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The Effects of Sterilisation on Abiotic Soil Properties and the Challenge this Poses to Untangling the Influence of Abiotic and Biotic Soil Variables on Plant Growth
To separate the effects of the abiotic and biotic soil components on plant growth, researchers can compare plants grown in sterilised and...
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Effects of rewatering on soil fungi and soil enzymes in a spruce-beech forest after a 5-year experimental drought
Backgrounds and aimsThe functioning of temperate forests may change dramatically in the future due to more extreme precipitation events. In contrast...
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Glutamic Acid-Enhanced Phosphate Fertilizer Increases Phosphorus Availability in Fluvo-Aquic Soil via Phosphamide (O = P-N) Formation, Decreasing Phosphate Fixation and Increasing Soil Microbial Diversity
At low concentrations, incorporating amino acids into phosphate fertilizer reportedly improves phosphate fertilizer efficiency, but a limited...
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Soil Metaproteomics for Microbial Community Profiling: Methodologies and Challenges
Soil represents a complex and dynamic ecosystem, hosting a myriad of microorganisms that coexist and play vital roles in nutrient cycling and organic...
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Effect of drought stress on symbiotic nitrogen fixation, soil nitrogen availability and soil microbial diversity in forage legumes
Background and aimsForage legumes form mutualistic interactions with specialized soil rhizobia bacteria that inhabit root nodules and fix atmospheric...
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The Development of Soil Science in Aosta Valley
This chapter describes the development of soil science in Aosta Valle. After a short introduction, focused mainly on the climatic and geological...
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Organic fertilizer and hydrothermal conditions change the distribution of Medicago sativa L. productivity and soil bacterial diversity in coastal saline soil
BackgroundAlfalfa ( Medicago sativa L.) is a perennial leguminous forage that can improve the properties of saline soil. In addition, the...
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A global atlas of soil viruses reveals unexplored biodiversity and potential biogeochemical impacts
Historically neglected by microbial ecologists, soil viruses are now thought to be critical to global biogeochemical cycles. However, our...
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The Development of Soil Science in Lombardy
In Lombardy, interest in the study of soils began to make headway only between the late 1970s and early 1980s. A first “soil map” project aimed at...
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CREA’s Contribution to the Advancement of Soil Science in Italy
Soil Science has always been a topic of considerable interest for CREA, the Council for Research in Agriculture and the Analysis of Agricultural...
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Unveiling bacterial consortium for xenobiotic biodegradation from Pichavaram mangrove forest soil: a metagenomic approach
Pichavaram mangrove forest was established as a wetland of International Importance by Article 2.1 in April 2022 by the Ministry of Environment,...
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Relevance of soil fertility spatial databases for parameterizing APSIM-wheat crop model in Moroccan rainfed areas
Crop models have evolved over the past decade to incorporate more soil-related processes. While this may open avenues to support farmers regarding...
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An updated LSU database and pipeline for environmental DNA identification of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
Recent work established a backbone reference tree and phylogenetic placement pipeline for identification of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal (AMF) large...
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Biotechnological Potential of the Soil Microbiome
AbstractMolecular biological techniques and bioinformatic analysis were used to investigate the phylogenetic and functional diversity of the...
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Assessing HC27 Soil Database for Modeling Plant Production
Soil information is a vital input for crop models applications in various large area studies including climate change impact and food security. One...
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Soil fauna effects on litter decomposition are better predicted by fauna communities within litterbags than by ambient soil fauna communities
AimsSoil fauna is one of the major drivers of plant litter decomposition. This study aims to assess how soil fauna density and diversity may affect...
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Soil pseudotargeted metabolomics reveals that planting years of masson pine (Pinus massoniana) affect soil metabolite profiles and metabolic pathways
AimsSoil metabolites have a great influence on regulating the growth and development of plants and microbes in forest ecosystems. This study aims to...
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Soil Conditioner Affects Tobacco Rhizosphere Soil Microecology
Reasonable fertilization management can increase nutrient content and enzyme activity in rhizosphere soil, and even increase soil microbial richness....
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Effect of polyaspartic acid on soil water storage, soil microbial diversity, cotton yield and fiber quality
Water-saving is one of the most important problems in agricultural development, especially in arid and semi-arid areas. The effects of polyaspartic...
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The Development of Soil Science in Trentino-Alto Adige
The Region of Trentino-Alto Adige is divided into two administrative units, the Province of Bolzano, commonly known as South Tyrol, and the Province...