Sentence examples for marginal soil from inspiring English sources

The soil is nutrient-poor, but a forest garden turns marginal soil into much more fertile ground.

As photosynthetic plants, Venus flytraps do not rely on carnivory for energy but rather use the nitrogen-rich animal proteins to enable their survival in marginal soil conditions.

But Amyris's fuels can be fermented from sugars derived from a variety of feed stocks, including switchgrass and jatropha, that are grown on marginal soil that cannot be used for food production.

As with most carnivorous plants, the Western Australian pitcher plant is photosynthetic and relies on carnivory as a means of obtaining nitrogen and other nutrients in marginal soil conditions.

But now that a plant called jatropha is being hailed by scientists and policy makers as a potentially ideal source of biofuel, a plant that can grow in marginal soil or beside food crops, that does not require a lot of fertilizer and yields many times as much biofuel per acre planted as corn and many other potential biofuels.

Geogrid was observed to exhibit lower secant tensile stiffness when embedded in marginal soil, moist-compacted at wet of optimum.

The lowest soil nutrients and fine soil particles were measured on the sub-sampling zones such as low soil quality, eroded sites, and marginal land soils.

Jatropha could only be grown on low-yield land of marginal soils that were not suitable for food production, he said, and would "in no shape or form" displace food crops.

The acreage of almonds has expanded rapidly into marginal soils of the hillslopes of southeast Spain.

If these fungi could be harnessed commercially for crops, "that would be a tremendous boon, especially in marginal soils," he adds.

Therefore, the objective of this work was to determine the local and site-specific environmental impacts associated with the cultivation of perennial crops in marginal soils.