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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…
Huixia Chai, Sheng Rao, Reibo Wang, Jing Liu, Qi Huang, Xuejie Mou
Many environmental variables are frequently used to predict values of soil in locations where they are not measured. Digital soil mapping (DSM) has a long-standing convention to describe soils as a function of climate, organisms, topography, parent material,…
Manbir K. Rakkar, David W. Franzen, Amitava Chatterjee
The soil potassium (K) test methodology is under increased evaluation due to the soil sample drying effect, temporal variations of test results and inconsistent crop response to applied K fertilizers. Ten on-farm trials were conducted in 2014 in eastern North…
Valdinar Ferreira Melo, Sandra Cátia Pereira Uchôa, Zachary N. Senwo, Ronilson José Pedroso Amorim
A major nutritional problem to crops grown in highly weathered Brazilian soils is phosphorus (P) deficiencies linked to their low availability and the capacity of the soils to fix P in insoluble forms. Our studies examined factors that might influence P behav…
Alayna Jacobs, Kristofor R. Brye, Randy King, Joel Douglas, Lisa S. Wood, Larry C. Purcell, Michael Looper
Agronomic management practices that maximize monoculture switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) yield are generally well understood; however, little is known about corresponding effects of differing switchgrass management practices on near-surface soil properties…
Richard L. Haney, Virginia L. Jin, Mari-Vaughn V. Johnson, Elizabeth B. Haney, R. Daren Harmel, Jeffrey G. Arnold, Michael J. White
Phosphorus loading and measurement is of concern on lands where biosolids have been applied. Traditional soil testing for plant-available P may be inadequate for the accurate assessment of P loadings in a regulatory environment as the reported levels may not…
Md. Abul Kashem, Ashoka Sarker, Imam Hossain, Md. Shoffikul Islam
This study attempted to compare the effect of cow manure vermicompost and inorganic fertilizers on the vegetative growth and fruits of tomato plant ( Solanum lycopersicum L.). An air dried sandy loam soil was mixed with five rates of vermicompost equivalent t…
Qingxiang Deng, Defang Zeng
We used the no pollution natural polymer polysaccharide chitosan as the main raw material, which is supplemented by other additives, to prepare a high-efficiency environmental friendly maize seed coating agent. By detecting the seed quality, maize seedling in…
Bente Foereid
Biochar, i.e . charred organic material, appears to increase nutrient retention in soil. The mechanism for how this happens is not clear. Here two possible mechanisms, adsorption and microbial immobilisation, are suggested and compared. It is also suggested t…
Ally-Said Matano, Canisius K. Kanangire, Douglas N. Anyona, Paul O. Abuom, Frank B. Gelder, Gabriel O. Dida, Philip O. Owuor, Ayub V. O. Ofulla
Human-induced changes to natural landscapes have been identified as some of the greatest threats to freshwater resources. The change from natural forest cover to agricultural and pastoral activities is rampant especially in the upper Mara River catchment (wat…
Deborah S. Page-Dumroese, Matt D. Busse, Steven T. Overby, Brian D. Gardner, Joanne M. Tirocke
Soil quality assessments are essential for determining impacts on belowground microbial community structure and function. We evaluated the suitability of active carbon (C), a rapid field test, as an indicator of soil biological quality in five paired forest s…
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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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