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Nowadays, the exponential expansion in human population has resulted in the massification of intensive agricultural practices, with crop yield and sustainability being one of the most pressing challenges. Therefore, there was a need for new and natural fertilizers and pesticides, which has become a popular agricultural trend nowadays. Therefore, there was an increased interest to apply seaweed and bacterial extracts in agriculture to promote new means of sustainability and soil usage. This work aims to test seaweed inclusion in the agricultural field, as a simple or complex foliar biofertilizer solution applied together with a nitrifying bacteria, to verify if there is a potential synergistic effect of these two different types of biofertilizers on economically important vegetables. As a result, experiments were conducted in a greenhouse using an aqueous extract of the brown seaweed Saccharina latissima (1.2% v/v) and a biofertilizer based on BlueN bacteria (0.03% m/v), both simple or in combination, on lettuce (Lactuca sativa L. var. crispa) plants. The seaweed extract (simple or in combination), presented favorable effect on lettuce growth and nutritional properties. The aqueous

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Author

Diana Pacheco; João Cotas; Leonel Pereira; Kiril Bahcevandziev

Publisher

MDPI AG

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Engineering (Physical Sciences)