soil moisture retention curve is one of the soil hydraulic prosperities which its direct measurement is time consuming and expensive. therefore, indirect methods such as developing pedotransfer functions have been used to predict this characteristic from soil readily available or easily measurable data. in this study, multiple linear regression method was used to develop point pedotransfer func...

Soil physicochemical properties are the main driving factors affecting stability and diversity of soil microbial community. The impacts saline–alkali situation associated degradation need to be understood reversed as communities increasingly affected by saline–alkaline soil. However, differences between salinization alkalization their impact on microbiota have been overlooked. object this study...

Phillipsite has formecl from volcanic glass in saline, alkaline lakes both saturated and undersaturated with respect to gaylussite and trona. It has also formed from volcanic glass in saiine, alkaline soils of Olduvai Gorge, Tanganyika. Phillipsite occurs both as lath,shaped and as equant crystals, which are commonly zoned lvith refractive indices ranging between 1.438 and 1.490. Molecular SiOz...

one of the main strategy for controlling salt-affected soils is to implement proper tillage method. a field experiments was conducted to determine the effect of different tillage methods on salt distribution and wheat yield in saline-sodic soil. the experiment was laid out according to randomized complete block design with three replications. treatments were studied in the experiment including ...

Bennett et al. [1] present the phylogenetic distribution of salt-tolerant species on a phylogeny of 2684 grasses in the context of plant breeding for salt-tolerance. Salt-tolerance, they conclude, is an evolutionary labile trait that has evolved a number of times across many lineages; this is at odds with the record of difficulty in breeding salt-tolerant crops. One potential explanation for th...