Fate of nitrogen in agriculture and environment: agronomic, eco-physiological and molecular approaches to improve nitrogen use efficiency

M Anas, F Liao, KK Verma, MA Sarwar, A Mahmood… - Biological research, 2020 - Springer
Nitrogen is the main limiting nutrient after carbon, hydrogen and oxygen for photosynthetic
process, phyto-hormonal, proteomic changes and growth-development of plants to complete …

Fertilizers and nitrate pollution of surface and ground water: an increasingly pervasive global problem

E Craswell - SN Applied Sciences, 2021 - Springer
Nitrate pollution of ground and surface water bodies all over the world is generally linked
with continually increasing global fertilizer nitrogen (N) use. But after 1990, with more …

Global greenhouse gas emissions from animal-based foods are twice those of plant-based foods

X Xu, P Sharma, S Shu, TS Lin, P Ciais, FN Tubiello… - Nature Food, 2021 - nature.com
Agriculture and land use are major sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions but
previous estimates were either highly aggregate or provided spatial details for subsectors …

Ammonia and nitric acid demands for fertilizer use in 2050

J Lim, CA Fernández, SW Lee, MC Hatzell - ACS Energy Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
Access to nitrogen-based fertilizers is critical to maximize agricultural yield, as nitrogen is the
most common rate-limiting nutrient. Nearly all nitrogen-based fertilizers rely on ammonia …

Nitrogen use efficiency—a key to enhance crop productivity under a changing climate

P Govindasamy, SK Muthusamy… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Nitrogen (N) is an essential element required for the growth and development of all plants.
On a global scale, N is agriculture's most widely used fertilizer nutrient. Studies have shown …

A triple increase in global river basins with water scarcity due to future pollution

M Wang, BL Bodirsky, R Rijneveld, F Beier… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Water security is at stake today. While climate changes influence water availability,
urbanization and agricultural activities have led to increasing water demand as well as …

Exploiting biological nitrogen fixation: a route towards a sustainable agriculture

A Soumare, AG Diedhiou, M Thuita, M Hafidi… - Plants, 2020 - mdpi.com
For all living organisms, nitrogen is an essential element, while being the most limiting in
ecosystems and for crop production. Despite the significant contribution of synthetic …

[HTML][HTML] Friend or foe? The role of animal-source foods in healthy and environmentally sustainable diets

T Beal, CD Gardner, M Herrero, LL Iannotti… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Scientific and political discussions around the role of animal-source foods (ASFs) in healthy
and environmentally sustainable diets are often polarizing. To bring clarity to this important …

Quantification of global and national nitrogen budgets for crop production

X Zhang, T Zou, L Lassaletta, ND Mueller, FN Tubiello… - Nature Food, 2021 - nature.com
Input–output estimates of nitrogen on cropland are essential for improving nitrogen
management and better understanding the global nitrogen cycle. Here, we compare 13 …

Reducing food's environmental impacts through producers and consumers

J Poore, T Nemecek - Science, 2018 - science.org
Food's environmental impacts are created by millions of diverse producers. To identify
solutions that are effective under this heterogeneity, we consolidated data covering five …