Your Garden Soil Looks Like Coffee Grounds — Here’s Why That May Be Bad News

Imagine heading outside to plant a few spring flowers and discovering something strange in your garden bed. Instead of the ...
BIOENGINEER

Two Drone Flights, One Better Forecast: Bare-Soil Imagery Boosts Soybean Yield Prediction

A two-flight UAV framework combining pre-season bare-soil imagery with pod-filling canopy indices modestly improved ...
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In the Garden: Understanding soil texture: A key to successful gardening

Have you ever watered your garden and noticed the water takes a long time to drain or percolate through the soil? You might want to investigate your soil texture. When it comes to gardening, soil ...
BIOENGINEER

Plants Can Pull Carbon From Soil Through Their Roots, Tracer Study Shows

Tracer experiments show Plantago lanceolata and Picea abies seedlings can take up labelled carbon via roots, but recovery in ...
Nature

When is a soil too dry for plants to take up water?

As soil dries, plants limit water loss by closing tiny apertures called stomata in their leaves. A global analysis reveals that the soil water-content values at which this stomatal control starts ...
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NBSS develops India’s first soil texture map, will benefit farmers

Nagpur: National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning (NBSS&LUP), headquartered in Nagpur and functioning under Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), has developed India’s first soil ...
US Geological Survey

Digging into soil: Effects of soil texture on RT-QuIC performance for environmental prion surveillance.

Authors Stephanie J. Katircioglu, Heather N. Inzalaco, Allen Jeffrey Herbst, Daniel J. Storm, Stuart S. Lichtenberg, Rodrigo Morales, Reece McGinn, Daniel P. Walsh ...
US Geological Survey

RT-QuIC Florescence Data from Experimental Soils Varying in Soil Texture

Authors Stephanie J Katircioglu, Heather N Inzalaco, Allen J Herbst, Daniel J Storm, Stuart S Lichtenberg, Rodrigo Morales, Reece McGinn, Daniel P Walsh, Wendy C Turner ...
University of Delaware

Delmarva Soil Types and Potential Salinity Effects

Salts are compounds formed when positively charged cations such as sodium (Na⁺), calcium (Ca²⁺), magnesium (Mg²⁺) and potassium (K⁺) combine with negatively ...
University of Delaware

A Comparison of Methods to Determine Lime Requirement

Managing soil pH is crucial for maximizing crop yields and promoting overall soil health. The optimal soil pH is typically between 5.5 and 7.0 for most crops growing in Delaware. Maintaining a ...