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Soil Health and Its Role in Crop Protection
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Soil Health and Its Role in Crop Protection

A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Protection and Biotic Interactions".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 April 2025 | Viewed by 779

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Dr. Yuan Li

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Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
Interests: crop diseases; weed control; molecular approaches; identification and quantification; soil disinfestation; biocontrol agents; application equipment; crop growth and yield
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Dear Colleagues,

Soil health plays an important role in crop protection. In soil with continuous cropping year-round, soilborne pathogenic fungi, bacteria, and nematodes continue to accumulate, which can easily lead to the outbreak and spread of soilborne diseases, causing widespread disease and even whole-plant death, resulting in serious yield reduction and economic losses that cannot be compensated for. Therefore, soil health is extremely important. Before planting crops, it is necessary to check the soil health status, monitor the population density of pathogenic bacteria and nematodes in the soil, and if necessary, carry out soil disinfection treatment before planting, which can effectively reduce the occurrence of pests and diseases in the middle stage of crop growth and ensure the healthy and sustainable development of crops.

Dr. Yuan Li
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • soil health
  • crop protection
  • pests
  • diseases
  • sustainable agriculture

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Studying the Antifungal Effects of Ageratina adenophora (Sprengel) R. King and H. Robinson (=Eupatorium adenophorum Sprengel) as a Bio-Fumigant Plant Alone and in Combination with Biochar Against Pythium aphanidermatum (Edson) Fitz
by Shiva Parsiaaref, Aocheng Cao, Yuan Li, Asgar Ebadollahi, Ghasem Parmoon, Jalal Gholamnezhad, Qiuxia Wang, Dongdong Yan, Wensheng Fang, Zhaoxin Song, Xianli Wang and Min Zhang
Plants 2024, 13(24), 3511; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13243511 - 16 Dec 2024
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Pythium spp. are soil-borne pathogens that cause damping-off and root rot diseases in many plant species such as cucumber. In the current study, the effect of dried roots–stems and leaves of Ageratina adenophora (Sprengel) R. King and H. Robinson (=Eupatorium adenophorum Sprengel) [...] Read more.
Pythium spp. are soil-borne pathogens that cause damping-off and root rot diseases in many plant species such as cucumber. In the current study, the effect of dried roots–stems and leaves of Ageratina adenophora (Sprengel) R. King and H. Robinson (=Eupatorium adenophorum Sprengel) alone and in combination with pyrogenic biomass biochar to control Pythium aphanidermatum (Edson) Fitz was assessed. In four treatments of leaves, roots–stems, leaves + biochar, and roots–stems + biochar, it was observed that the treatment with leaves at an Emax (maximal effective concentration on control fungi) of 79 g/kg of soil had the most antifungal effect on P. aphanidermatum. Also, the Cmax (the highest level of control) increased with time and reached 82.4% and 71% on days 30 and 60, respectively. The highest cucumber fresh fruit weight and the highest height of the stems in the greenhouse were observed in leaf treatment of A. adenophora. Biochar did not have any remarkable controlling effect on P. aphanidermatum, and its population increased. The main compounds extracted from the dried leaves and roots–stems of A. adenophora, including α-pinene, nonanone, hexahydronaphthalene, 3-undecanone, muurolene, and heneicosane, had antifungal properties. We concluded that the leaves of A. adenophora have the potential to be used as a bio-fumigant for P. aphanidermatum management. Full article
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Soil health plays an important role in crop protection. In soil with continuous cropping year-round, soilborne pathogenic fungi, bacteria, and nematodes continue to accumulate, which can easily lead to the outbreak and spread of soilborne diseases, causing widespread disease and even whole-plant death, resulting in serious yield reduction and economic losses that cannot be compensated for. Therefore, soil health is extremely important. Before planting crops, it is necessary to check the soil health status, monitor the population density of pathogenic bacteria and nematodes in the soil, and if necessary, carry out soil disinfection treatment before planting, which can effectively reduce the occurrence of pests and diseases in the middle stage of crop growth and ensure the healthy and sustainable development of crops.
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