Can Phytoremediation-Induced Changes in the Microbiome Improve Saline/Sodic Soil and Plant Health?

A Neupane, D Jakubowski, D Fiedler, L Gu, SA Clay… - Agronomy, 2023 - mdpi.com
Increasing soil salinity and/or sodicity is an expanding problem in the Northern Great Plains
(NGP) of North America. This study investigated the impact of phytoremediation on the soil …

Plants reduced nitrous oxide emissions from a Northern Great Plains saline/sodic soil

SA Clay, T Nleya, DE Clay, D Joshi… - Agronomy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The slowly establishing salt‐tolerant perennial grasses reduced nitrous oxide (N2O‐N)
emissions from saline/sodic soil compared to barren areas. Other salt‐tolerant species may …

The good, the bad, the salty: Investigation of native plants for revegetation of salt-impacted soil in the northern Great Plains, United States

AP Blanchard, SA Clay, LB Perkins - Journal of Soil and Water …, 2023 - jswconline.org
Salt-impacted soils are formed through anthropogenic or natural causes. In the northern
Great Plains region of North America, salts that occur in the soil parent materials move …

Comparative morphological, physiological, and biochemical traits in sensitive and tolerant maize genotypes in response to salinity and pb stress

E Zamani, B Bakhtari, H Razi, D Hildebrand… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Salinity and lead are two important abiotic stresses that limit crop growth and yield. In this
study, we assayed the effect of these stresses on tolerant and sensitive maize genotypes …

Restoring ecological function to saline–sodic soils in South Dakota with perennial grass mixtures

SA Clay, D Fiedler, C Reese, DE Clay - Agronomy Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Revegetation of saline–sodic soils is challenging. Over 10 million saline–sodic hectares are
intertwined with highly productive soils in the Northern Great Plains, with 3.4 million ha in …

Increased rainfall may place saline/sodic soils on the tipping point of sustainability

ME Budak, DE Clay, SA Clay, CL Reese… - Journal of Soil and …, 2022 - jswconline.org
Increased rainfall is increasing the risk of the capillary movement of sodium (Na+) and other
salts from buried marine sediments to the soil surface in the North American northern Great …

Combining gypsum with establishment of perennial vegetation improved the restoration of a salt-affected soil in the Northern Great Plains

S Westhoff, C Reese, SA Clay, D Bhattarai… - Journal of Soil and …, 2024 - jswconline.org
Classical saline-sodic soil management approaches are to apply gypsum or elemental
sulfur (S), improve soil drainage, and irrigate with enough water to leach soluble salts out of …

Native Plant Restoration of Salt-impacted Soils

L Perkins, A Blanchard, K Ehlert… - Salinity and Sodicity: A …, 2024 - books.google.com
Salt-impacted soils that do not profitably produce annual crops are candidates for ecological
restoration with the aim of restoring native plants that will simultaneously decrease erosion …

[HTML][HTML] Plant Adaptation to Salinity Stress: Significance of Major Metabolites

M Kumar, H Bharadwaj, K Kumari - 2023 - intechopen.com
These genes increase the plant's tolerance to salt stress by producing proteins and
metabolites that protect the cell against stress. More secondary metabolites including …

Case Studies on Salt-Affected Soil Remediation

DE Clay, S Pandit, D Bhattarai - Salinity and Sodicity: A Growing …, 2024 - books.google.com
Methods Shalhevet et al.(1986) applied irrigation water with electrical conductivity (EC i)
values of 1.7–10.2 dS/m to sweet corn (Zea mays L.) at timing intervals (3.5, 7, 14 and 21 …