About this Research Topic
For a prolonged time, chemical fertilizers are used in agriculture to enhance crop productivity. Additionally, using chemical fertilizers to crop plants has tremendous negative impacts on human health and disturbs the marine and terrestrial ecosystem by entering the food web. Chemical fertilizers washed out and drained into oceans where further creating water pollution. Moreover, fungi are the primary decomposers of the ecological system as they can decompose cellulose, lignins, gums, and other complex substances and break them into simpler organic substances that plants can easily absorb as nutrients. Additionally, decomposing complex materials into simpler substances aid in the maintenance of soil organic matter. Fungus can be a good answer as biofertilizers to promote plant growth; the fungus can restore the physiological conditions of the soil also. The arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi (AM) can potentially improve soil characteristics, thereby promoting plant growth in normal and stressful environments.
This Research Topic envisions solving many challenges of humanity. The world is fighting multiple pollutions, which takes a toll on human health and majorly disturbs nature's ecosystem. A range of fungi can establish a symbiotic relationship with plant roots. The well-known mycorrhizae establish their population in the close vicinity of plants. This symbiotic relationship between the fungus and the plant system can facilitate the uptake of essential nutrients required by the plants like phosphorous, calcium and nitrogen from the soil.
Further, the AM fungi change the plant's morphological, nutritional and physiological levels to promote plant growth. Hence, minimizing the use of chemical fertilizer to zero level and overcoming the nutritional deficiency. Studies have shown that fungus helps plants cope with adverse environmental stresses like drought, salinity, heat, cold, and metals stresses. Another The fertility rate of soil can be re-established by using fungus. In today's period, sustainable agriculture is likely more favourable to conventional agriculture methodologies.
Hence, this Research Topic aims to promote research on fungus as biofertilizers, bio stimulators, soil fertility restoration and their application.
The Research Topic focuses on many aspects of fungi, overcoming the plant nutritional deficiency and soil fertility. Hence, it encourages authors to submit research which covers the following issues:
• Use of fungus as bio stimulator or biofertilizer to satisfy plant nutritional need
• A benefactor in agriculture -Function of fungi in soil quality restoration and phytoremediation
• Fungi and abiotic stress
• Importance of Ectotrophic and endo mycorrhizae in crop productivity
• Fungus as food security
Since the world will face food security shortly, drastic climate changes are affecting crop productivity globally, and the availability of fertile or cultivable land is shrinking. Soil restoration is crucial, and land and marine pollution is also increasing. With these goals, this Research Topic encourages research submission from worldwide.
This Research Topic envisions solving many challenges of humanity. The world is fighting multiple pollutions, which takes a toll on human health and majorly disturbs nature's ecosystem. A range of fungi can establish a symbiotic relationship with plant roots. The well-known mycorrhizae establish their population in the close vicinity of plants. This symbiotic relationship between the fungus and the plant system can facilitate the uptake of essential nutrients required by the plants like phosphorous, calcium and nitrogen from the soil.
Further, the AM fungi change the plant's morphological, nutritional and physiological levels to promote plant growth. Hence, minimizing the use of chemical fertilizer to zero level and overcoming the nutritional deficiency. Studies have shown that fungus helps plants cope with adverse environmental stresses like drought, salinity, heat, cold, and metals stresses. Another The fertility rate of soil can be re-established by using fungus. In today's period, sustainable agriculture is likely more favourable to conventional agriculture methodologies.
Hence, this Research Topic aims to promote research on fungus as biofertilizers, bio stimulators, soil fertility restoration and their application.
The Research Topic focuses on many aspects of fungi, overcoming the plant nutritional deficiency and soil fertility. Hence, it encourages authors to submit research which covers the following issues:
• Use of fungus as bio stimulator or biofertilizer to satisfy plant nutritional need
• A benefactor in agriculture -Function of fungi in soil quality restoration and phytoremediation
• Fungi and abiotic stress
• Importance of Ectotrophic and endo mycorrhizae in crop productivity
• Fungus as food security
Since the world will face food security shortly, drastic climate changes are affecting crop productivity globally, and the availability of fertile or cultivable land is shrinking. Soil restoration is crucial, and land and marine pollution is also increasing. With these goals, this Research Topic encourages research submission from worldwide.
Keywords: Arbuscular Mycorrhiza Fungi, Abiotic Stress, Biofertilizer, Sustaniablity, Soil restorstion
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