Biology and Life Sciences Forum, Volume 16, Issue 1

The world faces the challenge of producing a sufficient amount of food for the constantly growing human population in a sustainable manner. It means the usage of pesticides and fertilizers with minimized adverse effects on the environment and the wid...

Organic agriculture, recognized as a more sustainable agricultural system, strongly depends on the use of highly resilient genotypes. Seed resilience, with increased tolerance to germination that provide vigorous seedlings under environmental stresse...

Biological amendments, namely Pseudomonas florescence, Azotobacter chroococcum, K mobilizers, and AM fungi, were expedited during an air-layering operation on litchi (Litchi chinensis Sonn.). Twenty-five-year healthy progeny of mother plants were mai...

Traditional crop varieties are useful sources of desirable characteristics for developing new cultivars with improved nutritive and sensory attributes. The aim of this study was to evaluate the fruit-quality parameters in three traditional tomato gen...

Foliar application of humic acid along with bio-inoculants in 4-year-old inarched guava cv. Lalit in meadow orcharding system was carried out. Foliar application of humic acid @ 30 and 60 mL/L at bud burst to flowering stage and bio-inoculants (Phosp...

Loss in fresh fruit mainly occurs due to their susceptibility to mechanical damage during the postharvest supply chain. Mechanical damage can reduce the quality of fresh produce during handling, especially if not consumed directly, which is a critica...

Different parts of Cynara cardunculus, var. scolymus L., have been used in traditional medicine to treat various disorders and as a coagulant in cheese making. In this work, phenolics from different parts of globe artichoke of the local cultivar &ldq...

In various parts of India, tomatoes are grown using eco-friendly indigenous organic manures prepared from cow products for sustainable food production by small and marginal farmers. The main objective of the study was to compare the postharvest quali...

Greenhouse cultivation is one of the most crucial circular economy systems in agriculture that allows maximum production with less cultivation area, minimum inputs, and low environmental impact. The data generated in high-tech and sophisticated green...

The aim of this review is to summarize our recently reported findings on the use of preharvest treatments (shade nets), applied either directly or in combination with other techniques (grafting) in order to minimize physiological disorders and maximi...