The world's human population continues to increase, posing a significant challenge in
ensuring food security, as soil nutrients and fertility are limited and decreasing with time …

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 …

The concept of soil health refers to specific soil properties and the ability to support and
sustain crop growth and productivity, while maintaining long-term environmental quality. The …

The plant microbiomes play important role in plant growth promotion and soil fertility for
sustainable agriculture. Plant and soil are valuable natural resource harbouring hotspots of …

Modern agriculture faces several challenges due to climate change, limited resources, and
land degradation. Plant-associated soil microbes harbor beneficial plant growth-promoting …

Microbial consortium inoculation has been proposed as a natural-based strategy to
safeguard multiple ecosystem services. Still, its observed effects and comparisons to single …

Smallholder agroecosystems play a key role in the world's food security providing more than
50% of the food produced globally. These unique agroecosystems face a myriad of …

The rapid growth of human population on globe and reduction in agricultural land exerts
huge pressure on crop productivity, food security and soil health; specially, in developing …

Providing safe and secure food for an increasing number of people globally is challenging.
Coping with such a human population by merely applying the conventional agricultural …

Soils are polluted by both organic and inorganic substances. Plants growing in polluted soils
suffer damages such as leaf rolls, chlorosis, growth inhibition, root tips browning, and death …