Green Manure Timing Holds Key to Richer Rice Soils and Bigger Yields
A two-year Indian field trial shows that substituting a quarter of rice's nitrogen with dhaincha green manure or vermicompost, applied ...
Tag: soil fertility
High-testing soils still starve potatoes of phosphorus, three-year study reveals
A three-year University of Florida field study shows that potato fields classified as high in soil-test phosphorus can still respond ...
Three Years of Biochar Left a Fertile Kentucky Soil Mostly Unchanged
A three-year Kentucky field trial shows pine sawdust biochar left a fertile silt loam largely unchanged, raising only labile carbon ...
Crayfish and Rice Team Up to Build Stronger, Healthier Soil
A 13-month field study shows that pairing crayfish with rice stabilizes soil chemistry, reshapes microbial community assembly, and enriches functional ...
Light to Read the Soil: Spectroscopy Moves Toward Rapid Fertility Testing
A comprehensive review finds that diffuse reflectance spectroscopy can reliably predict many soil fertility properties within seconds, but transferability, chromophore ...
Sandy Secrets Beneath Brazil’s Cerrado: New Study Rewrites the Story of Tropical Ferralsols
A new study of sandy Ferralsols in the Brazilian Cerrado of Piauí shows that quartz-rich sedimentary parent rocks, not weak ...
Smart Soil Strategies Could Boost Rice Yields and Slash Emissions Across Asia
A systematic review of 109 studies finds that precision nutrient management, alternate wetting and drying irrigation, and urea deep placement ...
Conservation agriculture shows limited soil gains on Namibian smallholder farms
A two-year field study in Namibia's Kavango East and Zambezi regions finds that farmer-managed conservation agriculture produces only modest and ...
Maps Reveal Hidden Soil Fertility Divide Across Semi-Arid Western India
A district-wide GIS and statistical assessment of Banaskantha, Gujarat, maps sharp spatial contrasts in soil salinity, organic carbon and nutrients ...
Sacred Forests of Eastern India Prove to Be Powerful Engines of Nutrient Cycling
A year-long study of four sacred forests in Western Odisha, India, reveals exceptionally high litterfall and rapid decomposition that make ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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