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Can Nanomaterials Improve the Soil Microbiome and Crop Productivity?

Vishnu D. Rajput, Arpna Kumari, Sudhir K. Upadhyay, Tatiana Minkina, Saglara Mandzhieva, Anuj Ranjan, Svetlana Sushkova, Marina Burachevskaya, Priyadarshani Rajput, Elizaveta Konstantinova, Jagpreet Singh, Krishan K. Verma

Agriculture · 2023

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Summary

Global issues such as soil deterioration, pollution, and soil productivity loss induced by industrialization and intensive agriculture pose a serious danger to agricultural production and sustainability. Numerous technical breakthroughs have been applied to clean up soil or boost the output of damaged soils, but they have failed to restore or improve soil health to desired levels owing to expense, impossibility in a practical setting, or, to a lesser extent, high labor consumption. Recent nanotechnology advancements promise to improve soil quality indicators and crop yields while ensuring environmental sustainability. As previously discovered, the inclusion of nanomaterials (NMs) in soils could manipulate rhizospheric microbes or agriculturally important microbes and improve their function

Source type
Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.3390/agriculture13020231
Catalogue ID
SNmoh395bd-qpjww7
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