Comparison of the Responses of Soil Enzymes, Microbial Respiration and Plant Growth Characteristics under the Application of Agricultural and Food Waste-Derived Biochars
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The conversion of bio-wastes to useful products such as biochar provide a suitable option not only to minimize the mass of wastes, but also to use the biochar as soil amendment. In the present study, food waste biochar (FWB) and agricultural waste derived biochar (AB), either alone or in combination (FWB + AB), were tested for their effects on soil microbiological characteristics (soil enzymes, soil basal as well as substrate-induced respiration), plant growth and photosynthetic parameters. Four treatments were tested: control, FWB, AB and FWB + AB. The results indicated that the application of AB significantly enhanced the plant above ground and below ground fresh and dry biomass as compared to other amendments and control (+41 to +205% compared to control). The application of FWB enhanced the quantum yield of photosystem II (QY-max, +4% compared to control) and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI, +13% compared to control). Moreover, the FWB application improved the soil dehydrogenase (DHA) activity (+24% compared to control). Furthermore, the soil basal respiration was found to be increased under AB application (+46% compared to control) and the substrate-induced respirations were relatively decreased, depicting negative effects of applied biochars on substrate-induced respirations. Thus, we concluded that the differential responses of observed crop and soil attributes might be related to the biochar specific effects on soil properties.
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Food waste-derived biochar holds great potential as a soil amendment due to its high nutrient content, which significantly improves soil chemical properties.
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The Introduction describes biochar as a promising soil amendment, and Table 1 shows that the food waste-derived biochar had more nitrogen than the agricultural waste-derived biochar (3.58% versus 1.01%). The Discussion describes improvements in soil chemical properties from biochar generally, but our copy does not establish that the food waste-derived biochar significantly improved those properties because of its nutrient content. Section labels are available, but page numbers are not. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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- Authors
- Mustafa, A., Holatko, J., Hammerschmiedt, T., Kucerik, J., Skarpa, P., Kintl, A., Racek, J., Baltazar, T., Malicek, O., & Brtnicky, M.
- Affiliations
- Charles University (CZ)
- Department of Agrochemistry, Soil Science, Microbiology and Plant Nutrition, Faculty of AgriSciences, Mendel University in Brno, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic
- Mendel University in Brno (CZ)
- Institute of Chemistry and Technology of Environmental Protection, Faculty of Chemistry, Brno University of Technology, Purkynova 118, 612 00 Brno, Czech Republic
- AdMaS Research Centre, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Brno University of Technology, Purkynova 651/139, 612 00 Brno, Czech Republic
- Corresponding author
- Mustafa, Adnan
- ORCID
- Venue
- Agronomy
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2022-10-06
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 2428
- ISSN
- 2073-4395 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4303579278
- Cited by
- 17
- References
- 77
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 3
- FWCI
- 1.83
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Agronomy (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (TJ02000262, TH03030319, MZE-RO1218, MZE-RO1722, FCH-S-22-8001)
- Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic (TJ02000262, TH03030319, MZE-RO1218, MZE-RO1722, FCH-S-22-8001)
- Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic (TJ02000262, TH03030319, MZE-RO1218, MZE-RO1722, FCH-S-22-8001)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Agricultural Science and Fertilization
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes
- Keywords
- biochar, soil enzymes, dehydrogenase activity, soil microbial respiration, substrate-induced respiration, plant growth, photosynthetic characteristics, NDVI, soil amendment
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