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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...

A field experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of graded doses biochar and fertility levels with without biofertilizer under partially reclaimed Sodic Soils on maize crop during Kharif, 2021 2022 at Students Instructional Farm Acharya Narendra Deva University Agriculture Technology, Kumarganj Ayodhya. The eight treatments viz. T1: Control, T2: 100% (RDF 100:60:40; N P2O5, K2O), T3: 50%...

Soil-water flow velocity can be a major factor affecting ion movement in the soil matrix. The transport of both cations and anions and their interactions with soil surface affect many aspects of soil management such as wastewater disposal, saline soil reclamation, remediation of sodic soils, and soil decontamination (HENG et al., 1999a). Therefore it is important to understand the processes tha...

SOIL pore space and its intrinsic characteristics such as surface area, roughness, tortuosity, and connectivity are probably the most important factors controlling water and solute movement in soils. Interaggregate porosity is the result of the arrangement of the soil aggregates. These aggregates are composed of subunits, of which clay minerals and other colloids are the main components. The wa...