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Healthy soil is essential to agroecosystems, yet soils worldwide face severe challenges including pollution, erosion, salinisation, and degradation. While remediation strategies such as phytoremediation and nanoremediation are already employed, mushrooms offer a promising biological route through bio-nanoremediation. In particular, mushrooms can facilitate the green synthesis of nanoparticles that support the remediation of contaminated soils. Beyond cleaning pollutants, mushrooms contribute directly to sustainable soil management. They assist in controlling erosion, stabilising soil aggregates, increasing organic matter content, and improving the bioavailability of crucial nutrients. Utilising these organisms can help restore degraded or polluted agricultural land. However, the application of mushroom-synthesised nanoparticles for bio-nanoremediation remains in development and requires further investigation to realise its full potential in sustainable soil management.
Soil degradation and pollution threaten agricultural productivity and global food security. Utilising natural organisms like mushrooms to create green nanoparticles provides an eco-friendly alternative to chemical treatments. This biological approach can clean polluted soils while simultaneously restoring soil structure, organic matter, and essential nutrient availability, offering a sustainable path toward restoring damaged agricultural ecosystems.
This work points towards environmental remediation and agricultural soil management applications, potentially relevant to remediation contractors, agricultural land managers, and biotechnology providers. The technology centres on deploying mushroom-derived nanoparticles to treat contaminated land and improve soil quality. However, as the abstract highlights that bio-nanoremediation using mushrooms still requires further investigation, this approach appears to be at an early research stage rather than near market deployment.
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Soil is the main component in the agroecosystem besides water, microbial communities, and cultivated plants. Several problems face soil, including soil pollution, erosion, salinization, and degradation on a global level. Many approaches have been applied to overcome these issues, such as phyto-, bio-, and nanoremediation through different soil management tools. Mushrooms can play a vital role in the soil through bio-nanoremediation, especially under the biological synthesis of nanoparticles, which could be used in the bioremediation process. This review focuses on the green synthesis of nanoparticles using mushrooms and the potential of bio-nanoremediation for polluted soils. The distinguished roles of mushrooms of soil improvement are considered a crucial dimension for sustainable soil management, which may include controlling soil erosion, improving soil aggregates, increasing soil organic matter content, enhancing the bioavailability of soil nutrients, and resorting to damaged and/or polluted soils. The field of bio-nanoremediation using mushrooms still requires further investigation, particularly regarding the sustainable management of soils.
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DOI: 10.3390/su14074328
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