Soil acidification and salinity: the importance of biochar application to agricultural soils

K Huang, M Li, R Li, F Rasul, S Shahzad… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Soil acidity is a serious problem in agricultural lands as it directly affects the soil, crop
production, and human health. Soil acidification in agricultural lands occurs due to the …

The critical role of biochar to mitigate the adverse impacts of drought and salinity stress in plants

Y Wu, X Wang, L Zhang, Y Zheng, X Liu… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Drought stress (DS) is a potential abiotic stress that is substantially reducing crop
productivity across the globe. Likewise, salinity stress (SS) is another serious abiotic stress …

The impact of different Zinc (Zn) levels on growth and nutrient uptake of Basil (Ocimum basilicum L.) grown under salinity stress

I Tolay - PLoS One, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Salinity is among the most important abiotic stresses, which negatively affect growth, nutrient
uptake and yield of crop plants. Application of different micronutrients, particularly zinc (Zn) …

Potassium and humic acid synergistically increase salt tolerance and nutrient uptake in contrasting wheat genotypes through ionic homeostasis and activation of …

G Abbas, S Rehman, MH Siddiqui, HM Ali, MA Farooq… - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Salinity limits the growth and nutrient uptake in crop species. Studies show that both
potassium (K) and humic acid (HA) improved plant tolerance to salinity. However, the …

Biochar increases salt tolerance and grain yield of quinoa on saline-sodic soil: multivariate comparison of physiological and oxidative stress attributes

G Abbas, MM Abrar, MA Naeem, MH Siddiqui… - Journal of Soils and …, 2022 - Springer
Purpose Plant growth and grain yield of most of the crops are reduced on saline-sodic soils.
Different organic and inorganic amendments have been used to increase plant growth and …

Synergistic consequences of salinity and potassium deficiency in quinoa: Linking with stomatal patterning, ionic relations and oxidative metabolism

M Waqas, C Yaning, H Iqbal, M Shareef… - Plant Physiology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Quinoa emerged as an ideal food security crop due to its exceptional nutritive profile and
stress enduring potential and also deemed as model plant to study the salt-tolerance …

Climate change and its impact on crops: A comprehensive investigation for sustainable agriculture

A Kumari, GA Lakshmi, GK Krishna, B Patni, S Prakash… - Agronomy, 2022 - mdpi.com
Plants are a highly advanced kingdom of living organisms on the earth. They survive under
all climatic and weather variabilities, including low and high temperature, rainfall, radiation …

Silicon-nanoparticles doped biochar is more effective than biochar for mitigation of arsenic and salinity stress in Quinoa: Insight to human health risk assessment

H Alsamadany, HF Alharby, HS Al-Zahrani… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The increasing contamination of soil with arsenic (As), and salinity has become a menace to
food security and human health. The current study investigates the comparative efficacy of …

Salinity mitigates cadmium-induced phytotoxicity in quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) by limiting the Cd uptake and improved responses to oxidative stress …

N Abdal, G Abbas, SA Asad, AA Ghfar… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Cadmium (Cd) contamination and soil salinity are the main environmental issues reducing
crop productivity. This study aimed to examine the combined effects of salinity (NaCl) and …

Trends and limits for quinoa production and promotion in Pakistan

I Afzal, SMA Basra, HU Rehman, S Iqbal, D Bazile - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Quinoa is known as a super food due to its extraordinary nutritional qualities and has the
potential to ensure future global food and nutritional security. As a model plant with …