Engineering biodegradable coatings for sustainable fertilisers
With the pressures of a changing global climate and ever-growing population, the need for sustainable agricultural practices that increase crop yields while decreasing greenhouse gas emissions are critical. Currently used practices to increase yields can often be problematic due to low nitrogen use...
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| author | Hang-Wei Hu Pavel V. Cherepanov Zahra F. Islam |
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| description | With the pressures of a changing global climate and ever-growing population, the need for sustainable agricultural practices that increase crop yields while decreasing greenhouse gas emissions are critical. Currently used practices to increase yields can often be problematic due to low nitrogen use efficiency or a potential overreliance on agrichemicals that can alter the community composition of a given ecosystem, although this is typically system and situation dependent. As such, the next generation of enhanced efficiency fertilisers that combine chemical, materials engineering and biological components are likely to be a game changer. Integral to their success is a better understanding of how plant–soil microbiomes interact with the new enhanced efficiency fertilisers, and how we can best tailor the fertilisers to suit different plant–soil combinations. In particular, the biodegradation properties of new fertiliser coatings must be given careful consideration so as to not further burden agricultural soils with microplastics or cause ecotoxicity problems. This perspective proposes novel, interdisciplinary strategies to generate highly efficient, biodegradable fertiliser coatings for use in the agricultural sector.
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| spelling | doaj.art-d2d272703ece40198b12b6ec569dd4132023-03-10T17:45:39ZengCSIRO PublishingMicrobiology Australia1324-42722201-91892023-01-01441912MA23003Engineering biodegradable coatings for sustainable fertilisersHang-Wei Hu0Pavel V. Cherepanov1Zahra F. Islam2School of Agriculture and Food, Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic. 3010, Australia; and ARC Research Hub for Smart Fertilisers, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic. 3010, Australia.ARC Research Hub for Smart Fertilisers, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic. 3010, Australia; and School of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and IT, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic. 3010, Australia.School of Agriculture and Food, Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic. 3010, Australia; and ARC Research Hub for Smart Fertilisers, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic. 3010, Australia.With the pressures of a changing global climate and ever-growing population, the need for sustainable agricultural practices that increase crop yields while decreasing greenhouse gas emissions are critical. Currently used practices to increase yields can often be problematic due to low nitrogen use efficiency or a potential overreliance on agrichemicals that can alter the community composition of a given ecosystem, although this is typically system and situation dependent. As such, the next generation of enhanced efficiency fertilisers that combine chemical, materials engineering and biological components are likely to be a game changer. Integral to their success is a better understanding of how plant–soil microbiomes interact with the new enhanced efficiency fertilisers, and how we can best tailor the fertilisers to suit different plant–soil combinations. In particular, the biodegradation properties of new fertiliser coatings must be given careful consideration so as to not further burden agricultural soils with microplastics or cause ecotoxicity problems. This perspective proposes novel, interdisciplinary strategies to generate highly efficient, biodegradable fertiliser coatings for use in the agricultural sector. https://www.publish.csiro.au/ma/pdf/MA23003agriculturebiodegradationbiotechnologyfertilisersplant–microbiome interactionspolymers |
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| title | Engineering biodegradable coatings for sustainable fertilisers |
| title_full | Engineering biodegradable coatings for sustainable fertilisers |
| title_fullStr | Engineering biodegradable coatings for sustainable fertilisers |
| title_full_unstemmed | Engineering biodegradable coatings for sustainable fertilisers |
| title_short | Engineering biodegradable coatings for sustainable fertilisers |
| title_sort | engineering biodegradable coatings for sustainable fertilisers |
| topic | agriculture biodegradation biotechnology fertilisers plant–microbiome interactions polymers |
| url | https://www.publish.csiro.au/ma/pdf/MA23003 |
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