Exploiting biological nitrogen fixation: a route towards a sustainable agriculture

A Soumare, AG Diedhiou, M Thuita, M Hafidi… - Plants, 2020 - mdpi.com
For all living organisms, nitrogen is an essential element, while being the most limiting in
ecosystems and for crop production. Despite the significant contribution of synthetic …

[HTML][HTML] Synergistic and antagonistic interactions between potassium and magnesium in higher plants

K Xie, I Cakmak, S Wang, F Zhang, S Guo - The Crop Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
Magnesium (Mg) affects various critical physiological and biochemical processes in higher
plants, and its deficiency impedes plant growth and development. Although potassium (K) …

Southeast Asia must narrow down the yield gap to continue to be a major rice bowl

S Yuan, AM Stuart, AG Laborte, JI Rattalino Edreira… - Nature Food, 2022 - nature.com
Southeast Asia is a major rice-producing region with a high level of internal consumption
and accounting for 40% of global rice exports. Limited land resources, climate change and …

Biostimulants in plant science: a global perspective

OI Yakhin, AA Lubyanov, IA Yakhin… - Frontiers in plant …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
This review presents a comprehensive and systematic study of the field of plant
biostimulants and considers the fundamental and innovative principles underlying this …

Global anthropogenic phosphorus loads to freshwater and associated grey water footprints and water pollution levels: A high‐resolution global study

MM Mekonnen, AY Hoekstra - Water resources research, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We estimate the global anthropogenic phosphorus (P) loads to freshwater and the
associated grey water footprints (GWFs) for the period 2002–2010, at a spatial resolution of …

Effects of nutrient antagonism and synergism on yield and fertilizer use efficiency

RPJJ Rietra, M Heinen, CO Dimkpa… - … in soil science and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Interaction among plant nutrients can yield antagonistic or synergistic outcomes that
influence nutrient use efficiency. To provide insight on this phenomenon, peer-reviewed …

Soil nutrient maps of Sub-Saharan Africa: assessment of soil nutrient content at 250 m spatial resolution using machine learning

T Hengl, JGB Leenaars, KD Shepherd… - Nutrient Cycling in …, 2017 - Springer
Spatial predictions of soil macro and micro-nutrient content across Sub-Saharan Africa at
250 m spatial resolution and for 0–30 cm depth interval are presented. Predictions were …

Chitosan-based agronanochemicals as a sustainable alternative in crop protection

FN Maluin, MZ Hussein - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
The rise in the World's food demand in line with the increase of the global population has
resulted in calls for more research on the production of sustainable food and sustainable …

Life's bottleneck: sustaining the world's phosphorus for a food secure future

D Cordell, S White - Annual review of environment and …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Phosphorus security is emerging as one of the twenty-first century's greatest global
sustainability challenges. Phosphorus has no substitute in food production, and the use of …

The significance of microbial transformation of nitrogen compounds in the light of integrated crop management

A Grzyb, A Wolna-Maruwka, A Niewiadomska - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Nitrogen (N) is widely distributed in the lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere and
biosphere. It is a basic component of every plant cell as well as microorganisms, as a …