M. N. Karthik

Climate-smart Agriculture as a Systems Transition: Integrating Agroecology, Renewable Energy and Institutions for Sustainable and Climate-resilient Farming

M. N. Karthik, S. S. T. Aarthi, K. B. Hazeera, G. P. Sathwik, N. H. Basha & K. Deepasri · International Journal of Environment and Climate Change · 2026

Climate-smart agriculture has become an influential framework for aligning agricultural productivity, adaptation and greenhouse-gas mitigation, yet its practical meaning remains contested because no technology is intrinsically climate-smart across all places, scales and social gr...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ijecc/2026/v16i85612

CRISPR Gene Editing Technology for Sustainable Weed Management: A Critical Narrative Review

M. N. Karthik, V. Chandrika, D. Subramanyam, P. Venkata Subbaiah, P. Latha, S. S. T. Aarthi, K. B. Hazeera, G. P. Sathwik & N. H. Basha · Journal of Scientific Research and Reports · 2026

Weed management is increasingly constrained by herbicide resistance, shrinking chemical options, rising production costs, and the ecological consequences of repeated reliance on a small number of control tactics. Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jsrr/2026/v32i84418

Climate-Resilient Cultivation of Rice under Agronomic Bio-fortification with Iron and Zinc

S. S. T Aarthi, J. S. Sudha Rani & M. N. Karthik · International Journal of Plant & Soil Science · 2026

Iron and zinc deficiencies are the major global public health challenges, in rice-dependent regions. The nutritional intakes fall short of the Recommended Dietary Allowances due to deficiencies in two important micronutrients, leading to low productivity, widespread malnutrition,...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ijpss/2026/v38i66103