{"type": "FeatureCollection", "features": [{"id": "0f85c381-e496-47d9-89d8-f1fe2ee1a517", "type": "Feature", "geometry": {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-180.0, -90.0], [-180.0, 90.0], [180.0, 90.0], [180.0, -90.0], [-180.0, -90.0]]]}, "properties": {"themes": [{"concepts": [{"id": "geoscientificInformation"}], "scheme": "https://standards.iso.org/iso/19139/resources/gmxCodelists.xml#MD_TopicCategoryCode"}, {"concepts": [{"id": "Soil science"}], "scheme": "Stratum"}, {"concepts": [{"id": "Global"}], "scheme": "Region"}], "updated": "2025-02-05T10:34:26", "type": "Dataset", "language": "eng", "title": "A homogenized soil data file for global environmental research: A subset of FAO, ISRIC and NRCS profiles", "description": "A homogenized, global set of 1,125 soil profiles is presented. These profiles have been extracted from the database developed at ISRIC for a project on \"World Inventory of Soil Emission Potentials\" (WISE), as a contribution to the activities of the Global Soils Data Task Group of IGBP-DIS. The subset consists of a selection of 665 profiles originating from digital data files released by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS, Lincoln), 250 profiles obtained from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO, Rome), and 210 profiles from the reference collection of the International Soil Reference and Information Centre (ISRIC, Wageningen). All profiles are georeferenced and classified in the FAO-Unesco Legend whereby they can be linked to the edited and digital version of the FAO-Unesco Soil Map of the World. This data set is being released in the public domain for use by global modellers and other interested scientists. It is envisaged that the data set will be expanded by ISRIC when new, uniform soil profile data become available.\n\nNote: \na) A more recent version (some 10,000 profiles) of WISE profiles is available at: http://data.isric.org/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/a351682c-330a-4995-a5a1-57ad160e621c (2009)\nb) For a larger compilation see the WoSIS database: http://isric.org/explore/wosis (2017)", "formats": [{"name": "zip"}, {"name": "WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-ftp--download"}, {"name": "WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related"}], "keywords": ["calcium", "carbon", "cation exchange capacity", "electrical conductivity", "nitrogen", "organic carbon", "bulk density", "soil classification", "soil depth", "soil profiles", "pH", "salinity", "texture", "water holding capacity", "soil profiles", "nutrients", "Soil science", "Global"], "contacts": [{"name": "Niels Batjes", "organization": "ISRIC - World Soil Information", "position": "Senior Soil Scientist", "roles": ["Author"], "phones": [{"value": null}], "emails": [{"value": "niels.batjes@isric.org"}], "addresses": [{"deliveryPoint": ["PO Box 353"], "city": "Wageningen", "administrativeArea": null, "postalCode": "6700AJ", "country": "Netherlands"}], "links": [{"href": null}]}, {"name": "Eloi Ribeiro", "organization": "ISRIC - World Soil Information (WDC - Soils)", "position": "Geoinformatic", "roles": ["author"], "phones": [{"value": null}], "emails": [{"value": "data@isric.org"}], "addresses": [{"deliveryPoint": ["P.O. 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We studied the effects of soil pH, nutrient concentration, salinity, and water content on bacterial abundance and diversity in soils collected from Mediterranean, semi-arid, and arid sites receiving approximately 400, 300, and 100 mm annual precipitation, respectively. Bacterial diversity was evaluated by terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism and clone library analyses and the patterns obtained varied with the climatic regions. Over 75% of the sequenced clones were unique to their environment, while \u223c2% were shared by all sites, yet, the Mediterranean and semi-arid sites had more common clones (\u223c9%) than either had with the arid site (4.7% and 6%, respectively). The microbial abundance, estimated by phospholipid fatty acids and real-time quantitative PCR assays, was significantly lower in the arid region. Our results indicate that although soil bacterial abundance decreases with precipitation, bacterial diversity is independent of precipitation gradient. Furthermore, community composition was found to be unique to each ecosystem.", "keywords": ["DNA", " Bacterial", "2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "Salinity", "0303 health sciences", "Bacteria", "Mediterranean Region", "Climate", "Rain", "Water", "Biodiversity", "Hydrogen-Ion Concentration", "15. 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Drought priming has been proved to improve drought tolerance of plants at later growth stages, however, whether and how drought priming at early growth stage alleviating salinity stress at later growth stage and improving water use efciency (WUE) of plants remains unknown. Therefore, two wheat cultivars were subjected to drought priming at the 4th and 6th leaf stage and subsequent moderate salinity stress at 100 mmol NaCl applied at the later jointing growth stage. The growth, physiological responses, ABA signaling and WUE were investigated to unravel the regulating mechanisms of drought priming on subsequent salinity stress. The results showed that drought priming imposed at the early growth stage improved the leaf and root water potential while attenuated the ABA concentration in the leaves ([ABA]<sub>leaf</sub>) for the primed plants, which increased the stomatal conductance (g<sub>s</sub>) and photosynthesis (P<sub>n</sub>). Consequently, the biomass under the salinity stress was signifcantly increased due to earlier drought priming. Moreover, drought priming improved the specifc leaf N content due to the facilitated root growth and morphology, and this could beneft high leaf photosynthetic capacity during the salinity stress period, improving the P<sub>n</sub> and water uptake for the primed plants. Drought priming signifcantly improved plant level WUE (WUE<sub>p</sub>) due to considerably enhanced dry biomass compared with non-primed plants under subsequent salinity stress. The signifcantly increased leaf \u03b4<sup>13</sup>C under drought priming further demonstrated that the improved leaf \u03b4<sup>13</sup>C and WUE<sub>p</sub> was mainly ascribed to the improvement of P<sub>n</sub>. Drought primed plants signifcantly improved K+ concentration and maintained the K<sup>+</sup>/Na<sup>+</sup> ratio compared with non-primed plants under subsequent salinity stress, which could mitigate the adverse efects of excess Na<sup>+</sup> and minimize salt-induced ionic toxicity by improving salt tolerance for primed plants. Therefore, drought priming at early growth stage could be considered as a promising strategy for salt-prone areas to optimize agricultural sustainability and food security under changing climatic conditions.", "keywords": ["Triticum aestivum L", "0106 biological sciences", "0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "Water stress", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Salinity tolerance", "Hormones", "6. Clean water", "03 medical and health sciences", "ABA", "13. 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P significantly increased macrophyte primary production, which led to the rapid elimination of cyanobacterial mats. The replacement of cyanobacterial mats by macrophytes constrained autotrophic nitrogen (N) fixation, increased the quantity, and changed the quality of organic matter input to the sediments. We predicted that the activity of sediment heterotrophic N fixers will be impacted by these alterations in carbon input. We used the acetylene reduction technique to measure potential (glucose amended) nitrogenase activity (NA) in sediments from controls and treatment plots that have been P enriched for four years and dominated either by Eleocharis cellulosa, or Typha domingensis for two years. NA in P-enriched plots was 2\u20133 orders of magnitude higher than NA in controls. NA was positively correlated with the soil reactive P, both total organic and microbial carbon, live root biomass, and total phospholipid fatty acids (PLFA) as an indicator of active microbial biomass. It was negatively correlated with the concentration of ammonium-N. Path analysis revealed that the indirect effect of P on NA through the root biomass was more important than the direct effect of P. NA of the upper sediment layer was consistently higher in Eleocharis than in Typha dominated plots, despite the higher litter input by Typha. We feel that the higher levels of lignin and phenolics occurring in Typha litter, relative to Eleocharis, constrained NA in Typha plots.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "Freshwater & Marine Ecology", "Salinity", "Ecology", "Life Sciences", "Phosphorus", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Aquatic Science", "15. Life on land", "Cyanobacteria", "Pollution", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "Environmental Science(all)", "13. Climate action", "Heterotrophic nitrogen fixation", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Zoology", "Typha", "Eleocharis"], "contacts": [{"organization": "\u010cern\u00e1, Barbora, Rejm\u00e1nkov\u00e1, Eli\u0161ka, Snyder, Jenise M., \u0160antr\u016f\u010dkov\u00e1, Hana,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://escholarship.org/content/qt0xk5x7sm/qt0xk5x7sm.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-009-9715-y"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Hydrobiologia", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s10750-009-9715-y", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s10750-009-9715-y", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s10750-009-9715-y"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2009-02-13T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-014-2036-6", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-23T16:15:34Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-02-14", "title": "Variable Effects Of Nutrient Enrichment On Soil Respiration In Mangrove Forests", "description": "Mangrove forests are globally important sites of carbon burial that are increasingly exposed to nutrient pollution. Here we assessed the response of soil respiration, an important component of forest carbon budgets, to nutrient enrichment over a wide range of mangrove forests. We assessed the response of soil respiration to nutrient enrichment using fertilization experiments within 22 mangrove forests over ten sites. We used boosted regression tree (BRT) models to determine the importance of environmental and plant factors for soil respiration and its responsiveness to fertilizer treatments. Leaf area index explained the largest proportion of variation in soil respiration rates (LAI, 45.9\u00a0%) followed by those of site, which had a relative influence of 39.9\u00a0% in the BRT model. Nutrient enrichment enhanced soil respiration only in nine out of 22 forests. Soil respiration in scrub forests showed a positive response to nutrient addition more frequently than taller fringing forests. The response of soil respiration to nutrient enrichment varied with changes in specific leaf area (SLA) and stem extension, with relative influences of 14.4\u00a0%, 13.6\u00a0% in the BRT model respectively. Soil respiration in mangroves varied with LAI, but other site specific factors also influenced soil respiration and its response to nutrient enrichment. Strong enhancements in aboveground growth but moderate increases in soil respiration with nutrient enrichment indicated that nutrient enrichment of mangrove forests has likely increased net ecosystem production.", "keywords": ["Rhizophora", "Carbon cycling", "0106 biological sciences", "Salinity", "Nitrogen", "Phosphorus", "Growth", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "13. Climate action", "1110 Plant Science", "8. Economic growth", "Avicennia", "1111 Soil Science", "Soil CO2 efflux"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-014-2036-6"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-014-2036-6", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-014-2036-6", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-014-2036-6"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-02-15T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11852-015-0390-z", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-23T16:15:46Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-07-01", "title": "Salinization During Salt-Marsh Restoration After Managed Realignment", "description": "<p>Salt marshes provide an important and unique habitat for plants and animals. To restore salt marshes, numerous coastal realignment projects have been carried out, but restored marshes often show persistent ecological differences from natural marshes. We evaluate the effects of elevation and marsh topography, which are in turn affected by drainage and livestock grazing, on soil salinity after de-embankment. Salinity in the topsoil was monitored during the first 10 years after de-embankment and compared with salinity in an adjacent reference marsh. Additionally, salinity at greater depths (down to 1.2 m below the marsh surface) was monitored during the first 4 years by measuring the electrical conductivity of the groundwater. Chloride concentration in the top soil strongly decreased with increasing elevation; however, it was not affected by marsh topography, i.e. distance to creek or breach. Chloride concentrations higher than 2 g Cl-/litre were found at elevations below 0.6 m + MHT. Salinization of the groundwater, however, took several years. At low marsh elevations, the salinity of the deep groundwater (at 1.2 m depth) increased slowly throughout the full 4-year period of monitoring but did not reach the level of seawater. Compared to the ungrazed treatment, the grazed treatment led to lower accretion rates, lower soil-moisture content and higher chloride content of soil moisture. The de-embankment of the agricultural grasslands resulted in a rapid increase of soil salinity, although deeper ground-water levels showed a much slower response. Elevation accounted for most of the variation in the salinization of the soil. Grazing may enhance salinity of the top soil.</p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Salinity", "ARGENTINA", "Ecology", "IMPACT", "WADDEN SEA", "HALOPHYTES", "15. Life on land", "Oceanography", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "DISPERSAL", "Elevation", "SOIL-SALINITY", "Drainage", "VEGETATION", "Grazing management", "INUNDATION FREQUENCY", "ELEVATION", "NITROGEN MINERALIZATION", "Nature and Landscape Conservation"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Roos M. Veenklaas, Peter Esselink, Jan P. Bakker, E.C. Koppenaal,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11852-015-0390-z"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Coastal%20Conservation", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11852-015-0390-z", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11852-015-0390-z", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11852-015-0390-z"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-07-03T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s42729-021-00503-2", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-23T16:15:50Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-05-12", "title": "Soil Salt Accumulation, Physiological Responses, and Yield Simulation of Winter Wheat to Alternate Saline and Fresh Water Irrigation in the North China Plain", "description": "Large amounts of shallow underground water typically with salt content at around 4.7 dS m<sup>\u22121</sup> are available in the North Chain Plain (NCP), which requires managing and thus can be properly used in irrigated agriculture to relieve the increasing pressure on fresh water in this region for supplementary irrigation. Field experiments were conducted to investigate the soil salt accumulation, responses, and yield simulation of winter wheat to the alternate irrigation strategies during 2017\u20132019. Five irrigation strategies included rain-fed cultivation (NI), fresh and saline water irrigation (FS), fresh water irrigation (FF), saline water irrigation (SS), and saline and fresh water irrigation (SF) during the growth stages. Irrigation with saline water increased soil salinity level and could be balanced annually; however, the leaf gas exchange of winter wheat was almost not significantly affected. The salinity caused by saline water irrigation negatively influenced the vegetative growth. The grain yield was increased by 24% and 32% under the FS and SF treatments compared to NI, while a minor reduction by 12% and 5% in yield under these treatments was recorded compared with the FF treatment. The SALTMED model was calibrated and validated to predict yield, and the high value of the R<sup>2</sup> reflected a good agreement between modeled and observed values, indicating that the SALTMED model was able to simulate grain yield under the alternate irrigation strategies in the regional climate condition. Supplementary irrigation using saline water at the stem elongation stage and fresh water at the flowering stage is a practical solution to achieve comparable yields with low risk of salt accumulation for winter wheat particularly in the NCP.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "Salinity", "Yield", "Brackish water", "Growth", "15. Life on land", "Rain-fed", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "Model"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s42729-021-00503-2"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Soil%20Science%20and%20Plant%20Nutrition", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s42729-021-00503-2", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s42729-021-00503-2", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s42729-021-00503-2"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-05-12T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.agwat.2022.107669", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-23T16:16:07Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-04-29", "title": "Plant water deficit index-based irrigation under conditions of salinity", "description": "Project Co-ordinators: Dr. Jose Alfonso G\u00f3mez Calero (Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible (IAS-CISC), Dr. Weifeng Xu (Fujian Agriculture and Forest University, FAFU).-- Trabajo desarrollado bajo la financiaci\u00f3n del proyecto \u201cSoil Hydrology research platform underpinning innovation to manage water scarcity in European and Chinese cropping Systems\u201d (773903), coordinado por Jos\u00e9 Alfonso G\u00f3mez Calero, investigador del Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible (IAS). In arid and semi-arid regions, water scarcity and soil salinization are major factors impacting sustainable agricultural production. In this study, a macroscopic root-water-uptake model was used to adapt a plant water deficit index (PWDI) for irrigation scheduling under conditions of coexisting soil water and salinity stress-causing factors. The traditional approach, estimating PWDI with average root zone soil water and salt amounts, was improved by weighting the effects of soil water and salinity according to the normalized root length density profile. An experiment growing wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) in soil columns and an experiment growing cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) in a salinized field were implemented to explore and quantify the effects of soil water and salinity conditions on plant water status, and thus to validate the improvement and evaluate its application, by monitoring soil water and salinity dynamics and plant growth indexes (e.g., leaf area, dry weight, leaf water potential, transpiration and yield). The results indicate that, even under conditions with equal root zone averages of soil matric and osmotic potentials, plant water status might be significantly different. In general, plants were less stressed when more water and less salinity were allocated in the upper root zone with more roots while less water and more salinity occurred in the lower root zone with less roots. By referring to some information in the soil column experiment, a numerical experiment was conducted to further demonstrate the improvement. The root-weighted approach resulted in improved PWDI estimation and thus was more reliable for irrigation scheduling, leading to higher irrigation frequency and quantity, leaf area index, biomass, yield, and transpiration, without significant decrease in water productivity. However, further improvement could be possible by considering the effects of historical soil water and salinity stresses as well as meteorological conditions on plant water status. This research was supported partly by National Natural Science Foundation of China (U1706211, 51790532), Major Scientific and Technological Program of Xinjiang in China (2020A01002\u20133), and the European Union\u2019s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Project SHui (773903). Peer reviewed", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Soil salinity", "Plant water deficiency", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. 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Rapid identification of salinization in farmlands is of great significance to improve soil functions and to maintain sustainable land management. As salt moves in soil profiles during plowing and irrigation, the commonly used protocol for measuring and monitoring salt content in topsoil does not provide a thorough assessment. In order to quantify and comprehensively evaluate the salt content in deep soil, this study developed a novel framework for monitoring total salt content in the soil profile to a depth of 1 m by combining information from time-series satellite images and machine learning. The field experiments were conducted in Alar, Southern Xinjiang, with a total of 120 soil samples and 582 measurements of EM38-MK2 apparent electrical conductivity in 2019 and 2020 to quantify the vertical variation in the salt content. A total of 42 covariates derived from time-series Sentinel-2 images, including 20 salinity indices, 10 soil indices, and 12 vegetation indices were used for modeling salinity in the soil profile. From the total covariates, 22 were selected using the Random Forest. Soil salinity which was modeled using a Temporal Convolution Network in 2019 and 2020 and forecast for 2021. The model effectively revealed the spatial and temporal variability of the salt content in the soil profile with R<sup>2</sup> of 0.71 and 0.65 for 2019 and 2020, respectively. The proposed new framework provides an effective method to estimate the salt content in the soil profile for precision agriculture in arid and semi-arid regions.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Soil salinity", "Random Forest", "13. Climate action", "Time-series images", "Soil profile", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water", "Temporal Convolution Network"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2021.115656"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Geoderma", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.geoderma.2021.115656", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.geoderma.2021.115656", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.geoderma.2021.115656"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.geoderma.2022.115935", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-23T16:17:00Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-05-20", "title": "Improving remote sensing of salinity on topsoil with crop residues using novel indices of optical and microwave bands", "description": "Remote sensing indices have been proposed to characterize soil salinity. However, the sensitivity of these indicators is unstable owing to differences in geographic environment and vegetation type. This study investigated the performance of several existing indices to estimate the salinity of topsoil with residues in southern Xinjiang, China. The results showed that these indices were not satisfactory. In order to construct an index that can be used to directly indicate soil salinity in a specific area, novel salinity indices were calculated using optical bands (blue, green, red, vegetation red edge, and shortwave infrared bands) derived from Sentinel-2 multispectral data and Sentinel-1 radar data (backscattering coefficient VV, VH). To enhance the sensitivity of the optical bands, five transformation methods (logarithmic, reciprocal, first-, second-, and third-derivative) were applied to the original spectra. Based on previous studies, statistical methods were used to construct two-, three-, and four-bands indices. One constructed three-bands index with the second-derivative transformation, called the Enhanced Residues Soil Salinity Index (ERSSI), showed the highest correlation with topsoil salinity (r = 0.65 and 0.68 in training and testing). ERSSI establishes a linear relationship in soil salinity estimation with an R<sup>2</sup> of 0.53 and a LCCC of 0.65 in training dataset, with an R<sup>2</sup> of 0.51 and a LCCC of 0.73 in testing dataset. And it shows contribution in random forest regression with an R<sup>2</sup> of 0.80 and a LCCC of 0.86 in training dataset, with an R<sup>2</sup> of 0.77 and a LCCC of 0.81 in testing dataset. The ERSSI consisted of the B, G, and SWIR1 bands, and was sensitive to salinity variations in the residues remaining in farmland soils. This study provides a novel index and method for the accurate and robust assessment and mapping of salinity in farmland covered by crop residues.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Soil salinity", "Residues remained soil", "Indices constructions", "Spectral response", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Sentinel-2", "01 natural sciences", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2022.115935"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Geoderma", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.geoderma.2022.115935", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.geoderma.2022.115935", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.geoderma.2022.115935"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-09-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.pbi.2021.102120", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-23T16:17:15Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-11-30", "title": "Fighting salt or enemies: shared perception and signaling strategies", "description": "Plants react to a myriad of biotic and abiotic environmental signals through specific cellular mechanisms required for survival under stress. Although pathogen perception has been widely studied and characterized, salt stress perception and signaling remain largely elusive. Recent observations, obtained in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, show that perception of specific features of pathogens also allows plants to mount salt stress resilience pathways, highlighting the possibility that salt sensing and pathogen perception mechanisms partially overlap. We discuss these overlapping strategies and examine the emerging role of A.\u00a0thaliana cell wall and plasma membrane components in activating both salt- and pathogen-induced responses, as part of exquisite mechanisms underlying perception of damage and danger. This knowledge helps understanding the complexity of plant responses to pathogens and salinity, leading to new hypotheses that could explain why plants evolved similar strategies to respond to these, at first sight, very different types of stimuli.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "Salinity", "0303 health sciences", "Pathogen elicitors", "Arabidopsis Proteins", "Arabidopsis", "Plants", "15. Life on land", "Salt Stress", "03 medical and health sciences", "Cell wall sensing", "Plant immune responses", "Damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs)", "Gene Expression Regulation", " Plant", "Stress", " Physiological", "Perception", "Danger signals"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbi.2021.102120"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Current%20Opinion%20in%20Plant%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.pbi.2021.102120", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.pbi.2021.102120", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.pbi.2021.102120"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-12-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.plantsci.2019.110250", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-23T16:17:16Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-09-04", "title": "The influence of grafting on crops\u2019 photosynthetic performance", "description": "In a near scenario of climate change where stress-derived limitations on crops' yield by affecting plant gas-exchange are expected, grafting may become a cheap and easy technique to improve crops photosynthetic performance and water-use efficiency. Inconsistent data of the effect of rootstocks over gas-exchange can be found in literature, being necessary an integrative analysis of the effect of grafting over photosynthetic parameters. With this aim, we present a compilation of the effect of graft on the net CO2 assimilation rate (AN) and other photosynthetic parameters across different species with agronomic interest. No differences were observed in any photosynthetic parameter between non-grafted and self-grafted plants under non-stress conditions. However, differences were found depending on the used rootstock, particularly for the intrinsic water-use efficiency (WUEi). We observed that variations in AN induced by rootstocks were related to changes in both diffusive and biochemical parameters. Under drought or salt stress, different photosynthetic performances were observed depending on the rootstock, although the high variability among studies promted to remarkable results. Overall, we observed that grafting can be a useful technique to improve plant photosynthetic performance, and therefore, crop yield and WUE, and that the rootstock selection for a target environment is determinant for the variations in photosynthesis.", "keywords": ["Crops", " Agricultural", "0106 biological sciences", "0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "Salinity", "Scion", "Drought", "Water use efficiency", "Carbon Dioxide", "15. Life on land", "Plant Roots", "01 natural sciences", "Crop Production", "6. Clean water", "03 medical and health sciences", "Stress", " Physiological", "13. Climate action", "Rootstock", "Photosynthesis"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plantsci.2019.110250"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20Science", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.plantsci.2019.110250", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.plantsci.2019.110250", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.plantsci.2019.110250"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-06-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.plaphy.2019.05.023", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-23T16:17:16Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-05-29", "title": "The elemental composition of halophytes correlates with key morphological adaptations and taxonomic groups", "description": "Halophytes are crucial in the light of increasing soil salinization, yet our understanding of their chemical composition and its relationship to key morphological traits such as succulence or salt excretion is limited. This study targets this issue by exploring the relationship between the elemental composition of 108 plant species from saline environments in Iran and their eco-morphological traits and taxonomy. Leaves and/or photosynthetic shoots of individual species and soils were sampled and analyzed for 20 elements in plant samples and 5 major elements plus % gypsum content, pH, and EC in soil samples. Eu-halophytes and leaf- and stem-succulent and salt-recreting plants showed high concentrations of Na, S, and Mg and low concentrations of Ca and K. In contrast, pseudo-halophytes, facultative-halophytes and eury-hygro-halophytes, which often lack succulent shoots, showed low Na, S, and Mg and high Ca and K concentrations in their leaves. Clear patterns were identified among taxonomic families, with Chenopodiaceae and Plumbaginaceae having high Na and Mg and low Ca and K concentrations, Caryophyllaceae having high K, Poaceae having low Na, and Asteraceae, Boraginaceae, and Brassicaceae showing high foliar Ca concentrations. We conclude that the elemental composition of halophytes and pseudo-halophytes is related to salt-tolerance categories, eco-morphological types and respective taxonomic groups.", "keywords": ["Succulent halophytes", "0106 biological sciences", "0301 basic medicine", "Cytoplasm", "Salinity", "Persian Gulf", "Climate", "Chenopodiaceae", "Iran", "Plant Roots", "01 natural sciences", "Ionome", "Soil", "03 medical and health sciences", "Magnesium", "Recreting halophytes", "Ecosystem", "Phylogeny", "Geography", "Lake Urmia", "Salt-Tolerant Plants", "Hydrogen-Ion Concentration", "15. Life on land", "Adaptation", " Physiological", "Caryophyllales", "Plant Leaves", "Calcium", "Sulfur"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plaphy.2019.05.023"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20Physiology%20and%20Biochemistry", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.plaphy.2019.05.023", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.plaphy.2019.05.023", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.plaphy.2019.05.023"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-08-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152524", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-23T16:17:25Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-12-23", "title": "Use of remote sensing to evaluate the effects of environmental factors on soil salinity in a semi-arid area", "description": "The global water crisis, driven by water scarcity and water quality deterioration, is expected to continue and intensify in dry and overpopulated areas, and will play a critical role in meeting future agricultural demands. Sustainability of agriculture irrigated with low quality water will require a comprehensive approach to soil, water, and crop management consisting of site- and situation-specific preventive measures and management strategies. Other problem related with water quality deterioration is soil salinization. Around 1Bha globally are salinized and soil salinization may be accelerating for several reasons including the changing climate. The consequences of climate change on soil salinization need to be monitored and mapped and, in this sense, remote sensing has been successfully applied to soil salinity monitoring. Although many issues remain to be resolved, some as important as the imbalance between ground-based measurements and satellite data. The main objective of this paper was to determine the influence of environmental factors on salinity from natural causes, and its effect on irrigated agriculture with degraded water. The study was developed on Campo de Cartagena, an intensive water-efficient irrigated area which main fruit tree is citrus (30%), a sensible crop to salinity. Nine representative citrus farms were selected, soil samples were analysed and different remote sensing indices and sets of environmental data were applied. Despite the heterogeneity between variables found by the descriptive analysis of the data, the relationship between farms, soil salinity and environmental data showed that applied salinity spectral indices were valid to detect soil salinity in citrus trees. Also, a set of environmental characterization provided useful information to determine the variables that most influence primary salinity in crops. Although the data extracted from spatial analysis indicated that to apply soil salinity predictive models, other variables related to agricultural management practices must be incorporated.", "keywords": ["Crops", " Agricultural", "2. Zero hunger", "Agricultural", "Salinity", "550", "Degraded water", "Secondary soil salinization", "Crops", "Agriculture", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Remote sensing", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "630", "6. Clean water", "12. Responsible consumption", "Soil", "13. Climate action", "Remote Sensing Technology", "11. Sustainability", "Irrigated agriculture", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Environmental Monitoring", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152524"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Science%20of%20The%20Total%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152524", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152524", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152524"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-04-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.soilbio.2010.11.018", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-23T16:17:34Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2010-12-08", "title": "Cattle Grazing Drives Nitrogen And Carbon Cycling In A Temperate Salt Marsh", "description": "Abstract   We examined the impact of long-term cattle grazing on soil processes and microbial activity in a temperate salt marsh. Soil conditions, microbial biomass and respiration, mineralization and denitrification rates were measured in upper salt marsh that had been ungrazed or cattle grazed for several decades. Increased microbial biomass and soil respiration were observed in grazed marsh, most likely stimulated by enhanced rates of root turnover and root exudation. We found a significant positive effect of grazing on potential N mineralization rates measured in the laboratory, but this difference did not translate to  in situ  net mineralization measured monthly from May to September. Rates of denitrification were lowest in the grazed marsh and appeared to be limited by nitrate availability, possibly due to more anoxic conditions and lower rates of nitrification. The major effect of grazing on N cycling therefore appeared to be in limiting losses of N through denitrification, which may lead to enhanced nutrient availability to saltmarsh plants, but a reduced ability of the marsh to act as a buffer for land-derived nutrients to adjacent coastal areas. Additionally, we investigated if grazing influences the rates of turnover of labile and refractory C in saltmarsh soils by adding  14 C-labelled leaf litter or root exudates to soil samples and monitoring the evolution of  14 CO 2 . Grazing had little effect on the rates of mineralization of  14 C used as a respiratory substrate, but a larger proportion of  14 C was partitioned into microbial biomass and immobilized in long- and medium-term storage pools in the grazed treatment. Grazing slowed down the turnover of the microbial biomass, which resulted in longer turnover times for both leaf litter and root exudates. Grazing may therefore affect the longevity of C in the soil and alter C storage and utilization pathways in the microbial community.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "herbivory", "carbon cycling", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "salinity", "saltmarsh vegetation", "soil compaction", "13. Climate action", "nitrogen cycle", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "nitrogen mineralization"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2010.11.018"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Soil%20Biology%20and%20Biochemistry", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.soilbio.2010.11.018", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.soilbio.2010.11.018", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.soilbio.2010.11.018"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2011-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1186/s12870-018-1411-5", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-23T16:20:05Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-09-20", "title": "Root inoculation with Azotobacter chroococcum 76A enhances tomato plants adaptation to salt stress under low N conditions", "description": "The emerging roles of rhizobacteria in improving plant nutrition and stress protection have great potential for sustainable use in saline soils. We evaluated the function of the salt-tolerant strain Azotobacter chroococcum 76A as stress protectant in an important horticultural crop, tomato. Specifically we hypothesized that treatment of tomato plants with A. chroococcum 76A could improve plant performance under salinity stress and sub-optimal nutrient regimen.Inoculation of Micro Tom tomato plants with A. chroococcum 76A increased numerous growth parameters and also conferred protective effects under both moderate (50\u00a0mM NaCl) and severe (100\u00a0mM NaCl) salt stresses. These benefits were mostly observed under reduced nutrient regimen and were less appreciable in optimal nitrogen conditions. Therefore, the efficiency of A. chroococcum 76A was found to be dependent on the nutrient status of the rhizosphere. The expression profiles of LEA genes indicated that A. chroococcum 76A treated plants were more responsive to stress stimuli when compared to untreated controls. However, transcript levels of key nitrogen assimilation genes revealed that the optimal nitrogen regimen, in combination with the strain A. chroococcum 76A, may have saturated plant's ability to assimilate nitrogen.Roots inoculation with A. chroococcum 76A tomato promoted tomato plant growth, stress tolerance and nutrient assimilation efficiency under moderate and severe salinity. Inoculation with beneficial bacteria such as A. chroococcum 76A may be an ideal solution for low-input systems, where environmental constraints and limited chemical fertilization may affect the potential yield.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "Salinity", "Nitrogen", "Physiological", "Plant Science", "Plant Roots", "Tomato", "Micro tom", "03 medical and health sciences", "Solanum lycopersicum", "Gene Expression Regulation", " Plant", "Azotobacter chroococcum; Micro tom; Plant nutrition; Rhizobacteria; Salinity; Tomato; Adaptation", " Physiological; Azotobacter; Gene Expression Regulation", " Plant; Lycopersicon esculentum; Nitrogen; Plant Leaves; Plant Roots; Rhizosphere; Salt Tolerance; Symbiosis; Plant Science", "Rhizobacteria", "Adaptation", "Lycopersicon esculentum", "Plant nutrition", "Symbiosis", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "Botany", "Plant", "Salt Tolerance", "15. Life on land", "Adaptation", " Physiological", "6. Clean water", "3. Good health", "Plant Leaves", "Gene Expression Regulation", "QK1-989", "Azotobacter", "Rhizosphere", "Azotobacter chroococcum", "Research Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.iris.unina.it/bitstream/11588/728072/2/VanOosten2018_Article_RootInoculationWithAzotobacter.pdf"}, {"href": "http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s12870-018-1411-5.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-018-1411-5"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/BMC%20Plant%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1186/s12870-018-1411-5", "name": "item", "description": "10.1186/s12870-018-1411-5", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1186/s12870-018-1411-5"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-09-20T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1038/ismej.2010.3", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-23T16:18:20Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2010-02-04", "title": "Shifts In Microbial Community Structure Along An Ecological Gradient Of Hypersaline Soils And Sediments", "description": "Abstract<p>Studies of hypersaline ecosystems often yield novel organisms and contribute to our understanding of extreme environments. Soils and sediments from La Sal del Rey, a previously uncharacterized, hypersaline lake located in southern Texas, USA, were surveyed to characterize the structure and diversity of their microbial communities. Samples were collected along a transect that spanned vegetated uplands, exposed lakebed sediments, and water-logged locations, capturing a wide range of environments and physical and chemical gradients. Community quantitative PCR (qPCR) was used in combination with tag-encoded pyrosequencing, 16S rRNA gene cloning, and Sanger sequencing to characterize the lake's soil and sediment microbial communities. Further, we used multivariate statistics to identify the relationships shared between sequence diversity and heterogeneity in the soil environment. The overall microbial communities were surprisingly diverse, harboring a wide variety of taxa, and sharing significant correlations with site water content, phosphorus and total organic carbon concentrations, and pH. Some individual populations, especially of Archaea, also correlated with sodium concentration and electrical conductivity salinity. Across the transect, Bacteria were numerically dominant relative to Archaea, and among them, three phyla\uffe2\uff80\uff94the Proteobacteria, Bacteroidetes, and Firmicutes\uffe2\uff80\uff94accounted for the majority of taxa detected. Although these taxa were detected with similar abundances to those described in other hypersaline ecosystems, the greater depth of sequencing achieved here resulted in the detection of taxa not described previously in hypersaline sediments. The results of this study provide new information regarding a previously uncharacterized ecosystem and show the value of high-throughput sequencing in the study of complex ecosystems.</p>", "keywords": ["DNA", " Bacterial", "0301 basic medicine", "Geologic Sediments", "Salinity", "0303 health sciences", "Bacteria", "Genes", " rRNA", "Sequence Analysis", " DNA", "15. Life on land", "Archaea", "Polymerase Chain Reaction", "Texas", "6. Clean water", "Soil", "03 medical and health sciences", "DNA", " Archaeal", "13. Climate action", "RNA", " Ribosomal", " 16S", "Water Microbiology", "Ecosystem", "Soil Microbiology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2010.3"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/The%20ISME%20Journal", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1038/ismej.2010.3", "name": "item", "description": "10.1038/ismej.2010.3", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1038/ismej.2010.3"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2010-02-04T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1038/s41598-019-43305-4", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-23T16:18:27Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-05-03", "title": "Soil amendments with ethylene precursor alleviate negative impacts of salinity on soil microbial properties and productivity", "description": "Abstract<p>Some microbes enhance stress tolerance in plants by minimizing plant ethylene levels via degradation of its immediate precursor, 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC), in the rhizosphere. In return, ACC is used by these microbes as a source of nitrogen. This mutualistic relationship between plants and microbes may be used to promote soil properties in stressful environments. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that amendments of ACC in soils reshape the structure of soil microbiome and alleviate the negative impacts of salinity on soil properties. We treated non-saline and artificially-developed saline soils with ACC in different concentrations for 14 days. The structure of soil microbiome, soil microbial properties and productivity were examined. Our results revealed that microbial composition of bacteria, archaea and fungi in saline soils was affected by ACC amendments; whereas community composition in non-saline soils was not affected. The amendments of ACC could not fully counteract the negative effects of salinity on soil microbial activities and productivity, but increased the abundance of ACC deaminase-encoding gene (acdS), enhanced soil microbial respiration, enzymatic activity, nitrogen and carbon cycling potentials and Arabidopsis biomass in saline soils. Collectively, our study indicates that ACC amendments in soils could efficiently ameliorate salinity impacts on soil properties and plant biomass production.</p", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "570", "Salinity", "0303 health sciences", "Multidisciplinary", "soil salinization", "Fungi", "Amino Acids", " Cyclic", "Nitrogen Cycle", "15. Life on land", "630", "Article", "Carbon Cycle", "Actinobacteria", "Soil", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. Climate action", "1000 General", "XXXXXX - Unknown", "ethylene", "Carbon-Carbon Lyases", "bacteria", "soils", "Soil Microbiology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-43305-4"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Scientific%20Reports", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1038/s41598-019-43305-4", "name": "item", "description": "10.1038/s41598-019-43305-4", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1038/s41598-019-43305-4"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-05-03T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1073/pnas.2317332121", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-23T16:18:46Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2024-04-26", "title": "Negative correlation between soil salinity and soil organic carbon variability", "description": "<p>Soil organic carbon (SOC) is vital for terrestrial ecosystems, affecting biogeochemical processes, and soil health. It is known that soil salinity impacts SOC content, yet the specific direction and magnitude of SOC variability in relation to soil salinity remain poorly understood. Analyzing 43,459 mineral soil samples (SOC &lt; 150 g kg\uffe2\uff88\uff921) collected across different land covers since 1992, we approximate a soil salinity increase from 1 to 5 dS m\uffe2\uff88\uff921in croplands would be associated with a decline in mineral soils SOC from 0.14 g kg\uffe2\uff88\uff921above the mean predicted SOC (SOC\uffc2\uffafc= 18.47 g kg\uffe2\uff88\uff921) to 0.46 g kg\uffe2\uff88\uff921belowSOC\uffc2\uffafc(~\uffe2\uff88\uff92430%), while for noncroplands, such decline is sharper, from 0.96 aboveSOC\uffc2\uffafnc= 35.96 g kg\uffe2\uff88\uff921to 4.99 belowSOC\uffc2\uffafnc(~\uffe2\uff88\uff92620%). Although salinity\uffe2\uff80\uff99s significance in explaining SOC variability is minor (&lt;6%), we estimate a one SD increase in salinity of topsoil samples (0 to 7 cm) correlates with respectiveSOC\uffc2\uffafdeclines of ~4.4% and ~9.26%, relative toSOC\uffc2\uffafcandSOC\uffc2\uffafnc. TheSOC\uffc2\uffafdecline in croplands is greatest in vegetation/cropland mosaics while lands covered with evergreen needle-leaved trees are estimated with the highestSOC\uffc2\uffafdecline in noncroplands. We identify soil nitrogen, land cover, and precipitation Seasonality Index as the most significant parameters in explaining the SOC\uffe2\uff80\uff99s variability. The findings provide insights into SOC dynamics under increased soil salinity, improving understanding of SOC stock responses to land degradation and climate warming.</p", "keywords": ["570", "soil salinity", "Supplementary Data", "QH301 Biology", "500", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "environmental impact", "01 natural sciences", "soil organic carbon", "QH301", "biogeochemistry", "carbon cycle", "Physical Sciences", "SDG 13 - Climate Action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "General", "SDG 15 - Life on Land", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2317332121"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Proceedings%20of%20the%20National%20Academy%20of%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1073/pnas.2317332121", "name": "item", "description": "10.1073/pnas.2317332121", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1073/pnas.2317332121"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-04-26T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1073/pnas.2406373122", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-23T16:18:46Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2025-02-05", "title": "Abscisic acid signaling gates salt-induced responses of plant roots", "description": "<p>             Soil salinity presents a dual challenge for plants, involving both osmotic and ionic stress. In response, plants deploy distinct yet interconnected mechanisms to cope with these facets of salinity stress. In this investigation, we observed a substantial overlap in the salt (NaCl)-induced transcriptional responses of             Arabidopsis             roots with those triggered by osmotic stress or the plant stress hormone abscisic acid (ABA), as anticipated. Notably, a specific cluster of genes responded uniquely to sodium (Na             +             ) ions and are not regulated by the known monovalent cation sensing mechanism             MOCA1             . Surprisingly, expression of sodium-induced genes exhibited a negative correlation with the ABA response and preceded the activation of genes induced by the osmotic stress component of salt. Elevated exogenous ABA levels resulted in the complete abolition of sodium-induced responses. Consistently, the ABA insensitive             snrk2.2/2.3             double mutant displayed prolonged sodium-induced gene expression, coupled with increased root cell damage and root swelling under high salinity conditions. Moreover, ABA biosynthesis and signaling mutants were unable to redirect root growth to avoid high sodium concentrations and had increased sodium accumulation in the shoot. In summary, our findings unveil an unexpected and pivotal role for ABA signaling in mitigating cellular damage induced by salinity stress and modulating sodium-induced responses in plant roots.           </p", "keywords": ["Salinity", "root development", "Arabidopsis Proteins", "Sodium", "Arabidopsis", "salt signaling", "sodium stress", "Biological Sciences", "Sodium Chloride", "Plant Roots", "Salt Stress", "salinity", "abscisic acid", "Plant Growth Regulators", "Gene Expression Regulation", " Plant", "Osmotic Pressure", "Abscisic Acid", "Signal Transduction"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Jasper Lamers, Yanxia Zhang, Eva van Zelm, Cheuk Ka Leong, A. Jessica Meyer, Thijs de Zeeuw, Francel Verstappen, Mark Veen, Ayodeji O. Deolu-Ajayi, Charlotte M. M. Gommers, Christa Testerink,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2406373122"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Proceedings%20of%20the%20National%20Academy%20of%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1073/pnas.2406373122", "name": "item", "description": "10.1073/pnas.2406373122", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1073/pnas.2406373122"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2025-02-05T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1093/aob/mcac022", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-23T16:19:03Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-02-14", "title": "Plant responses to heterogeneous salinity: agronomic relevance and research priorities", "description": "Abstract                                   Background                   <p>Soil salinity, in both natural and managed environments, is highly heterogeneous, and understanding how plants respond to this spatiotemporal heterogeneity is increasingly important for sustainable agriculture in the era of global climate change. While the vast majority of research on crop response to salinity utilizes homogeneous saline conditions, a much smaller, but important, effort has been made in the past decade to understand plant molecular and physiological responses to heterogeneous salinity mainly by using split-root studies. These studies have begun to unravel how plants compensate for water/nutrient deprivation and limit salt stress by optimizing root-foraging in the most favourable parts of the soil.</p>                                                   Scope                   <p>This paper provides an overview of the patterns of salinity heterogeneity in rain-fed and irrigated systems. We then discuss results from split-root studies and the recent progress in understanding the physiological and molecular mechanisms regulating plant responses to heterogeneous root-zone salinity and nutrient conditions. We focus on mechanisms by which plants (salt/nutrient sensing, root-shoot signalling and water uptake) could optimize the use of less-saline patches within the root-zone, thereby enhancing growth under heterogeneous soil salinity conditions. Finally, we place these findings in the context of defining future research priorities, possible irrigation management and crop breeding opportunities to improve productivity from salt-affected lands.</p>", "keywords": ["Nutrient heterogeneity", "Water uptake", "Root-to-shoot signalling", "Salinity", "550", "Plant Biology & Botany", "Plant Biology", "Irrigation; nutrient heterogeneity; phytohormones; root foraging; root-to-shoot signalling; salt sensing; stomatal conductance; water uptake", "Stomatal conductance", "Salt sensing", "Plant Roots", "630", "12. Responsible consumption", "root foraging", "Soil", "Irrigation", "salt sensing", "Root foraging", "580", "2. Zero hunger", "Ecology", "Forestry Sciences", "Research", "nutrient heterogeneity", "Water", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water", "root-to-shoot signalling", "phytohormones", "Phytohormones", "stomatal conductance", "13. Climate action", "Zero Hunger", "water uptake"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/166913/1/21783_2_merged_1643798007.pdf"}, {"href": "https://academic.oup.com/aob/article-pdf/129/5/499/43374309/mcac022.pdf"}, {"href": "https://escholarship.org/content/qt7t32v7cc/qt7t32v7cc.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcac022"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Annals%20of%20Botany", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1093/aob/mcac022", "name": "item", "description": "10.1093/aob/mcac022", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1093/aob/mcac022"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-02-16T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1093/plcell/koad317", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-23T16:19:06Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-12-24", "title": "Root branching under high salinity requires auxin-independent modulation of LATERAL ORGAN BOUNDARY DOMAIN 16 function", "description": "Abstract                <p>Salinity stress constrains lateral root (LR) growth and severely affects plant growth. Auxin signaling regulates LR formation, but the molecular mechanism by which salinity affects root auxin signaling and whether salt induces other pathways that regulate LR development remains unknown. In Arabidopsis thaliana, the auxin-regulated transcription factor LATERAL ORGAN BOUNDARY DOMAIN 16 (LBD16) is an essential player in LR development under control conditions. Here, we show that under high-salt conditions, an alternative pathway regulates LBD16 expression. Salt represses auxin signaling but, in parallel, activates ZINC FINGER OF ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA 6 (ZAT6), a transcriptional activator of LBD16. ZAT6 activates LBD16 expression, thus contributing to downstream cell wall remodeling and promoting LR development under high-salt conditions. Our study thus shows that the integration of auxin-dependent repressive and salt-activated auxin-independent pathways converging on LBD16 modulates root branching under high-salt conditions.</p", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "Salinity", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "Indoleacetic Acids", "Arabidopsis Proteins", "Gene Expression Regulation", " Plant", "Arabidopsis", "Life Science", "Plant Roots", "Research Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad317"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/The%20Plant%20Cell", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1093/plcell/koad317", "name": "item", "description": "10.1093/plcell/koad317", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1093/plcell/koad317"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-12-23T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1093/plcell/koae135", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-23T16:19:06Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2024-05-01", "title": "Arabinosylation of cell wall extensin is required for the directional response to salinity in roots", "description": "Abstract                <p>Soil salinity is a major contributor to crop yield losses. To improve our understanding of root responses to salinity, we developed and exploited a real-time salt-induced tilting assay. This assay follows root growth upon both gravitropic and salt challenges, revealing that root bending upon tilting is modulated by Na+ ions, but not by osmotic stress. Next, we measured this salt-specific response in 345 natural Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) accessions and discovered a genetic locus, encoding the cell wall-modifying enzyme EXTENSIN ARABINOSE DEFICIENT TRANSFERASE (ExAD) that is associated with root bending in the presence of NaCl (hereafter salt). Extensins are a class of structural cell wall glycoproteins known as hydroxyproline (Hyp)-rich glycoproteins, which are posttranslationally modified by O-glycosylation, mostly involving Hyp-arabinosylation. We show that salt-induced ExAD-dependent Hyp-arabinosylation influences root bending responses and cell wall thickness. Roots of exad1 mutant seedlings, which lack Hyp-arabinosylation of extensin, displayed increased thickness of root epidermal cell walls and greater cell wall porosity. They also showed altered gravitropic root bending in salt conditions and a reduced salt-avoidance response. Our results suggest that extensin modification via Hyp-arabinosylation is a unique salt-specific cellular process required for the directional response of roots exposed to salinity.</p", "keywords": ["580", "0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "570", "Salinity", "0303 health sciences", "Glycosylation", "Arabidopsis Proteins", "Arabidopsis", "Breakthrough Report", "Sodium Chloride", "15. Life on land", "Plant Roots", "Arabinose", "Gravitropism", "03 medical and health sciences", "Cell Wall", "Gene Expression Regulation", " Plant", "Life Science", "Glycoproteins", "Plant Proteins"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://academic.oup.com/plcell/article-pdf/36/9/3328/59006321/koae135.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koae135"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/The%20Plant%20Cell", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1093/plcell/koae135", "name": "item", "description": "10.1093/plcell/koae135", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1093/plcell/koae135"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-05-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1101/2023.01.27.525841", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-23T16:19:12Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-01-29", "title": "Natural variation in salt-induced root growth phases and their contribution to root architecture plasticity", "description": "Abstract<p>During salt stress, the root system architecture of a plant is important for survival. Different accessions ofArabidopsis thalianahave adopted different strategies in remodeling their root architecture during salt stress. Salt induces a multiphase growth response in roots, consisting of a stop phase, quiescent phase, recovery phase and eventually a new level of homeostasis. We explored natural variation in the length of and growth rate during these phases in both main and lateral roots and find that some accessions lack the quiescent phase. Using mathematical models and correlation-based network, allowed us to correlate dynamic traits to overall root architecture and discover that both the main root growth rate during homeostasis and lateral root appearance are the strongest determinants of overall root architecture. In addition, this approach revealed a trade-off between investing in main or lateral root length during salt stress. By studying natural variation in high-resolution temporal root growth using mathematical modeling, we gained new insights in the interactions between dynamic root growth traits and we identified key traits that modulate overall root architecture during salt stress.</p>Summary statement<p>By studying natural variation in salt-induced root growth phases inArabidopsis, we show that main root growth rate during homeostasis and lateral root appearance contribute most to root architecture and we reveal a trade-off between investing in main and lateral root growth during salt stress.</p", "keywords": ["Phenotype", "Arabidopsis thaliana", "root growth", "Arabidopsis", "15. Life on land", "Plant Roots", "Salt Stress", "salinity", "trade-off"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/pce.14583"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.27.525841"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%2C%20Cell%20%26amp%3B%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1101/2023.01.27.525841", "name": "item", "description": "10.1101/2023.01.27.525841", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1101/2023.01.27.525841"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-01-28T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/avsc.12195", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-23T16:19:20Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-08-21", "title": "What Factors Determined Restoration Success Of A Salt Marsh Ten Years After De-Embankment?", "description": "AbstractQuestions<p>How successful was the restoration of a salt marsh at a former summer polder on the mainland coast of the Dutch Wadden Sea 10\uffc2\uffa0yr after de\uffe2\uff80\uff90embankment? What were the most important factors determining the level of restoration success?</p>Location<p>Noard\uffe2\uff80\uff90Frysl\uffc3\uffa2n B\uffc3\uffbbtendyks, northwest Netherlands.</p>Methods<p>The frequencies of target plant species were recorded before de\uffe2\uff80\uff90embankment and monitored thereafter (1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 10\uffc2\uffa0yr later) using permanent transects. Vegetation change was monitored using repeated mapping 14\uffc2\uffa0yr before and 1, 7 and 10\uffc2\uffa0yr after de\uffe2\uff80\uff90embankment. A large\uffe2\uff80\uff90scale factorial experiment with 72 sampling plots was set up to determine the effects of distance to a breach point, distance to a creek and grazing treatment on species composition. Abiotic data were also collected from the permanent transects and sampling plots on elevation, soil salinity and redox potential.</p>Results<p>Ten years after de\uffe2\uff80\uff90embankment, permanent transect data showed that 78% to 96% of the target species were found at the restoration site. Vegetation mapping, however, showed that the diversity of salt marsh communities was low, with 50% of the site covered by the secondary pioneer marsh community. A multivariate analogue of ANOVA indicated that the most important experimental factor determining species composition was the interaction between distance to the nearest creek and livestock grazing. The combination of proximity to a creek and exclusion from livestock grazing always resulted in development of the high marsh community. In contrast, the combination of being located far from a creek, grazed and situated at low elevation with accompanying high salinity resulted in development of the secondary pioneer marsh community.</p>Conclusions<p>Using target species as criteria, restoration success could be claimed 10\uffc2\uffa0yr after de\uffe2\uff80\uff90embankment. However, the diversity of communities in the salt marsh was lower than desired. Variable grazing regimes should be applied to high\uffe2\uff80\uff90elevation areas to prevent dominance by single species of tall grasses and to promote formation of vegetation mosaics. Low\uffe2\uff80\uff90elevation areas need lower grazing pressure. Also, an adequate soil drainage network should be preserved or constructed in low\uffe2\uff80\uff90elevation areas before de\uffe2\uff80\uff90embankment.</p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "Salinity", "LAND", "Managed realignment", "Artificial saltmarsh", "NETHERLANDS", "Soil redox", "WADDEN SEA", "Soil drainage", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "Long-term study", "COLONIZATION", "Grazing", "Halophytes", "Elevation", "14. Life underwater", "MANAGED REALIGNMENT", "ELEVATION", "SCALE"], "contacts": [{"organization": "R.M. Veeneklaas, Petra Daniels, Jan P. Bakker, E. R. Chang, Peter Esselink,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12195"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Applied%20Vegetation%20Science", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/avsc.12195", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/avsc.12195", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/avsc.12195"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-08-20T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/ele.12954", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-23T16:19:24Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-08-01", "title": "Opposing effects of floral visitors and soil conditions on the determinants of competitive outcomes maintain species diversity in heterogeneous landscapes", "description": "<p>Theory argues that both soil conditions and aboveground trophic interactions are equally important for determining plant species diversity. However, it remains unexplored how they modify the niche differences that stabilise species coexistence and the average fitness differences driving competitive dominance. We conducted a field study in Mediterranean annual grasslands to parameterise population models of six competing plant species. Spatially explicit floral visitor assemblages and soil salinity variation were characterized for each species. Both floral visitors and soil salinity modified species population dynamics via direct changes in seed production and indirect changes in competitive responses. Although the magnitude and sign of these changes were species specific, floral visitors promoted coexistence at neighbourhood scales while soil salinity did so over larger scales by changing the superior competitor's identity. Our results show how below and aboveground interactions maintain diversity in heterogeneous landscapes through their opposing effects on the determinants of competitive outcomes.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Salinity", "Community assembly", "Pollinators", "Spatial structure", "Population Dynamics", "Plants", "15. Life on land", "Soil", "Multitrophic interactions", "Mutualism", "13. Climate action", "Fitness", "Niche", "Seeds", "Coexistence", "Demography"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/170423v1.full.pdf"}, {"href": "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ele.12954"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12954"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecology%20Letters", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/ele.12954", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/ele.12954", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/ele.12954"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2017-07-31T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/nph.18873", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-23T16:19:50Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-03-13", "title": "Effective root responses to salinity stress include maintained cell expansion and carbon allocation", "description": "Summary<p><p>Acclimation of root growth is vital for plants to survive salt stress. Halophytes are great examples of plants that thrive even under severe salinity, but their salt tolerance mechanisms, especially those mediated by root responses, are still largely unknown.</p><p>We compared root growth responses of the halophyteSchrenkiella parvulawith its glycophytic relative speciesArabidopsis thalianaunder salt stress and performed transcriptomic analysis ofS.\uffc2\uffa0parvularoots to identify possible gene regulatory networks underlying their physiological responses.</p><p>Schrenkiella parvularoots do not avoid salt and experience less growth inhibition under salt stress. Salt\uffe2\uff80\uff90induced abscisic acid levels were higher inS.\uffc2\uffa0parvularoots compared with Arabidopsis. Root transcriptomic analysis ofS.\uffc2\uffa0parvularevealed the induction of sugar transporters and genes regulating cell expansion and suberization under salt stress.14C\uffe2\uff80\uff90labeled carbon partitioning analyses showed thatS.\uffc2\uffa0parvulacontinued allocating carbon to roots from shoots under salt stress while carbon barely allocated to Arabidopsis roots. Further physiological investigation revealed thatS.\uffc2\uffa0parvularoots maintained root cell expansion and enhanced suberization under severe salt stress.</p><p>In summary, roots ofS.\uffc2\uffa0parvuladeploy multiple physiological and developmental adjustments under salt stress to maintain growth, providing new avenues to improve salt tolerance of plants using root\uffe2\uff80\uff90specific strategies.</p></p", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Salinity", "root growth", "halophytes", "Arabidopsis", "Salt-Tolerant Plants", "Salt Tolerance", "15. Life on land", "Plant Roots", "Carbon", "Stress", " Physiological", "Gene Expression Regulation", " Plant", "Brassicaceae", "carbon partitioning", "carbon partitioning; cell expansion; halophytes; root growth; salt stress; Schrenkiella parvula", "cell expansion", "Schrenkiella parvula", "salt stress"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/nph.18873"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18873"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/New%20Phytologist", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/nph.18873", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/nph.18873", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/nph.18873"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-03-29T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/pce.14205", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-23T16:19:51Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-10-30", "title": "Root dynamic growth strategies in response to salinity", "description": "Abstract<p>Increasing soil salinization largely impacts crop yield worldwide. To deal with salinity stress, plants exhibit an array of responses, including root system architecture remodelling. Here, we review recent progress in physiological, developmental and cellular mechanisms of root growth responses to salinity. Most recent research in modulation of root branching, root tropisms, as well as in root cell wall modifications under salinity stress, is discussed in the context of the contribution of these responses to overall plant performance. We highlight the power of natural variation approaches revealing novel potential pathways responsible for differences in root salt stress responses. Together, these new findings promote our understanding of how salt shapes the root phenotype, which may provide potential avenues for engineering crops with better yield and survival in saline soils.</p", "keywords": ["Crops", " Agricultural", "0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "Salinity", "0303 health sciences", "growth", "Special Issue Reviews", "Salt Tolerance", "15. Life on land", "Plant Roots", "gravitropism", "salinity", "Soil", "03 medical and health sciences", "genome-wide association studies (GWAS)", "development"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/pce.14205"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.14205"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%2C%20Cell%20%26amp%3B%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/pce.14205", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/pce.14205", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/pce.14205"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-11-17T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/sum.12176", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-23T16:19:52Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-03-04", "title": "Impact Of Cattle Grazing On Temperate Coastal Salt Marsh Soils", "description": "Abstract<p>Over the last two decades, grazing intensity has increased in the temperate salt marshes of Samboromb\uffc3\uffb3n Bay (Argentina) due to agricultural expansion and the displacement of domestic livestock to these areas. We investigated the effect of cattle grazing on soil chemical and physical properties in the higher (HE), medium (ME) and lower (LE) elevation levels of this temperate salt marsh. Soil data were collected from both a National Park, where cattle grazing has been excluded for more than 35\uffc2\uffa0yrs, and an adjacent commercial livestock farm continuously grazed by cattle. We found that soil salinity was greater on the grazed than on the ungrazed sites, especially those in theMEandLE. This could be related to the upward flow of salts from the saline groundwater, driven by the increase in the proportion of bare soil on grazed sites. The increase in soil salinity changed the plant community structure through the increase of salt\uffe2\uff80\uff90tolerant and non\uffe2\uff80\uff90palatable species and the decrease of palatable species. Soil physical variables (soil bulk density and soil bearing capacity) were also higher on the grazed than on the ungrazed sites, which can be related to the decrease in soil organic matter (SOM), and suggest an incipient compaction process; however, the values were still lower than those considered critical for plant growth in clay soils. These results suggest that continuous grazing management in this temperate salt marsh might have negative consequences for animal production and ecosystem conservation, mainly related to the increased soil salinity. Further research will be necessary to evaluate the suitability of switching to intermittent grazing management.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Salinity", "Bearing Capacity", "Compaction", "Cattle Grazing", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/4.5", "13. Climate action", "Salt Marsh Soils", "Soil Bulk Density", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/4", "14. Life underwater"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/sum.12176"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Soil%20Use%20and%20Management", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/sum.12176", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/sum.12176", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/sum.12176"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-03-04T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/j.1475-2743.2004.tb00395.x", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-23T16:19:43Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2010-08-06", "title": "Impact Of Pig Slurry On Soil Properties, Water Salinization, Nitrate Leaching And Crop Yield In A Four-Year Experiment In Central Spain", "description": "<p>Abstract.  The repeated application of pig slurry to agricultural soils may result in an accumulation of salts and a risk of aquifer pollution due to nitrate leaching and salinization. Under Mediterranean conditions, a field experiment on a sandy loam soil (Typic Xerofluvent) was performed with maize (Zea mays) in 1998, 1999 and 2001 to study the effects of applying optimal (P1) and excessive rates (P3) of pig slurry on soil salinization, nitrate leaching and groundwater pollution. The rate of pig slurry was established considering the optimal N rate for maize in this soil (170, 162 and 176 kg N ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921 for 1998, 1999 and 2001, respectively). Pig slurry treatments were compared to an optimal N rate supplied as urea (U) and a control treatment without N fertilizer (P0). The composition of the slurries showed great variability between years. Mean NO3\uffe2\uff88\uff92 leaching losses from 1998 to 2001 were 329, 215, 173 and 78 kg N ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921 for P3, P1, U and P0 treatments, respectively. The amount of total dissolved salts (TDS) added to the soil in slurry application between 1998 and 2001 was 2019 kg TDS ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921 for the P1 treatment and 6058 kg TDS ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921 for the P3 treatment. As a consequence, the electrical conductivity (EC) of the slurry\uffe2\uff80\uff90treated soils was greater than that of the control soil. The EC correlated significantly with the sodium concentration of the soil solution. Over the entire experimental period, 2653, 2202 and 2110 kg Na ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921 entered the aquifer from the P3, P1 and P0 treatments, respectively. The P3 treatment did not significantly increase grain production in 1999 and 2001 compared with that achieved with the optimal N rate treatment (P1). This behaviour shows the importance of establishing application guidelines for pig slurry that will reduce the risk of soil and groundwater pollution.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Soil salinity", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Nitrate", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "Maize", "13. Climate action", "Leaching", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Aquifer pollution", "Irrigation", "Pig slurry", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-2743.2004.tb00395.x"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Soil%20Use%20and%20Management", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/j.1475-2743.2004.tb00395.x", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/j.1475-2743.2004.tb00395.x", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/j.1475-2743.2004.tb00395.x"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2004-12-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/j.1747-0765.2008.00330.x", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-23T16:19:46Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2009-01-29", "title": "Salinity And Organic Amendment Effects On Methane Emission From A Rain-Fed Saline Paddy Field", "description": "Abstract Organic amendment is a traditional practice for rehabilitating saline patches in north-east Thailand, but organic matter is known to enhance methane emission. However, a high degree of salinity might mitigate methane emission. The objective of the present study was to quantify the effects of salinity and organic amendments on methane emission from rain-fed paddy fields exposed to increasing salinity. A paddy field on a salt-affected Typic Natraqualfs was selected. Eighteen experimental plots were located in two randomized complete block designs placed inside and outside a saline patch. Each design of nine plots presented three replicates of two different organic amendments and a control treatment without organic amendment. During the rainy season the soil electrical conductivity, measured with an electromagnetic conductivity meter (ECEM), was greater than 300\u00a0mS\u00a0m\u22121 inside the saline patch, whereas outside the saline patch the values were lower than 200\u00a0mS\u00a0m\u22121. Rice straw (6.25\u00a0t\u00a0ha\u22121) and cow ma...", "keywords": ["[SDE] Environmental Sciences", "soil salinity", "550", "[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]", "north-east Thailand", "methane emission", "NORTH-EAST THAILAND", "saline paddy", "SOIL SALINITY", "630", "soil", "METHANE", "METHANE EMISSION", "ORGANIC AMENDMENTS", "2. Zero hunger", "SALINE PADDY SOIL", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water", "[SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio]", "organic amendments", "13. Climate action", "[SDE]Environmental Sciences", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "RIZ"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-0765.2008.00330.x"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Soil%20Science%20and%20Plant%20Nutrition", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/j.1747-0765.2008.00330.x", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/j.1747-0765.2008.00330.x", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/j.1747-0765.2008.00330.x"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2009-02-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/agronomy10081169", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-23T16:21:37Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-08-10", "title": "Adaptation to Water and Salt Stresses of Solanum pimpinellifolium and Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme", "description": "<p>Solanum pimpinellifolium and Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme represent a valuable tool for tomato breeding, particularly for tolerance to abiotic stresses. Water stress and salinity are major constraints to tomato\uffe2\uff80\uff99s cultivation, and for which limited genetic variability has been reported within the cultivated species. We evaluated four accessions of S. pimpinellifolium and four of S. l. var. cerasiforme for their adaptation to water deficit and salinity. The CO2 assimilation rate, stomatal conductance, substomatal CO2 concentration, transpiration rate, and leaf chlorophyll concentration were evaluated, as well as morphological and agronomic traits. The accessions showed a remarkable inter- and intra-species response variability to both stresses. Two S. pimpinellifolium accessions and one S. l. var. cerasiforme showed unaltered physiological parameters, thus indicating a good adaptation to water deficit. Two S. l. var. cerasiforme accessions showed an interesting performance under salt stress, one of which showing also good adaptation to water stress. In general, both stresses showed a negative impact on leaf size and fruit fresh weight, especially in the big-sized fruits. However, flowering, fruit setting and earliness remained unaltered or even improved when compared to control conditions. Stressed plants yielded fruits with higher \uffc2\uffb0 Brix. Response to stresses seemed to be linked to origin environmental conditions, notwithstanding, variability was observed among accessions of the same region.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "Salinity", "abiotic stress", "phenotyping", "S", "Soil Plant Analysis Development (SPAD) chlorophyll measurement", "Agriculture", "gas exchange", "15. Life on land", "F06 Irrigation", "Abiotic stress", "6. Clean water", "salinity", "Tomato wild relatives", "tomato wild relatives", "GENETICA", "03 medical and health sciences", "Phenotyping", "Gas exchange", "F40 Plant ecology", "Water deficit", "water deficit"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Mart\u00ednez-Cuenca, Mary-Rus, Pereira-D\u00edas, Leandro, Soler Aleixandre, Salvador, L\u00f3pez-Serrano, Lidia, Alonso-Mart\u00edn, David, Calatayud, \u00c1ngeles, D\u00edez, Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/10/8/1169/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/10/8/1169/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10081169"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agronomy", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/agronomy10081169", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/agronomy10081169", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/agronomy10081169"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-08-10T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/agronomy9060295", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-23T16:21:39Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-06-07", "title": "A Review of Soil-Improving Cropping Systems for Soil Salinization", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>A major challenge of the Sustainable Development Goals linked to Agriculture, Food Security, and Nutrition, under the current global crop production paradigm, is that increasing crop yields often have negative environmental impacts. It is therefore urgent to develop and adopt optimal soil-improving cropping systems (SICS) that can allow us to decouple these system parameters. Soil salinization is a major environmental hazard that limits agricultural potential and is closely linked to agricultural mismanagement and water resources overexploitation, especially in arid climates. Here we review literature seeking to ameliorate the negative effect of soil salinization on crop productivity and conduct a global meta-analysis of 128 paired soil quality and yield observations from 30 studies. In this regard, we compared the effectivity of different SICS that aim to cope with soil salinization across 11 countries, in order to reveal those that are the most promising. The analysis shows that besides case-specific optimization of irrigation and drainage management, combinations of soil amendments, conditioners, and residue management can contribute to significant reductions of soil salinity while significantly increasing crop yields. These results highlight that conservation agriculture can also achieve the higher yields required for upscaling and sustaining crop production.</p></article>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "S", "Agriculture", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "salinity tolerance", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "12. Responsible consumption", "irrigation management", "crop rotation", "nutrient management", "13. Climate action", "11. Sustainability", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "soil improving crop systems; irrigation management; nutrient management;", "soil management", "soil improving crop systems"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/9/6/295/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy9060295"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agronomy", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/agronomy9060295", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/agronomy9060295", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/agronomy9060295"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-06-06T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1146/annurev-arplant-050718-100005", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-23T16:20:01Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-03-13", "title": "Salt Tolerance Mechanisms of Plants", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Crop loss due to soil salinization is an increasing threat to agriculture worldwide. This review provides an overview of cellular and physiological mechanisms in plant responses to salt. We place cellular responses in a time- and tissue-dependent context in order to link them to observed phases in growth rate that occur in response to stress. Recent advances in phenotyping can now functionally or genetically link cellular signaling responses, ion transport, water management, and gene expression to growth, development, and survival. Halophytes, which are naturally salt-tolerant plants, are highlighted as success stories to learn from. We emphasize that ( a) filling the major knowledge gaps in salt-induced signaling pathways, ( b) increasing the spatial and temporal resolution of our knowledge of salt stress responses, ( c) discovering and considering crop-specific responses, and ( d) including halophytes in our comparative studies are all essential in order to take our approaches to increasing crop yields in saline soils to the next level.</p></article>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "Salinity", "0303 health sciences", "Agriculture", "Salt-Tolerant Plants", "Salt Tolerance", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water", "salinity", "ionic stress", "Soil", "03 medical and health sciences", "ABA", "developmental plasticity", "osmotic stress", "auxin"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-arplant-050718-100005"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-arplant-050718-100005"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Annual%20Review%20of%20Plant%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1146/annurev-arplant-050718-100005", "name": "item", "description": "10.1146/annurev-arplant-050718-100005", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1146/annurev-arplant-050718-100005"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-04-29T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1242/dev.200363", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-23T16:20:07Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-05-16", "title": "Arabidopsis root responses to salinity depend on pectin modification and cell wall sensing", "description": "ABSTRACT                <p>Owing to its detrimental effect on plant growth, salinity is an increasing worldwide problem for agriculture. To understand the molecular mechanisms activated in response to salt in Arabidopsis thaliana, we investigated the Catharanthus roseus receptor-like kinase 1-like family, which contains sensors that were previously shown to be involved in sensing the structural integrity of the cell walls. We found that herk1 the1-4 double mutants, lacking the function of HERKULES1 (HERK1) and combined with a gain-of-function allele of THESEUS1 (THE1), strongly respond to salt application, resulting in an intense activation of stress responses, similarly to plants lacking FERONIA (FER) function. We report that salt triggers pectin methyl esterase (PME) activation and show its requirement for the activation of several salt-dependent responses. Because chemical inhibition of PMEs alleviates these salt-induced responses, we hypothesize a model in which salt directly leads to cell wall modifications through the activation of PMEs. Responses to salt partly require the functionality of FER alone or HERK1/THE1 to attenuate salt effects, highlighting the complexity of the salt-sensing mechanisms that rely on cell wall integrity.</p", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Salinity", "Catharanthus roseus", "Arabidopsis Proteins", "Receptor-like kinase 1 like", "Arabidopsis", "15. Life on land", "Pectin modifications", "Cell wall integrity", "Cell Wall", "Gene Expression Regulation", " Plant", "Salt stress responses", "Plant cell wall signaling", "Pectins", "Research Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.200363"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Development", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1242/dev.200363", "name": "item", "description": "10.1242/dev.200363", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1242/dev.200363"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-12-20T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/rs12244118", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-23T16:21:51Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-12-17", "title": "Integrating Remote Sensing and Landscape Characteristics to Estimate Soil Salinity Using Machine Learning Methods: A Case Study from Southern Xinjiang, China", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Soil salinization, one of the most severe global land degradation problems, leads to the loss of arable land and declines in crop yields. Monitoring the distribution of salinized soil and degree of salinization is critical for management, remediation, and utilization of salinized soil; however, there is a lack of thorough assessment of various data sources including remote sensing and landscape characteristics for estimating soil salinity in arid and semi-arid areas. The overall goal of this study was to develop a framework for estimating soil salinity in diverse landscapes by fusing information from satellite images, landscape characteristics, and appropriate machine learning models. To explore the spatial distribution of soil salinity in southern Xinjiang, China, as a case study, we obtained 151 soil samples in a field campaign, which were analyzed in laboratory for soil electrical conductivity. A total of 35 indices including remote sensing classifiers (11), terrain attributes (3), vegetation spectral indices (8), and salinity spectral indices (13) were calculated or derived and correlated with soil salinity. Nine were used to model and estimate soil salinity using four predictive modelling approaches: partial least squares regression (PLSR), convolutional neural network (CNN), support vector machine (SVM) learning, and random forest (RF). Testing datasets were divided into vegetation-covered and bare soil samples and were used for accuracy assessment. The RF model was the best regression model in this study, with R2 = 0.75, and was most effective in revealing the spatial characteristics of salt distribution. Importance analysis and path modeling of independent variables indicated that environmental factors and soil salinity indices including digital elevation model (DEM), B10, and green atmospherically resistant vegetation index (GARI) showed the strongest contribution in soil salinity estimation. This showed a great promise in the measurement and monitoring of soil salinity in arid and semi-arid areas from the integration of remote sensing, landscape characteristics, and using machine learning model.</p></article>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "soil salinity; remote sensing; machine learning; predictive mapping", "soil salinity", "remote sensing", "machine learning", "13. Climate action", "Science", "Q", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "predictive mapping", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "6. 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The goal of this study is to evaluate how afforestation affects mineral soil quality, including pH, sodium, exchangeable cations, organic carbon, and nitrogen, and to examine the magnitude of these changes regionally where afforestation rates are high. We also examine potential mechanisms to reduce the impacts of afforestation on soils and to maintain long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term productivity.</p><p>Across diverse plantation types (153 sites) to a depth of 30 cm of mineral soil, we observed significant decreases in nutrient cations (Ca, K, Mg), increases in sodium (Na), or both with afforestation. Across the data set, afforestation reduced soil concentrations of the macronutrient Ca by 29% on average (P&lt; 0.05). Afforestation byPinusalone decreased soil K by 23% (P&lt; 0.05). Overall, plantations of all genera also led to a mean 71% increase of soil Na (P&lt; 0.05). Mean pH decreased 0.3 units (P&lt; 0.05) with afforestation.</p><p>Afforestation caused a 6.7% and 15% (P&lt; 0.05) decrease in soil C and N content respectively, though the effect was driven principally byPinusplantations (15% and 20% decrease,P&lt; 0.05). Carbon to nitrogen ratios in soils under plantations were 5.7\uffe2\uff80\uff9311.6% higher (P&lt; 0.05). In several regions with high rates of afforestation, cumulative losses of N, Ca, and Mg are likely in the range of tens of millions of metric tons. The decreases indicate that trees take up considerable amounts of nutrients from soils; harvesting this biomass repeatedly could impair long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term soil fertility and productivity in some locations. Based on this study and a review of other literature, we suggest that proper site preparation and sustainable harvest practices, such as avoiding the removal or burning of harvest residue, could minimize the impact of afforestation on soils. These sustainable practices would in turn slow soil compaction, erosion, and organic matter loss, maintaining soil fertility to the greatest extent possible.</p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "Nitrogen", "Microbiology", "01 natural sciences", "333", "salinity", "Trees", "12. Responsible consumption", "acidification", "Soil", "SOIL NUTRIENTS", "afforestation", "SALINITY", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/4.1", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/4", "soil carbon", "Biology", "BASE CATIONS", "Ecosystem", "2. Zero hunger", "Environmental Microbiology and Microbial Ecology", "Forestry", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Hydrogen-Ion Concentration", "15. Life on land", "Carbon", "sustainable harvest", "13. 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For this purpose, three distinct radar-based disaggregation methods are tested by linking the spatio-temporal variability of \uffcf\uff83\uffc2\uffb0 and soil moisture data at the 1 km and 100 m resolution. The three methods are: (1) the weight method, which estimates soil moisture at 100 m resolution at a certain time as a function of \uffcf\uff83\uffc2\uffb0 ratio (100 m to 1 km resolution) and the 1 km DISPATCH products of the same time; (2) the regression method which estimates soil moisture as a function of \uffcf\uff83\uffc2\uffb0 where the regression parameters (e.g., intercept and slope) vary in space and time; and (3) the Cumulative Distribution Function (CDF) method, which estimates 100 m resolution soil moisture from the cumulative probability of 100 m resolution backscatter and the maximum to minimum 1 km resolution (DISPATCH) soil moisture difference. In each case, disaggregation results are evaluated against in situ measurements collected between 1 January 2016 and 11 October 2016 over a bare soil site in central Morocco. The determination coefficient (R2) between 1 km resolution DISPATCH and localized in situ soil moisture is 0.31. The regression and CDF methods have marginal effect on improving the DISPATCH accuracy at the station scale with a R2 between remotely sensed and in situ soil moisture of 0.29 and 0.34, respectively. By contrast, the weight method significantly improves the correlation between remotely sensed and in situ soil moisture with a R2 of 0.52. Likewise, the soil moisture estimates show low root mean square difference with in situ measurements (RMSD= 0.032 m3 m\uffe2\uff88\uff923).</p>", "keywords": ["soil moisture and ocean salinity satellite (SMOS)", "Atmospheric Science", "Artificial intelligence", "Environmental Engineering", "550", "Science", "Soil Moisture", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "Aerospace Engineering", "FOS: Mechanical engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "01 natural sciences", "Environmental science", "[SDU] Sciences of the Universe [physics]", "Engineering", "Meteorology", "DISPATCH", "Image resolution", "Arctic Permafrost Dynamics and Climate Change", "14. 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The data refers to soil properties of 63 soil samples collected at a depth of 0-20 cm, considering a regular sampling grid, in four fields with varying soil salinity (field areas between 2 and 34 ha). The samples were collected at a period when the soil was bare, following the harvest of the annual crops, and pictures of the soil surface were taken for eventual correction of corresponding remote sensing imaging. The data includes: soil organic carbon (SOC) (Walkley-Black method), soil water content, electric conductivity of the saturated soil paste (ECe), EC1:5, and \u00a0pH1:5.\u00a0 The data may be representative of the soil conditions of the area, which is a highly productive agricultural low land, prone to the development of soil salinity as a result of the rise of saline groundwater and/or irrigation. The data can be used to establish relations between soil salinity (ECe) and other soil properties as well as build prediction models of the soil properties from remote sensing namely, for developing models for SOC prediction under the STEROPES project (WP5 (WP5-T3) and WP2 (WP2-T3)).The aim of the collected dataset was to be able to analyze the influence of soil salinity in SOC prediction from remote sensing. Data in the form of MS Excel files (xlsx), pictures of the soil surface in jpg. format.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "soil organic carbon", "Soil salinity", "STEROPES", "EJPSOIL", "15. Life on land"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Paz, A. 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The data refers to soil properties of 63 soil samples collected at a depth of 0-20 cm, considering a regular sampling grid, in four fields with varying soil salinity (field areas between 2 and 34 ha). The samples were collected at a period when the soil was bare, following the harvest of the annual crops, and pictures of the soil surface were taken for eventual correction of corresponding remote sensing imaging. The data includes: soil organic carbon (SOC) (Walkley-Black method), soil water content, electric conductivity of the saturated soil paste (ECe), EC1:5, and \u00a0pH1:5.\u00a0 The data may be representative of the soil conditions of the area, which is a highly productive agricultural low land, prone to the development of soil salinity as a result of the rise of saline groundwater and/or irrigation. The data can be used to establish relations between soil salinity (ECe) and other soil properties as well as build prediction models of the soil properties from remote sensing namely, for developing models for SOC prediction under the STEROPES project (WP5 (WP5-T3) and WP2 (WP2-T3)).The aim of the collected dataset was to be able to analyze the influence of soil salinity in SOC prediction from remote sensing. Data in the form of MS Excel files (xlsx), pictures of the soil surface in jpg. format.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "soil organic carbon", "Soil salinity", "STEROPES", "EJPSOIL", "15. Life on land"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Paz, A. M., Farzamian, M., Antunes, Jo\u00e3o,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10118120"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5281/zenodo.10118120", "name": "item", "description": "10.5281/zenodo.10118120", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5281/zenodo.10118120"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-11-13T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "2951831759", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-23T16:27:01Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-06-07", "title": "A Review of Soil-Improving Cropping Systems for Soil Salinization", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>A major challenge of the Sustainable Development Goals linked to Agriculture, Food Security, and Nutrition, under the current global crop production paradigm, is that increasing crop yields often have negative environmental impacts. It is therefore urgent to develop and adopt optimal soil-improving cropping systems (SICS) that can allow us to decouple these system parameters. Soil salinization is a major environmental hazard that limits agricultural potential and is closely linked to agricultural mismanagement and water resources overexploitation, especially in arid climates. Here we review literature seeking to ameliorate the negative effect of soil salinization on crop productivity and conduct a global meta-analysis of 128 paired soil quality and yield observations from 30 studies. In this regard, we compared the effectivity of different SICS that aim to cope with soil salinization across 11 countries, in order to reveal those that are the most promising. The analysis shows that besides case-specific optimization of irrigation and drainage management, combinations of soil amendments, conditioners, and residue management can contribute to significant reductions of soil salinity while significantly increasing crop yields. These results highlight that conservation agriculture can also achieve the higher yields required for upscaling and sustaining crop production.</p></article>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "S", "Agriculture", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "salinity tolerance", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "12. Responsible consumption", "irrigation management", "crop rotation", "nutrient management", "13. Climate action", "11. Sustainability", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "soil improving crop systems; irrigation management; nutrient management;", "soil management", "soil improving crop systems"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/9/6/295/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/2951831759"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agronomy", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "2951831759", "name": "item", "description": "2951831759", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/2951831759"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-06-06T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5281/zenodo.8090398", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-23T16:24:42Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-12-16", "title": "Integrating Remote Sensing and Landscape Characteristics to Estimate Soil Salinity Using Machine Learning Methods: A Case Study from Southern Xinjiang, China", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Soil salinization, one of the most severe global land degradation problems, leads to the loss of arable land and declines in crop yields. Monitoring the distribution of salinized soil and degree of salinization is critical for management, remediation, and utilization of salinized soil; however, there is a lack of thorough assessment of various data sources including remote sensing and landscape characteristics for estimating soil salinity in arid and semi-arid areas. The overall goal of this study was to develop a framework for estimating soil salinity in diverse landscapes by fusing information from satellite images, landscape characteristics, and appropriate machine learning models. To explore the spatial distribution of soil salinity in southern Xinjiang, China, as a case study, we obtained 151 soil samples in a field campaign, which were analyzed in laboratory for soil electrical conductivity. A total of 35 indices including remote sensing classifiers (11), terrain attributes (3), vegetation spectral indices (8), and salinity spectral indices (13) were calculated or derived and correlated with soil salinity. Nine were used to model and estimate soil salinity using four predictive modelling approaches: partial least squares regression (PLSR), convolutional neural network (CNN), support vector machine (SVM) learning, and random forest (RF). Testing datasets were divided into vegetation-covered and bare soil samples and were used for accuracy assessment. The RF model was the best regression model in this study, with R2 = 0.75, and was most effective in revealing the spatial characteristics of salt distribution. Importance analysis and path modeling of independent variables indicated that environmental factors and soil salinity indices including digital elevation model (DEM), B10, and green atmospherically resistant vegetation index (GARI) showed the strongest contribution in soil salinity estimation. This showed a great promise in the measurement and monitoring of soil salinity in arid and semi-arid areas from the integration of remote sensing, landscape characteristics, and using machine learning model.</p></article>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "soil salinity; remote sensing; machine learning; predictive mapping", "soil salinity", "remote sensing", "machine learning", "13. Climate action", "Science", "Q", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "predictive mapping", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/24/4118/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8090398"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Remote%20Sensing", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5281/zenodo.8090398", "name": "item", "description": "10.5281/zenodo.8090398", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5281/zenodo.8090398"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-12-16T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5281/zenodo.8090804", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-23T16:24:42Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-05-12", "title": "Soil Salt Accumulation, Physiological Responses, and Yield Simulation of Winter Wheat to Alternate Saline and Fresh Water Irrigation in the North China Plain", "description": "Large amounts of shallow underground water typically with salt content at around 4.7 dS m<sup>\u22121</sup> are available in the North Chain Plain (NCP), which requires managing and thus can be properly used in irrigated agriculture to relieve the increasing pressure on fresh water in this region for supplementary irrigation. Field experiments were conducted to investigate the soil salt accumulation, responses, and yield simulation of winter wheat to the alternate irrigation strategies during 2017\u20132019. Five irrigation strategies included rain-fed cultivation (NI), fresh and saline water irrigation (FS), fresh water irrigation (FF), saline water irrigation (SS), and saline and fresh water irrigation (SF) during the growth stages. Irrigation with saline water increased soil salinity level and could be balanced annually; however, the leaf gas exchange of winter wheat was almost not significantly affected. The salinity caused by saline water irrigation negatively influenced the vegetative growth. The grain yield was increased by 24% and 32% under the FS and SF treatments compared to NI, while a minor reduction by 12% and 5% in yield under these treatments was recorded compared with the FF treatment. The SALTMED model was calibrated and validated to predict yield, and the high value of the R<sup>2</sup> reflected a good agreement between modeled and observed values, indicating that the SALTMED model was able to simulate grain yield under the alternate irrigation strategies in the regional climate condition. Supplementary irrigation using saline water at the stem elongation stage and fresh water at the flowering stage is a practical solution to achieve comparable yields with low risk of salt accumulation for winter wheat particularly in the NCP.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "Salinity", "Yield", "Brackish water", "Growth", "15. Life on land", "Rain-fed", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "Model"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8090804"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Soil%20Science%20and%20Plant%20Nutrition", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5281/zenodo.8090804", "name": "item", "description": "10.5281/zenodo.8090804", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5281/zenodo.8090804"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-05-12T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5281/zenodo.8092653", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-23T16:24:43Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-11-26", "title": "Drought priming alleviated salinity stress and improved water use efficiency of wheat plants", "description": "Global warming and salinization are inducing adverse efects on crop yield. Drought priming has been proved to improve drought tolerance of plants at later growth stages, however, whether and how drought priming at early growth stage alleviating salinity stress at later growth stage and improving water use efciency (WUE) of plants remains unknown. Therefore, two wheat cultivars were subjected to drought priming at the 4th and 6th leaf stage and subsequent moderate salinity stress at 100 mmol NaCl applied at the later jointing growth stage. The growth, physiological responses, ABA signaling and WUE were investigated to unravel the regulating mechanisms of drought priming on subsequent salinity stress. The results showed that drought priming imposed at the early growth stage improved the leaf and root water potential while attenuated the ABA concentration in the leaves ([ABA]<sub>leaf</sub>) for the primed plants, which increased the stomatal conductance (g<sub>s</sub>) and photosynthesis (P<sub>n</sub>). Consequently, the biomass under the salinity stress was signifcantly increased due to earlier drought priming. Moreover, drought priming improved the specifc leaf N content due to the facilitated root growth and morphology, and this could beneft high leaf photosynthetic capacity during the salinity stress period, improving the P<sub>n</sub> and water uptake for the primed plants. Drought priming signifcantly improved plant level WUE (WUE<sub>p</sub>) due to considerably enhanced dry biomass compared with non-primed plants under subsequent salinity stress. The signifcantly increased leaf \u03b4<sup>13</sup>C under drought priming further demonstrated that the improved leaf \u03b4<sup>13</sup>C and WUE<sub>p</sub> was mainly ascribed to the improvement of P<sub>n</sub>. Drought primed plants signifcantly improved K+ concentration and maintained the K<sup>+</sup>/Na<sup>+</sup> ratio compared with non-primed plants under subsequent salinity stress, which could mitigate the adverse efects of excess Na<sup>+</sup> and minimize salt-induced ionic toxicity by improving salt tolerance for primed plants. Therefore, drought priming at early growth stage could be considered as a promising strategy for salt-prone areas to optimize agricultural sustainability and food security under changing climatic conditions.", "keywords": ["Triticum aestivum L", "2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "0301 basic medicine", "Water stress", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Salinity tolerance", "Hormones", "6. Clean water", "03 medical and health sciences", "ABA", "13. Climate action", "\u03b413C"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8092653"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20Growth%20Regulation", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5281/zenodo.8092653", "name": "item", "description": "10.5281/zenodo.8092653", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5281/zenodo.8092653"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-11-26T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5281/zenodo.8092676", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-23T16:24:43Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-05-20", "title": "Improving remote sensing of salinity on topsoil with crop residues using novel indices of optical and microwave bands", "description": "Remote sensing indices have been proposed to characterize soil salinity. However, the sensitivity of these indicators is unstable owing to differences in geographic environment and vegetation type. This study investigated the performance of several existing indices to estimate the salinity of topsoil with residues in southern Xinjiang, China. The results showed that these indices were not satisfactory. In order to construct an index that can be used to directly indicate soil salinity in a specific area, novel salinity indices were calculated using optical bands (blue, green, red, vegetation red edge, and shortwave infrared bands) derived from Sentinel-2 multispectral data and Sentinel-1 radar data (backscattering coefficient VV, VH). To enhance the sensitivity of the optical bands, five transformation methods (logarithmic, reciprocal, first-, second-, and third-derivative) were applied to the original spectra. Based on previous studies, statistical methods were used to construct two-, three-, and four-bands indices. One constructed three-bands index with the second-derivative transformation, called the Enhanced Residues Soil Salinity Index (ERSSI), showed the highest correlation with topsoil salinity (r = 0.65 and 0.68 in training and testing). ERSSI establishes a linear relationship in soil salinity estimation with an R<sup>2</sup> of 0.53 and a LCCC of 0.65 in training dataset, with an R<sup>2</sup> of 0.51 and a LCCC of 0.73 in testing dataset. And it shows contribution in random forest regression with an R<sup>2</sup> of 0.80 and a LCCC of 0.86 in training dataset, with an R<sup>2</sup> of 0.77 and a LCCC of 0.81 in testing dataset. The ERSSI consisted of the B, G, and SWIR1 bands, and was sensitive to salinity variations in the residues remaining in farmland soils. This study provides a novel index and method for the accurate and robust assessment and mapping of salinity in farmland covered by crop residues.", "keywords": ["2. 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Rapid identification of salinization in farmlands is of great significance to improve soil functions and to maintain sustainable land management. As salt moves in soil profiles during plowing and irrigation, the commonly used protocol for measuring and monitoring salt content in topsoil does not provide a thorough assessment. In order to quantify and comprehensively evaluate the salt content in deep soil, this study developed a novel framework for monitoring total salt content in the soil profile to a depth of 1 m by combining information from time-series satellite images and machine learning. The field experiments were conducted in Alar, Southern Xinjiang, with a total of 120 soil samples and 582 measurements of EM38-MK2 apparent electrical conductivity in 2019 and 2020 to quantify the vertical variation in the salt content. A total of 42 covariates derived from time-series Sentinel-2 images, including 20 salinity indices, 10 soil indices, and 12 vegetation indices were used for modeling salinity in the soil profile. From the total covariates, 22 were selected using the Random Forest. Soil salinity which was modeled using a Temporal Convolution Network in 2019 and 2020 and forecast for 2021. The model effectively revealed the spatial and temporal variability of the salt content in the soil profile with R<sup>2</sup> of 0.71 and 0.65 for 2019 and 2020, respectively. The proposed new framework provides an effective method to estimate the salt content in the soil profile for precision agriculture in arid and semi-arid regions.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Soil salinity", "Random Forest", "13. Climate action", "Time-series images", "Soil profile", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "6. 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