Fe Acquisition by Crops: Strategies and Efficiency
Two factors can interfere with acquisition and use of Fe by crops, even when Fe availability in soils is not limiting. Firstly, plant breeding to increase crop yield and improve…
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Mycorrhiza and Phosphate Solubilizing Bacteria: Potential Bioagents for Sustainable Phosphorus Management in Agriculture
Phosphorus (P) is a critical nutrient that plays an essential role in improving soil fertility for optimum plant growth and productivity. It is one of the most deficient macro-nutrients in…
The Native Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Vermicompost-Based Organic Amendments Enhance Soil Fertility, Growth Performance, and the Drought Stress Tolerance of Quinoa
Benaffari W; Boutasknit A; Anli M; Ait-El-mokhtar M; Ait-Rahou Y; Ben-Laouane R; Ahmed H; Mitsui T; Baslam M; Meddich A Plants (2022) 11(3) https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/5a9f53df-0bda-39f4-a7c0-aafd24ddb1cc/ This study aimed to determine the…
Large small soil arthropods since millions of years in our healthy soils
This little mite you see is an oribatid, this group of mites was already functionally diverse in the earliest soils of Earth’s history, these mites have been evolving within the…
Soils: where food begins
WORLD SOIL DAY 2022 Soil nutrient loss is one of the major soil degradation processes that threatens nutrition and is recognized as one of the most important global issues for…
Micronutrients in Food Production: What Can We Learn from Natural Ecosystems?
Denton-Thompson, S. Sayer, E. Soil Systems 6(1), 8 (2022) https://doi.org/10.3390/soilsystems6010008 Soil micronutrients limit crop productivity in many regions worldwide, and micronutri-ent deficiencies affect over two billion people globally. Microbial biofertilizers…
Biofertilizers: An ecofriendly technology for nutrient recycling and environmental sustainability
Kumar, S., Satyavir, D. , Sindhu, S. & Kumar, R. Current Research in Microbial Sciences Volume 3, 2022 Modern intensive agricultural practices face numerous challenges that pose major threats to…
Science week in Clean-Biotec
Last week CLEAN-BIOTEC celebrated science week with two activities for our future scientists. On the one hand, Ph. D. Javier Sáenz de Cabezón gave two workshops on soil biodiversity and…
Glycoproteins of arbuscular mycorrhiza for soil carbon sequestration: Review of mechanisms and controls
Agnihotri, R., Sharma, M.P., Prakash, A., Ramesh, A., Bhattacharjya, S., Patra. A.K., Manna, M.C., Kurganova, I., Kuzyakov, Y. Science of the Total Environment (2022) Glycoproteins, e.g., glomalin related soil proteins…
October 18: World Nature Protection Day
Every October 18 is celebrated, since 1972, the World Day for the Protection of Nature. The date was established by the UN with the aim of motivating environmental responsibility on…
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