nitrogen

Crop nutrients determine the nutritional content and vigour of crops. The deficiency or occurrence below the minimum level of any of the nutrients is often seen as a cause of poor growth or complete crop failure. A study has found that…
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In a major boost to the scientific efforts for crop improvement to save nitrogenous pollution and fertilizers worth billions, Indian biotechnologists identified candidate genes for nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) in rice. This was…
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A year after India imposed its first national lockdown on March 25th, 2020, due to a global pandemic, pollution in Delhi is returning to its pre-Covid-19 levels. Commonly referred to as the pollution capital of India, the city is witnessing…
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Crops take only about 30 per cent of the nitrogen fertilizer added and the rest gets washed away to cause pollution, ill-health and climate change. Improving this poor ‘nitrogen use efficiency’ (NUE) was a major global challenge for…
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