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Open Journal of Soil Science (OJSS) is an openly accessible journal published monthly. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of soil science. All manuscripts must be prep…
Petr Vráblík, Michal Řehoř, Pavel Schmidt, Jaroslava Vráblíková
When reclaiming the surface of the Radovesická dump in the North Bohemian brown coal basin, the most commonly used marls and marlstones are extracted in the foreland of filled-in territory. The most frequent reclamations are the formation of overgrown and hum…
Petr Vráblík, Michal Řehoř, Pavel Schmidt, Eliška Wildová
This paper briefly assesses the conclusions from the long-term research of soil properties of the banks and shore of Lake Most. This paper mainly deals with the long-term development of the soil parameters of the anthropogenic soil profile and, to a lesser ex…
Shaurav Alam, Ashlesh Banjara, Jay Wang, William B. Patterson, Sujan Baral
This paper presents novel approaches to address the complex issues associated with preservation, transportation, and tensile testing of the vegetation root samples needed for the enhancement of soil and prevent erosion. Readily availability of no equipment fo…
Abd El-Nabi Mohamed Abd El-Hady, Emad Fawzy Abdelaty, Abdubaset Egrira Salama, 1 1
The research was elaborated in Kafr El-Dawar area (Egypt northern region) to study the availability of the soil plant nutrients. The research introduced three parameters to comprehensively and carefully describe the availability of the soil plant nutrients: p…
Amitava Chatterjee, Umesh Acharya
Numerous soil biochemical methods are used to determine the soil health status, but the relationships among these methods are not well understood. Relationships among soil biochemical tests, 1) chloroform fumigated microbial biomass C (CFMBC), 2) permanganate…
Gabriel Nyagah Njiru, Patrick Kariuki, Kennedy Mwetu
This study modeled soil erosion between January 2016 and September 2018 for land management in Golole catchment. The Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) constituting the main agents of soil erosion was modeled in a Geographical Information System (GI…
Ashmita Tandon, Touseef Fatima, Anshu Gautam, Udit Yadav, Suchi Srivastava, Poonam C. Singh
Interaction of plant growth promoting microorganisms (PGPMs) with plants involves interplay at physical, physiological and molecular levels. Proliferation and root colonization of PGPMs manipulate the rhizosphere to optimize plant functions. This benefits pla…
Jan Vopravil, Petr Vráblík, Tomáš Khel, Jaroslava Vráblíková
The article is focused on the changes in soil characteristics caused by the drainage of agricultural soils in the Czech Republic. The basis of the research was to compare current state with the state before drainage using available historical data. To resolve…
Jinping Wu, Zhenbiao Jiao, Jie Zhou, Wei Zhang, Shengwu Xu, Fengling Guo
Soft rot disease causes heavy loss in konjac production every year, which caused by the genus Pectobacterium has been recognized as a major reason why konjac industry has not boomed in worldwide. However, intercropping with economically important trees can ef…
Shinji Sakurai, Yasuaki Nishiura, Haruhiko Horino, Takao Nakagiri
There is a global concern about the depletion in phosphorus (P) resources in the near future. Some attempts for effective reuse of P, including recovery from municipal wastes, have been conducted. However, a strong sorption of P onto some minerals may result…
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Open Journal of Soil Science (OJSS) is an openly accessible journal published monthly. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of soil science. All manuscripts must be prep… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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