Changing agricultural paradigms for a cleaner more sustainable future

April Micci, Xiaoqian Chang, Kathryn Kingsley, Shubhpriya Gupta, James White

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Abstract

In this chapter, we discuss the need for renovation in how industrial agriculture is practiced. Problems arising from industrial crop production include environmental and human health degradation. Possible solutions lie in the regenerative agriculture movement where ecological practices are advocated. In addition, use of endophytic microbes and various other biostimulants may be used to push crop growth, yield, and health in place of the current use of synthetic agrochemicals. In this chapter, we discuss biostimulant applications, including: (1) microbes to control plant diseases caused by fungi, (2) microbes to provide nutrients to plants, (3) addition of carbon to soils to stimulate microbe growth, (4) use of humates as biostimulants, (5) application of algal extracts to plants as biostimulants, and (6) application of microbial biostimulants in improving crop yield.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationBiostimulants for Improving Reproductive Growth and Crop Yield
PublisherElsevier
Pages1-29
Number of pages29
ISBN (Electronic)9780443132070
ISBN (Print)9780443132087
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2025

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Keywords

  • biostimulants
  • ecology
  • endophytes
  • Regenerative agriculture

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