During the last decades, food security has become a vital global concern driven by
projections of population increase and exacerbated by the impending pressure of climate …

Hydroponics is a soilless cultivation technique in which plants are grown in a nutrient
solution typically made from mineral fertilizers. This alternative to soil farming can be …

In China, excessive use of nitrogen fertilizers in glasshouses leads to nitrate accumulations
in soil and plants, which then limits productivity. Melatonin, an evolutionarily highly …

Current global nitrogen fertilizer use has reached approximately one hundred billion kg per
annum. In many agricultural systems, a very substantial portion of this applied nitrogen …

Nitrogen (N) is the most important, essential nutrient for all living organisms on earth; it is
present in a number of complex organic molecules and plays extremely important roles in …

Mass balance principles are a cornerstone of efficient fertilizer use and can be utilized to
optimize plant nutrition without discarding or leaching solution. Here, we describe the …

As the world's population is increasing exponentially, human diets have changed to less
healthy foods resulting in detrimental health complications. Increasing vegetable intake by …

This review considers some of the mechanistic processes that involve roots in the soil
nitrogen (N) cycle, and their implications for the ecological functions that retain N within …

The term 'Hydroponics' was derived from Greek word 'hydro'means water and 'ponos' mean
labor. Hydroponics is a modern agriculture technique that uses nutrient solution rather than …

When ammonium is the sole nitrogen (N) source, plant growth is suppressed compared with
the situation where nitrate is the N source. This is commonly referred to as ammonium …