Organic matter and its replenishment has become a major component of soil health management programs. Many of the soil's physical, chemical, and biological properties are a function of organic matter content and quality. Adding organic matter to soil influences diverse and important biological activities. The diversity and number of free-living and plant-parasitic nematodes are altered by rotat...

Introduction: Comets preserve some of the most “primitive” material in the solar system. Proto-nebular and/or interstellar organic matter can be identified by anomalous δD and δN values well outside the range of solar values (eg. [1]). Since carbonaceous nanoglobules are often the carriers of anomalous δD and δN in carbonaceous chondrites [2] and interplanetary dust [3], organic globules should...

Stabilization of organic matter in soil is important for natural ecosystem to sequestrate carbon and mitigate greenhouse gas emission. It is largely unknown what factors govern the preservation of organic carbon in soil, casting shadow on predicting the response of soil to climate change. Iron oxide was suggested as an important mineral preserving soil organic carbon. However, ferric minerals a...

abstract this study aimed to investigate the effects of urban wastewater on some soil physical and chemical properties in segzi, east isfahan. six sites were selected considering the planted species (haloxylon persicum and nitraria schoberi) and irrigation types (control or no irrigation, water logged and furrow irrigation methods). the 4 to 12 replications were chosen in each site depending on...

this study aimed to determine the effect of land use changes from rangeland to horti-agricultural lands on the most important qualitative characteristics of soil such as total soil carbon and particulate organic matter, in salavatabad region, sanandaj. in the present study, one rangeland, two cultivated pea lands, two cultivated wheat lands and two gardens were selected in growth season in the ...

John R. Teasdale is a plant physiologist at the Sustainable Agricultural Systems Laboratory, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, Maryland. N o-tillage cropping systems are known to provide many benefits to soils that can enhance production of grain crops. Many of the improvements to soils that result from no-tillage production such as increases in soil aggregation, water-holding cap...