Golan Bel and Yosef Ashkenazy Department of Environmental Physics, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus 84990, Israel (Dated: May 11, 2014) Abstract Psammophilous plants are special plants that flourish in sand moving environments. There are two main mechanisms by which the wind affects these plants: (i) sand drift exposes roots and cov...

Soil C sequestration may mitigate rising levels of atmospheric CO2. However, it has yet to be determined whether net soil C sequestration occurs in N-rich grasslands exposed to long-term elevated CO2. This study examined whether N-fertilized grasslands exposed to elevated CO2 sequestered additional C. For 10 years, Lolium perenne, Trifolium repens, and the mixture of L. perenne/T. repens grassl...

Antje Feller1, Ling Yuan2, and Erich Grotewold3 1Center for Plant Molecular Biology – ZMBP, Developmental Genetics, University of Tuebingen, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany; 2Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40546, and South China Botanical Garden, Guangzhou, China 510650; 3Center for Applied Plant Sciences and Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio Stat...

relationship between plant and sial has special importance, because it is judged about one by considering the another one. soil-plant relationship is used for range trend, range emdttton, range suitability in range species. this research, includes: the analysis of plant different types and dominant species in each type with soil factors such as percentage of lime clay depth, stone and gravel (s...

Objective: Soil organic carbon has been the most important soil quality measurement factors and has intense relation with soil physical, chemical and biological characteristics. Organic matter and its components are important factors of soil aggregates constitution and stability and play significant role in its structure. So, this research has been done for achieving this purpose. Methods: This...

BY-PLANT PREDICTION OF CORN GRAIN YIELD USING OPTICAL SENSOR READINGS AND MEASURED PLANT HEIGHT Kent Martin a , William Raun b & John Solie c a Agronomy Department, Kansas State University, Garden City, Kansas, USA b Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA c Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stil...

We investigated the variations in specific leaf area (SLA) and leaf dry matter content (LDMC) of 20 species (10 annuals and 10 perennials) that have different distributional patterns in the Kerqin Sandy Land in northern China. The main purpose of our study was to determine if SLA and/or LDMC could be used as indicators of plant resource-use strategy in sand dune environments. The selected speci...