Biochar-Soil-Plant interactions: A cross talk for sustainable agriculture under changing climate

Biochars provide several agricultural and environmental benefits, such as soil health improvement, better crop growth yield, carbon sequestration, decreasing greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions, regulation of nutrient dynamics. This review highlights the role biochar in transforming soil’s physiochemical biological properties, their impact on improving seed germination seedling growth, altering physiological attributes, enhancing resistance against biotic abiotic stresses, productivity, curtailing GHGs, controlling leaching losses. However, type feedstock used, pyrolysis temperature, application rate method, species largely influence performance under different conditions. Application biochars at low rates help to promote growth. Biochar modified microbial processes rhizosphere increased mineralization enhanced availability for plant uptake. Hence, diseases, reduced heavy metals improved resilience stressors. By providing a comprehensive analysis about variable impacts physicochemical development productivity mitigating problems, this is quite valuable developing an efficient specific with desired functionalities. It could be helpful ensuring food security management environment. Furthermore, identifies knowledge gaps suggests future outlooks commercialization applications large-scale.