This comprehensive review thoroughly examines starch's structure, modifications, and
applications in slow/controlled-release fertilizers (SRFs) for agricultural purposes. The …

The excessive use of conventional fertilizers leads to environmental issues associated with
the loss of nutrient through leaching, volatilization, denitrification and surface run-off. Biochar …

Recently, many studies have assessed the carbon footprint of bovine milk production.
However, due to the complexity of life cycle assessment, most studies have analyzed …

The contradiction between population growth and soil degradation has been increasingly
prominent, such that novel fertilizers (eg, biochar and microbial fertilizers) should be urgently …

Nitrogen (N) is one of the most important nutrients for plant growth. However, improper
management of N fertilization in agriculture has led to a large amount of nitrate leaching …

Effective fertilizers management is essential for sustainable agricultural practices. One way
to improve agronomic practices is by using slow-release fertilizers (SRF) that have shown …

Rapid acquisition and mapping of normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) values is
essential for a timely evaluation of nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) in sustainable agriculture …

Mulch film and slow-release fertilizers are widely used in agriculture and horticulture, and it
has become a trend to use degradable materials for the preparation of mulch films using …

We report a hydrogel with 25% polyacrylic acid by grafting and mixing starch with polyacrylic
acid and urea. The novel ionic crosslinking strategy through iron ions enabled the high …

In this work a novel nano-formulation is proposed to control leaching and volatilization of a
broadly used herbicide, dicamba. Dicamba is subject to significant leaching in soils, due to …