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Measurement of hydraulic properties of growing media with the HYPROP system [PDF]
Zemljište i biljka, 2022 Knowledge of hydro-physical properties is an essential prerequisite for assessing the suitability and quality of growing media. The method used for sample preparation is important for the measurement results.
Schindler Uwe +4 more
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An Investigation into the Efficiency of the Modified Sawdust and Rice Bran in Treating the Polluted Aqueous Solutions with Cr (VI) [PDF]
مهندسی منابع آب, 2023 Introduction: This study investigated the possibility and efficiency of absorbing Cr (VI) ions from the polluted water by employing the chemically modified natural adsorbents of sawdust and rice bran.
Zahra Ameri +3 more
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Soil fertility impact on recruitment and diversity of the soil microbiome in sub-humid tropical pastures in Northeastern Brazil [PDF]
Scientific ReportsSoil fertility is key point to pastures systems and drives the microbial communities and their functionality. Therefore, an understanding of the interaction between soil fertility and microbial communities can increase our ability to manage pasturelands ...
Diogo Paes da Costa +10 more
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Potential of natural language processing for metadata extraction from environmental scientific publications [PDF]
SOIL, 2023 Summarizing information from large bodies of scientific literature is an essential but work-intensive task. This is especially true in environmental studies where multiple factors (e.g., soil, climate, vegetation) can contribute to the effects observed ...
G. Blanchy +4 more
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Role of Nano-fertilizer in Plants Nutrient Use Efficiency (NUE)- A mini-review [PDF]
J Gene Engg Bio Res, 5(1), 75-81. 2023, 2023 Over the past half-century, the combination of technology and innovation has been developed to manage the negative impact of synthetic fertilizer on land ecosystems to identify the limitations of sustainability and optimize agricultural systems. The application of nano-fertilizers has achieved considerable interest due to their significant role as ...
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Nitrogen, 2021 Catch crops are an effective method for reducing nitrogen (N) leaching in agriculture, but the mineralization of incorporated catch crop residue N is difficult to predict and model. We conducted a five-month incubation experiment using fresh residue from
Jorge Federico Miranda-Vélez +1 more
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Nano-fertilizers: Bio-fabrication, application and biosafety [PDF]
Novel Research in Microbiology Journal, 2020 At the global level, sustainable horticulture faces many challenges due to climate changes in addition to limitations in water and land resources. Nanotechnology is an innovate strategy for sustainable agricultural development.
Rabaa Yaseen +4 more
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Agriculture & Food Security, 2021 Background Understanding the spatial variability of soil properties is useful to tailor site-specific agricultural inputs to enhance crop production on a sustainable basis.
Gedefa Sori +2 more
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Total Nitrogen Estimation in Agricultural Soils via Aerial Multispectral Imaging and LIBS [PDF]
Sci Rep 11, 12693 (2021), 2021 Measuring soil health indicators is an important and challenging task that affects farmers' decisions on timing, placement, and quantity of fertilizers applied in the farms. Most existing methods to measure soil health indicators (SHIs) are in-lab wet chemistry or spectroscopy-based methods, which require significant human input and effort, time ...
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023 The practice of crop rotation is known to significantly influence soil nutrient dynamics, depending on the type of rotation and the crops involved. As such, a field study was conducted to find out the effect of continuous cassava-maize rotation, where ...
Eric Owusu Adjei +5 more
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