Adaptation of sugarcane plants to saline soil

Improving Soil Physical Indicators by Soil Amendment to a Saline-Sodic Soil

The application of organic amendments can be an appropriate solution to reclaim and improve physical propertiesof saline-sodic soils. In this research, an experiment was performed under greenhouse conditions to study the effect ofamendments to the physical properties of loamy saline-sodic soil. The five treatments were control (withoutamendment), municipal solid waste compost (MC), vermicompost...

Adaptation of Plants to Salinity

Effects of Controlled Drainage Systems to prevent chemical soil degradation in the Area under Sugarcane Cultivation

The Imam Khomeini sugarcane agro-industry is one of ten sugarcane agro-industry plantations in Khuzestan province. As regard as the drains has been installed  in this plantation many years ago so there is water and salt balance in this land that is one of the condition for implementation controlled drainage. This research was designed to investigate the possibility of using a controlled drainag...

The Response of Ornamental Plants to Saline Irrigation Water

Salinity affects about one third of irrigated land, causing a significant reduction in crop productivity (Flowers & Yeo, 1995; Ravindran et al., 2007). For this reason researchers have paid considerable attention to this important environmental problem over the last decades. Few studies, however, have dealt specifically with ornamental plants used in landscapes, despite the fact that salt stres...

Applying Biochar and Mineral Amendments to Remediate the Chemical Properties of a Saline-Sodic Soil

The present study was intended to improve the chemical properties of a saline-sodic soil using the individual application of alfalfa residue and two biochars produced from sugarcane bagasse and walnut shell, at the weighting ratio of 5%; their concomitant application with gypsum, aluminum sulfate and the mixture of these two chemical amendments was considered. The experiment was conducted in th...