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Ewa Stanczyk-Mazanek, Longina Stepniak and Urszula Kepa
In this paper, we discuss the effect sewage sludge (SS) application has on the contamination of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in fertilized soils and groundwater. Morver, the contents of these compounds in plant biomass was analyzed. For six months, c...
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Bakry A. Bakry, Mervat Sh. Sadak, Nagla M. Al Ashkar, Omar M. Ibrahim, Mohammad K. Okla and Amira M. El-Tahan
Drought stress is an important challenge to global food security and agricultural output, and dramatic and rapid climate change has made the problem worse, causing unexpected impacts on the growth, development, and yield of different plants. Understandin...
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Sidona Buragiene, Kristina Lekaviciene, Aida Adamaviciene, Edvardas Vaiciukevicius and Egidijus ?arauskis
Farming systems should be sustainable in order to protect the soil from diseases and pests while preserving the environment and generating economic and social benefits. The use of biological products can help reduce the negative characteristics that dama...
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Aaron A. Akin, Gia Nguyen and Aleksey Y. Sheshukov
Soil erosion by water on agricultural hillslopes leads to numerous environmental problems including reservoir sedimentation, loss of agricultural land, declines in drinking water quality, and requires deep understanding of underlying physical processes f...
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Teodor Kitczak, Grzegorz Jarnuszewski and Ryszard Malinowski
Reed canary grass (RCG) is a native perennial grass with a wide range of uses that naturally occurs in moist habitats. The conducted research indicates the possibilities of RCG cultivation outside natural, humid habitats in monoculture on sandy soils in ...
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Avirut Puttiwongrak, Solina Keo, Sakanann Vann, Tanwa Arpornthip, Thongchai Suteerasak and Piti Sukontasukkul
Understanding the technical properties of the subsurface soil is essential for carrying out any building project correctly. In sandy soils in Phuket, Thailand, a correlation between electrical resistivity and the SPT N-value should be established in desi...
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Orlando Coto Arbelo, Aliya Momotaz, Hardev S. Sandhu, Sushma Sood, Wayne Davidson, Miguel Baltazar and Duli Zhao
The selection of sugarcane genotypes with high sucrose content and good ratooning ability (RA) is an important objective of the Canal Point breeding program to improve the current profitability levels of the Florida sugarcane industry. In this study, thi...
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Tadas Tamo?iunas and ?arunas Skuodis
The mechanical properties of pavement materials are crucial to the design and performance of flexible pavements. One of the most commonly used measures of these properties is the resilient modulus (Er). Many different models were developed to predict the...
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Amadou Keïta, Malicki Zorom, Moussa Diagne Faye, Djim Doumbe Damba, Yacouba Konaté, László G. Hayde and Bruno Lidon
Obtaining accurate values of saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ksat) is very important for managing all natural or artificial processes involving water flow into soils. Double-ring infiltration (DRI) is one of the easiest-to-work-with techniques commonly...
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Keren Brooks, Mark Reiter, Bo Zhang and Joshua Mott
As United States farmers adapt soybean (Glycine max) production methods from oilseed to vegetable (edamame), key management practices will need to be considered. The key objective of this study was to determine the optimal nitrogen (N) rate and N applica...
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