Contributions of beneficial microorganisms in soil remediation and quality improvement of medicinal plants

G Wang, Y Ren, X Bai, Y Su, J Han - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Medicinal plants (MPs) are important resources widely used in the treatment and prevention
of diseases and have attracted much attention owing to their significant antiviral, anti …

Factors affecting soil quality among smallholder macadamia farms in Malawi

EJ Zuza, K Maseyk, SA Bhagwat, A Chemura… - Agriculture & Food …, 2023 - Springer
Declining soil fertility limits smallholder macadamia productivity in Malawi. To reverse this
trend, it is essential to apply organic and inorganic fertilisers in an efficient and effective …

Unlocking the potential of soil microbes for sustainable desertification management

W Islam, F Zeng, MO Alotaibi, KA Khan - Earth-Science Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Desertification, the process of land degradation in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid areas,
poses significant environmental, social, and economic challenges worldwide. As …

An insight to rhizosphere bacterial community composition and structure of consecutive winter-initiated sugarcane ratoon crop in Southern China

A Khan, H Jiang, J Bu, M Adnan, SW Gillani, M Zhang - BMC Plant Biology, 2022 - Springer
Background Ratooning in sugarcane is a crucial strategy for ensuring the long-term
sustainability of the sugarcane industry. Knowledge gap relating to the interaction between …

Effects of the Continuous Cropping of Amomum villosum on Rhizosphere Soil Physicochemical Properties, Enzyme Activities, and Microbial Communities

B Wang, Y Lu, W Li, S He, R Lin, P Qu, H Chen… - Agronomy, 2022 - mdpi.com
Amomum villosum, which is an important perennial medicinal plant, easily suffers from
continuous cropping obstacles in the plantation. The aim of this study is to find an effective …

Response of total belowground soil biota in Alhagi sparsifolia monoculture at different soil vertical profiles in desert ecosystem

W Islam, A Ullah, F Zeng - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
The soil organisms are extremely important for the land-based ecosystem. There is a
growing interest in studying the variety and composition of the entire underground soil …

Variation of physico-chemical properties among different soil orders under different land use systems of the Majha Region in North-Western India

Gowthamchand, SS Dhaliwal, V Sharma, G Verma… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
The impact of different soil orders and land use systems on the distribution of physico-
chemical properties is the most critical matter to address in order to maintain sustainable …

The pedospheric variation of DTPA-extractable Zn, Fe, Mn, Cu and other physicochemical characteristics in major soil orders in existing land use systems of Punjab …

SS Dhaliwal, V Sharma, J Kaur, AK Shukla, A Hossain… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
The agricultural production in Punjab has increased manifold that aggravated the
deficiencies of micronutrients in soils and plants. The availability of soil micronutrients in …

Dynamics of soil biota and nutrients at varied depths in a Tamarix ramosissima-dominated natural desert ecosystem: Implications for nutrient cycling and …

W Islam, F Zeng, AA Dar, MS Yousaf - Journal of Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
The underground community of soil organisms, known as soil biota, plays a critical role in
terrestrial ecosystems. Different ecosystems exhibit varied responses of soil organisms to …

Microbiome analysis and biocontrol bacteria isolation from rhizosphere soils associated with different sugarcane root rot severity

X Li, Y Liu, Z Wang, C Yang, R Zhang, Y Luo… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
To explore the causal pathogen and the correlated rhizosphere soil microecology of
sugarcane root rot, we sampled the sugarcane root materials displaying different disease …