Salinity tolerance of earthworms and effects of salinity and vermi amendments on growth of<i>Sorghum bicolor</i>

Sharif, Faiza; Danish, Madiha Usman; Ali, Adnan Sakhawat; Khan, Amin U.; Shahzad, Laila; Ali, Habib; Ghafoor, Abdul

doi:10.1080/03650340.2015.1132838

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“…This is an ultra epigeic species (Schultz and Joutti, 2007), which rests in soil and comes out to the surface to feed on decaying organic materials. The species has been reported to be tolerant of a wide range of pH and high conductivity and salinity values (Gunadi and Edwards, 2003;Owojori et al, 2008;Sharif et al, 2016). The presented results show that microscale particles in RM may impair the normal dermal functioning of earthworms, causing a decrease of almost all measured elements and potential deficiency in essential elements.…”

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confidence: 75%

“…Measured radioactivity level with respect to U and Th concentrations was highest in RM1-40% soil mixture (total was 1270 Bq), but well below the radiological risk for earthworms (Popic et al, 2012;Sheppard et al, 2005). The highest conductivity was found in RM1-60% soil mixture (1.296 d/Sm) (Hackenberger et al, 2019), which was well below the risk level for the earthworms' survival (Gunadi and Edwards, 2003;Sharif et al, 2016). The results of pH values, conductivity and radioactivity measurements are given in the Supplementary material.…”

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confidence: 85%

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Effects of microscale particles in red mud amended artificial soils on bioaccumulation of elements in E. fetida

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Effects of microscale particles in red mud amended artificial soils on bioaccumulation of elements in E. fetida

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“…According to Sharif et al (2016), salinity hinders the neurosecretory activity of worms and causes the body cuticle of these organisms to be permeable to water and ions in dissolution, which causes a deadly osmotic imbalance that reduces the survival, growth, biomass and reproduction rates. For this reason, it has been established as a recommendation that ECe should be kept at values lower than 2 dS•m -1 if the survival of the worms-especially the young ones-is to be guaranteed (Mamani-Mamani et al 2012).…”

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Effects of Sesuvium verrucosum Raf. Compost and vermicompost on the growth and production parameters of the Solanum lycopersicum L. crop

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The objectives of this work were to use Sesuvium verrucosum to produce stable and mature compost and vermicompost and to evaluate their influence on the growth and production parameters of the Solanum lycopersicum L. crop. For the preparation of vermicompost, the earthworm Eisenia fetida (Savigny) was used. The proposed treatments were: T1 (negative control) [no organic fertilizer + urea], T2 (positive control) [bovine manure (100%) + urea], T3 (compost) [bovine manure (100%) + urea], T4 (compost) [S. verrucosum (25%) + bovine manure (75%) + urea], T5 (compost) [S. verrucosum (50%) + bovine manure (50%) + urea], T6 (compost) [S. verrucosum (75%) + bovine manure (25%) + urea], T7 (vermicompost) [bovine manure (100%) + urea], and T8 (vermicompost) [S. verrucosum (25%) + bovine manure (75%) + urea]. The results showed that all the treatments were stable, mature and rich in nutrients after 140 days. In general, treatments made from S. verrucosum showed a high pH (7.97-8.45) and electrical conductivity (3.83-8.85 dS m -1 ). Nonetheless, excluding T7, the treatments made from a proportion of 25% halophyte and 75% bovine manure (T8 and T4) achieved the highest morphological parameters in the different variables that were evaluated, as well as the highest yields compared to controls T1 and T2, followed by T3, T5 and T6, respectively. Therefore, it was concluded that S. verrucosum can serve as a stable and mature organic amendment, rich in nutrients, and that can be used to improve the growth and development of the S. lycopersicum crop.

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“…Nanotechnology has the potential to transform and modernize the agriculture system by providing innovative tools for the management of water, plant nutrients, pests and diseases of crops in changing climate (Khan et al, 2016;Elshayb et al, 2022b;Al-Selwey et al, 2023). Thus, it can increase growth, yields and quality of crops, and also plants tolerance or resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses (Tarafdar et al, 2013).…”

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Climate change, its impact on crop production, challenges, and possible solutions

Alotaibi

2023

Not Bot Horti Agrobo

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Climate change poses serious threats to agriculture and food security, and extreme weather events have reduced crop productivity worldwide. Future projections predict that the average global temperature will rise by 2.0 to 6.4 °C and the increase in sea level will be 59 cm by the end of 21st century. The unprecedented rise in temperature has led to an increase in the incidence of heat waves, droughts, floods, and irregular patterns of precipitation. These changes have a dramatic impact on prevailing agricultural cropping systems, productivity, and food security of people regionally and globally. The change in climatic parameters have substantial effects on weeds, diseases, insect, and pests in different ways, and can result in an increase of their geographical distribution, number of generations, and survival during winter. Thus, to sustain the crop production on the eve of climate change is the main challenge. Therefore, adaptation measures are prerequisites to reduce the effects of climatic changes on production of agricultural crops. In this review, a brief insight has been given in the impact of climate change on agriculture and, the future challenges of climate change on the production of crops. In addition, integrated approaches, or recent developments for the improvement of crops such as breeding, transgenic approaches to biotechnology, and functional genomics, agronomic practices, cultivation of climate resilient crops, and nanotechnology for abiotic stress such as drought stress, temperature, heat, and salinity tolerance have also been discussed.

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Salinity tolerance of earthworms and effects of salinity and vermi amendments on growth ofSorghum bicolor

Cited by 11 publications

References 42 publications

Effects of microscale particles in red mud amended artificial soils on bioaccumulation of elements in E. fetida

Effects of microscale particles in red mud amended artificial soils on bioaccumulation of elements in E. fetida

Effects of Sesuvium verrucosum Raf. Compost and vermicompost on the growth and production parameters of the Solanum lycopersicum L. crop

Climate change, its impact on crop production, challenges, and possible solutions

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