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The growing global population and the increasing vulnerability of agriculture have made many challenges of modern agricultural production. One of the main challenges is to produce and provide sufficient quantities of healthy and nutritionally valuable food on the basis of not excessive fertilizer resources consumption. To meet the challenge, new knowledge/solutions and innovative agricultural practices must be acquired in research and appropriately implemented into agricultural green development. Many new sustainable practices were adopted in order to increase crop productivity, nutritional and safety quality as well as reduce the impact on the environment (high nutrients efficiency). These practices basically include the introduction and integration of strategies from different disciplines from plant science, crop science, microbiology to soil science, such as crop physiology, physio-biochemistry, plant nutrition and fertilizer science, soil management, rhizosphere ecology, crop root-soil interactions and management, environmental microbial technology, recombinant microorganisms techniques, PGPR, etc. Innovative management strategies have been used to clarify the matching mechanisms underlying crop-soil-fertilizer systems in order to achieve the triple-H, namely high-yield, high-quality, and high nutrient efficiency.