Effects of New Types of Fertilizers on Soil and Crop Physiological Quality

Dear Colleagues,

Fertilizer is the “nourishment” of crops, serving as a strategic material that supports crop production and food safety, nutrition quality, and the sustenance of the global population of 7.8 billion people. Currently, the imperative challenges of agricultural green transformation lie in fertilizer innovation, which necessitates achieving resource efficiency, environmental sustainability, nutrition and health, as well as the promotion of green and low-carbon practices. From this perspective, new types of fertilizers are the key to overcoming the existing production barriers associated with traditional agriculture and conventional fertilizers. These include nano-fertilizers, stable synergistic fertilizers, long-term controlled release fertilizers, microbial fertilizers, microbial inhibitors, and other green intelligent fertilizers, which have the advantages of stability, low dosage requirements, slow release, long-lasting efficacy, sustainability, multifunction responses, etc. Therefore, the application of new types of fertilizers can not only enhance crop growth and improve yield and nutritional quality but also mitigate the risk of carbon release while promoting environmental protection and sustainable green development.

The topic of interest of this Special Issue is the “Effects of New Types of Fertilizers on Soil and Crop Physiological Quality”, for the Section “Crop Production”. This Special Issue focuses on the development and application of new types of fertilizers and their effects on the cycling of soil nutrients, soil microbial processes, and the physiological processes influencing crop yield and quality formation. Moreover, it seeks to promote interdisciplinary investigations encompassing chemistry and engineering disciplines in material synthesis, biology studies in crops, as well as regulatory mechanisms. Original research articles and reviews are accepted.

Dr. Dunyi Liu
Guest Editor

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