Cyanobacteria: A Precious Bio-resource in Agriculture, Ecosystem, and Environmental Sustainability
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This review is an effort to enlist the valuable information about the qualities of cyanobacteria and their potential role in solving the agricultural and environmental problems for the future welfare of the planet.Abstract:
Keeping in view the challenges concerning agro-ecosystem and environment, the recent developments in biotechnology offers a more reliable approach to address the food security for future generations and also resolve the complex environmental problems. Several unique features of cyanobacteria such as oxygenic photosynthesis, high biomass yield, growth on non-arable lands and a wide variety of water sources (contaminated and polluted waters), generation of useful by-products and bio-fuels, enhancing the soil fertility and reducing green house gas emissions, have collectively offered these bio-agents as the precious bio-resource for sustainable development. Cyanobacterial biomass is the effective bio-fertilizer source to improve soil physico-chemical characteristics such as water-holding capacity and mineral nutrient status of the degraded lands. The unique characteristics of cyanobacteria include their ubiquity presence, short generation time and capability to fix the atmospheric N2. Similar to other prokaryotic bacteria, the cyanobacteria are increasingly applied as bio-inoculants for improving soil fertility and environmental quality. Genetically engineered cyanobacteria have been devised with the novel genes for the production of a number of bio-fuels such as bio-diesel, bio-hydrogen, bio-methane, syngas and therefore, open new avenues for the generation of bio-fuels in the economically sustainable manner. This review is an effort to enlist the valuable information about the qualities of cyanobacteria and their potential role in solving the agricultural and environmental problems for the future welfare of the planet.read more
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Effect of heterocystous nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria against rice sheath blight and the underlying mechanism
TL;DR: The objective of the present study was to screen and evaluate the biocontrol effect of nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria against the disease through microchamber and microarea experiments and found three strains with a significant inhibition on rice sheath blight were selected.
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Importance of Soil Temperature for the Growth of Temperate Crops under a Tropical Climate and Functional Role of Soil Microbial Diversity
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the growth of temperate crops is dependent on soil temperature, which subsequently affects the abundance and diversity of soil microbial communities that maintain the Growth of temperates crops at low soil temperatures.
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Responses of soil nutrients and microbial communities to intercropping medicinal plants in moso bamboo plantations in subtropical China
Xiaoping Zhang,Gao Guibin,Wu Zhizhuang,Xing Wen,Zhong Hao,Zhezhe Zhong,Chuanbao Yang,Fangyuan Bian,Xu Gai +8 more
TL;DR: Results of this study suggest that intercropping medicinal herbs can result in soil acidification and potassium (K) depletion; thus, countermeasures such as applications of K fertilizer and alkaline soil amendments are necessary for BAF systems.
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Effects of cyanobacterial suspensions as bio-fertilizers on growth factors and the essential oil composition of chamomile, Matricaria chamomilla L.
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of the cyanobacterial suspensions on Matricaria chamomilla L. growth and essential oil production were evaluated in a glasshouse experiment with seven replicates.
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Screening for polar lipids, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory activities of Gloeothece sp. lipid extracts pursuing new phytochemicals from cyanobacteria
TL;DR: Results suggest that the extracts from Gloeothece could be a source of natural product, fostering increasing interest of cyanobacterial exploitation to produce food and metabolites with potential bioactive properties useful for nutraceutical, cosmetics, and medicinal applications.
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