Maintaining soil health is crucial for sustainable agriculture. Recently, soil volatile organic compounds (VOCs) have emerged as promising indicators for assessing soil health. A new study aimed to ...

Soil fungi play an essential role in the decomposition of plant-derived organic material entering soils. The quality and quantity of organic compounds vary seasonally as well as with soil depth. To ...

Cultivation practices such as aeration and sand topdressing are necessary for turf health because they help maintain optimum organic matter (OM) levels. As a general rule, OM levels in the upper inch ...

Aims Aboveground plant litter inputs are important sources of soil carbon (C). We aimed to establish how experimentally altered litter inputs affect soil C to 1-m depth across different ecosystems, ...

As fertilizer prices remain high, cotton specialists urge growers to conduct timely soil tests to identify nutrient surpluses ...

Nitrogen may be the most commonly considered grassland nutrient, but paying attention to the whole soil profile can be equally as important and could in many cases cut nitrogen requirements. Soil ...

Ludhiana: The recent floods in Punjab — its worst in decades — have altered the texture of soil and reshaped soil profile, not only disturbing the delicate balance of nutrients but also coating ...

Soil is one of the important components of the sustainability of an ecosystem because it is the vitally important natural medium for the growth of vegetation. It can be defined as, the upper layer of ...