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    Integrated Management of Salt Affected Soils in Agriculture: Incorporation of Soil Salinity Control Methods
    Integrated Management of Salt Affected Soils in Agriculture: Incorporation of Soil Salinity Control Methods
    Integrated Management of Salt Affected Soils in Agriculture: Incorporation of Soil Salinity Control Methods
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    Integrated Management of Salt Affected Soils in Agriculture: Incorporation of Soil Salinity Control Methods

    By Nesreen Houssein Ahmen Abou-Baker and Ebtisam Abdelmohsen El-Dardiry

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    Integrated Management of Salt Affected Soils in Agriculture is a concise guide to evaluating and addressing soil issues related to saline content. Methods focused, the book combines agricultural and soil-based insights to efficiently remediate salt-affected soil.

    Environmental stress conditions such as salinity have a devastating impact on plant growth and yield, causing considerable loss to agricultural production worldwide. Soil salinity control prevents soil degradation by salinization  and reclaim already saline soils. This book will help develop the proper management procedures, to solve problems of crop production on salt-affected soils.

    • Provides both agricultural science and soil science perspectives on soil salinity
    • Identifies differences in salt-affected soils and appropriate remediation options
    • Includes methodologies based on existing scenario and targeted outcomes
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAcademic Press
    Release dateSep 25, 2015
    ISBN9780128041680
    Integrated Management of Salt Affected Soils in Agriculture: Incorporation of Soil Salinity Control Methods
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    Nesreen Houssein Ahmen Abou-Baker

    Dr. Nesreen Houssien Abou-Baker has obtained her Ph.D. degree in 2008 from Natural Resources Dept., African Research and Studies Institute, Cairo University. Since 2004, she is actively working in National Research Centre, Egypt, till now. She is an associate professor in Soils and Water Use Dept., has gained twenty one training courses and teaching in summer training course for science faculty’s students, published some articles and eighteen scientific research papers, worked in ten projects funded by Egypt, France or China and participated in sixteen symposiums, nine workshops and ten conferences. She is a member of nine scientific societies and a reviewer of four international scientific journals, a board member of Researchers Club in the period from 12/2005 to 12/2009, a member of the Technical Committee of Agricultural and biological research Div. at NRC from 1/3/2014 to 1/3/2015, one of the founders of the Young Researchers Society and chairman of it in the period from 7/2010 to 3/2015. She obtained to appreciation certificate for 5th place in the research outputs, 2014, associate professor rank, offered by the national research centre.

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    Integrated Management of Salt Affected Soils in Agriculture - Nesreen Houssein Ahmen Abou-Baker

    Integrated Management of Salt Affected Soils in Agriculture

    Incorporation of Soil Salinity Control Methods

    Nesreen Abou-Baker

    National Research Center (NRC), Agricultural and Biological Division, Soils and Water Use Dept.

    Ebtisam El-Dardiry

    National Research Center (NRC), Agricultural and Biological Division, Water Relations and Irrigation Dept.

    Table of Contents

    Cover image

    Title page

    Copyright

    Acknowledgements

    Preface

    Introduction

    Chapter 1. Salt-Affected Soil Definition and Types

    1.1 Salt-Affected Soils Definition

    1.2 Types of Salt-Affected Soils

    Chapter 2. Features, Nature, and Distribution of Salt-Affected Soils

    2.1 Features of Salt-Affected Soils

    2.2 Nature and Distribution of Salt-Affected Soils

    Chapter 3. Soil Salinization and Sodification Factors

    3.1 Natural Factors

    3.2 Anthropogenic Factors

    Chapter 4. Effect of Salinity on Soil Microorganisms, Plant Growth, and Yield

    4.1 Effect of Salinity on Soil Microorganisms

    4.2 Effect of Salinity on Plant Growth and Yield

    Chapter 5. Management and Rehabilitation of Salt-Affected Soils

    5.1 Scraping and Removal of Surface Soil

    5.2 Replacement of Sodium in the Soil

    5.3 Leaching Plus Artificial Drainage

    5.4 Irrigation Water Management

    5.5 Mulch Management

    Chapter 6. Crop Management on Salt-Affected Soils

    6.1 Selection of Tolerant Crops and Rotation

    6.2 Seeds Pretreatment

    6.3 Halophytes

    Chapter 7. Mineral and Organic Amendments of Salt-Affected Soils

    7.1 Balanced Fertilization

    7.2 Organic Amendments

    7.3 Silicates

    7.4 Polymers (Hydrogel)

    7.5 Zeolite

    7.6 Halophilic Microorganisms

    Chapter 8. Genetic Engineering and Economic Aspects

    8.1 Genetic Engineering

    8.2 Economic Aspects

    Summary and Conclusions

    References

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    Acknowledgements

    Appreciation is expressed to all the scientists who are listed in the references sections of this book for their efforts in the expansion of knowledge.

    Preface

    Abou-Baker Nesreen

    Environmental stresses, such as salinity and drought, cause huge losses to agricultural production which can consequently affect the economic strengths of countries. Soil salinity is the most widespread abiotic stress in the arid and semiarid regions. It is responsible for osmotic imbalance, declining water availability for plants, causing ion-specific toxicities or imbalance, decreasing nutrients uptake, and thus, affecting plant physiology (photosynthesis activity, inhibiting plants’ metabolisms and chlorophyll content). The integrated management of salt-affected soils relates to controlling the problems of soil salinity, amelioration, remediation, rehabilitation, or reclaiming salt-affected soils by the collection of some effective methods of soil salinity control.

    The mission of this review book is to develop the proper management procedures and to solve the problems of crop production on salt-affected soils through research, new knowledge, and technology. I hope this short book will be useful to those farmers who are suffered from salinity stress and will encourage both young scientists and researchers to continue studying soil salinity control and trying to find the most suitable combination of the different methods to develop an integrated management of salt affected soils. The book may encourage government agencies (Such as Ministry of Agriculture) to guiding the farmers who suffering from soil salinity problems by issuing guidance leaflets containing integrated recommendation for salt affected soils reclamation.

    Introduction

    Arid and semiarid regions of the world are generally associated with high population density and lower than average per capita incomes and living standards. These regions are vulnerable to food shortages due to the current, unsustainable use of land affected by soil salinization. It is worth mentioning that most of the new reclaimed areas in Egypt are salinity affected (Dewdar and Rady, 2013).

    Environmental stress conditions such as drought, heat, salinity, cold, or pathogen infection can have a devastating impact on plant growth and yield under field conditions (Suzuki et al., 2014). Abiotic stresses cause considerable loss to agricultural production worldwide (Shao et al., 2008). Soil salinity is most widespread abiotic stress in the arid and semiarid regions and also a serious problem in areas where groundwater of high salt content is used for irrigation. The most serious salinity problems are being faced in the irrigated arid and semiarid regions of the world and it is in these very regions that irrigation is essential to increase agricultural production to satisfy food requirements.

    Salinity is responsible for osmotic imbalance, declining soil water availability for plants, causing ion-specific toxicities or imbalance, decreasing nutrients uptake, and thus, affecting plant physiology (photosynthesis activity, inhibiting plants’ metabolisms, and chlorophyll content). All of these changes contribute to stunted growth and reduced productivity of plants, and consequently, the weakness of

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