Climate change poses an unprecedented challenge to global food security, threatening to undermine decades of agricultural progress through increased temperatures, erratic precipitation patterns, prolonged droughts, and intensified pest and disease pressures. Crop breeding, empowe...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2026/v29i64022
Plant disease and pest surveillance is undergoing a profound technological transition. Conventional crop protection has historically depended on episodic field scouting, expert visual inspection, and broad-spectrum preventative spraying, all of which are constrained by labour int...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2026/v29i53967
Drought constitutes one of the most pervasive abiotic constraints limiting global crop productivity, with its frequency and intensity projected to increase substantially under ongoing climate change. This narrative review synthesises contemporary evidence on the genetic, physiolo...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2026/v29i94290
Irrigated agriculture consumes the largest share of global freshwater withdrawals, and this dependence is intensifying as rainfall variability and evaporative demand increase under a warming climate. Deficit irrigation, defined as the deliberate application of water below full cr...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2026/v48i84400
Foliar micronutrient application may improve reproductive and yield-related performance in high-density guava orchards. This investigation evaluated graded foliar concentrations of zinc and boron in guava (Psidium guajava L.) cv. Allahabad Safeda during 2021–22 at the Horticultur...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2026/v29i84198