Soil Teeming with Life : New Frontiers for Soil Science
نویسنده
چکیده
s of the American Society for Microbial General Meeting, Chicago, Illinois,
منابع مشابه
Elucidating the fundamental chemistry of soils: past and recent achievements and future frontiers
Contributions in the field of soil chemistry have immensely benefited humankind, including enhanced agricultural production and the quality of our environment. This review focuses on research breakthroughs since the mid-1970s and delineates frontiers in soil chemistry for the upcoming decade. However, early contributions in ion exchange, sorption phenomena, and soil acidity are highlighted. Beg...
متن کاملGrand challenges and opportunities in basic soil science research and the discipline of soil science
Contributions in basic soil science research have immensely benefited humankind, including enhanced agricultural production and the quality of our environment. This review focuses on recent breakthroughs in the fields of soil properties and processes and delineates frontiers for the present decade and beyond. Frontiers will undoubtedly involve multiple spatial and temporal scale investigations,...
متن کاملAdvancing the frontiers of soil science towards a geoscience
The visions, directions, and images of soil science are changing. Historically, soil science has followed a circuitous path in its evolution from a discipline with foundational roots in geology, to an applied agricultural and environmental discipline, and now to a bioand geo-science through the Earth’s Critical Zone investigations. This closes the loop or spiral, but along the way, soil science...
متن کاملInfluence of catch crop on soil properties and yield of spring barley
Biomass of legumes grown as catch crops improves soil properties and thus soil conditions for following crops. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of field pea (Pisum sativum L.) grown as a catch crop and used for green manure on soil properties and yielding of spring barley (Hordeum vulgare L.). Field experiments were conducted in 2008-2011 in the randomized block design with ...
متن کاملExploring research frontiers in microbiology: the challenge of metagenomics in soil microbiology.
Soil is one of the most complex and challenging environments for microbiologists. In fact, although it contains the largest microbial diversity on the planet, the majority of these microbes are still uncharacterized and represent an enormous unexplored reservoir of genetic and metabolic diversity. Metagenomics, the study of the entire genome of soil biota, currently represents a powerful tool f...
متن کامل