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Algae as Bio-fertilizers: Between current situation and future prospective
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Bio-fertilization is a sustainable agricultural practice that includes using bio-fertilizers to increase soil nutrient content resulting in higher productivity. Soil micro-flora has been exposed to improve soil fertility and increase biomass productivity and identified as a correct environmentally friendly bio-based fertilizer for pollution-free agricultural applies. The majority of cyanobacteria can fix nitrogen from the atmosphere and several species including Anabaena sp., Nostoc sp., and Oscillatoria angustissima is known to be effective cyanobacterial based bio fertilizers. Acutodesmus dimorphus, Spirulina platensis Chlorella vulgaris, Scenedesmus dimorphus, Anabaena azolla, and Nostoc sp. are some of the green microalgae and cyanobacteria species that have been successfully used as bio fertilizers to boost crop growth. Also, Chlorella vulgaris is one of the most commonly used microalgae in bio fertilizer studies. The addition of seaweed species that are Sargassum sp. and Gracilaria verrucosa leads to chemical changes as a soil fertility indicator on clay and sandy soils, and the addition of seaweed conditioner to soil can improve its organic content, return pH to normal, and reduce C/N ratio in both sandy and clay soil. This review provides an effective approach to increase soil fertility via environmentally friendly bio-based fertilizer using micro and macro algae. Instead of the usage of inorganic and organic fertilizers that have polluted impacts to soil as aggregation of heavy metals, in addition to there their human carcinogenic effects.
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“Microalgae-based biofertilizers reduce nutrient losses, enhance soil health, contribute to carbon sequestration [8], promote rice plant development, improve soil fertility, and efficiently adsorb heavy metals, thus making them reliable options in an eco-friendly manner [110, 111].”
From A Holistic Approach to Circular Bioeconomy Through the Sustainable Utilization of Microalgal Biomass for Biofuel and Other Value-Added Products (2024) · cites this paper as [110]
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“Microalgae-based biofertilizers reduce nutrient losses, enhance soil health, contribute to carbon sequestration [8], promote rice plant development, improve soil fertility, and efficiently adsorb heavy metals, thus making them reliable options in an eco-friendly manner [110, 111].”
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“Microalgae-based biofertilizers reduce nutrient losses, enhance soil health, contribute to carbon sequestration [8], promote rice plant development, improve soil fertility, and efficiently adsorb heavy metals, thus making them reliable options in an eco-friendly manner [110, 111].”
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“Microalgae-based biofertilizers reduce nutrient losses, enhance soil health, contribute to carbon sequestration [8], promote rice plant development, improve soil fertility, and efficiently adsorb heavy metals, thus making them reliable options in an eco-friendly manner [110, 111].”
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“Microalgae-based biofertilizers reduce nutrient losses, enhance soil health, contribute to carbon sequestration [8], promote rice plant development, improve soil fertility, and efficiently adsorb heavy metals, thus making them reliable options in an eco-friendly manner [110, 111].”
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“Similarly, Scenedesmus and Chlorella strains demonstrated clearance rates of 48% and 31%, respectively, for 20 mg Cr/L [110, 126].”
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- Authors
- Ammar, E. E., Aioub, A. A. A., Elesawy, A. E., Karkour, A. M., Mouhamed, M. S., Amer, A. A., & EL-Shershaby, N. A.
- Affiliations
- Tanta University (EG)
- Zagazig University (EG)
- City of Scientific Research and Technological Applications (EG)
- Corresponding author
- Aioub, Ahmed A.A.
- Venue
- Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2022-05
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 3083-3096
- ISSN
- 1319-562X (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC8961072
- OpenAlex
- W4220722241
- Cited by
- 269
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- 45
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- 2026: 57 · 2025: 85 · 2024: 75 · 2023: 40 · 2022: 12
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- Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
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- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Agricultural Science and Fertilization
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Plant Growth Enhancement Techniques
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Agriculture, Plant Science, Crop Management
- Keywords
- biofertilizers, microalgae, cyanobacteria, soil fertility, nitrogen fixation, Chlorella vulgaris, Anabaena, Nostoc, Spirulina platensis, seaweed, Sargassum, Gracilaria verrucosa, heavy metal contamination, sustainable agriculture, crop growth
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