Nitrogenous fertilizers: Impact on environment sustainability, mitigation strategies, and challenges

J Tyagi, S Ahmad, M Malik - International Journal of Environmental …, 2022 - Springer
The world has changed revolutionary for the last few decades owing to the surge in
population. A consequence of this exponential increase in population is the high demand for …

Biocontrol of soil borne diseases by plant growth promoting rhizobacteria

AM Abdelaziz, AH Hashem, GS El-Sayyad… - Tropical Plant …, 2023 - Springer
Biological control has received increasing interest in recent decades as one of the
alternatives to chemical pesticides in the field of plant disease control, especially after the …

Nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization consistently favor pathogenic over mutualistic fungi in grassland soils

Y Lekberg, CA Arnillas, ET Borer, LS Bullington… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Ecosystems across the globe receive elevated inputs of nutrients, but the consequences of
this for soil fungal guilds that mediate key ecosystem functions remain unclear. We find that …

Microbial community assembly and its influencing factors of secondary forests in Qinling Mountains

X Huo, C Ren, D Wang, R Wu, Y Wang, Z Li… - Soil Biology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Forest soil microbial community is easily modified by changes in plant composition.
Therefore, differences in the assembly of soil microbial community within different forest …

Plant-soil feedbacks and mycorrhizal type influence temperate forest population dynamics

JA Bennett, H Maherali, KO Reinhart, Y Lekberg… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Feedback with soil biota is an important determinant of terrestrial plant diversity. However,
the factors regulating plant-soil feedback, which varies from positive to negative among plant …

Minerals in the rhizosphere: overlooked mediators of soil nitrogen availability to plants and microbes

A Jilling, M Keiluweit, AR Contosta, S Frey, J Schimel… - Biogeochemistry, 2018 - Springer
Despite decades of research progress, ecologists are still debating which pools and fluxes
provide nitrogen (N) to plants and soil microbes across different ecosystems …

Plant–soil feedbacks: the past, the present and future challenges

WH Van der Putten, RD Bardgett, JD Bever… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Plant–soil feedbacks is becoming an important concept for explaining vegetation dynamics,
the invasiveness of introduced exotic species in new habitats and how terrestrial …

Relative importance of competition and plant–soil feedback, their synergy, context dependency and implications for coexistence

Y Lekberg, JD Bever, RA Bunn, RM Callaway… - Ecology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Plants interact simultaneously with each other and with soil biota, yet the relative importance
of competition vs. plant–soil feedback (PSF) on plant performance is poorly understood …

Differential responses of soil microbial biomass, diversity, and compositions to altitudinal gradients depend on plant and soil characteristics

C Ren, W Zhang, ZK Zhong, X Han, G Yang… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Alt'itudinal gradients strongly affect plant biodiversity, but the effects on microbial patterns
remain unclear, especially in the large scale. We therefore designed an altitudinal gradient …

Balanced fertilization over four decades has sustained soil microbial communities and improved soil fertility and rice productivity in red paddy soil

JL Wang, KL Liu, XQ Zhao, HQ Zhang, D Li, JJ Li… - Science of the total …, 2021 - Elsevier
The influence of long-term fertilization on soil microbial communities is critical for revealing
the association between belowground microbial flora and aboveground crop productivity—a …