E. Brevik, A. Omara, Tamer Elsakhawy, M. Amer, Z. Abdalla, H. El-Ramady, J. Prokisch
{"title":"The Soil-Water-Plant-Human Nexus: A Call for Photographic Review Articles","authors":"E. Brevik, A. Omara, Tamer Elsakhawy, M. Amer, Z. Abdalla, H. El-Ramady, J. Prokisch","doi":"10.21608/jenvbs.2022.145425.1178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jenvbs.2022.145425.1178","url":null,"abstract":"oil and water supply us with the essentials of life, including clean water, healthy edible foods, feed, fiber, shelter, and fuel. Soil also serves as a repository for soil and water are both central components of human culture. The close interactions between soil, water, plants and humans are very important for human health and well-being. This is a call for the submission of original manuscripts on this nexus that uses photographs to communicate how the nexus functions and its importance to humanity. This approach is based on a more photos, less words paradigm to create narrative photographic studies. More studies are needed that focus on different aspects of the soil-water-plant-human (SWPH) nexus. Any combination of the components of the SWPH nexus that includes the human component (e.g., soil-water-human, soil-plant-human, etc.) is welcome as part of this special section. The ultimate goal of these articles is to add to knowledge of the SWPH nexus in a way that incorporates art and culture into our scientific understanding of some of today’s major global challenges.","PeriodicalId":11727,"journal":{"name":"Environment, Biodiversity and Soil Security","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87740048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Omara, M. Aiad, H. El-Ramady, E. Abo-Elela, M. Amer
{"title":"Significant Use of Molasses and foliar application of Ca (NO3)2 on Improving of some Soil properties and yield of Rice under salt affected soils","authors":"A. Omara, M. Aiad, H. El-Ramady, E. Abo-Elela, M. Amer","doi":"10.21608/jenvbs.2022.170499.1197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jenvbs.2022.170499.1197","url":null,"abstract":"FIELD experiment was conducted at Kafr El- Sheikh Governorate, North Nile Delta area, Egypt during the two successive growing seasons 2020 and 2021 to assess the effect of different levels from molasses and foliar application of Ca (NO 3 ) 2 on some soil properties and yield of rice . Spilt- plot design was used, which the main plots were assigned to four treatments of molasses (i.e., M1: without molasses, M2:140 L ha -1 , M3: 280 L ha -1 , M4:420 L ha -1 ), while foliar application of Ca(NO 3 ) 2 treatments were assign to sub main plots (i.e., Ca1: foliar as tab water, Ca2: 0.5 g l -1 and Ca3: 1 g l -1 ). Results revealed that after the two growing seasons, increasing molasse application up to 420 L ha -1 led to a decrease in soil bulk density. Soil porosity had a different trajectory than bulk density, recording its greatest values during the same prior treatment. With an increase in molasses up to 420 L ha -1 , available concentrations of N, P, and K in soil as well as dehydrogenase, urease and total count of bacteria were greatly enhanced, with M4 and Ca3 recording the greatest levels. The interaction effect of the molasses treatment and foliar application of Ca(NO 3 ) 2 led to a highly significant increase in the chlorophyll content, 1000-grain weight, grain, straw yield, and total N-uptake. According to the trial, farmers could gain from using molasses and foliar application of Ca(NO 3 ) 2 because it boosts rice harvest while enhancing soil physical, microbiology and its fertility.","PeriodicalId":11727,"journal":{"name":"Environment, Biodiversity and Soil Security","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80565377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Production of oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus) and tracking the lignin degrading enzymes on different agro-industrial residues","authors":"Tamer Elsakhawy, Amel Ramdan Ramdan, Khadiga ElGabry, Sohad Al-sharnouby","doi":"10.21608/jenvbs.2022.167666.1195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jenvbs.2022.167666.1195","url":null,"abstract":"F.S","PeriodicalId":11727,"journal":{"name":"Environment, Biodiversity and Soil Security","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83845309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Land Capability and Suitability Evaluation of Faculty of Agriculture Farm, Sohag, Egypt","authors":"A. Moursy, Fatma N. Thabit","doi":"10.21608/jenvbs.2022.162236.1192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jenvbs.2022.162236.1192","url":null,"abstract":"ourteen soil profiles were collected to represent an area about 40 feddans of farm, Sohag University to evaluate land capability and crop suitability of soils. Morphological, physical, chemical, fertility characteristics of examined soils were recognized using standard methods of soil testing. All soil attributes were input in different models of suitability and capability evaluation. The salient findings of this study revealed that, the study area was near to optimal (G1) and good capable (G2) except few sites were very poor (G4). Soil suitability evaluation was done for Wheat, Maize, Alfalfa and Poato crops using parametric and MicroLEIS (ALMAGRA) models. The area under investigation has been generally divided into highly to marginally suitable (S1 and S2 in parametric method and S3 in MicroLEIS-ALMAGRA model) for cultivating these crops except few sites were not suitable (S5 in MicroLEIS model) for this purpose. Soil limitations were observed in the study area such as low organic matter, coarse soil texture, alkalinity, and salinity. Storie index and parametric methods were strongly recommended to be used for land capability and suitability assessment in the investigated area, respectively. These findings are useful for decision makers to be used in better planning and management of agricultural lands.","PeriodicalId":11727,"journal":{"name":"Environment, Biodiversity and Soil Security","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84676901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. El-Ramady, S. Faizy, M. Amer, Tamer Elsakhawy, A. Omara, Y. Eid, E. Brevik
{"title":"Management of Salt-Affected Soils: A Photographic Mini-Review","authors":"H. El-Ramady, S. Faizy, M. Amer, Tamer Elsakhawy, A. Omara, Y. Eid, E. Brevik","doi":"10.21608/jenvbs.2022.131286.1172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jenvbs.2022.131286.1172","url":null,"abstract":"1 Soil and Water Dept., Faculty of Agriculture, Kafrelsheikh University, 33516 Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt 2 Soil Improvement and Conservation Dept., Water and Environment Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt 3 Agriculture Microbiology Department, Soil, Water and Environment Research Institute (SWERI), Sakha Agricultural Research Station, Agriculture Research Center, 33717 Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt 4 Dean, Faculty of Agriculture, Kafrelsheikh University 33516 Kafr El-Sheikh, EGYPT. 5 Dean, College of Agricultural, Life, and Physical Sciences Agriculture Building, Room 200 Southern Illinois University 1205 Lincoln Drive Carbondale, IL 62901 USA","PeriodicalId":11727,"journal":{"name":"Environment, Biodiversity and Soil Security","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88016946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. El-Ramady, J. Prokisch, Saeed El-Baily, Taha Elasawi, Mohamed Elmahrouk, A. Omara, Tamer Elsakhawy, M. Amer, E. Brevik
{"title":"Biological Nanofertilizer for Horticultural Crops: A Diagrammatic Mini-Review","authors":"H. El-Ramady, J. Prokisch, Saeed El-Baily, Taha Elasawi, Mohamed Elmahrouk, A. Omara, Tamer Elsakhawy, M. Amer, E. Brevik","doi":"10.21608/jenvbs.2022.177588.1203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jenvbs.2022.177588.1203","url":null,"abstract":"GRICULTURE is very important for humanity as it supplies human needs ranging from food to fiber, feed for animals and energy. The production of seedlings is of great agricultural importance, especially in horticultural nurseries. Producing vigorous and healthy seedlings like banana and strawberry using biological nanofertilizers (bionanofertilizers) is presented in this mini-review. Due to their properties, bionanofertilizers have received increasing interest in agriculture, particularly during transplanting or the production of seedlings. Many studied seedlings attributes, such as the plants’ antioxidants systems, nutritional status, and quality parameters of seedlings have been improved through the use of bionanofertilizers. The most important impacts of bionanofertilizers may include enhancing production of seedlings or plants under biotic and abiotic stresses through the improvement of attributes like physiological, biochemical, and molecular characteristics. This diagrammatic mini-review will focus on biological nanofertilizers and their potential uses in horticultural crop production.","PeriodicalId":11727,"journal":{"name":"Environment, Biodiversity and Soil Security","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86351797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Y. Bayoumi, T. Shalaby, Z. Abdalla, S. Shedeed, Naglaa Abdelbaset, H. El-Ramady, J. Prokisch
{"title":"Grafting of Vegetable Crops in the Era of Nanotechnology: A photographic Mini Review","authors":"Y. Bayoumi, T. Shalaby, Z. Abdalla, S. Shedeed, Naglaa Abdelbaset, H. El-Ramady, J. Prokisch","doi":"10.21608/jenvbs.2022.147280.1181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jenvbs.2022.147280.1181","url":null,"abstract":"t is well known that grafting, as a special plant propagation technique, is forming new plant by joining the scion (an aerial part of a plant) to a rootstock (another root part of a plant). This new plant (grafted plant) is employed to improve plant production, by getting greater plant development, vigour, and defence against abiotic/biotic stresses, as well as improving the uptake of nutrients, and their use efficiency. The grafted vegetable crops are common to overcome many plant diseases like Fusarium wilt. The most well-known grafted vegetables include both solanaceous and cucurbitaceous seedlings mainly in Europe, Asia, and North America. How can improve the efficiency of grafting process? Can the applied nanoparticles improve the quality of fruits and their nutrient content in grafted vegetables? This is a call by the Environment, Biodiversity and Soil Security (EBSS) for submitting new manuscripts for more investigations concerning the role of nanoparticles like nanofertilizers in enhancing the productivity of grafted vegetables mainly under different stresses.","PeriodicalId":11727,"journal":{"name":"Environment, Biodiversity and Soil Security","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78949697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Micro biota and organic amendments improve Sesame indicum Quality and quantity in sandy soil","authors":"Amany Hammad","doi":"10.21608/jenvbs.2022.160689.1191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jenvbs.2022.160689.1191","url":null,"abstract":"HE STUDY focuses on effect of the complementation between the plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) such as Streptomyces erythrogriseus 2, Bacillus cereus 54-1, and Spirulina platinsis on the growth and the quantity of oil sesame under different rates of familiar manure 0, 2, 4 ton/fed. Results indicated inoculation mixture of Bacillus cereus54-1, Streptonyces erythrogreiseus sp 2 and Spirulina platinsis had the greatest effect on dehydrogenase activity (254.0 μg TPF/g dry soil), while root colonization Bacillus cereus54-1 , the uppermost values with 60 % colonization. The photosynthetic test was carried out where implementation of all microbes resulted in the highest chlorophyll a content with 2.03 mg/ g dry weight. Growth parameters was estimated, the treatment of bacteria Bacillus cereus54-1, Streptonyces erythrogreiseus sp 2 gave the highest values of Root length, shoot height, number of branches and shoot dry weight were 22.1,22.2 cm/plant root length 153,156.2 cm/plant shoot height,4.5,4.5 number of branches and 50.3,49.4 gm./plant shoot dry weight. Bacillus cereus54-1, Streptonyces erythrogreiseus sp 2 gave the highest values of shoot height, number of pods weight of 1000 seed and seeds Kg/fed number being, 169.7,159.0 cm/plant, pods number /plant and 5.4,5.97 weight of 1000 seed/plant, and 5.8,5.67seed Kg/Fadden respectively. However, the highest values of N, P and K were, 17.29, 7.9 and 62.20 (mg.kg -1 soil) obtained under the treatment of bacterial Bacillus cereus54-1, respectively. The highest seed oil percent was observed in treatments Bacillus cereus 54-1 and Streptomyces erythrogreiseus sp 2 where the heights seed oil percent was 51,48 Kg/fed compared to the control one it was 39 Kg/fed. Inoculation of the Spirulina platinsis gave high protein content 19.62 followed by bacterial of Bacillus cereus54-1 19.53. All these results were obtained by adding compost 2 ton/Fadden.","PeriodicalId":11727,"journal":{"name":"Environment, Biodiversity and Soil Security","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79412609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Koriem, S. Gaheen, H. El-Ramady, J. Prokisch, E. Brevik
{"title":"Global Soil Science Education to Address the Soil – Water – Climate Change Nexus","authors":"M. Koriem, S. Gaheen, H. El-Ramady, J. Prokisch, E. Brevik","doi":"10.21608/jenvbs.2022.117119.1160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jenvbs.2022.117119.1160","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11727,"journal":{"name":"Environment, Biodiversity and Soil Security","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77297441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Applications and Challenges of Smart Farming for Developing Sustainable Agriculture","authors":"Z. Abdalla, H. El-Ramady","doi":"10.21608/jenvbs.2022.135889.1175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jenvbs.2022.135889.1175","url":null,"abstract":"griculture is the backbone of any nation, which supplies with the needed foods, feeds, fiber and fuel. The crucial sector has become more flexible and advanced due to the enormous progress in the bioinformatics, which penetrates all fields in our life. Smart agriculture is an important page in the history of global agriculture, which already used several advanced technologies during different agricultural practices starting from the pre-cultivation, cultivation, seedling, fertilization, weed detection, irrigation, spraying pesticides, till harvesting and also pot-harvest. Many sectors have been involved in smart farming like smart irrigation, and all precision farming practices for improving and management of the agriculture especially in the developing countries, which need more supporting from their governments even at the private sector and the small farms level. This short communication is a call for submitting articles on smart farming and its applications in different agricultural practices including irrigation, fertilization, and etc. Due to smart agriculture mainly depends on the bioinformatics, this technology has several open questions particularly their applications, models, and security, which need further investigations.","PeriodicalId":11727,"journal":{"name":"Environment, Biodiversity and Soil Security","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78710629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}