An underground revolution: biodiversity and soil ecological engineering for agricultural sustainability

SF Bender, C Wagg, MGA van der Heijden - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2016 - cell.com
Soil organisms are an integral component of ecosystems, but their activities receive little
recognition in agricultural management strategies. Here we synthesize the potential of soil …

Soil microbiome: a key player for conservation of soil health under changing climate

A Dubey, MA Malla, F Khan, K Chowdhary… - Biodiversity and …, 2019 - Springer
Maintenance of soil health is central to agricultural sustainability and a key factor that reflects
the productivity of agro ecosystems. However, at present the soil resources are under severe …

Alternate wetting and drying: A water-saving and ecofriendly rice production system

M Ishfaq, M Farooq, U Zulfiqar, S Hussain… - Agricultural Water …, 2020 - Elsevier
Global warming and declining water resources are threatening the sustainability of rice
production and global food security. Conventional continuously flooded system (CF) of rice …

Specifically adsorbed ferrous ions modulate interfacial affinity for high-rate ammonia electrosynthesis from nitrate in neutral media

C Liu, G Zhang, W Zhang, Z Gu… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The electrolysis of nitrate reduction to ammonia (NRA) is promising for obtaining value-
added chemicals and mitigating environmental concerns. Recently, catalysts with high …

Ecology and physiology of anaerobic ammonium oxidizing bacteria

M Oshiki, H Satoh, S Okabe - Environmental microbiology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) is a microbial process in which NH4+ is
oxidized to N2 gas with NO2− as an electron acceptor. The anammox process is mediated …

[HTML][HTML] Long-term fertilizer postponing promotes soil organic carbon sequestration in paddy soils by accelerating lignin degradation and increasing microbial …

Y Zhou, J Zhang, L Xu, MY Nadeem, W Li… - Soil Biology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Soil organic matter (SOM) in paddy soils is critical for achieving high crop yield sustainability
and mitigating climate change. Our previous study revealed that long-term fertilizer …

Application of struvite alters the antibiotic resistome in soil, rhizosphere, and phyllosphere

QL Chen, XL An, YG Zhu, JQ Su… - Environmental …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Struvite recovered from wastewater is a renewable source of phosphorus and nitrogen and
can be used as fertilizer for plant growth. However, antibiotics and resistome can be …

Biological nitrification inhibition in the rhizosphere: determining interactions and impact on microbially mediated processes and potential applications

P Nardi, HJ Laanbroek, GW Nicol… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Nitrification is the microbial conversion of reduced forms of nitrogen (N) to nitrate (NO3−),
and in fertilized soils it can lead to substantial N losses via NO3− leaching or nitrous oxide …

Endozoicomonas genomes reveal functional adaptation and plasticity in bacterial strains symbiotically associated with diverse marine hosts

MJ Neave, CT Michell, A Apprill, CR Voolstra - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Endozoicomonas bacteria are globally distributed and often abundantly associated with
diverse marine hosts including reef-building corals, yet their function remains unknown. In …

Microbiomes inhabiting rice roots and rhizosphere

LJ Ding, HL Cui, SA Nie, XE Long… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Land plants directly contact soil through their roots. An enormous diversity of microbes
dwelling in root-associated zones, including endosphere (inside root), rhizoplane (root …