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Sustainable plant production refers to groups of production practices that lead to high yields but without damaging the environment and biodiversity. Sustainable crop production includes methods of growing food in a responsible manner avoiding application and dependence on chemically produced fertilizers and pesticides. The latter means development of approaches that lead to environmentally mild inputs based on the production-consumption-recycling principle. Biofertilizers are an important tool to achieve sustaina...

Sustainable plant production refers to groups of production practices that lead to high yields but without damaging the environment and biodiversity. Sustainable crop production includes methods of growing food in a responsible manner avoiding application and dependence on chemically produced fertilizers and pesticides. The latter means development of approaches that lead to environmentally mild inputs based on the production-consumption-recycling principle. Biofertilizers are an important tool to achieve sustaina...

Current management of phosphate-bearing resources (mainly rock phosphates, RPs), which in fact are finite non-renewable sources, is quite far from the principles of sustainability and may cause an escalating price increase mainly because of increases in RP-processing costs. One of the most studied approaches in solubilization of insoluble phosphates is the biological treatment of phosphate-bearing materials. In this work, we propose a microbial extraction of phosphate from insoluble inorganic natural sources as a ...

Floods are river basin wide phenomena and they often create common problems with locally varying intensity. The flood disaster management is highly dependent on early information and needs forecasts and data from the river basin as a whole. The starting point for flood risk management planning is the assessment of flood risks, based on the information about the river basin and floods in the past. The next step is developing strategies for reaction when flooding events are prognosticated, and evaluation of these st...

Biotechnological solubilization of insoluble inorganic phosphate-bearing materials is now accepted as one of the most viable alternative to the traditional chemical methods. Many microorganisms are capable of solubilizing phosphates although this feature is mainly attributed to metabolites such organic acids. During the recent years, we have developed various biotechnological schemes of P-solubilization based on citric acid (Aspergillus niger, Yarrowia lipolytica), gluconic acid (Penicillium variabile), and oxalic...