… rice straw to create biochar for soil amendment appears to be a promising method to address
concerns with regard to improving soil … However, the ability of rice straw-derived biochar to …

… Biochar contains alkaline substances and can increase pH of acid soils (Yuan et al., 2011).
As expected, incorporation of the rice straw char increased pH of all three soils in the present …

… as the adsorptive carrier and soil amendment, we used it in the following leaching experiments
in soil columns in a same way. That is, before application on the top of soil column, both …

… , rice straw was pyrolyzed at three temperatures (400, 500 and 600 C) to study its influence
on biochars properties and its chemical composition as soil amendment. … as soil amendment. …

… of rice straw on CH 4 production Portions of 20 g of soil amended with 0, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5 and 2%
of rice straw (w/… 40 ml of deionized water was added to create a 1 : 2 ratio of soil and water. …

… Rice straws were always considered … rice straws have high potential for soil amendment to
improve physico-chemical properties and nutrient availability. Open field burning of rice straw …

… how biochar influences soil functions. In this study, Korean rice paddy soil was incubated
for 30 d amended with biochars made from Chinese/Korean rice straw at low (300-400 …

… The rates of Cd immobilization in soil increased with the amount of BC applied. The
exchangeable Cd fractions in soils amended with B 10 decreased by 45–62% and in soils amended …

… a negative relationship between soil organic amendment level and Acidobacteria
abundance. We speculate rice straw breaks down into simpler compounds in DRM soils (SM5). …

… Rice straw was the more effective amendment than the other treatments in … that rice straw
treatment separated only the bacterial community but sawdust greatly affected both the soil …