Editorial: Sustainable Phosphorus Use in Agriculture

Microbial Phosphorus Solubilization and Its Potential for Use in Sustainable Agriculture

The use of excess conventional Phosphorus (P) fertilizers to improve agricultural productivity, in order to meet constantly increasing global food demand, potentially causes surface and ground water pollution, waterway eutrophication, soil fertility depletion, and accumulation of toxic elements such as high concentration of selenium (Se), arsenic (As) in the soil. Quite a number of soil microor...

Phosphorus in Agriculture: Need for Efficient Use and Re-Use

Phosphorus (P) is the 11th most abundant element of the earth’s crust. Phosphorus (P) is an essential element for all living organisms. The world’s main source of P is phosphate (Pi) rock. It is a non-renewable resource. There is neither any alternative to P nor a synthetic way of creating it. P is involved in various basic biological functions, for instance as a structural element in nucleic a...

Sustainable intensification in agriculture

Factors Affecting the Use of Sustainable Agriculture in Iran's Potato Cultivars

Current research examines the economic, social, cultural, policy, educational and promotional factors in using sustainable agriculture operations. Research is an applied type and its method is correlation. The statistical population consisted of 102 members of Iran Potato Cultivars. Data were collected using a census method and a questionnaire was used. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient was obta...

Improving Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Crops for Sustainable Agriculture

In this review, we present the recent developments and future prospects of improving nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) in crops using various complementary approaches. These include conventional breeding and molecular genetics, in addition to alternative farming techniques based on no-till continuous cover cropping cultures and/or organic nitrogen (N) nutrition. Whatever the mode of N fertilization...