Sentence examples for low fertility soil from inspiring English sources

The decreased Q10 with NP fertilization in the low fertility soil was possibly due to N-induced increase of substrate quality for soil microbes and increased activities of both cellobiohydrolase and polyphenol oxidase.

The Q10 after NP fertilization was significantly decreased by 6.9% in low fertility soil, but was unchanged in the high fertility soil.

The area around the city included a variety of soils suitable for agriculture, with 20% of this being very fertile soil highly suited to agriculture, just over 50% of the area was very fertile but required high maintenance (consisting of either fertilization or crop rotation) and 14% being low fertility soil consisting of lowland clay and suitable only for maize or being left unfarmed.

Our results showed that after NP fertilization, soil respiration rates were increased by 46% in low fertility soil, yet only by 14% in high fertility soil (P < 0.05).

The soil sample used as the substrate was considered strongly acidic, with a low cation-exchange capacity, low content of organic matter, and sandy loam texture, representing weathered acidic low fertility soil that covers large tropical areas of Brazil.

Bacterial inoculations improved growth and development of switchgrass seedlings, significantly stimulated plant growth, and tiller number on the low fertility soil, and enhanced biomass accumulation on both poor and rich soils, with more effective stimulation of plant growth in low fertility soil than in high fertility soil [ 31].

Selected study sites represent a wide environmental gradient that ranges from acid low fertility soils such as Ustic Haplohumults and Typic Haplustults to fertile soils such as Typic Hapludand and Fluventic Eutropepts.

This finding is in contrast to previous reports that foraging is uncommon in plants adapted to low fertility soils.

As fast-growing, short-rotation plantations are being planted in the tropics on low fertility soils, the problem of sustaining soil fertility becomes an important management issue.

The results suggest decreased net EI with biochar in low fertility soils mainly through greater net primary productivity (89% of the decrease).

As a path to increased productivity, in particular for low fertility soils, several applied research projects worldwide target the improvement of crop root traits both in plant breeding and biotechnology contexts.