Unravelling the role of biochar-microbe-soil tripartite interaction in regulating soil carbon and nitrogen budget: a panacea to soil sustainability

Abstract Global food requirements necessitating enhanced crop productivity have negative consequences such as soil degradation due to acidification and nutrient leaching escalated by excessive application of chemical fertilizers and consequently increasing greenhouse gas emission. This has sought sustainable organic approaches like soil amendment with biochar to mitigate the adverse consequences of these effects, ensuring balanced ecosystem functioning. Reconciling various studies, this review provides a better understanding of the belowground mechanisms decoding multifaceted traits associated with plant and biochar-microbe-soil tripartite interaction, including microbe-mediated regulation of C and N…

• AN
  Arthritis National Research Foundation
• DO
  Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India
• GU
  Gauhati University