scholarly journals Edaphic attributes and loss of soil and nutrients according to the management systems for horticultural crops

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 503-513
Author(s):  
José Mário Piratello Freitas de Souza ◽  
Lúcia Helena Cunha dos Anjos ◽  
Marcos Gervasio Pereira ◽  
Roni Fernandes Guareschi ◽  
João Henrique Gaia-Gomes

The effects of conventional tillage (CT), level cultivation (LC), minimum cultivation (MC) and a plot without a cover crop (WC) in the contents of soil nutrients (P, K, Ca and Mg), total organic carbon (TOC), bulk density (Bd), soil water infiltration rate (BIR) and losses of TOC and nutrients (P and K) by erosion were evaluated in areas with the cultivation of horticultural crops. Wischmeier plots were installed in an Oxisol with 30% of slope. Soil samples were collected at 0.0-0.05 and 0.05-0.10 m depths to physical and chemical characterization. The WC plot reduces soil SWIR values and lead to a higher losses soil, TOC and macronutrients (Ca, P, Mg and K). The CT resulted in higher losses of soil, TOC, P and K by erosion, contributing to reduce the TOC, P, Ca, Mg and SWIR of the soil. The MC was the most indicated management, since it helps to reduce losses of soil, TOC, P and K by erosion, and increase the TOC, BIR, P, K, Ca and Mg of the soil. The LC when compared to the CT reduces the losses of soil TOC, P and K by erosion, and increase the BIR values.

Author(s):  
Jorge L. X. L. Cunha ◽  
Maria E. H. Coelho ◽  
Abel W. de Albuquerque ◽  
Cicero A. Silva ◽  
Antônio B. da Silva Júnior ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTThe management systems affect soil structure, causing changes in porosity that can influence soil water infiltration. In order to study the water infiltration rate in a Yellow Latosol under different tillage systems and different mathematical models, an experiment was conducted from October to December 2012, at the Center for Agricultural Sciences at the Federal University of Alagoas, using a randomized block design with five replicates, in a split-plot scheme. In the plots, the management systems were evaluated (conventional tillage, no-tillage and minimum tillage) and, in the sub-plots, the empirical mathematical models of Kostiakov, Kostiakov-Lewis and Horton, and the ring method. The method used to measure soil water infiltration rate was adapted from the classic double-ring infiltrometer method. The minimum tillage system provided better results compared with the others, with water infiltration rate of 167 mm h-1, and the equation that best fitted the data of the ring infiltrometer was Kostiakov’s, in the no-tillage system.


2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sundos Suleman Ismail Abdalla ◽  
Haliza Katas ◽  
Fazren Azmi ◽  
Mohd Fauzi Mh Busra

Fast progress in nanoscience and nanotechnology has contributed to the way in which people diagnose, combat, and overcome various diseases differently from the conventional methods. Metal nanoparticles, mainly silver and gold nanoparticles (AgNPs and AuNPs, respectively), are currently developed for many applications in the medical and pharmaceutical area including as antibacterial, antibiofilm as well as anti-leshmanial agents, drug delivery systems, diagnostics tools, as well as being included in personal care products and cosmetics. In this review, the preparation of AgNPs and AuNPs using different methods is discussed, particularly the green or bio- synthesis method as well as common methods used for their physical and chemical characterization. In addition, the mechanisms of the antimicrobial and anti-biofilm activity of AgNPs and AuNPs are discussed, along with the toxicity of both nanoparticles. The review will provide insight into the potential of biosynthesized AgNPs and AuNPs as antimicrobial nanomaterial agents for future use.


1969 ◽  
Vol 244 (15) ◽  
pp. 4128-4135
Author(s):  
R T Acton ◽  
J C Bennett ◽  
E E Evans ◽  
R E Schrohenloher

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Slotwinski ◽  
P. E. Stutzman ◽  
C. F. Ferraris ◽  
S. S. Watson ◽  
M. A. Peltz ◽  
...  

Polymers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 1678
Author(s):  
Yuri A. Lebedev

Microwave discharges in dielectric liquids are a relatively new area of plasma physics and plasma application. This review cumulates results on microwave discharges in wide classes of liquid hydrocarbons (alkanes, cyclic and aromatic hydrocarbons). Methods of microwave plasma generation, composition of gas products and characteristics of solid carbonaceous products are described. Physical and chemical characteristics of discharge are analyzed on the basis of plasma diagnostics and 0D, 1D and 2D simulation.


2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (sup1) ◽  
pp. 209-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert F. Herrick ◽  
Michael D. McClean ◽  
John D. Meeker ◽  
Leonard Zwack ◽  
Kevin Hanley

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