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IoT-Based Agro-Toolbox for Soil Analysis and Environmental Monitoring [PDF]

Micromachines, 2023
The agricultural sector faces numerous challenges in ensuring optimal soil health and environmental conditions for sustainable crop production. Traditional soil analysis methods are often time-consuming and labor-intensive, and provide limited real-time ...
Eleftheria Maria Pechlivani, Athanasios Papadimitriou, Sotirios Pemas, Georgios Ntinas, Dimitrios Tzovaras   +4 more
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Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Fertilization Influence Yield, Growth and Root Colonization of Different Tomato Genotype

Plants, 2022
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are beneficial for plant development and help absorb water and minerals from the soil. The symbiosis between these fungi and plant roots is extremely important and could limit crop dependence on fertilizers.
Zoltán Felföldi, Roxana Vidican, Vlad Stoian, Ioana A. Roman, Adriana F. Sestras, Teodor Rusu, Radu E. Sestras   +6 more
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Comparison of X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) and Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (AAS) Results for an Environmental Assessment at a Mercury Site in Kyrgyzstan

Applied Sciences, 2022
Khaidarkan, Batken Province, Kyrgyzstan is home to one of the world’s largest and last primary mercury mines. Doctors without Borders (MSF) and the Ministry of Health (MOH) of Kyrgyzstan have found that the Batken region has an elevated rate of non ...
Sandra Spearman, Casey Bartrem, Ainash A. Sharshenova, Kasiet S. Salymbekova, Makhmud B. Isirailov, Saparbai A. Gaynazarov, Roman Gilmanov, Ian H. von Lindern, Margrit von Braun, Gregory Möller   +9 more
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To What Extent Is Manure Produced, Distributed, and Potentially Available for Bioenergy? A Step toward Stimulating Circular Bio-Economy in Poland

Energies, 2020
Bioenergy production from animal waste can be a key driver to achieving bio-economy goals. Developing a bio-economy sector could help to create opportunities for a circular system where not only people and the planet will be benefited, but it will also ...
Paria Sefeedpari, Rafał Pudełko, Anna Jędrejek, Małgorzata Kozak, Magdalena Borzęcka   +4 more
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Simulation of sorghum introduction and its impacts on land use change—A case study on Lubelski region of Eastern Poland

GCB Bioenergy, 2020
Echoing the bioenergy development initiative in Poland, high expectations are pinned on sweet sorghum usage for biogas plants. In contrast to its high profile in the industry, the research on the introduction and production of sorghum in Poland is ...
Kesheng Shu, Małgorzata Kozak, Nosra Ben Fradj, Tomasz Zylowski, Stelios Rozakis   +4 more
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Conversion of Potato Fields into Small Tea Plantations at Bhotepatty, Mainaguri: Consequences of This Shifting Agriculture Through Survey and Soil Analysis

Contemporary Agriculture, 2023
Over the past years, the tea industry in India has started to suffer from various drawbacks, i.e. issues regarding low productivity and rising input costs (namely the uneconomic age profile of tea bushes across the tea estates of North Bengal), leading ...
Das Dipankar, Majumder Soumya, Sarkar Sahadeb, Ghosh Arindam, Nandi Sudeshna, Subba Preeti, Saha Sumedha, Acharyya Sukanya, Ghosh Baishakhi, Chakraborty Sourav, Bhattacharya Malay   +10 more
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LEACHING TEST OF VITRIFIED FLY ASH AND CERAMIC SLAG FROM AN INCINERATOR OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE (MSW) TREATED WITH Ca(OH)2 AT DIFFERENT CONCENTRATIONS AND WITH MARLSTONE

EQA, 2010
A public property site, situated on an alluvial terrace of the Idice Stream (Emilia Romagna Region-Italy) was contaminated by a layer of waste, constituted by vitrified fly ashes and ceramic materials produced by an incinerator of municipal solid waste ...
Livia Vittori Antisari, Francesca Pontalti, Andrea Simoni, Gilmo Vianello   +3 more
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Orchard’s Soil Characterization and Nutrient Mobilization to Rocha Pear (Pyrus communis L.) Fruits

Chemistry Proceedings, 2022
Soil is a limited resource that is vital for plant production during the agricultural phase, and consequently, it is a fundamental component of the agro-industrial sector.
Cláudia Campos Pessoa, Ana Rita F. Coelho, Diana Daccak, Inês Carmo Luís, Ana Coelho Marques, José C. Ramalho, Paula Scotti Campos, Maria Manuela Silva, Paulo Legoinha, Fernando H. Reboredo, Maria Fernanda Pessoa, Manuela Simões, Fernando C. Lidon   +12 more
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Assessing the impact of management practices on gas emissions and N losses calculated with denitrification-decomposition model

Plant, Soil and Environment, 2015
The study presents the impact of management practices on greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and nitrogen (N) losses calculated with a denitrification-decomposition model. Two cropping systems were analysed.
A. Syp, A. Faber, D. Pikuła
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Development of Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Assay for Rapid Detection and Analysis of the Root-Knot Nematode Meloidogyne hapla in Soil

Horticulturae, 2022
Soil analysis is crucial for estimating the risk of crop damage by the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne hapla. Here, we developed an analysis assay based on Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP).
Zahra Saad Omer, Ann-Charlotte Wallenhammar, Maria Viketoft   +2 more
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