Seed Coating with Beneficial Microbes for Precision Farming

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  • Nikita Gautam

Abstract

Seed coating is a technique used to cover seeds with adhesive agents in order to improve seed performance and create plants while reducing the cost of production. Seed coating has been broadly used in agriculture as an effective means of alleviating biotic and abiotic stress, thereby enhancing the crop yield, growth and health, to meet the needs of precision farming development. Plant growth promoting microorganisms (PGPM) are recognized as an important contributor to increasing agricultural productivity by direct application to the rhizosphere and tissues of plants or seed inoculation.During traditional inoculation processes, however, many factors such as inadequate microbial survival, impediment to the application of biocontrol inocula to seeds, and exposure to unsuitable temperature and light in subsequent seed storage force us to explore effective and reliable microbial application methods.Because of its ecological health and socio-economic dimensions, biological seed coating with PGPM has recently been suggested as an alternative to traditional seed treatment (such as fertilizer and protective products).In this paper, technology of microbial seed coating and its contribution to the sustainable precision farming are discussed.

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2021-03-01

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Nikita Gautam. (2021). Seed Coating with Beneficial Microbes for Precision Farming. International Journal of Modern Agriculture, 10(1), 813 - 818. Retrieved from https://modern-journals.com/index.php/ijma/article/view/671

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