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Browsing Plant Production and Soil Science by Subject "Water"
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(Plaas Publishing, 2015-10)It is common knowledge that plants compete for the basic resources required for plant growth and development, namely nutrient elements, water and sunlight. A far lesser known fact is that long after plant-plant ...
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(South African Irrigation Institute, 2019-06)Water quality guidelines have two main applications. Firstly, and more commonly, water quality guidelines are used to assess the fitness for use (FFU) of a given water for a specific purpose. Secondly, water quality guidelines ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2011-06-28)Soils with inherently low soil fertility, and nutrient depletion of fertile soils, are the root causes of declining per capita food production in Africa. On the other hand, demand for better water quality and strict ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2011-11-24)At present, and more so in the future, irrigated agriculture will take place under water scarcity. Owing to the global expansion of irrigated areas and the limited availability of irrigation water, there is a need to ...
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(Wiley, 2015-07)Accessibility to abundant sources of high-quality water is integral to the production of safe and wholesome fresh produce. However, access to safe water is becoming increasingly difficult in many parts of the world, and ...
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(Frontiers Media, 2018-08-15)Plants have developed morphological, physiological, biochemical, cellular, and molecular mechanisms to survive in drought-stricken environments with little or no water caused by below-average precipitation. In this ...
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(Routledge, 2021)We assessed the prevalence of E. coli O157:H7 in irrigation water and agricultural soil samples in two District Municipalities in South Africa using standard culture-based and molecular techniques. Presumptive E. coli ...
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(South African Society of Crop Production, Soil Science Society of South Africa, Southern African Weed Science Society and Southern African Society for Horticultural Sciences, 2007)Water retention and hydration rate of Aquasoil and Stockosorb polymers, the effects of these polymers on the water, ammonium and nitrate retention of a pine bark growth medium and the response of the polymers to fer¬tilizer ...
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(Wiley, 2019-06)Water is crucial for plant productivity and survival as a fundamental resource, but water conditions can also cause physiological stress and mechanical disturbance to vegetation. However, these different influences of water ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010-10-20)Please read the abstract in the dissertation.
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