Nano-fertilizers: A sustainable technology for improving crop nutrition and food security

AM Jakhar, I Aziz, AR Kaleri, M Hasnain, G Haider… - NanoImpact, 2022 - Elsevier
Excessive use of synthetic fertilizers cause economic burdens, increasing soil, water and
atmospheric pollution. Nano-fertilizers have shown great potential for their sustainable uses …

Biological nitrogen fixation and prospects for ecological intensification in cereal-based crop** systems

JK Ladha, MB Peoples, PM Reddy, JC Biswas… - Field Crops …, 2022 - Elsevier
The demand for nitrogen (N) for crop production increased rapidly from the middle of the
twentieth century and is predicted to at least double by 2050 to satisfy the on-going …

[HTML][HTML] Are legumes different? Origins and consequences of evolving nitrogen fixing symbioses

U Mathesius - Journal of Plant Physiology, 2022 - Elsevier
Nitrogen fixing symbioses between plants and bacteria are ancient and, while not
numerous, are formed in diverse lineages of plants ranging from microalgae to …

Root phenotypes for improved nitrogen capture

JP Lynch, T Galindo-Castañeda, HM Schneider… - Plant and Soil, 2024 - Springer
Background Suboptimal nitrogen availability is a primary constraint for crop production in
low-input agroecosystems, while nitrogen fertilization is a primary contributor to the energy …

Improving nitrogen use efficiency and reducing nitrogen surplus through best fertilizer nitrogen management in cereal production: The case of India and China

TB Sapkota, R Takele - Advances in Agronomy, 2023 - Elsevier
China and India are the two top consumers of fertilizer nitrogen (N) in the world not only to
provide food security to 36% of the global population living in the two countries but also due …

Land‐based climate solutions for the United States

GP Robertson, SK Hamilton, K Paustian… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Meeting end‐of‐century global warming targets requires aggressive action on multiple
fronts. Recent reports note the futility of addressing mitigation goals without fully engaging …

Toward improving nitrogen use efficiency in rice: Utilization, coordination, and availability

Y Liu, B Hu, C Chu - Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Nitrogen (N) fertilizer drives crop productivity and underlies intensive agriculture, but
overuse of fertilizers also causes detrimental effects to ecosystem. To cope with this …

[HTML][HTML] Co-designing a landscape experiment to investigate diversified crop** systems

K Grahmann, M Reckling, I Hernández-Ochoa… - Agricultural …, 2024 - Elsevier
CONTEXT Intensive food and feed production in sole-cropped, large fields with high fertilizer
and pesticide inputs to achieve high yields, has contributed to detrimental environmental …

Strategies to improve soil health by optimizing the plant–soil–microbe–anthropogenic activity nexus

L Wang, P Lu, S Feng, C Hamel, D Sun… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Since the Green Revolution, world agriculture has relied heavily on agrochemical
inputs (synthetic fertilizers and pesticides) in cereal-and oilseed-dominated monoculture …

Can we harness “enviromics” to accelerate crop improvement by integrating breeding and agronomy?

M Cooper, CD Messina - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The diverse consequences of genotype-by-environment (GxE) interactions determine trait
phenotypes across levels of biological organization for crops, challenging our ambition to …