Biochar 2.0 in Climate-Smart Agriculture: A Critical Review of Designer Biochars, Soil Microbiome Responses, Nutrient-Use Efficiency and Greenhouse-Gas Mitigation
Biochar has moved from a broadly promoted soil amendment to a material that is deliberately engineered for defined agronomic and climatic functions. This transition, described here as a shift towards designer biochars, raises questions that the earlier literature was not designed to answer: whether tailoring feedstock,...