Marshy Salt-Soil Improvement and Development. Volume I: Theory and Practices

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Series: Biotechnology in Agriculture, Industry and Medicine
BISAC: SCI010000

Marshy salt-soil improvement and efficient use are a worldwide problem. As the global population increases and urbanization accelerates, arable land will be the most serious challenge for human beings and is decreasing under global climate change and the pressure of various environmental issues. This case is especially true for China. Modern agriculture is facing a serious challenge which will extend into the future. Land is one of the most important resources for the survival of the human race. How to increase arable land capacity is the key for sustainable agriculture development. China has extensive marshy land that can be reclaimed for better potential land resources, which will be a good model for enlarging global arable land. Related studies have been conducted in China for the past 30 years, and now many results concerning economic efficiency have been obtained. For the purpose of summarizing these results as an example of salt-soil improvement and efficient development and demonstration, the authors have kindly organized this book series. This volume is the extension of Salt Marshes: Ecosystems, Vegetation and Restoration Strategies, and so it will serve as a valuable reference and textbook for soil scientists, biologists, agricultural scientists, environmental scientists, ecologists, governmental policymakers and students who are interested in soil, agriculture and food. (Imprint: Nova)

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Sustainably Developing the Coastal Mudflat Areas in China
Xiao-hua Long, Li-ping Liu, Hongbo Shao, Tian-yun Shao (College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China, and others)

Chapter 2. GIS-Mapping Spatial Distribution of Soil Salinity for Eco-Restoring the Yellow River Delta by Combining Electromagnetic Induction
Guangming Liu, Jinbiao Li, Xuechen Zhang, Zhenzhen Lv, and Hongbo Shao (State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China, and others)

Chapter 3. Effects of Soil-Amendment Application in Saline Soil based on Soil Enzymes
Liu Guangming, Zhang Xuechen, Wang Xiuping, Zhang Mimi, Shano Hongbo, and Wang Xiangping (State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China, and others)

Chapter 4. Distribution and Evaluation of Heavy Metal in Sewage Sludge-Amended Mudflat Salt-Soil
Yanchao Bai, Wengang Zuo, Caiyun Zang, Hongbo Shao (College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China, and others)

Chapter 5. Sewage Sludge as the Initial Fertility Driver for Rapidly Improving Mudflat Salt-Soils
Yanchao Bai, Caiyun Zang, Minjing Gu, Hongbo Shao (College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China, and others)

Chapter 6. Temperature and Moisture Responses to Carbon Mineralization in the Biochar-Amended Saline Soil
Junna Sun and Hongbo Shao (School of Life Science, Ludong University, Yantai, China, and others)

Chapter 7. Dynamic Characteristics of Soil Properties in the Robinia pseudoacacia Vegetation and Coastal Eco-Restoration
Peili Mao, Hongxiang Mu, Yongjian Qin, Hongbo Shao, and Shumei Wang (Key Laboratory of Agricultural Ecology and Environment, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, China, and others)

Chapter 8. Applying Hyperspectral Imaging Technology to Explore Natural Plant Diversity towards Improving Salt Stress Tolerance and Sustainable Salt-Soil Agriculture
Oksana Sytar, Marian Brestic and Hongbo Shao (Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Bioresources of Saline Soils; Provincial Key Laboratory of Agrobiology; Institute of Agro-biotechnology, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, China, and others)

Chapter 9. Reference Gene Selection for qPCR Normalization in Kosteletzkya virginica Under Salt Stress
Xiaoli Tang and Hongbo Shao (Institute of Agro-biotechnology, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, China, and others)

Chapter 10. Plant-Responding Mechanisms to Salt Stress: Physiological and Molecular Advances
Xiaoli Tang and Hongbo Shao (Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Bioresources of Saline Soils; Provincial Key Laboratory of grobiology, Institute of Agro-Biotechnology, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, China, and others)

Chapter 11. Advances in Applying Transcription Factors to Improve Plant Multi-Abiotic Stress Tolerance Under Global Climate Change
Hongyan Wang and Hongbo Shao (Yantai Academy of China Agriculture University, Yantai, China, and others)

Index

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