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Evaluation of land productivity and improvement or maintenance of soil quality and health is necessary to define sustainable agricultural practices (Wright. and Anderson, 2000). In this regard studying the influence of management practices on soil physicochemical properties and plant characteristics has an important role. Evidence that soil management induced properties help plants to thrive in arid conditions has been reported for root (mycorrhizae) (Caravaca et al., 2003; Alguacil et al., 2005), increasing the supply of nutrients (Smith and Read, 1997), improving soil aggregation in eroded soils (Caravaca et al., 2002) and reducing water stress (Auge ́, 2001). Carbohydrates are thought to play a major role in this respect and many attempts have been made to characterize this involvement (Cheshire, 1979). No technique for directly quantifying the amount of labile organic bonding compounds in soil has been identified and no specific extraction methods, such as strong acids or bases can differentiate between total carbohydrate content and the more specific carbohydrate sub-pool that maybe involved in aggregate stability (Cheshire, 1979). Haynes and Swift (1990) suggested that hotwa

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Author

Massoumeh Yousefi; M. Hajabbasi; H. Shariatmadari

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0167-1987)

Published

2008

Language

EN

Field

Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)