Assessing the impact of water treatment residuals and rice straw compost on soil physical properties and wheat yield in saline sodic Soil. Issue 18 (10th October 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ibrahim, Mahmoud; Mahmoud, Esawy; Ibrahim, Doaa
• Is Part Of: Communications in soil science and plant analysis. Volume 51:Issue 18(2020)
• Page Start: 2388
• Page End: 2397
• Publication Date: 2020-10-10
• Subjects: Salt-affected soils -- rice straw compost -- water treatment residuals -- drainable porosity -- water-stable aggregates; Soil science -- Periodicals; Plants -- Chemical analysis -- Periodicals; Agricultural chemistry -- Periodicals; 631.405
• DOI: 10.1080/00103624.2020.1836206
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0010-3624

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Rice straw compost (RC) and water treatment residuals (WTR) can improve both organic wastes recycling and soil physical properties of salt-affected soils. Therefore, the aim of this study was to test the effect of RC and its mixture with WTR on some physical properties of the saline-sodic soil, and wheat yield. The treatments were RC, WTR, and RC + WTR mixture at rates of 12 and 24 t ha −1 . The results indicated that the application of RC alone or combined with WTR significantly increased drainable porosity (DP), total porosity (TP), mean weight diameter (MWD) and total water-stable aggregates (WSA) as compared to control. The increase in soil DP under the 24 t of WTR ha −1 was 64.7% greater than the control treatment. The mixtures of RC +WTR gave better results in increasing the dry weight and grain yield, especially the rate of 24 t of RC +WTR (1:2) ha −1 soil as compared to adding them individually. The experimental results concluded that the WTR + RC mixture can be used as a promising strategy to increase wheat yield and improve the efficiency of recycled rice straw and WTR on the physical properties of saline-sodic soils.