topography and climate are two important soil forming factors affecting genesis and clay mineralogy of soils. calcareous and gypsiferous soils are widely spread in arid and semiarid parts of iran and palygorskite is a dominant clay mineral in these soils. the objectives of the study were to: (1) determine soil genesis and classification along the climotoposequence and (2) investigate clay miner...

Zeolite application to clayey soils may change potassium (K) pools distribution and its release rate. To test this hypothesis, two heavy-textured calcareous soils with different mineralogy (smectitic and mixed by XRD) from southern Iran were selected. Experiment was a completely randomized factorial arrangement. Treatments consisted of two soils and two zeolite levels (0 and 5%) and wetting-dry...

Aluminium (Al) toxicity is the main abiotic stress limiting plant productivity in acidic soils that are widely distributed among arable lands. Plant species differ in the level of Al resistance showing intraspecific and interspecific variation in many crop species. However, the origin of Al-tolerance is not well known. Three annual species, difficult to distinguish phenotypically and that were ...

Particles from channelled emissions of a battery recycling facility were size-segregated and investigated to correlate their speciation and morphology with their transfer towards lettuce. Microculture experiments carried out with various calcareous soils spiked with micronic and sub-micronic particles (1650+/-20mg Pb kg(-1)) highlighted a greater transfer in soils mixed with the finest particle...

to evaluate the relationships between soil inorganic phosphorus p (pi) fractions, the soil p test and plant parameters such as plant p uptake, dry matter yield, tissue p concentra-tion and relative yield, glasshouse experiments and chemical analyses were conducted on 13 calcareous soils from six agricultural and seven adjacent bushland (virgin soil) sites. four rates of p (0, 15, 30, 60 mg/kg s...

Archaeal communities in many acidic forest soil systems are dominated by a distinct crenarchaeal lineage Group 1.1c. In addition, they are found consistently in other acidic soils including grassland pasture, moorland and alpine soils. To determine whether soil pH is a major factor in determining their presence and abundance, Group 1.1c community size and composition were investigated across a ...

Soil organic matter (OM) is a source of fertility for food provisioning and means climate mitigation. A high pedodiversity observed over very short distances due to both past present land use, such as in Western Africa (Northern Togo), makes this crucial issue. In particular, some small spots covered by sacred forests (forêts sacrées) cultural value area are extremely biodiverse, calcareous OM ...