Soil Health: Integrating Plant Roots–Plant Nutrition–Soil Microbiota Interactions
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Soils".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 May 2024) | Viewed by 7245
Special Issue Editors
Interests: allelopathy; soil health; replanting disease; soil-borne pathogens; bio-fertilizer and biochar amendment; soil microbiome
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Soil health is the capacity of soil to function as a vital living ecosystem. The maintenance of soil health is essential to the agricultural sustainable development of terrestrial ecosystems. Healthy and asymptomatic soils are colonized by a rich variety of microbes (i.e., bacteria, fungi, protists, and viruses), forming complex microbial consortia that impact plant growth and productivity. Soil microbiomes are the key players in the conservation of soil health. They govern plant root morphology and nutrient uptake, the biogeochemical cycling of elements, and rhizosphere immunity, which enhances soil fertility and crop productivity.
The current Special Issue focuses on different areas, including, but not limited to, the following: plant nutrition physiology; plant-driven rhizosphere microbial communities and structure; the plant root and phyllosphere microbiome response to cropping systems; and the beneficial effects of biofertilizers, plant growth promoters, and soil health promoters.
This Special Issue welcomes original research, reviews, meta-analyses, and articles that focus on developing research elucidating the plant root–plant nutrition–soil microbiota interactions in cropping systems.
Dr. Hongmiao Wu
Prof. Dr. Wenge Wu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- soil health
- nutrient cycling
- soil microbiome
- cropping systems
- plant nutrition physiology
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