Salt stress in plants and mitigation approaches

G Ondrasek, S Rathod, KK Manohara, C Gireesh… - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Salinization of soils and freshwater resources by natural processes and/or human activities
has become an increasing issue that affects environmental services and socioeconomic …

Waves of change: Electrochemical innovations for environmental management and resource recovery from water–A review

S Manikandan, SR Deena, R Subbaiya… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Environmental electrochemistry and water resource recovery are covered in this review. The
study discusses the growing field's scientific basis, methods, and applications, focusing on …

Role of vermicomposting microorganisms in the conversion of biomass ash to bio-based fertilizers

GA Turp, S Ozdemir, K Yetilmezsoy, N Oz, A Elkamel - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
A high pH, low solubility of bound plant nutrients, and negative impacts on microbial
communities are common drawbacks of biomass ash (BA) vermicomposting. In this study …

Chemical properties of the coffee grounds and poultry eggshells mixture in terms of soil improver

B Tombarkiewicz, J Antonkiewicz, MW Lis, K Pawlak… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Spent coffee grounds (SCG) as well as chicken (CES) or duck eggshells (DES) left over from
the artificial hatching technology are proposed as potential soil improver and/or organic …

Nanobiochar and copper oxide nanoparticles mixture synergistically increases soil nutrient availability and improves wheat production

MI Rashid, GA Shah, M Sadiq, N Amin, AM Ali… - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Recently, nanomaterials have received considerable attention in the agricultural sector, due
to their distinctive characteristics such as small size, high surface area to volume ratio, and …

Environmental performance of different end-of-life alternatives of wood fly ash by a consequential perspective

TP da Costa, P Quinteiro, L Arroja, AC Dias - Sustainable Materials and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The increasing demand for bioenergy has intensified the pressure to utilise forest residues.
Consequently, wood ash production has increased, which has prompted the need to find …

Recovery of nutrients from biofuel ash via organic acid-facilitated solid-liquid extraction

D Drapanauskaitė, K Barčauskaitė, K Bunevičienė… - Chemosphere, 2024 - Elsevier
Solid-liquid extraction was investigated to obtain selected major plant nutrients (P, K, Ca,
Mg) from biofuel ash using weak organic acids like salicylic acid, citric acid, and oxalic acid …

[HTML][HTML] Fly ash application impacts master physicochemical pedovariables: A multilevel meta-analysis

J Horvatinec, J Buczny, G Ondrasek - Journal of environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Fly ash (FA) is a very alkaline, hazardous waste with a potential to be recycled in
amelioration of master pedovariables, notably: i) pH, drives soil biogeochemistry, ii) …

Bio-based resources: systemic & circular solutions for (agro) environmental services

G Ondrasek, C Meriño-Gergichevich… - RSC …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The global promotion of decarbonisation through the circular solutions and (re) use of bio-
based resources (BBR), ie waste streams, notably from the agricultural, forest and municipal …

Hardwood fly ash as a low-C waste has strong potential to become a value-added sorbent for removal of the herbicide terbuthylazine from the aquatic matrix

G Ondrasek, F Kranjčec, G Maltašić… - Biomass Conversion and …, 2021 - Springer
Due to intensive activities in agriculture, forestry and transport sectors, certain active
components of pesticides that are prone to leaching become emergent chemicals in aquatic …