The Soil-Water-Plant-Human Nexus: A Call for Photographic Review Articles

Abstract

oil and water supply us with the essentials of life, including clean water, healthy edible foods, feed, fiber, shelter, and fuel. Soil also serves as a repository for soil and water are both central components of human culture. The close interactions between soil, water, plants and humans are very important for human health and well-being. This is a call for the submission of original manuscripts on this nexus that uses photographs to communicate how the nexus functions and its importance to humanity. This approach is based on a more photos, less words paradigm to create narrative photographic studies. More studies are needed that focus on different aspects of the soil-water-plant-human (SWPH) nexus. Any combination of the components of the SWPH nexus that includes the human component (e.g., soilwater-human, soil-plant-human, etc.) is welcome as part of this special section. The ultimate goal of these articles is to add to knowledge of the SWPH nexus in a way that incorporates art and culture into our scientific understanding of some of today's major global challenges.

Plant Nutrition for Human Health: A Pictorial Review on Plant Bioactive Compounds for Sustainable Agriculture

“…Hairy root culture using A. rhizogenes, which had an inhibition effect on the proliferation of human breast cancer under cell line [242] Concerning the photographic approach, many pictorial published articles have recently been issued on different topics, including management of salt-affected soils [243], soil and humans [244], the soil-water-plant-human nexus [245], and a from-farm-to-fork approach using nanofarming of vegetables [246].…”

Smart Fertilizers vs. Nano-fertilizers: A Pictorial Overview

“…Environment, Biodiversity and Soil Security (EBSS) journal already planned this year, for more calls including more new hot topics. EBSS already started publication through a call for smart farming for developing sustainable agriculture (Fawzy and El-Ramady 2022), smart irrigation (Fawzy et al 2022c), then move to a call on Soil-Water-Plant-Human Nexus (Brevik et al 2022)…”

“…. At the same time, more calls for submission of photographic review or minireview such as Global Soil Science Education(Koriem et al 2022), Management of Salt-Affected Soils (El-Ramady et al 2022a), Soil-Water-Plant-Human Nexus(Brevik et al 2022), Grafting of Vegetable Crops(Bayoumi et al 2022), Sustainable Applications of Mushrooms in Soil Science(Fawzy et al 2022b), and on Nano-Farming of Vegetables(Fawzy et al 2022a). This is a new call for more publications on smart fertilizer under the umbrella of smart agriculture especially using the photographic reviews or mini-reviews.…”

Sustainable Applications of Mushrooms in Soil Science: A Call for Pictorial and Drawn Articles

“…2, including their taxonomy, and suggested applications. More photographic also were published to be focus on different themes such as the comparative study on higher plants and mushrooms (El-Ramady et al 2022c), the soil-water-plant-human nexus (Brevik et al 2022), nano-grafting of vegetable crops (Bayoumi et al 2022), soil andhumans (El-Ramady et al 2022d), applications and challenges of smart farming , from farm-to-fork: on nano-farming of vegetables . Some specific mushroom species also were handled with more concern like Pleurotus ostreatus L. or oyster mushroom (Tör ős et al 2022), and Lentinula edodes L. or shiitake (Hajdú et al 2022).…”