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What Is Soil Texture?
This lab activity aims to determine the physical properties of soil, specifically soil texture. Soil texture is an essential property of soils...
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Phosphorus Leaching During Potato Production in Coarse Soil
In potato production systems, runoff and erosion are major loss routes of phosphorus (P), while P loss through vertical leaching has been considered...
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Decomposition and nutrient dynamics of stumps and coarse roots of Eucalyptus plantations in southern China
Key messagePrimary remains of Eucalyptus ( E. urophylla × E. grandis ) plantations following clear-cutting are the stumps and coarse roots. A...
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Soil Texture Rather Than Water Potential Determines the Root:Shoot Ratio in Ryegrass and Alfalfa
BackgroundsA fixed root:shoot ratio is widely used to estimate the underground biomass in the carbon (C) cycle in grassland ecosystems, although...
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Texture and clay mineralogy as main drivers of the priming effect in temperate forest soils
Background and aimsThis work aimed to determine how the soil parameters affect the magnitude and direction of priming effect (accelerated or...
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Coarse Woody Debris in Monsoon Tropical Forests of Vietnam
AbstractIn tropical forests, especially in the Southeast Asia, there are only fragmentary estimates of coarse woody debris (CWD) pools and dynamics....
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Digital Soil Texture Maps of Argentina and Their Relationship to Soil-Forming Factors and Processes
Soil texture is determined by the parent material of the soil and the resulting pedogenetic processes. Because the spatial distribution of soil...
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Spatial and Texture Analysis of Root System distribution with Earth mover’s Distance (STARSEED)
PurposeRoot system architectures are complex and challenging to characterize effectively for agronomic and ecological discovery.
Methods ...
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An arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus alters soil water retention and hydraulic conductivity in a soil texture specific way
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) alter plant water relations and contribute to soil structure. Although soil hydraulic properties depend on soil...
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Root hairs matter at field scale for maize shoot growth and nutrient uptake, but root trait plasticity is primarily triggered by texture and drought
AimsRoot hairs are important for uptake, especially for nutrients with low mobility in soils with high sorption capacity. Mutants with defective root...
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Linkage of fine and coarse litter traits to soil microbial characteristics and nitrogen mineralization across topographic positions in a temperate natural forest
AimsTopographic positions within a natural forest can considerably influence litter traits, soil microbial characteristics, and nitrogen (N)...
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Genetic variability and genome-wide association analysis of flavor and texture in cooked beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)
Key messageCooked bean flavor and texture vary within and across 20 Andean seed types; SNPs are significantly associated with total flavor, beany,...
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Potential Threats to Soil Functions and Mitigation Options for Sustainable Uses
The soils of Kuwait are mostly coarse textured presenting four out of the twelve soil texture classes recognized globally. The dominant soil texture...
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Impact of melon seed oil cake with different particle sizes on bread quality
Melon seed oil cake (MSOC), as the secondary by-product from melon seed oil pressing process, has high potential nutritional value. The aim of this...
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Algae a Potential Source in Cosmetics: Current Status, Challenges, and Economic Implications
Recently, many studies have revealed the association between environmental stresses and skin disorders. Skin protects the inner body organs as a...
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Origin and Properties of Deep Sands of Southeastern Cambodia: Some Preliminary Findings
Deep sandy soils are a feature of many landscapes in Southeast Asia but the explanations for their origin are not always known. Deep sand and sand on...
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Ecological co-occurrence and soil physicochemical factors drive the archaeal community in Amazonian soils
We evaluated the co-occurrence of archaeal taxonomic groups and soil physicochemical characteristics in relation to the structuring of the archaeal...
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Tropical tree ectomycorrhiza are distributed independently of soil nutrients
Mycorrhizae, a form of plant–fungal symbioses, mediate vegetation impacts on ecosystem functioning. Climatic effects on decomposition and soil...
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How Do Soils Form? Examining Rocks, Minerals, and the Products of Weathering Under a Microscope
This lab focuses on the theoretical background of soil formation, including the processes involved in creating soil from mineral and organic parent...
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Guidelines for precise lime management based on high-resolution soil pH, texture and SOM maps generated from proximal soil sensing data
Soil acidification is caused by natural paedogenetic processes and anthropogenic impacts but can be counteracted by regular lime application....
