Biochar application for greenhouse gas mitigation, contaminants immobilization and soil fertility enhancement: A state-of-the-art review

K Abhishek, A Shrivastava, V Vimal, AK Gupta… - Science of The Total …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Rising global temperature, pollution load, and energy crises are serious problems, recently
facing the world. Scientists around the world are ambitious to find eco-friendly and cost …

Physico-chemical properties and microbial responses in biochar-amended soils: mechanisms and future directions

S Gul, JK Whalen, BW Thomas, V Sachdeva… - Agriculture, ecosystems & …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Soil microbial communities are responsive to biochar amendments. As the residence time of
biochar in soil is expected to be hundreds to thousands of years, the changes in microbial …

Effect of biochar additions to soil on nitrogen leaching, microbial biomass and bacterial community structure

N Xu, G Tan, H Wang, X Gai - European journal of soil biology, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Previous studies already demonstrated that biochar addition reduces nitrogen (N) leaching
in soil, but little information is available about its effects on N leaching and bacterial …

Organic fertilizer activates soil beneficial microorganisms to promote strawberry growth and soil health after fumigation

Q Li, D Zhang, Z Song, L Ren, X **, W Fang… - Environmental …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Soil fumigants aim to control soil-borne diseases below levels that affect economic crop
production, but their use also reduces the abundance of beneficial microorganisms …

An efficient biochar synthesized by iron-zinc modified corn straw for simultaneously immobilization Cd in acidic and alkaline soils

T Yang, Y Xu, Q Huang, Y Sun, X Liang, L Wang… - Environmental …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Synthetic functional biochar using agricultural waste as raw materials not only serves as an
effective means for recycling waste but can also be employed for the remediation of heavy …

Revam** highly weathered soils in the tropics with biochar application: What we know and what is needed

BB Basak, B Sarkar, A Saha, A Sarkar, S Mandal… - Science of The Total …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Fast weathering of parent materials and rapid mineralization of organic matter because of
prevalent climatic conditions, and subsequent development of acidity and loss/exhaustion of …

Sustained and efficient remediation of biochar immobilized with Sphingobium abikonense on phenanthrene-copper co-contaminated soil and microbial preferences …

Y Zhang, S Liu, L Niu, A Su, M Li, Y Wang, Y Xu - Biochar, 2023‏ - Springer
Immobilized microbial technology has been widely used in wastewater treatment, but it has
been used less frequently for soil remediation, particularly in sites that are co-contaminated …

Biochar alters the soil microbiome and soil function: results of next‐generation amplicon sequencing across Europe

JR Jenkins, M Viger, EC Arnold, ZM Harris… - Gcb …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Wide‐scale application of biochar to soil has been suggested as a mechanism to offset
increases in CO 2 emissions through the long‐term sequestration of a carbon rich and inert …

Organic fertilizer improves soil fertility and restores the bacterial community after 1, 3-dichloropropene fumigation

H Cheng, D Zhang, B Huang, Z Song, L Ren… - Science of the Total …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Although fumigants can effectively control soil-borne diseases they are typically harmful to
beneficial microorganisms unless methods are developed to encourage their survival after …

Biochar combined with organic and inorganic fertilizers promoted the rapeseed nutrient uptake and improved the purple soil quality

M Liu, C Linna, S Ma, Q Ma, W Song, M Shen… - Frontiers in …, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
Biochar is a kind of organic matter that can be added into soil to improve soil quality. To
study the effect of biochar combined with organic and inorganic fertilizers on rapeseed …