Microalgae, soil and plants: A critical review of microalgae as renewable resources for agriculture

AL Alvarez, SL Weyers, HM Goemann, BM Peyton… - Algal Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The tension between a growing global demand for food, rising environmental impacts of
agricultural intensification, and the uncertainty of future changes in our global climate …

Microalgae as multi-functional options in modern agriculture: current trends, prospects and challenges

N Renuka, A Guldhe, R Prasanna, P Singh… - Biotechnology advances, 2018 - Elsevier
Algae are a group of ubiquitous photosynthetic organisms comprising eukaryotic green
algae and Gram-negative prokaryotic cyanobacteria, which have immense potential as a …

[HTML][HTML] Renewable sources of plant biostimulation: microalgae as a sustainable means to improve crop performance

P Chiaiese, G Corrado, G Colla, MC Kyriacou… - Frontiers in plant …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Plant biostimulants (PBs) attract interest in modern agriculture as a tool to enhance crop
performance, resilience to environmental stress, and nutrient use efficiency. PBs encompass …

Advances in microalgal research for valorization of industrial wastewater

R Maurya, X Zhu, B Valverde-Pérez, BR Kiran… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
This review article focuses on recent updates on remediation of industrial wastewater (IWW)
through microalgae cultivation. These include how adding additional supplements of …

Plant-cyanobacteria interactions: Beneficial and harmful effects of cyanobacterial bioactive compounds on soil-plant systems and subsequent risk to animal and …

B Nowruzi, N Bouaïcha, JS Metcalf, SJ Porzani… - Phytochemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Plant-cyanobacteria interactions occur in different ways and at many different levels, both
beneficial and harmful. Plant-cyanobacteria interactions, as a beneficial symbiosis, have …

Cyanobacteria in plant health: Biological strategy against abiotic and biotic stresses

J Poveda - Crop Protection, 2021 - Elsevier
Abiotic and biotic stresses can dramatically reduce the productivity of agricultural crops,
causing serious economic and social problems. Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic …

Spirulina platensis Biofertilization for Enhancing Growth, Photosynthetic Capacity and Yield of Lupinus luteus

ZA Shedeed, S Gheda, S Elsanadily, K Alharbi… - Agriculture, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cyanobacteria can play an important role in sustainable agriculture by improving crop
growth and production, as well as environmental quality. The current study was conducted to …

[HTML][HTML] Prospection of cyanobacteria producing bioactive substances and their application as potential phytostimulating agents

AJ Toribio, F Suárez-Estrella, MM Jurado… - Biotechnology …, 2020 - Elsevier
This work clarifies some of the substances involved with the biostimulant effect shown by 28
cyanobacteria isolated from different aquatic environments. The production of salicylic acid …

Potential benefit of microalgae and their interaction with bacteria to sustainable crop production

W Solomon, L Mutum, T Janda, Z Molnár - Plant Growth Regulation, 2023 - Springer
Agriculture is undergoing a paradigm shift as it moves away from relying only on
agrochemicals toward natural-based product to enhance plant growth and productivity while …

Replacing nitrogen fertilizer with nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria reduced nitrogen leaching in red soil paddy fields

X Song, J Zhang, C Peng, D Li - Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Excessive chemical nitrogen (N) fertilizer application and flood irrigation in rice production
can lead to substantial soil-N losses and low nitrogen-use-efficiency (NUE) in rice due to N …