Soil is an essential component in the ecological system that supports human life with needed food for humans, feeds for animals, fibres, fuels, building materials, and other necessities. However, soil suffers from a number of problems caused by humans, presented here in pictorial form. This review will take us on a narrative journey through soils with a focus on the soil-human relationship and its impact on soil ecosystems. Soil has direct and indirect relationships to humans, starting with the crucial roles of soil in human life, including its support of human civilization through ecosystem services, sustainable agriculture, and human health. It is essential and urgent to manage soils for health and sustainability by building the soil-food-environment-health nexus. This work is an attempt to highlight major roles that soil plays in human life in a presentation that is more photos and less words, because one photo is worth one thousand words.
Table of contents 1. Applications of nanofibers in agriculture 2. Nanofibers-based filters for irrigation systems 3. Sustainable agriculture and nanofibers 4. References
Edible mushrooms are considered an important source for human nutrition nowadays because of their high contents of bioactive compounds (e.g., vitamins, proteins, terpenoids, phenolic compounds, lipids, and polysaccharides). These active ingredients are also a crucial source for many industries particularly in the pharmaceutical and therapeutic fields as well as functional foods. This manuscript focuses on what we called mushrooms and their nutritional importance as well as the therapeutic applications of edible mushrooms. The possible risks of edible mushrooms for human health were also discussed; especially for those grown on polluted soils, representing a serious potential threat for human health. The harvested edible mushrooms obtained from such polluted areas may have highcontents of potentially toxic elements and other contaminants, which can threaten the human health causing several diseases.The sustainable solutions for producing safe edible mushrooms for human nutrition under different growth conditions are of interest global issue due to edible mushrooms being established as one of the most important sources of human foods.
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