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THE EFFECT OF BIOCHAR ON PLANT DISEASES: WHAT SHOULD WE LEARN WHILE DESIGNING BIOCHAR SUBSTRATES?
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The increasing demand for soilless substrates and rising environmental concerns about the use of non-renewable resources such as peat has led to the search for alternative constituents of growing mixtures for containerized plants. In this report we reviewed the works concerning biochar as constituent of growing media, targeting its influence on plant growth and plant disease. Biochar mostly has positive or neutral influences on plant growth compared with peat media when present in concentrations higher than 25% (v:v). However, studies of biochar influence on plant disease reveals that while lower concentrations (≤1%) of biochar often suppressed several diseases, higher concentrations (≥3%) were mostly ineffective or induced plant disease. For use as horticultural peat replacement, it is recommended that biochar feedstocks and concentrations be standardized and the potential effect of biochar on plant disease be considered, so that growers can rely on consistent and reproducible biochars for desired effects.
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“the disease symptoms in the untreated control was averaged 8.6 lesions plants -1”
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“were not significantly lower at 3% (6.4 lesions plants -1 ) and 6% biochar (9.4 lesions plants -1 )”
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“but were significantly higher at biochar level of 18% (15.1 lesions plants -1 ) compared to the untreated control (8.6 lesions plants -1 )”
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Metadata
- Authors
- FRENKEL, O., JAISWAL, A. K., ELAD, Y., LEW, B., & GRABER, E. R.
- Affiliations
- Agricultural Research Organization (IL)
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL)
- The Volcani Center – Agricultural Research Organization
- Venue
- Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management
- Published
- 2017-06-28
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 105-113
- ISSN
- 1648-6897 (ISSN-L)
- 1822-4199
- OpenAlex
- W2726390699
- Cited by
- 106
- References
- 67
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 25 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 21 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 4
- FWCI
- 8.89
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- by The Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Israel (Grant number 1321826)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Plant Disease Management Techniques
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Growth and nutrition in plants
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Plant Growth and Agriculture Techniques
- Keywords
- biochar, plant disease, soilless growing media, peat replacement, potted plants, plant growth, biochar feedstock, disease suppression, horticultural substrates
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