Agricultural Biotechnology for Soil Remediation and Conservation
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Soil and Plant Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 406
Special Issue Editor
Interests: soil environmental analysis; environmental science; fertilizers; plant ecology; environmental impact assessment; soil fertility
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Dear Colleagues,
Agricultural practices have evolved over time, always maintaining the same goal of feeding as many people as possible. Crop failure due to pests, fires, or climate change has led to major famines and loss of human life. For years, agriculture has drifted towards intensification through specialization, increasing the size of production units and mechanization, which has improved living standards. However, some of those agricultural practices, such as indiscriminate use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, restricted cultivation of high-yield varieties, and the continuous use of machinery, negatively affect agroecosystems and agricultural soils, particularly the habitats of insects, weeds, or microorganisms living in agricultural ecosystems, essential to maintain crop yields. Nowadays, according to FAO data, a third of agricultural soils are degraded, the genetic diversity of crops has been reduced to 25%, and several million hectares of forest have disappeared, transformed for different uses. Implementing corrective measures is absolutely necessary, as is advancement in the study of new methodologies to understand their real impact on the environment and crop yields.
Prof. Dr. Juana D. Jordá
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- diagnosis tools
- soil status
- soil–plant–microorganism relationships
- agricultural land degradation examples
- agricultural land recovery examples
- soil–water relationships
- soil conservation
- soil degradation
- soil losses
- soil–crop yield
- soil and climate change
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