Plant Biostimulants in Sustainable Horticulture and Agriculture

There is a growing need for food production through sustainable cultivation practices, without reducing crop yield and producer income, due to increased environmental pollution and the gradual degradation of cultivated soils. Various compounds with bioactive properties can be utilized as biostimulan...

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description There is a growing need for food production through sustainable cultivation practices, without reducing crop yield and producer income, due to increased environmental pollution and the gradual degradation of cultivated soils. Various compounds with bioactive properties can be utilized as biostimulants to boost plant growth and development under normal and stressful conditions. So far, six distinct categories of biostimulants have been recognized, including the following: microbial inoculants; humic substances, such as humic and fulvic acids; protein hydrolysates and amino acids; biopolymers; inorganic compounds; and seaweed extracts. All of the above are commercially available and have wide agricultural applications. The most important biostimulant effects on crops are the acceleration of crop establishment, improvements in nutrient uptake, nutrient use efficiency, seed germination, root development, crop performance, and visual quality of the final products, the induction of tolerance to biotic and abiotic stressors, the increase in perishable products’ shelf life, nutrient leaching reduction, the removal of heavy metals from contaminated soils, the stimulation of the plant immune system, and the induction of plant defensive biomolecules’ biosynthesis. Different classification approaches have been suggested so far, based on either the origin of each biostimulant, such as biological vs. non-biological and microbial vs. non-microbial, or the mode of action, dividing biostimulants into phytohormonal and non-phytohormonal ones.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1528752025-02-20T13:12:45Z Plant Biostimulants in Sustainable Horticulture and Agriculture Shahrajabian, Mohamad Hesam Petropoulos, Spyridon biostimulants chitosan arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi amino acids organic farming vegetable crops horticultural crops microbial biostimulants thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes There is a growing need for food production through sustainable cultivation practices, without reducing crop yield and producer income, due to increased environmental pollution and the gradual degradation of cultivated soils. Various compounds with bioactive properties can be utilized as biostimulants to boost plant growth and development under normal and stressful conditions. So far, six distinct categories of biostimulants have been recognized, including the following: microbial inoculants; humic substances, such as humic and fulvic acids; protein hydrolysates and amino acids; biopolymers; inorganic compounds; and seaweed extracts. All of the above are commercially available and have wide agricultural applications. The most important biostimulant effects on crops are the acceleration of crop establishment, improvements in nutrient uptake, nutrient use efficiency, seed germination, root development, crop performance, and visual quality of the final products, the induction of tolerance to biotic and abiotic stressors, the increase in perishable products’ shelf life, nutrient leaching reduction, the removal of heavy metals from contaminated soils, the stimulation of the plant immune system, and the induction of plant defensive biomolecules’ biosynthesis. Different classification approaches have been suggested so far, based on either the origin of each biostimulant, such as biological vs. non-biological and microbial vs. non-microbial, or the mode of action, dividing biostimulants into phytohormonal and non-phytohormonal ones. 2025-02-20T13:12:42Z 2025-02-20T13:12:42Z 2024 book ONIX_20250220_9783725823659_239 9783725823659 9783725823666 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/152875 eng application/octet-stream Attribution 4.0 International https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/10036 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 10.3390/books978-3-7258-2366-6 10.3390/books978-3-7258-2366-6 46cabcaa-dd94-4bfe-87b4-55023c1b36d0 9783725823659 9783725823666 212 Basel open access
spellingShingle biostimulants
chitosan
arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
amino acids
organic farming
vegetable crops
horticultural crops
microbial biostimulants
thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences
thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes
Plant Biostimulants in Sustainable Horticulture and Agriculture
title Plant Biostimulants in Sustainable Horticulture and Agriculture
title_full Plant Biostimulants in Sustainable Horticulture and Agriculture
title_fullStr Plant Biostimulants in Sustainable Horticulture and Agriculture
title_full_unstemmed Plant Biostimulants in Sustainable Horticulture and Agriculture
title_short Plant Biostimulants in Sustainable Horticulture and Agriculture
title_sort plant biostimulants in sustainable horticulture and agriculture
topic biostimulants
chitosan
arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
amino acids
organic farming
vegetable crops
horticultural crops
microbial biostimulants
thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences
thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes
topic_facet biostimulants
chitosan
arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
amino acids
organic farming
vegetable crops
horticultural crops
microbial biostimulants
thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences
thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes
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