Improving Crop Yield and Nutrient Use Efficiency via Biofertilization-A Global Meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT: The application of microbial inoculants (biofertilizers) is a promising technology for future sustainable farming systems in view of rapidly decreasing phosphorus stocks and the need to more efficiently use available nitrogen (N). Various microbial taxa are currently used as biofertilizers, based on their capacity to access nutrients from fertilizers and soil stocks, to fix atmospheric nitrogen, to improve water uptake or to act as biocontrol agents. Despite the existence of a considerable knowledge on effects of specific taxa of biofertilizers, a comprehensive quantitative assessment of the performance of biofertilizers with different traits such as phosphorus solubilization and N fixation applied to various crops at a global scale is missing. We conducted a meta-analysis to quantify bene

SUBMITTER: Schutz L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5770357 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature