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Pradeep Kumar Dubey. Blue Planet Prize 2021 to Professor Mohan Munasinghe for Pioneering ‘Sustainomics’: An Integrative, Transdisciplinary Framework for Sustainable Development. Anthropocene Science 2021, 1 -2.
AMA StylePradeep Kumar Dubey. Blue Planet Prize 2021 to Professor Mohan Munasinghe for Pioneering ‘Sustainomics’: An Integrative, Transdisciplinary Framework for Sustainable Development. Anthropocene Science. 2021; ():1-2.
Chicago/Turabian StylePradeep Kumar Dubey. 2021. "Blue Planet Prize 2021 to Professor Mohan Munasinghe for Pioneering ‘Sustainomics’: An Integrative, Transdisciplinary Framework for Sustainable Development." Anthropocene Science , no. : 1-2.
Pradeep Kumar Dubey; Ajeet Singh; Rajan Chaurasia; Krishna Kumar Pandey; Sunidhi Singh. Fostering Nature-Based Solutions for Ecorestoration and Attaining United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Journal of Cleaner Production 2021, 298, 126680 .
AMA StylePradeep Kumar Dubey, Ajeet Singh, Rajan Chaurasia, Krishna Kumar Pandey, Sunidhi Singh. Fostering Nature-Based Solutions for Ecorestoration and Attaining United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2021; 298 ():126680.
Chicago/Turabian StylePradeep Kumar Dubey; Ajeet Singh; Rajan Chaurasia; Krishna Kumar Pandey; Sunidhi Singh. 2021. "Fostering Nature-Based Solutions for Ecorestoration and Attaining United Nations Sustainable Development Goals." Journal of Cleaner Production 298, no. : 126680.
Global agricultural production is accountable for the emission of ~30% of greenhouse gases. Therefore, the wide-scale adoptions of low-input, soil-friendly, and resource-conserving agronomic practices are imperative for the ‘planet healthy food production’ and also for reducing the carbon emissions from agricultural soil. In this context, the present study aimed to analyze the impacts of integrated agronomic interventions i.e., the application of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) + reduced tillage (RT), biochar + RT, and AMF + biochar + RT, on spatiotemporal variations in soil-quality and soil-sustainability indicators, including microbial and soil respiration, in the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) of North India. For this, field experiments on the above-mentioned agronomic interventions were employed using three different staple crops (Zea mays, Vigna mungo, and Brassica juncea) growing in three different agro-climatic zones of IGP (Varanasi, Sultanpur, and Gorakhpur) in a randomized block design. Periodic data collection was done to analyze the changes in physiochemical, biological, and biochemical properties of the soil, and statistical analyses were done accordingly. Irrespective of the sites, the experimental results proved that the integrated application of AMF + biochar + RT in V. mungo resulted in the highest soil organic carbon (i.e., 135% increment over the control) and microbial biomass carbon (24%), whereas the same application (i.e., AMF + biochar + RT) in Z. mays had the maximum reduction in microbial (32%) and soil (44%) respiration. On the other hand, enhanced occurrence of glomalin activity (98%) was noted in Z. mays cropping for all the sites. Significant negative correlation between soil respiration and glomalin activity under AMF + biochar + RT (−0.85), AMF + RT (−0.82), and biochar + RT (−0.62) was an indication of glomalin’s role in the reduced rate of soil respiration. The research results proved that the combined application of AMF + biochar + RT was the best practice for enhancing soil quality while reducing respiration. Therefore, the development of suitable packages of integrated agronomic practices is essential for agricultural sustainability.
Rama Dubey; Pradeep Dubey; Rajan Chaurasia; Ch Rao; Purushothaman Abhilash. Impact of Integrated Agronomic Practices on Soil Fertility and Respiration on the Indo-Gangetic Plain of North India. Agronomy 2021, 11, 402 .
AMA StyleRama Dubey, Pradeep Dubey, Rajan Chaurasia, Ch Rao, Purushothaman Abhilash. Impact of Integrated Agronomic Practices on Soil Fertility and Respiration on the Indo-Gangetic Plain of North India. Agronomy. 2021; 11 (2):402.
Chicago/Turabian StyleRama Dubey; Pradeep Dubey; Rajan Chaurasia; Ch Rao; Purushothaman Abhilash. 2021. "Impact of Integrated Agronomic Practices on Soil Fertility and Respiration on the Indo-Gangetic Plain of North India." Agronomy 11, no. 2: 402.
Pradeep Kumar Dubey. Biodiversity: The Nature-Based Solution for Pandemics and Human Well-being. Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability 2020, 8, 93 .
AMA StylePradeep Kumar Dubey. Biodiversity: The Nature-Based Solution for Pandemics and Human Well-being. Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability. 2020; 8 (1):93.
Chicago/Turabian StylePradeep Kumar Dubey. 2020. "Biodiversity: The Nature-Based Solution for Pandemics and Human Well-being." Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability 8, no. 1: 93.
Ensuring the food and nutritional demand of the ever-growing human population is a major sustainability challenge for humanity in this Anthropocene. The cultivation of climate resilient, adaptive and underutilized wild crops along with modern crop varieties is proposed as an innovative strategy for managing future agricultural production under the changing environmental conditions. Such underutilized and neglected wild crops have been recently projected by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations as ‘future smart crops’ as they are not only hardy, and resilient to changing climatic conditions, but also rich in nutrients. They need only minimal care and input, and therefore, they can be easily grown in degraded and nutrient-poor soil also. Moreover, they can be used for improving the adaptive traits of modern crops. The contribution of such neglected, and underutilized crops and their wild relatives to global food production is estimated to be around 115–120 billion US$ per annum. Therefore, the exploitation of such lesser utilized and yet to be used wild crops is highly significant for climate resilient agriculture and thereby providing a good quality of life to one and all. Here we provide four steps, namely: (i) exploring the unexplored, (ii) refining the unrefined traits, (iii) cultivating the uncultivated, and (iv) popularizing the unpopular for the sustainable utilization of such wild crops as a resilient strategy for ensuring food and nutritional security and also urge the timely adoption of suitable frameworks for the large-scale exploitation of such wild species for achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Ajeet Singh; Pradeep Kumar Dubey; Rajan Chaurasia; Rama Kant Dubey; Krishna Kumar Pandey; Gopal Shankar Singh; Purushothaman Chirakkuzhyil Abhilash. Domesticating the Undomesticated for Global Food and Nutritional Security: Four Steps. Agronomy 2019, 9, 491 .
AMA StyleAjeet Singh, Pradeep Kumar Dubey, Rajan Chaurasia, Rama Kant Dubey, Krishna Kumar Pandey, Gopal Shankar Singh, Purushothaman Chirakkuzhyil Abhilash. Domesticating the Undomesticated for Global Food and Nutritional Security: Four Steps. Agronomy. 2019; 9 (9):491.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAjeet Singh; Pradeep Kumar Dubey; Rajan Chaurasia; Rama Kant Dubey; Krishna Kumar Pandey; Gopal Shankar Singh; Purushothaman Chirakkuzhyil Abhilash. 2019. "Domesticating the Undomesticated for Global Food and Nutritional Security: Four Steps." Agronomy 9, no. 9: 491.