Sentence examples for muck soil from inspiring English sources

Root-knot nematodes were suppressed in natural soil compared to agricultural soil for loamy sand, sand and rock soils, but not for muck soil.

Each tub contained muck soil to a depth of 15 cm, four Impatiens or Hosta plants, and 12 adult D. reticulatum slugs.

Despite the exception on the muck soil, the relative suppression of root-knot nematodes in natural compared to agricultural soils of the other three soil types (loamy sand, sand and rock) support the idea that potential for nematode suppression may be greater in natural than in agricultural soils.

Reasons for the opposite result (higher root-knot levels in natural than in agricultural soil) on muck soil are unknown, but this soil type was very different from the other soils in its unusually high organic matter content and very low levels of omnivorous and predatory nematodes.

Twelve germplasm accessions including commercial carrot cultivars and breeding lines were grown in muck soil field conditions at Jack's Pride Farms in Randolph, Wisconsin (43.54°N, 89.00°W) in the summers of 2011 and 2012.

Histosols are also known as peat and muck soils.

Certain species live strictly in light, sandy soils; some build up high populations in muck soils; and a few seem to thrive in heavy soils.

Alluvial soils account for about one-fourth of the land in the south and are concentrated in the Mekong delta, as are peat and muck soils.

Peat and muck soils, which formed from inland lakes and flat, wet plains that became filled with organic matter, are found throughout the state, especially in the eastern Upper Peninsula.

We examined the hypothesis via methane (CH4) dynamics, respiration (as carbon dioxide (CO2) production), and net nitrogen (N) mineralization in muck soils from a natural wetland dominated by sedges (Carex lacustris) either with or without grey alder (Alnus rugosa).

The results suggest that large sample sizes are needed to characterize the high variability present in microbial activity and greenhouse gases in muck soils, but explanation(s) for spatial variability remain elusive.