Soil microorganisms bring sustainable agriculture to a new dimension

What does sustainable agriculture depend on? According to Jiang Zhiyang, a senior engineer at the Shenyang Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, soil microbial populations are an important path to choose from.

Jiang Zhiyang and others published an article in the "Journal of Microbiology" that soil microorganisms have brought sustainable agriculture and environmental development to a new dimension, and explained some soil microorganisms and their importance to sustainable agricultural production.

He said that all walks of life are currently looking for alternatives to traditional agriculture based on chemical substances.

Studies have shown that inoculation of high-efficiency microbial communities in soil ecosystems can improve soil quality, soil health, crop growth, yield and quality.

Jiang Zhiyang said that these microbial populations may include selected microbial species, including rhizobia that promote plant growth, nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria, plant disease inhibitors and fungi, soil poison degrading microorganisms, actinomycetes and other useful microorganisms.

"Effective and potential soil microbial communities are only suitable for sustainable agricultural practices and not for other alternative methods.

Therefore, he suggested that first, relying on the existing national field observation station and biodiversity detection platform network, phase monitoring of changes in soil microbial populations and other aspects, reflecting the characteristics of different regions, different climates, different ways of use, and different plants And trends; secondly, optimize the existing microbial resource resource platform protection and utilization methods, so that the preserved microbial resources can be used in agriculture, medicine, environment, forestry and other fields; third, combine agricultural green development and environmental protection appropriately Increase the establishment of scientific research projects, pay attention to the synchronization of basic science and application science, establish the construction of the technology development system of soil microbial agricultural products, the improvement of the standard system and the county-level market supervision system to achieve the three-dimensional R&D-production-application-supervision System construction to ensure food security and soil health.

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