984 resultados para Rock-Soil Block


Relevância:

20.00% 20.00%

Publicador:

Resumo:

Quantifying surfactant interaction effects on soil moisture and turf quality.

Relevância:

20.00% 20.00%

Publicador:

Resumo:

The main outputs anticipated include enchanced knowledge of key water-nutrient dynamics in relation to key soil management techniques and a suite of improved and practical soil management options in sweet potatoes.

Relevância:

20.00% 20.00%

Publicador:

Resumo:

The purpose of the report is to summarise progress in developing vegetable production systems with improved soil health that overcome soil limitations with the potential to suppress soil borne diseases. Management approaches to soil health improvement were regionally specific to overcome regional soil limitations in different production environments.

Relevância:

20.00% 20.00%

Publicador:

Resumo:

The proposed project focuses on developing research-based indicators that growers and extensionists can use to assess soil health status (including key chemical, physical and biological variables), as well as extension approaches to communicate soil health.

Relevância:

20.00% 20.00%

Publicador:

Resumo:

This project focussed on the phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) status of northern cropping soils. Stores of P and K have been depleted by crop removal and limited fertiliser application, with depletion most significant in the subsoil. Soil testing strategies are confounded by slowly available mineral reserves with uncertain availability. The utility of new soil tests was assessed to measure these reserves, their availability to plants quantified and a regional sampling strategy undertaken to identify areas of greatest P and K deficit. Fertiliser application strategies for P and K have been tested and the interactions between these and other nutrients have been determined in a large field program.

Relevância:

20.00% 20.00%

Publicador:

Resumo:

Soil Micro Testing for nematodes on grain farms.

Relevância:

20.00% 20.00%

Publicador:

Resumo:

Quantify soil C stocks in grains and sugarcane cropping systems of Queensland, including impacts of management practices.

Relevância:

20.00% 20.00%

Publicador:

Resumo:

The project will evaluate seed bank depletion of key northern herbicide resistant weeds under different environments, cropping systems, crop agronomies and non-chemical control tactics. The project will also evaluate soil biology and seed bank relationships to explain differences in seed bank persistence.

Relevância:

20.00% 20.00%

Publicador:

Resumo:

This is part of a GRDC funded project led by Dr Jeremy Whish of CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences. The project aims to build a root-lesion nematode module into the crop growth simulation program APSIM (Agricultural Production Systems Simulator). This will utilise existing nematode and crop data from field, glasshouse and laboratory research led by Dr John Thompson. New data will be collected to validate and extend the model.

Relevância:

20.00% 20.00%

Publicador:

Resumo:

Work with Land and Water Australia to coordinate soil health work across Queensland and Australia.

Relevância:

20.00% 20.00%

Publicador:

Resumo:

PhD scholarship investigating the relative sensitivity of nitrogen fixation in adapted grain and ley legume species to low soil phosphorus.

Relevância:

20.00% 20.00%

Publicador:

Resumo:

Sustainable Farming Systems for Central Queensland.

Relevância:

20.00% 20.00%

Publicador:

Resumo:

Workshops to increase participants understanding and knowledge by farm businesses and healthy catchments farmers about the role of soil health in supporting sustainable through variable circumstances, farm businesses and healthy catchments.

Relevância:

20.00% 20.00%

Publicador:

Resumo:

Radopholus similis is a major constraint to banana production in Australia and growers have relied on nematicides to manage production losses. The use of organic amendments is one method that may reduce the need for nematicides, but there is limited knowledge of the influence of organic amendments on endo-migratory nematodes, such as R. similis. Nine different amendments, namely, mill mud, mill ash, biosolids, municipal waste compost, banana residue, grass hay, legume hay, molasses and calcium silicate were applied to the three major soil types of the wet tropics region used for banana production. The nutrient content of the amendments was also determined. Banana plants were inoculated with R. similis and grown in the soil-amendment mix for 12-weeks in a glasshouse experiment. Assessments of plant growth, plant-parasitic nematodes and soil nematode community characteristics were made at the termination of the experiment. Significant suppression of plant-parasitic nematodes occurred in soils amended with legume hay, grass hay, banana residue and mill mud relative to untreated soil. These amendments were found to have the highest N and C content. The application of banana residue and mill mud significantly increased shoot dry weight at the termination of the experiment relative to untreated soil. Furthermore, the applications of banana residue, grass hay, mill mud and municipal waste compost increased the potential for suppression of plant-parasitic nematodes through antagonistic activity. The application of amendments that are high in C and N appeared to be able to induce suppression of plant-parasitic nematodes in bananas, by developing a more favourable environment for antagonistic organisms.

Relevância:

20.00% 20.00%

Publicador:

Resumo:

Telomere length has been purported as a biomarker for age and could offer a non-lethal method for determining the age of wild-caught individuals. Molluscs, including oysters and abalone, are the basis of important fisheries globally and have been problematic to accurately age. To determine whether telomere length could provide an alternative means of ageing molluscs, we evaluated the relationship between telomere length and age using the commercially important Sydney rock oyster (Saccostrea glomerata). Telomere lengths were estimated from tissues of known age individuals from different age classes, locations and at different sampling times. Telomere length tended to decrease with age only in young oysters less than 18 months old, but no decrease was observed in older oysters aged 2-4 years. Regional and temporal differences in telomere attrition rates were also observed. The relationship between telomere length and age was weak, however, with individuals of identical age varying significantly in their telomere length making it an imprecise age biomarker in oysters.