B. K. Kandpal

TL;DR: The paper reviews the advances in proper land and seedbed preparation, optimum seed and sowing, planting technique, crop geometry, plant canopy, appropriate cropping system, integrated nutrient management and so forth to meet the ever growing demand of oil in the country and to realize the goal of production of 24 million tonnes of oilseed by 2020 AD through these advanced management techniques.

TL;DR: In this paper, a study was conducted to test the hypothesis that the inclusion of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp) live mulch under no-till and reduced tillage in the summer maize (Zea mays L.) - rainy season maize-mustard (Brassica juncea (L.) czern) sequence would enhance agronomic productivity, energy use efficiency, and water productivity while reducing greenhouse gases emissions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a phytoremediation method for heavy metal pollution in the agro-ecosystem by using Brassica sp., including Indian mustard (Brassica juncea) for toxic metal removal from soil.

TL;DR: Higher abundance of genes reported for plant growth promotion and several other genes, including iron complex outer membrane receptor, cobalt-zinc-cadmium resistance, sigma-70 factor, and ribonuclease E, was predicted in the rhizosphere samples in comparison to bulk soils, indicating that the pea plants shape their rhizospheric microbiome, plausibly to meet its requirements for nutrient uptake and stress amelioration.

TL;DR: In this paper, aeolian mass fluxes at different heights from soil surface were measured at two major rangelands in the Indian Thar Desert: overgrazing rangeland at Jaisalmer (26°55′N and 70°57′E), and controlled grazing ranchand at Chandan (27°01′N, and 71°1′E). Evaluation of several mass-height profile models revealed that a power decay function [ q ( z ) = a z − b, where q( z ) is the measured mass flux at