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Planning for disposal of COVID-19 pandemic wastes in develo** countries: a review of current challenges
The health sector is critical to the well-being of any country, but develo** countries have several obstacles that prevent them from providing adequate health care. This became an even larger concern after t...
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Soil Health and Its Biology
It is well known that, the health of humans is mainly depends on the physical, social and nutrient factors. The health of humans requires safe, proper and sufficient supply of nutrients through the foods. This...
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Soils and Humans
Soil has a great and holy position worldwide. This position has been acquired from the importance of soil in saving food, feed, fuel, and fibre for animals and humans. Egypt was and still one of the most impor...
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Biological Aspects of Selenium and Silicon Nanoparticles in the Terrestrial Environments
The application of both selenium (Se) and silicon (Si) could ameliorate different negative effects of abiotic and/or biotic stresses on plant growth. Under salt-stress conditions, selenium and silicon also cou...
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Plant Nano-nutrition: Perspectives and Challenges
The global agriculture is facing many challenges including sustainable use and conservation of natural resources, climate change, urbanization, and pollution resulting from agrochemicals (e.g., fertilizers and...
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Plant Nutrients and Their Roles Under Saline Soil Conditions
It is well established that the nutrients of plant play a vital role in all plant processes starting from the emergence, development, productivity, and metabolism reaching to the promotion and protection of pl...
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Nanoparticle-Associated Phytotoxicity and Abiotic Stress Under Agroecosystems
The field of nanotechnology has gained a great progress regarding the agriculture and food industry. Thereby, an excessive use of engineered nanomaterials has led to spread huge amounts of nanoscale materials ...
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Nanoremediation for Sustainable Crop Production
Nanoremediation is a promising strategy to controlling pollution. Nanoremediation involves the use of nanomaterials and plants, named phyto-nanoremediation, animals, named zoo-nanoremediation and microbes, nam...
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The Rhizosphere and Plant Nutrition Under Climate Change
The plant root–soil interfaces could be considered the rhizosphere area, which is the most important active zone in the soils for different microbial activities, biodegradation of pollutants and plant nutritio...
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Selenium and nano-selenium in plant nutrition
Selenium (Se) is a naturally occurring metalloid element which occurs nearly in all environments. Se is considered as a finite and non-renewable resource on the Earth. The common sources of Se in earth’s crus...
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Nanoparticles, Soils, Plants and Sustainable Agriculture
Humanity faces major challenges involving energy, water, food, environment, poverty, diseases, education, democracy and population. Green nanotechnology could be a solution for providing sustainable energy, cl...
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Giant reed for selenium phytoremediation under changing climate
At very low concentrations selenium is an essential micronutrient for humans, animals and some lower plants including algae and bacteria, whereas Se is extremely toxic at higher doses. Living organisms can be ...
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Selenium in soils under climate change, implication for human health
Global climate changes can alter the suitable geographical range of different crops, leading to possible changes in crop** pattern and its extent in some regions. For example, temperature changes can interac...
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Selenium and its Role in Higher Plants
Selenium (Se) is a naturally occurring metalloid element which occurs nearly in all environments in the universe. The common sources of Se in earth crust occurs in association with sulfide minerals as metal se...
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Selenium Phytoremediation by Giant Reed
Selenium (Se) is an essential micronutrient for humans, animals and some lower plants at very low concentrations, whereas it is extremely toxic at higher doses. Furthermore, living organisms become exposed to ...
