While horticulture tools and methods have been extensively developed to improve the
management of crops, systems to harness the rhizosphere microbiome to benefit plant crops …

Sustainable enhancement in food production from less available arable land must
encompass a balanced use of inorganic, organic, and biofertilizer sources of plant nutrients …

Functional diversity is a component of biodiversity that generally concerns the range of
things that organisms do in communities and ecosystems. Here, we review how functional …

As an essential plant macronutrient, the low availability of phosphorus (P) in most soils
imposes serious limitation on crop production. Plants have evolved complex responsive and …

Plant growth and development involves a tight coordination of the spatial and temporal
organization of cell division, cell expansion and cell differentiation. Orchestration of these …

Certain soil microorganisms can improve plant growth, and practices that encourage their
proliferation around the roots can boost production and reduce reliance on agrochemicals …

Mountains make up 24% of the world's land area, are home to 20% of the world's
population, provide 60–80% of the world's fresh water, and harbour 50% of the world's …

Increasing demand for safe food by an ever-growing human population emphasizes the
urgency for increasing crop yields and reducing the losses caused by abiotic and biotic …

We studied the effects of the application of organic matter (OM) and chemical fertilizer (CF)
on soil alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity and ALP-harboring bacterial communities in the …

Phosphorus (P) is one of the essential macronutrients for plant growth and development,
and it is an integral part of the major organic components, including nucleic acids, proteins …