Release of <i>Serratia entomophila</i> from prill formulations is affected by soil moisture

Infiltration in cracking clay soils as affected by initial soil moisture content

Measurement depth of the cosmic ray soil moisture probe affected by hydrogen from various sources

[1] We present here a simple and robust framework for quantifying the effective sensor depth of cosmic ray soil moisture neutron probes such that reliable water fluxes may be computed from a time series of cosmic ray soil moisture. In particular, we describe how the neutron signal depends on three near-surface hydrogen sources: surface water, soil moisture, and lattice water (water in minerals ...

Soil compactibility as affected by soil moisture content and farmyard manure in central Iran

Soil compactibility which basically depends on soil texture, organic matter and soil water content during farm machinery traf®cking are major factors affecting soil conservation. In a ®eld experiment, cattle farmyard manure was applied to a silty clay loam soil (®ne-loamy, mixed, thermic Typic Haplargids, USDA; Calcaric Cambisols, FAO) in Isfahan, Iran. Three rates, 0, 50, 100 Mg haÿ1 (on oven ...

Germination (emergence) of Vegetable Seed as Affected by Different Soil Moisture Conditions.

Moisture is one essential condition for seed germination, and poor germination is very costly to growers. There is, nevertheless, little experimental evidence concerning the effects of different percentages of available moisture (5) on germination; more study of the subject is essential. Since most vegetable seeds are planted at shallow depths, there may be rapid fluctuations of soil moisture a...

Kinetics of Soil Urease Affected by Urease Inhibitors at Contrasting Moisture Regimes

With black soil (Pachic Udic Argiboroll) of Northeastern China as the test object, an incubation test was conducted to investigate the effects of urease inhibitors, hydroquinone (HQ), phenyl phosphorodiamidate (PPD) and N-(n-Butyl) thiophosphoric triamide (NBPT), on the kinetic characteristics of soil urease under normal moisture and waterlogged conditions, aimed to study the changes of catalyt...