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Soil management principles in climate-smart conservation <BR>agriculture to halt and reverse land degradation (Communication session)

EUROSOIL2020CONT-2873

MANAGING SOIL SALINITY USING DIFFERENT PLANT SPECIES

Carmen Constantin^{* 1}, Aurora DOBRIN¹, Mugurasi CONSTANTIN¹, Andrei MOT¹, Andrei PETRE¹, Maria PARASCHIV²

¹USAMV Bucharest, ²National Institute of Research and Development for Biological Sciences Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

Content: The objective of the present study is to present the results obtained in the real environment following the testing in the greenhouse of the hypothesis according to which plant species such as Limonium, Festuca and Portulaca have the capacity to extract soluble salts. Thus, a soil from the Dambovita area was used and characterized by following analysis:  pH, conductivity and mineral elements using mass spectrometry with inductively coupled plasma. The soil was analyzed before and after the cultivation of the mentioned species. Also, in terms of element content, both macro and microelements were analyzed before and after species cultivation. Elemental analysis was applied to both soil and plants. Regarding the elemental analysis of plants, it was performed for each part of the plant: root, stem, leaves. Significant results were observed after the cultivation of the plants, especially in case of the Limonium. Thus, for this species the conductivity decreased from 3.19 to 1.32 dS / m, and the Na content from 2.05 g / kg to 0.98 g / kg.

Disclosure of Interest: None Declared

Keywords: conductivity, elemental analysis, pH, saline soils