In order to better understand the effect of soil parent materials on the soil elemental composition, it is useful to review the mineralogical composition of common rocks that make up the soil ...

Different soils have different properties depending on their composition. Sandy soil is pale coloured and has large particles. These create lots of small air gaps. Water drains through them easily ...

Communities of microbes (microbiomes), particularly in soils, can be startlingly diverse, with as many as 10,000 species in ...

Microplastics similar in size, shape and composition to soil have minimal to no effect on crops. One of the six microplastic types tested, the fragments—all four types—did not change microbial ...

For the validation of qPCR data by cloning sequencing, qPCR products obtained for each primer pair, using one plant from each soil, were purified with MinElute kit (Qiagen) and reamplified by PCR ...