A review on the current state of knowledge of growing conditions, agronomic soil health practices and utilities of hemp in the United States

I Adesina, A Bhowmik, H Sharma, A Shahbazi - Agriculture, 2020 - mdpi.com
Hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) is an emerging high-value specialty crop that can be cultivated
for either fiber, seed, or cannabidiol (CBD). The demand for hemp and its products has been …

Biofertilizers and sustainable agriculture: exploring arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

NO Igiehon, OO Babalola - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2017 - Springer
Worldwide agricultural food production has to double in 2050 so as to feed the global
increasing population while reducing dependency on conventional chemical fertilizers plus …

Diversifying crop rotation increases food production, reduces net greenhouse gas emissions and improves soil health

X Yang, J Xiong, T Du, X Ju, Y Gan, S Li, L Xia… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Global food production faces challenges in balancing the need for increased yields with
environmental sustainability. This study presents a six-year field experiment in the North …

Key cultivation techniques for hemp in Europe and China

S Amaducci, D Scordia, FH Liu, Q Zhang, H Guo… - Industrial Crops and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) is a multiuse, multifunctional crop that provides raw material to a
large number of traditional and innovative industrial applications. A relatively simple, low …

Long-term continuous cropping of soybean is comparable to crop rotation in mediating microbial abundance, diversity and community composition

Z Liu, J Liu, Z Yu, Q Yao, Y Li, A Liang, W Zhang… - Soil and Tillage …, 2020 - Elsevier
Continuous cropping of soybean causes soil degradation and soybean yield decline, but
these effects could be alleviated by crop rotation or the use of long-term continuously …

Obstacles in continuous cropping: mechanisms and control measures

Z Ma, Z Guan, Q Liu, Y Hu, L Liu, B Wang, L Huang… - Advances in …, 2023 - Elsevier
With the increase in intensive cultivation and long-term monoculture cropping, problems
caused by continuous cropping (CC) have become increasingly prominent in the forms of …

Long-term coffee monoculture alters soil chemical properties and microbial communities

Q Zhao, W Xiong, Y Xing, Y Sun, X Lin, Y Dong - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Long-term monoculture severely inhibits coffee plant growth, decreases its yield and results
in serious economic losses in China. Here, we selected four replanted coffee fields with 4 …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of the community compositions of rhizosphere fungi in soybeans continuous cropping fields

L Bai, J Cui, W Jie, B Cai - Microbiological Research, 2015 - Elsevier
We used rhizosphere soil sampled from one field during zero year and two years of
continuous cropping of high-protein soybean to analyze the taxonomic community …

Crop rotations increased soil ecosystem multifunctionality by improving keystone taxa and soil properties in potatoes

Q Li, D Zhang, J Zhang, Z Zhou, Y Pan, Z Yang… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Continuous cropping of the same crop leads to soil degradation and a decline in crop
production, and these impacts could be mitigated through rotation cropping. Although crop …

Sugarcane monoculture drives microbial community composition, activity and abundance of agricultural-related microorganisms

M Tayyab, Z Yang, C Zhang, W Islam, W Lin… - … Science and Pollution …, 2021 - Springer
Sugarcane monoculture (SM) often leads to soil problems, like soil acidification,
degradation, and soil-borne diseases, which ultimately pose a negative impact on …