Soil and Roots to Improve Crop Yield Potential and Quality

Stefan Hales*

Department of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany

*Corresponding Author:
Stefan Hales
Department of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany
E-mail: Hales_S@Ned.De

Received date: August 29, 2022, Manuscript No. AJPSKY-22-15314; Editor assigned date: August 31, 2022, PreQC No. AJPSKY-22-15314 (PQ); Reviewed date: September 12, 2022, QC No. AJPSKY-22-15314; Revised date: September 23, 2022, Manuscript No. AJPSKY-22-15314 (R); Published date: September 30, 2022, DOI: 10.36648/2249-7412.12.9.021

Citation: Hales S (2022) Soil and Roots to Improve Crop Yield Potential and Quality. Asian J Plant Sci Res Vol.12 No.9:021

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The primary point of this audit is to give the jobs of arbuscular mycorrhizal organisms as scaffold between plants, soils and people, overall and explicitly in biological system, contrasting with momentum research patterns and with show future advantages of plants to adapt from biotic (bug and sickness) and abiotic (dry spell, Saltiness, weighty metals, sustenance and temperature) stress examinations. This study examined whether, in optimal conditions, the application of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi serves as a link between plants, soils and people, potentially enhancing crop yield and human nutrition by reducing biotic and abiotic stress. Crop production and productivity have been hampered significantly by these abiotic and biotic stresses; because the crop's growth is severely stunted, which necessitates the contributions of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Through the transfer and exchange of nutrients, soil remediation, pest control and enhancement of the quality of plant and human nutrition, they provide either direct or indirect interconnection between the soil systems, plant roots and humans. The majority of people worldwide are aware of the fungi's bridge roles, which involve symbiotic relationships with more than 80 percent of plant species; However, they rarely apply them. However, by reducing the stresses, there was a chance to improve human nutrition and crop yields. As a result, AM fungi served as a link between humans, soil and roots to improve crop yield potential and quality, human nutrition, environmental friendliness and agricultural production.

Crop Yield Potential and Quality

Through fixation, the recycling of nutrients like N, P, S and C, the formation and maintenance of soil structure, pest control and the degradation of agrochemicals and pollutants, soil microorganisms are the most crucial to increasing agriculture crop production. One of the soil microorganisms most frequently utilized in agriculture to increase crop yield are arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, which are symbionts that are associated with almost every habitat. More than 80% of vascular plants rely on them as root symbionts. Arbuscules, which aid in the transfer of nutrients (P, S, N, C and micronutrients) from the soil to plants, are able to penetrate the cortical cells of the roots of vascular plants. They work together with other plant species in the rhizosphere to make it easier for nutrients to be taken in and to keep pests at bay. AM fungi also contribute to the improvement of soil structures, which enhance the water-holding capacity of the soil and facilitate improved plant rooting capacity, both of which reduce soil erosion. It also improves soil environments that lack nutrients or are polluted. Through decreasing drought stress, it improved suitable agro-ecosystems. By transferring mineral nutrients such as iron (Fe), zinc (Zn), iodine (I), selenium (Se), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg) and copper (Cu) from the soil to plant parts, AMF is also important for improving human diets. Plant’s nutritional qualities are closely linked to human diets and these mineral nutrients are increasing productivity. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi were the focus of this review because they serve as a link between plants, soil and humans to improve crop production and human nutrition. They are excellent roles for agricultural production and friendliness in a sustainable environment. Heavy metals' transformation mechanism has effects on plant growth, either directly or indirectly. The direct effects of AMF may have a greater capacity for metal absorption than plant roots. The cell wall's structure may be related to its adsorption capacity. Polysaccharides make up the fungi's cell wall and chitin can prevent metal ions and other solutes from entering cells and controlling their absorption. The cell walls' free amino acids and functional groups like hydroxyl and carboxyl groups can form a negatively charged structure that can adsorb the majority of the soil's metal ions. The indirect effect of AM fungi is that they secrete organic acids that can activate insoluble phosphate, which is easy for plants to absorb and transport in soil with low phosphorus availability. The use of AMF can encourage the restoration and reconstruction of heavy metal-contaminated soil as well as assist plants in resisting environmental stress.

Weed Biology

Weed management, according to a decision-making science that uses information about ecology, weed biology and the environment as well as all of the technologies that are available to control weeds in the most cost-effective and sustainable manner. However, it faces a daunting set of obstacles, including weed resistance to herbicides, environmental damage from control methods, increased weed impacts from climate and land use changes and accelerated weed dispersal through global trade. However, there are a number of challenges associated with managing invasive weed species in rangelands, including the lands' low economic value, which makes chemical and mechanical control impractical and their remoteness (massive areas without roads) that restrict access for weed control. These difficulties lend support to the integration-based application of a variety of weed control strategies, including cultural and biological ones. With weed challenges, using a single weed control method would fail. Instead, their application will need to be incorporated into a variety of other weed management methods and the actual application of herbicides. These examinations show that broadleaf weeds like weed in lasting field are amiable to alleviation utilizing accessible weed control strategies. If not controlled, Kongwa weeds have been linked to pasture losses of up to one hundred percent. Kongwa weed has spread beyond open areas and continues to infest numerous agro-ecosystems ever since it was first discovered in Tanzania's Central Region. Weeds have been reported to lower crop yield and livestock forage availability on public and private grazing lands. Although Kongwa weed has a significant negative impact on pasture production and covers more than 70% of the Kongwa Ranch, there has only been one consistent research result reported in the area to date. When the weeds reach unmanageable levels, farmers have experienced heavily infested grazing and crop land, resulting in food insecurity and an increased loss of household income. Using cultural, chemical, or Biological Integrated Weed Management (IWM), the weight and number of Kongwa weeds that survived were reduced, and pasture yield was increased. As previously reported by the weeds were either cut to a large extent and later suppressed by the chemicals and/or bio-herbicides that likely affect the chlorophyll content of Kongwa weed, resulting in a lower weed population and suppression of weed growth. The higher level of weed suppression probably contributed to the lower weed weight.

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