Biofertilizers and nanofertilizers for sustainable agriculture: Phycoprospects and challenges

DM Mahapatra, KC Satapathy, B Panda - Science of the total environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Increased food demands and ceasing nutrient deposits have resulted in a great shortfall
between the food supply and demand and would be worse in the years to come. Higher …

Algae biostimulants: A critical look at microalgal biostimulants for sustainable agricultural practices

RV Kapoore, EE Wood, CA Llewellyn - Biotechnology Advances, 2021 - Elsevier
For the growing human population to be sustained during present climatic changes,
enhanced quality and quantity of crops are essential to enable food security worldwide. The …

Isolation of industrial important bioactive compounds from microalgae

V Balasubramaniam, RDN Gunasegavan, S Mustar… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Microalgae are known as a rich source of bioactive compounds which exhibit different
biological activities. Increased demand for sustainable biomass for production of important …

[HTML][HTML] Can microalgae grown in wastewater reduce the use of inorganic fertilizers?

A Álvarez-González, E Uggetti, L Serrano… - Journal of environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Alternatives to conventional inorganic fertilizers are needed to cope with the growing global
population and contamination due to the production and use of those inorganic compounds …

Algal-mediated nanoparticles, phycochar, and biofertilizers for mitigating abiotic stresses in plants: A review

Z Abideen, H Waqif, N Munir, A El-Keblawy, M Hasnain… - Agronomy, 2022 - mdpi.com
The excessive use of agrochemicals to ensure food security under the conditions of a
growing population, global climate change, weather extremes, droughts, wasteful use of …

Microalgae and wastewater treatment: advantages and disadvantages

B Molinuevo-Salces, B Riaño, D Hernández… - … for development of …, 2019 - Springer
Wastewater generation has concomitantly increased with the growth of world human
population in the last century. The uncontrolled discharge of wastewater may result in …

Scenedesmus obliquus microalga‐based biorefinery – from brewery effluent to bioactive compounds, biofuels and biofertilizers – aiming at a circular bioeconomy

A Ferreira, B Ribeiro, AF Ferreira… - Biofuels, Bioproducts …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The circular bioeconomy concept relies on the exploitation of wastes as a feedstock of
different biotechnological processes to obtain, as much as possible, a huge spectrum of …

An insight into microbial inoculants for bioconversion of waste biomass into sustainable “bio-organic” fertilizers: a bibliometric analysis and systematic literature review

JM Kiruba N, A Saeid - International journal of molecular sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
The plant-microbe holobiont has garnered considerable attention in recent years,
highlighting its importance as an ecological unit. Similarly, manipulation of the microbial …

[HTML][HTML] Seaweed's contribution to food security in low-and middle-income countries: Benefits from production, processing and trade

P Webb, NK Somers, SH Thilsted - Global Food Security, 2023 - Elsevier
Calls are growing for food system transformation to meet human and planetary goals (Bai et
al., 2022; Bock et al., 2022). The United Nations Food Systems Summit of 2021, for example …

Hydrothermal liquefaction could be a sustainable approach for valorization of wastewater grown algal biomass into cleaner fuel

F Naaz, S Samuchiwal, V Dalvi, A Bhattacharya… - Energy Conversion and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Studies highlighting the actual roadblocks in sustainability of algal fuels require systemic
analysis using real-time experimental inventories. In view of this, the authors performed Life …