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Electronic Journal of Plant Breeding, 2023 Rice is an important food crop that feeds majority of world population. The crop is sensitive to sodicity stress and the area under sodicity is gradually increasing, resulting in decline in productivity.
M. Akilan1 , P. Jeyaprakash1*, M. Shanmuganathan2 , S. Meena3 , V. Rajanbabu1 and C. Vanniarajan1
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A pH-based pedotransfer function for scaling saturated hydraulic conductivity reduction: improved estimation of hydraulic dynamics in HYDRUS [PDF]
, 2019 Hydraulic conductivity is a key soil property governing agricultural production and is thus an important parameter in hydrologic modeling. The pH scaling factor for saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ks) reduction in the HYDRUS model was reviewed and ...
Ali, Aram +3 more
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The challenges of rehabilitating denuded patches of a semi-arid environment in Kenya [PDF]
, 2010 Land degradation is a major problem in the semi-arid environments of Sub-Saharan Africa. Fighting land degradation is essential to ensure the sustainable and long-term productivity of the habited semiarid lands.
Clavel, D. +10 more
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Effect of irrigation water quality on soil properties and infrared spectroscopic signatures
Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research, 2020 Aim of study: To study the effect of irrigation with medium-to-low-quality water on an olive farm that seems to be causing salinity and/or sodicity problems in soils, and the ability of infrared spectroscopy to detect this problem.
Francisco Comino +4 more
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Trait relationship and path analysis under sodicity in Nagina 22 rice mutants
Electronic Journal of Plant Breeding, 2021 The present study was conducted for evaluating EMS induced mutants for sodicity tolerance in rice. A set of 402 Nagina 22 rice mutants along with three sodicity tolerant check varieties namely TRY2, TRY3 and TRY4 were screened at Anbil Dharmalingam ...
R. Rajasekar1*, P. Jeyaprakash1, K. Manonmani2, S. Nithila3 and T. Thirumurugan1
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Spatial and Temporal Changes in Salinity of Arable Lands in Shah Bandar Tehsil, Thatta District, Sindh [PDF]
International Journal of Economic and Environment Geology, 2016 The cultivable lands are reducing significantly in hot and dry arid regions of the world due to soil salinity and sodicity resulting in yield losses.
Shella Bano +4 more
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The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2019 The effect of improved practice [IP; gypsum application @ 25% gypsum requirement (GR) +10 t/ha press mud] over existing practice (EP; gypsum application @ 50% GR) on rice productivity and profitability in sodic soils (pH 9.2-10.4) was evaluated at ...
YASH PAL SINGH +8 more
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Agronomy, 2021 This paper focuses on the adverse effects of soil sodicity and alkalinity on the growth of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) in a rainfed environment in south-western Australia.
Edward G. Barrett-Lennard +6 more
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Cogent Food & Agriculture, 2019 Considerable area of land is becoming unproductive every year because of salinity and sodicity in Lowlands of Ethiopia. For sound land use and irrigation water management, it is a paramount important to know the salinity/sodicity status of soils and ...
Okubay Giday Adhanom
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Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola e Ambiental, 2005 Os solos degradados por sais e sódio, comuns nas áreas irrigadas da região semi-árida, apresentam atributos físicos e químicos desfavoráveis à agricultura. A baixa disponibilidade de nutrientes, como o fósforo, nesses solos é uma realidade. Desta forma o
Adriana de F. M. Vital +3 more
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