The Journal

Soil aggregate stability. What is it? Why is it important?

I would like to talk about soil aggregate stability. A soil aggregate is a whole bunch of individual soil particles that are bound, or glued, together. How well those aggregates hold up to disruptive ...
Business Insider

Soil Health Institute Launches Slakes: A Free Smartphone App to Measure Soil Aggregate Stability

MORRISVILLE, N.C., Dec. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In celebration of World Soil Day, December 5, the Soil Health Institute (SHI) announced the release of a free phone application, Slakes, to empower and ...
JSTOR Daily

Influence of maize root mucilage on soil aggregate stability

This study was undertaken to determine the effects of root exudates on soil aggregate stability. Root mucilage was collected from two-month old maize plants (Zea mays L.). Mucilage and glucose ...
JSTOR Daily

Influence of soil type, crop and air drying on residual carbohydrate content and aggregate stability after treatment with periodate and tetraborate

The relationship between the water stability of microaggregates and the residual carbohydrate content of soil was examined in 15 soils from 7 soil series under various cultivations. The carbohydrate ...
The Journal

Soil aggregate stability is important

Soil aggregates are groups of individual soil particles that bind to each other more strongly than adjacent particles. Aggregates that don’t fall apart and revert to individual soil particles when ...