A study was conducted to determine the effects of various mycorrhizae based products at different concentrations on yield and quality of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) cv. Kufri Sindhuri during Rabi 2016-17 at Vegetable research farm, Department of Horticulture, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, BHU, Varanasi.

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Pulses occupy unique place in Indian diet with supplying of vegetable protein to primarily starchy diet and provide an essential supplement for balance diet. Therefore, it is essential to increase the sustainable productivity with more appropriate management of nutrient utilization of plants so that with same area, we can increase pulses sustainable production.

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Traditional farming has imbalance and excess use of chemicals and, in turn, to negative environmental impacts on soil health, groundwater, and atmosphere. Sensor based farming system should be more sustainable to reach economical and social profitability as well as the sustainable environment. A correct solution is to adopt precision farming, the best option for sustaining food production without declining the ecosystem.

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A field study from 2009 to 2013 was carried out to investigate the effect of organic manure including panchagavya and biodynamic spray on commonly used tomato-coriander-pea and cauliflower-cauliflower-peacropping system in Western Himalaya. The results revealed that cropping systems differ significantly in terms of soil microbial properties. The tomato-coriander-pea crop sequence recorded higher soil carbon biomass and population of soil bacteria, fungi and actinomycetes as compared to cauliflowercauliflower-pea crop sequence.

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The water conservation is vital to maintain agricultural production in areas of small rainfall or jagged rain sharing. Under this situation, surface and Sub-surface drip irrigation may play a momentous role in overcoming the paucity of water and economic production of vegetable crops, particularly in water shortage areas. Drip irrigation is the most efficient slow, even application of low-pressure water to soil and plants using plastic tubing placed near the plants' root zone.

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Garden pea is an important vegetable crop due to its high protein content. Plant nutrients from single source cannot meet with optimum and sustained yield levels. Nutrients have to be supplied from different sources in an integrated manner and balanced amounts. However, information in these aspects in garden pea in Assam is lacking. Keeping in view of the above facts the research was conducted with the objective to study the effect of biofertilizer consortium, FYM, enriched compost and chemical fertilizers on sustainable production and profitability of garden pea.

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