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- Title
Aquatic microphylla Azolla: a perspective paradigm for sustainable agriculture, environment and global climate change.
- Authors
Kollah, Bharati; Patra, Ashok; Mohanty, Santosh
- Abstract
This review addresses the perspectives of Azolla as a multifaceted aquatic resource to ensure ecosystem sustainability. Nitrogen fixing potential of cyanobacterial symbiont varies between 30 and 60 kg N ha which designates Azolla as an important biological N source for agriculture and animal industry. Azolla exhibits high bioremediation potential for Cd, Cr, Cu, and Zn. Azolla mitigates greenhouse gas emission from agriculture. In flooded rice ecosystem, Azolla dual cropping decreased CH emission by 40 % than did urea alone and also stimulated CH oxidation. This review highlighted integrated approach using Azolla that offers enormous public health, environmental, and cost benefits.
- Subjects
AZOLLA; AGRICULTURE; BIOREMEDIATION; GREENHOUSE gases; CLIMATE change
- Publication
Environmental Science & Pollution Research, 2016, Vol 23, Issue 5, p4358
- ISSN
0944-1344
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11356-015-5857-9