Timed Drip Leaching Doubles Cotton Yields on Salty Soil by Reshaping Roots
A two-year field study in Xinjiang shows that moderate, multi-stage drip leaching nearly doubled cotton lint yield on saline-alkali soil ...
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Drought Draws New Maps of Life: Aridity Rewires Plant and Microbial Diversity in China’s Grasslands
A 4,000-kilometer survey of northern China's grasslands shows that aridity acts as an environmental filter, triggering threshold declines in plant, ...
Hidden Deep Soil Carbon Emerges as a Hidden Cost of Coastal Wetland Restoration
An 18-month field experiment in Hangzhou Bay shows that plastic mulching during coastal wetland restoration desalinizes the entire soil profile, ...
Cutting Pre-Sowing Irrigation to 90–120 mm Saves Water and Salt-Stressed Sunflower Yields
A two-year field trial in China's Tumochuan Plain shows that reducing pre-sowing irrigation from 150 to 90–120 millimeters controls soil ...
Hidden Salt in the Soil Shapes Which Trees Can Live Together in Subtropical Forests
High-resolution mapping in a subtropical Chinese forest reveals that patchy soil sodium is a dominant, previously overlooked driver of tree ...
Halophyte Roots Rewrite Their Microbial Worlds as Soil Salt Shifts
A new study of halophytes in arid Northwest China shows that plant species create distinct salinity conditions around their roots ...
New Soil Scoring Method Reveals Hidden Damage From Polluted River Irrigation
Researchers in Aligarh, India, developed a new Standard Weight Scoring method for soil quality indices that outperforms traditional approaches in ...
Fermentation Waste Duo Rescues Pak Choi From Salt Stress at Just the Right Dose
A new Plant and Soil study shows that low-dose combinations of corn steep liquor concentrate and molasses fermentation liquid can ...
Calcium Signals Reveal How Seeds Decide to Germinate in Salty Soil
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have identified a calcium-controlled signaling system involving CAMTA6, PP2C49, and HKT1;1 that helps ...
How a Simple Sowing Trick Boosts Forage Yields on Egypt’s Salty Coastal Farms
A field trial in Northwestern Egypt shows that dibbling, a simple hill-sowing technique, can raise saline forage yields by up ...
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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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