Sodic soils are impermeable to water and develop hard surface crusts, resulting in low water infiltration. Analyzing the soil for both soluble salts and sodium levels helps identify the specific ...

saline-sodic soils - Soils with both a high salt content (ECe ... spiking - The act of perforating turf and soil crust by use of solid tines, spikes, or blades. spray drift - The aerial movement of ...

Currently, there are more than one billion hectares of saline and alkaline soil in the world, about 60% of which are classified as highly sodic. As a result, the development of saline- and ...

Abbey Wick, an assistant professor of soil science and an extension specialist at NDSU's main campus in Fargo, asked her audience how many had problems with saline or sodic soils. Nearly every ...

Sorghum has evolved greater tolerance to multiple abiotic stresses, and can even survive in a sodic soil with a pH of up to 10.0, according to the researchers. They performed a genome-wide association ...

A new rice variety suitable for sodic soil conditions, developed by the Anbil Dharmalingam Agricultural College and Research Institute (ADACRI) at Navalur Kuttapattu in Tiruchi, has been released ...

These communities are optimized to photosynthesize using less than half of the water that other known desert biological soil crusts use, researchers report in the January Geobiology. The “super ...