The bulk of the soil solid fraction is constituted by soil minerals, which exert significant direct and indirect influences on the supply and availability of most nutrient elements. The main ...

Once you test your soil for pH, you will know whether or not you need to adjust the pH level for the specific crop you will ...

Salts are natural components of soil, surface, and groundwater. They are ionic mineral compounds, which means they bonded by electrostatic attractions between cations (+ charge) and anions (- charge).

The effect of soil pH is great on the solubility of minerals or nutrients. Fourteen of the seventeen essential plant nutrients are obtained from the soil. Before a nutrient can be used by plants it ...

Currently, Amherst scientists aim to engineer Camelina sativa, a member of the mustard family, to behave like another plant ...

He has pioneered the application of chemical kinetics to soils and soil minerals including development of widely used methods, elucidation of rate-limiting steps and mechanisms, and coupling of ...

The search for new suppliers for the minerals needed for everything from batteries to missiles has driven novel extraction ...

Chinese scientists have developed a revolutionary process to extract water using lunar soil and solar wind-implanted hydrogen ...