Vermicompost: Enhancing plant growth and combating abiotic and biotic stress

S Rehman, F De Castro, A Aprile, M Benedetti… - Agronomy, 2023 - mdpi.com
Extensive application of agrochemicals for crop production and protection has negatively
affected soil health, crop productivity, and the environment. Organic amendments have been …

Biostimulants for the regulation of reactive oxygen species metabolism in plants under abiotic stress

M Hasanuzzaman, K Parvin, K Bardhan, K Nahar… - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Global food security for a growing population with finite resources is often challenged by
multiple, simultaneously occurring on-farm abiotic stresses (ie, drought, salinity, low and …

The role of biostimulants and bioeffectors as alleviators of abiotic stress in crop plants

MJ Van Oosten, O Pepe, S De Pascale, S Silletti… - Chemical and Biological …, 2017 - Springer
The use of bioeffectors, formally known as plant biostimulants, has become common
practice in agriculture and provides a number of benefits in stimulating growth and …

Biostimulants for plant growth and mitigation of abiotic stresses: A metabolomics perspective

L Nephali, LA Piater, IA Dubery, V Patterson, J Huyser… - Metabolites, 2020 - mdpi.com
Adverse environmental conditions due to climate change, combined with declining soil
fertility, threaten food security. Modern agriculture is facing a pressing situation where novel …

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 …

Biostimulant-treated seedlings under sustainable agriculture: A global perspective facing climate change

A Malik, VS Mor, J Tokas, H Punia, S Malik, K Malik… - Agronomy, 2020 - mdpi.com
The primary objectives of modern agriculture includes the environmental sustainability, low
production costs, improved plants' resilience to various biotic and abiotic stresses, and high …

Physiological responses to humic substances as plant growth promoter

LP Canellas, FL Olivares - Chemical and Biological Technologies in …, 2014 - Springer
Humic substances (HS) have been widely recognized as a plant growth promoter mainly by
changes on root architecture and growth dynamics, which result in increased root size …

Humic substances contribute to plant iron nutrition acting as chelators and biostimulants

L Zanin, N Tomasi, S Cesco, Z Varanini… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Improvement of plant iron nutrition as a consequence of metal complexation by humic
substances (HS) extracted from different sources has been widely reported. The presence of …

A meta-analysis and review of plant-growth response to humic substances: practical implications for agriculture

MT Rose, AF Patti, KR Little, AL Brown… - Advances in …, 2014 - Elsevier
The breakdown products of plant and animal remains, extracted in an alkaline solution, are
commonly referred to as humic substances (HS). They can be extracted from a wide variety …

Hypothetical framework integrating the main mechanisms involved in the promoting action of rhizospheric humic substances on plant root-and shoot-growth

M Olaetxea, D De Hita, CA Garcia, M Fuentes… - Applied Soil …, 2018 - Elsevier
The ability of rhizospheric humic substances to improve plant growth has been well
established by many studies carried out using diverse plant species cultivated under many …