During a 2005 visit with National Agricultural and Forestry Institute (NAFRI) Director, Dr. Kouang Doungsila issued a challenge to these authors to determine if it was true that crops could not be grown in the extensi...
financial support by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Grant No. 19002001);the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan
Silicon(Si) is known as a beneficial nutrient in the cultivation of rice, playing a key role in photosynthesis enhancement, lodging resistance and tolerance to various environmental stress. The present study aimed to ...
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate control of orientation of foliations and joints on the direction of valley axes in the Stribrne Hory area in the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands in central part of the Czech Republ...
The prospects and challenges facing eight small water impounding projects(SWIPs)in Talugtog,Nueva Ecija,an upland municipality located in Central Luzon,Philippines were evaluated using rapid appraisal and documentatio...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.50839002);the Doctoral Fund of Ministry of Education of China(No.200802940006);the Public Research Special Fund of Ministry of Agriculture of China(No.200903001-05)
A comparison experiment was performed, by designing one field ditch (D1 treatment), two field ditches (D2 treatment), three field ditches (D3 treatment), and no field ditch (CK treatment), in an upland of a sm...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.40921061);the National Basic Research Program (973 Program) of China (No.2007CB407206);the Frontier Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.ISSASIP0715)
Understanding how spatial scale influences commonly-observed effects of climate and soil texture on soil organic carbon (SOC) storage is important for accurately estimating the SOC pool at different scales. The rela...