Biochar for Mitigating Abiotic Stress in Plants provides a unique and leading resource for utilizing biochar to address specific plant health challenges, including osmotic, ionic, and oxidative stress. With a focus on crop yielding plants, the book provides targeted application insights to improve plant health, and resulting crop production. Readers will find important tools toward the identification, treatment, and management of a variety of abiotic stressors through the effective and appropriate application of biochar. This is an important reference for those seeking to apply current knowledge and an inspiration for further research in the area. Biochar is a carbon-rich organic substance produced by the pyrolysis of organic materials in the absence or presence of oxygen. It is an organic matter conditioner that can boost carbon sequestration and organic and inorganic pollutant immobilization. It is a crucial method for soil regeneration. Additionally, biochar facilitates increasing mineral supply and soil organic matter, resulting in soils with increased nutritional content.
Table of Contents
1.�Biochar: An overview2.�Biochar impacts on soil-plant ecosystems
3.�Biochar impacts on soil health
4.�Biochar effects� on soil biology
5.�Biochar effects on water availability to plants
6.�Biochar impacts on crop yield and food quality
7.�Biochar-induced regulation on primary and secondary metabolites in plants� under abiotic stress
8.�Regulation of mineral nutrition in plants by biochar under abiotic stress
9.�Biochar amendments and reactive oxygen species generation in plants
10.�Regulation of enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidants in plants by biochar under abiotic stress
11.�Soil acidification management using biochar
12.�Biochar for alleviation of salinity stress in plants
13.�Improving soil properties by biochar under abiotic stressors
14.�Biochar amendments and drought tolerance of plants
15.�Biochar application and water-logging tolerance of plants
16.�Biochar and mitigation of heavy metals stress in plants
17.�Mitigation of organic chemicals/contaminants stress in plants by biochar application