Title: Crop Yields Increase - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Headings: Crop Yields Increase
Crop Yields Increase
Endophytic bacteria in plant disease management
4.7 Conclusion
PESTICIDES
Introduction
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Content: However, the biotechnological potential of these microbes could be better estimated by analyzing their modes and constraints with host plant interaction. The challenge in such study areas may be managed by keeping microbial communities in favor of plant colonization through beneficial endophytic bacteria as well as simultaneously avoiding harmful endophytes or other associated microbial forms. View chapter Purchase book
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PESTICIDES
R.H. Bromilow, in Encyclopedia of Soils in the Environment, 2005
Introduction
Pesticides are used worldwide and increase crop yield on average by 30% as well as improving crop quality. Modern organic (i.e., carbon-containing) pesticides have been used widely since the late 1940s, and so there is over 50 years of experience of their behavior in the environment and their impact upon it. The spectrum of compounds applied over this time has changed substantially, with, for example, the older organochlorine insecticides being phased out and with completely new types of chemical structures being regularly introduced. Though increasingly strict registration criteria, coupled with market forces, are leading to the discontinuation of the use of many older compounds, it is likely that several hundred active ingredients will remain available. In the European Union, for example, perhaps 300 of approximately 850 formerly approved compounds will still be marketed after the current review process. The soil is the ultimate sink for much of the pesticide that is applied to crops or indeed to uncropped land such as railway tracks. Compounds such as nematicides (for control of plant-parasitic nematode worms) are usually incorporated into the topsoil.