Use of the nitrogen balance sheet method as a fertilization strategy in the semiarid Pampas of Argentina is restricted because of a lack of available information regarding nitrogen mineralization in its coarse soils. Our ...

Decomposition of plant material influences soil aggregation dynamics in ways that are still poorly understood, especially for Oxisols, in which oxides are believed to play a dominant role. In an incubation experiment, we ...

Decomposition of plant material influences soil aggregation dynamics in ways that are still poorly understood, especially for Oxisols, in which oxides are believed to play a dominant role. In an incubation experiment, we ...

In the Pampas, nitrogen fertilization rates are low and soil organic matter impacts crop yield. Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) yield was related to total soil nitrogen (total N) and to nitrogen mineralization potential ...

Since the sugarcane production mostly in highly weathered Brazilian soils, an alternative to increasing its yields, renewing these soils is required. Remineralization consists in add milled rock into the soils, as a soil ...

Soil pH is one of the properties that mostly influences nitrification rates, and can be used as a tool for controlling this process, seen that depending on its extent it may lead to nitrogen (N) losses and subsequent ...

Extraction of active principles from medicinal plants generates wastes usually discharged. This process does not extract minerals from plant tissues, which may be considered of great value in organic composting. Wastes of ...