[{"id":209,"title":"Immobilization and use of pure cultures and microbial consortium isolated from specialized niches for improved crop productivity","sha":"5387495e30493fec826d81f58a973d8f","user_id":null,"state":"published","body":"Now a day, sustainable agricultural practice for increased production is most significant concerns. The fertile agricultural land is reducing day by day due to increased population and overburden of excessive use of chemical fertilizer and pesticides. The uses of immobilized pure culture microorganisms and their extremozymes and the microbial consortium have increased demand. It is observed that immobilized microbial pure culture and the microbial consortium have been repeatedly reused and there was no decline in efficiency of immobilized cells. Thus, usage of immobilized microbial pure culture and microbial consortium (such as Burkholderia, Azotobacter, Azospirillium,Pseudomonas, Rhizobium  Bacillus,and Serratia and  Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) like Methylobacterium, Exiguobacterium, Azoarcus, Paenibacillus and Pantoea etc.) isolated from specialized niches may be promising application in agriculture for improved crop productivity.\r\n","created_at":"2015-08-26T17:18:57.184Z","updated_at":"2015-09-01T03:58:32.809Z","zenodo_id":57585,"doi":"http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.29595","subject":null,"tags":["plant productivity","improved agriculture practices","microorganisms isolated from specialized niche","enzymes and metabolites for increased crop productivity","sustainable agriculture"],"vote_count":1,"view_count":1,"score":1.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":false,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null},{"id":364,"title":"Arduino-ponics","sha":"eb7a37d9bee2b2acb6d8524946cc9dd0","user_id":null,"state":"published","body":"The world is heading towards a global food crisis in that there will be more people on earth ( +-9 billion) in 2050 than there have ever been. Furthermore, the food needed to feed this growing population will require that we produce more food in the next 40 years than has been produced on earth in all human history. The Food and Health Organization has on numerous occasion highlighted the importance of small scale farmers as a necessity in  reaching the projected increase in food production required. This is promising for the rural communities particularly those in Africa however, the expectations set on them requires that they are able to jump over the developmental learning curve typically required of modern technology and will be expected to do this with very little access to the modern world. It is proposed that an interconnected network of small farmers which make use of open source tools such as Arduino and the Raspberry Pi would be able to transmit high quality data to centralized agricultural hubs where expert panels are able to monitor and advise. The progression into the digital age where the Internet of Things can assist a rural farmer will aid in the continued production of in a sustainable way. ","created_at":"2017-02-15T09:32:14.632Z","updated_at":"2020-04-14T21:00:52.385Z","zenodo_id":321597,"doi":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.321597","subject":null,"tags":["aquaponics","sustainable agriculture","arduino"],"vote_count":1,"view_count":1,"score":1.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":true,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null}]