ABSTRACT- Titanium is a beneficial element for plant since its promotive effect on plant metabolism has been well documented. However, the physiological role of this trace element in tomato is not clear. This experiment was conducted as a complete randomized design to study two concentrations of titanium (1 and 2 mg/L Ti) and 0 as control on physiological and nutrient properties of tomato cv. F...

The forest floor is an important component for long-term forest productivity and sustainability because it plays a central role in carbon and nutrient cycling. Raking the recently senesced pine foliage off the forest floor (pinestraw raking) has become a profitable economic activity in the southeastern United States, despite its potential negative effects on long-term soil fertility. We analyze...

CONTENTS 3.1 Temperate Region Soil Differences .................................................................................. 28 3.2 Challenges to Soil Fertility and Management................................................................ 29 3.2.1 Soil Organic Matter Restoration and Conservation.......................................... 30 3.2.2 High Nutrient-Use Efficiency .................

This paper reports on patterns in plant-mediated processes that determine the rate of nutrient cycling in temperate fens and bogs. We linked leaf-level nutrient dynamics with leaf-litter decomposition and explored how the observed patterns were reflected in nutrient cycling at the ecosystem level. Comparisons were made among growth forms (evergreen and deciduous shrubs and trees, graminoids and...

The Green revolution era has been the golden period for boosting food production specifically in South-Asia, but signs of fatigue late 1980s with a sharp decline factor productivity, stagnation crop yields dwindling and marginal farm incomes pose serious threat to security, agricultural sustainability, soil environmental health. In nutshell, growing concerns related health, productivity nutrien...