Biochar-Based Fertilizers for Resilient Agriculture
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Soil and Plant Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 433
Special Issue Editors
Interests: climate change; biochar; C and N cycling; soil microorganisms
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Agriculture faces critical challenges including climate change, soil degradation, and pollutants. These all threaten soil biological fertility by disrupting microbially driven carbon (C) and nutrient cycles. Biochar-based fertilizers offer a promising strategy to reinforce these cycles, enhance ecosystem stability, and buffer against abiotic perturbations through synergistic interactions with soil biota.
This Special Issue invites innovative research that elucidates the role of biochar in shaping biotic drivers of soil fertility amid these challenges.
We welcome a broad spectrum of studies that explore the following:
- Interactions between biochar, soil microbiomes, and plants, focusing on nutrient dynamics and resilience to stressors.
- Mechanisms by which biochar enhances microbial dynamics and organic matter cycling for improved ecosystem resilience.
- Integrated approaches using biochar with other amendments or crop management to optimize nutrient cycling and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
- The role of biochar in mitigating emerging pollutants in agricultural soils, enhancing degradation, and promoting soil biodiversity.
Submissions with interdisciplinary approaches that connect multi-omics to experimental measurements of carbon and nitrogen fluxes are encouraged. Novel review and opinion articles are also welcomed.
Dr. Qiao Xu
Prof. Dr. Zubin Xie
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biochar
- soil fertility
- microbiome
- nutrient cycling
- greenhouse gas emissions
- ecosystem resilience
- multi-omics
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