Meysam Cheraghi

University of Tehran | UT · Department of Soil Science

The main challenge of the twenty-first century is to find a balance between environmental sustainability and crop productivity in a world with a rapidly growing population. Soil health is the backbone of a resilient environment and stable food production systems. In recent years, the use of biochar to bind nutrients, sorption of pollutants, and inc...

Background and Aims The optimal management of plant nutrition is an effective strategy for sustainable agriculture under various conditions. Soil drying is one of the main limiting factors for plant nutrient acquisition. Plants imposed to these limitations have evolved several strategies such as modifying root-to-shoot ratio, modifying their root a...

Vegetables are the major source of dietary nitrate, with a wide range of nitrate content. The presence of nitrate in vegetables is often associated with harmful effects on human health, i.e. with toxic effects of methemoglobinemia and the possibility of causing an endogenous formation of carcinogenic N-nitroso compounds. Therefore, accurate measure...

Abiotic stresses such as salinity and drought stresses are known as the main constraints for optimum growth of plants, especially in arid and semi-arid regions. Therefore, in recent years, agricultural scientists have begun to research about the fertilizers that have a multifaceted use and can be used to maintain the optimum growth and yield of str...

Optimal plant nutrition is one of the accurate solutions to meet the demands of population growth and food in the future. In order to study the effect of different fertilizers on the responses of tomato plant, a greenhouse experiment was conducted as a factorial arrangement based on a completely randomized design with three replications. The applie...

Soil pollution by potentially toxic elements (PTEs) as one of the major environmental hazards is associated with metal exploration and refining acting. In this study, forty-five topsoil samples surrounding a copper smelter factory were taken and analysed using standard routine methods. The total concentration, chemical fractionation and the mobilit...

Sustainable agriculture has been consistently challenged due to the menace of changing climate, thereby, causing depletion in carrying capacity of soil vis-à-vis agronomic response of crop. Of late, biochar has turned out to be the most promising option to address these issues. The present review takes stock of the research work accrued under varie...