In the last thirty years, numerous scientific revolutions have been planned to improve the ecological balance of agricultural production methods, via a considerable decrease of inorganic compounds like pesticides, synthetic plant growth hormones and fertilizers. A favorable and environment sustainable modernization should be the practice of normal plant biostimulants (PBs) which augment flowering, plant evolution, fruit formation, crop output and efficient nutrient mobilization, and ability to endure a varied array of abiotic stressors. PBs was primarily deciphered via exclusive of various functions similar to fertilizers or plant protection by-products. They are assorted constituents and microbes resorted to boost plant development. This review aimed to present the plant biostimulants definition, major classifications, and impacts on floras, soil and ecology.
Morphological markers were used to characterize 22 taro cultivars collected from four North Eastern states of India. The experiment was laid out in Randomized Block Design with three replications during 2016 and 2017. Results of principal component analysis interpreted that morphological characters like plant height, plant span, leaf area index, number of suckers, number of inflorescence/leaf axis, corm length, corm diameter, corm weight, number of cormels, cormel diameter and yield/plant contributed maximum to the variation among the cultivars and can be used as minimum descriptors for characterizing taro cultivars. The dendrogram summarizing the existence of diversity and similarities among the cultivars revealed that the cultivars were clustered mainly by plant height, petiole colour and corm weight. The cultivars were grouped into two main clusters i.e.
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