In the pursuit of higher food production and economic growth and increasing population, we
have often jeopardized natural resources such as soil, water, vegetation, and biodiversity at …

The use of fungicide seed treatment (FST) is a very common practice worldwide. The
purported effectiveness of many fungicides in providing broad-spectrum and systemic …

Enrichment of protective microbiota in the rhizosphere facilitates disease suppression.
However, how the disruption of protective rhizobacteria affects disease suppression is …

Contaminated soils pose a risk to human and ecological health, and thermal remediation is
an efficient and reliable way to reduce soil contaminant concentration in a range of …

Background Myxobacteria are micropredators in the soil ecosystem with the capacity to
move and feed cooperatively. Some myxobacterial strains have been used to control soil …

The study of feedbacks between plants and soils (plant–soil feedbacks; PSFs) is receiving
increased attention. However, PSFs have been mostly studied in isolation of abiotic and …

We reviewed the potential of silicon (Si)-rich biochars (sichars) as crop amendments for pest
and pathogen control. The main pathosystems that emerged from our systematic literature …

Soil degradation threatens agricultural production and soil multifunctionality. Efforts for
private and public governance are increasingly emerging to leverage sustainable soil …

The soilborne fungus Rhizoctonia solani anastomosis group (AG) 8 is a major pathogen of
grain crops resulting in substantial production losses. In the absence of resistant cultivars of …

The human pathogenic bacteria (HPB) in animal feces may disseminate to agricultural soils
with their land application as organic fertilizer. However, the knowledge about the impacts of …