Abstract Crop production and food security will be challenged by the availability of phosphate rock its derived phosphorus (P) fertilizers in coming decades. Croplands around world have traditionally received huge amounts P fertilizers. However, can quickly become unavailable soil due to fast adsorption or fixation on surface particles. Here, we propose use microbially mediated mechanisms soil‐...

A field experiment was conducted to evaluate the residual effect of rock phosphate and waste mica enriched compost on phosphorus and potassium supplying capacity under soybean crop grown after wheat in a Typic Haplustept. Enriched compost prepared using rice straw, rock phosphate, waste mica and Aspergillus awamori had higher chemical (total P, K, Ca, Mg and micronutrients) as well as biologica...

to evaluate the effects of phosphorous, iron and zinc fertilizers on quantity and quality of turnip, a field experiment was conducted in 2009. the experiment treatments arranged as split plot factorial based on a completley randomized design with 4 replications in the research farm of the university of tehran (karaj-iran). the main factor including three levels of phosphorous (super phosphate t...

Losses of phosphorus (P) from fertilized fields may result in degradation water quality. Various initiatives are under evaluation to minimize contamination, including the adoption less soluble or coated P fertilizer formulations aiming mitigate losses runoff. Field-based rainfall simulators traditionally used evaluate runoff, but using these is time consuming, labor intensive, and costly given ...

Phosphorus is an essential element for life but is a rare element in the universe. On Earth, it occurs mostly in the form of phosphates that are widespread but predominantly at very low concentration. This relative rarity has resulted in a survival advantage, in evolutionary terms, to organisms that conserve phosphate. When phosphate is made available in excess it becomes a cause for disease, p...

Drought stress is a major environmental stress that restricts plant growth and production in the majority of agricultural fields of the world. The application of different fertilizers, especially biofertilizers and organic fertilizers, might play an important role in the production of medicinal plants in order to improve their resistance to deficit water stress. In order to evaluate the effects...