Publication date: 1 May 2016
Source:Geoderma, Volume 269
Author(s): Hiroko Nakatsuka, Masato Oda, Yukimi Hayashi, Kenji Tamura
Spent mushroom substrate (SMS) is a good organic material for soil amendment over a short period of time. Several studies have investigated the stability of soil aggregates in amended fields; however, few have attempted to clarify the formation of soil aggregates. In this study, we investigated soil aggregates in fields amended with fresh SMS (from Pleurotus ostreatus ) (SMS field; SF) and those without amendment (control field; CF) in Brazil by soil morphological analysis. The results demonstrated that SF was dominated by the strong development of a granular microstructure in the A horizon (15–20
Source:Geoderma, Volume 269
Author(s): Hiroko Nakatsuka, Masato Oda, Yukimi Hayashi, Kenji Tamura