The international year of soils revisited: promoting sustainable soil management beyond 2015

Rojas, Ronald Vargas; Caon, Lucrezia

doi:10.1007/s12665-016-5891-z

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“…Soil is a reservoir of basic natural resources, such as nutrients, for animals, plants and microbes. It is a life support system that provides a wide range of necessary ecosystem goods and services ranging from storage of carbon, to water purification, soil fertility and agricultural production (Rojas and Caon, 2016). Variation in soil characteristics throughout the world is affected by weather/climate and how it is geopositioned on the globe.…”

Section: Soil: a Center For Plant Microbe Interactionmentioning

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The Roles of Plant Growth Promoting Microbes in Enhancing Plant Tolerance to Acidity and Alkalinity Stresses

Msimbira

Smith

2020

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Plant growth often occurs under a range of stressful conditions, including soil acidity and alkalinity. Hydrogen ion concentration, which determines pH of the soil, regulates the entire chemistry of plant nutrient colloidal solutions. Beyond certain levels of pH, multiple stresses such as hydrogen ion toxicity, and nutrient imbalance, toxicities and deficiencies are induced in plants. Breeding for stress coupled with suitable agronomic practices has been a way to deal with this situation in agriculture. However, plant growth promoting microbes (PGPM) have shown potential as sustainable plant growth enhancers and have potential to help with a range of stresses in their environment. Considering the long-term evolutionary relationships between plants and microbes, it is probably that much remains unknown about potential benefits of microbes that could be harnessed from PGPM. This article reviews the current understanding of acidity and alkalinity stress effects on plants and various approaches have or could address these stresses. This review provides a detailed account of the current understanding regarding the role of PGPM in acidity and alkalinity stress management, including when agronomic practices and plant breeding are combined. Approaches already evaluated have shown limitations because acidity and alkalinity in soils are gradual and progressive conditions. Greater exploitation of PGPM in this regard, would be interesting to explore as they have the potential to address multiple stresses in a more sustainable fashion. Future crop production will require further breeding for pH stress resistance, but also implementation of microbial technologies that provide enhanced tolerance to pH stress.

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Section: Soil: a Center For Plant Microbe Interactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Roles of Plant Growth Promoting Microbes in Enhancing Plant Tolerance to Acidity and Alkalinity Stresses

Msimbira

Smith

2020

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

233

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“…[ 73 ]. The GSP also proposed 2015 as the International Year of Soils (IYS) and the annual observance of a World Soil Day (on 5 December), both of which were adopted at the 68th UN General Assembly later that year [ 220 ]. Under the auspices of the GSP the Revised World Soil Charter [ 221 ] was adopted by FAO members in 2015, and the Voluntary Guidelines for Sustainable Soil Management (VGSSM) [ 222 ] were endorsed by the FAO Council in 2016.…”

Section: The Modern Governance Of Soil Resources Worldwidementioning

confidence: 99%

Saving the ground beneath our feet: Establishing priorities and criteria for governing soil use and protection

Peake

Robb²

2021

R. Soc. open sci.

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The continual loss and impairment of soil ecosystem services (SES) across the globe calls for a fundamental reconsideration of soil governance mechanisms. This critical synthesis charts the history and evolution of national and international soil law and seeks to unravel certain challenges that have contributed to this failure in governance. It describes and categorizes law and policy responses to different soil threats, and identifies a worrying widespread absence of legislation for oversight and protection of agricultural soils from urbanization, as well as a lack of clear legal mechanisms to determine national priorities for soil protection. A reduction in the world's prime farmland threatens SES, including food security, carbon storage and biodiversity. Falling between the stalls of agricultural and environmental law, the fate of farmland is often left to planners who do not see themselves as responsible for soils. Consequently, legal instruments with the greatest power to affect soil, sometimes irreversibly, are often framed and worded with little or no reference to the soil. Nevertheless, emerging conceptual frameworks might offer positive outcomes. The authors advocate robust holistic policies of soil governance and land use planning that place SES and natural capital at the heart of decision making.

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“…The development and scientific status of soil science have continued to improve since the 21st century. In December 2013, the 68th United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution designating December 5th as World Soil Day and 2015 as the "International Year of Soils" [12], which fully reflects the increasing importance of soil science. Influenced by the continuous development and improvement of other traditional disciplines, numerous new research ideas, research methods, and techniques have been introduced [13] and interdisciplinary research is being widely performed in soil science [14].…”

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Trends in Soil Science over the Past Three Decades (1992–2022) Based on the Scientometric Analysis of 39 Soil Science Journals

Jia,

Wang,

Zvomuya

et al. 2024

Agriculture

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As one of the basic disciplines of agricultural, natural resource, and environmental science, soil science has played a critical role in global food security and socio-economic and ecological sustainability. The number of soil science journals and publications has increased remarkably with the development of soil science. However, there is a lack of systematic and comprehensive studies on the developmental trends of soil science based on journals and publications. In this study, 39 journals included under the soil science category in the 2022 Journal Citation Reports, and 112,911 publications in these journals from 1992 to 2022 were subjected to scientometric/bibliometric analysis to determine trends in publication, journal metrics, co-authorship, and research topics, in addition to general journal information. The results show that soil science ushered in a renaissance period with the number of publications, citations, impact factors, and CiteScore demonstrating an increasing trend. America and the Chinese Academy of Sciences had the most publications and citations. The most productive author published more than 400 articles. Soil science research focused mostly on its fundamental impact on the ecological environment based on the strongest citation bursts analysis of keywords. The analysis indicated that open access has increased in popularity. Current soil science journals still face a few common challenges, including an urgent need for a fairer evaluation mechanism on journal quality compared to the traditional use of single metrics as well as equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in the whole editorial process. Artificial intelligence may bring new tools and more changes to the development of soil science. This study will help soil science researchers to better understand the development status and future trends of soil science. It will also guide authors in journal selection.

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The international year of soils revisited: promoting sustainable soil management beyond 2015

Cited by 10 publications

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The Roles of Plant Growth Promoting Microbes in Enhancing Plant Tolerance to Acidity and Alkalinity Stresses

The Roles of Plant Growth Promoting Microbes in Enhancing Plant Tolerance to Acidity and Alkalinity Stresses

Saving the ground beneath our feet: Establishing priorities and criteria for governing soil use and protection

Trends in Soil Science over the Past Three Decades (1992–2022) Based on the Scientometric Analysis of 39 Soil Science Journals

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