[HTML][HTML] Sustainable biochar-based soil fertilizers and amendments as a new trend in biochar research

A Rombel, P Krasucka, P Oleszczuk - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Today's world is struggling with many environmental problems. Due to the ever-growing size
of the population, it is necessary to produce more and more food. The consequence of such …

Organic substitutions improve soil quality and maize yield through increasing soil microbial diversity

H Liu, X Du, Y Li, X Han, B Li, X Zhang, Q Li… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
Organic substitution is beneficial to sustainable agricultural development. In order to
determine the proper fertilization strategy, it is necessary to evaluate the effects of partial …

Soil accelerates the humification involved in co-composting of wheat straw and cattle manure by promoting humus formation

X Yang, R Yan, C Yang, H Zhang, H Lyu, S Li… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
In aerobic organic waste composting, lignocellulose degrades and is converted slowly,
reducing composting effectiveness and humus production. Soils have a porous nature …

Bacterial community dynamics and co-occurrence network patterns during different stages of biochar-driven composting

Y Duan, MK Awasthi, J Yang, Y Tian, H Li, S Cao… - Bioresource …, 2023 - Elsevier
Bacterial communities were dynamically tracked at four stages of biochar-driven sheep
manure pile composting, and the co-occurrence networks with keystone taxa were …

Rooting for growth: Meta-analyzing the role of Endophytic fungi in plant growth

AB Trentin, JMK Cardoso, N de Castilhos Ghisi… - Scientia …, 2024 - Elsevier
Endophytic fungi are a polyphyletic group of fungi that colonize inter or intracellular spaces
of plants establishing mutually beneficial relationship with plants. As they present a high …

Enhancing microplastics biodegradation during composting using livestock manure biochar

Y Sun, SM Shaheen, EF Ali, H Abdelrahman… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Biodegradation of microplastics (MPs) in contaminated biowastes has received big scientific
attention during the past few years. The aim here is to study the impacts of livestock manure …

Legacy effects of wheat season organic fertilizer addition on microbial co-occurrence networks, soil function, and yield of the subsequent maize season in a wheat …

G Li, W Niu, L Ma, Y Du, Q Zhang, J Sun… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Organic fertilizer can alleviate soil degradation. While numerous studies have explored the
immediate impacts of organic fertilizer on soil properties and crop production, the legacy …

Biochar-bacteria partnership based on microbially induced calcite precipitation improves Cd immobilization and soil function

M Xu, J Ma, XH Zhang, G Yang, LL Long, C Chen… - Biochar, 2023 - Springer
Microbially induced calcite precipitation (MICP) technique utilizes ureolytic bacteria to
decompose urea and generate carbonate ions for metal combination. MICP can remediate …

[HTML][HTML] Comprehensive evaluation of effects of various carbon-rich amendments on overall soil quality and crop productivity in degraded soils

M Song, J Li, L Gao, Y Tian - Geoderma, 2023 - Elsevier
Soil degradation is a global menace to agricultural crop production. Since loss of soil
organic carbon (SOC) is a significant characteristic of soil degradation and since SOC …

Humification and fungal community succession during pig manure composting: membrane covering and mature compost addition

J Wang, M Jiao, X Zhan, C Hu, Z Zhang - Bioresource Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
The objective of this study was to elucidate the combined effect of a semi-permeable
membrane (M) and mature compost (MC) on humification and fungal community succession …