Biochar application on paddy and purple soils in southern China: soil carbon and biotic activity.

Soil carbon reserves are the largest terrestrial carbon pools. Common agricultural practices, such as high fertilization rates and intensive crop rotation, have led to global-scale environmental changes, including decreased soil organic matter, lower carbon/nitrogen ratios and disruption of soil carbon pools. These changes have resulted in a decrease in soil microbial activity, severe reduction in soil fertility and transformation of soil nutrients, thereby causing soil nutrient imbalance, which seriously affects crop production.

Risk assessment, spatial distribution, and source apportionment of heavy metals in Chinese surface soils from a typically tobacco cultivated area.

The heavy metals (As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Hg, Ni, Pb, and Zn) in the surface soils of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) fields in Jiangxi Province were analyzed, and the mean heavy metal concentrations were 3.55, 0.

Determination of nicotine in tobacco products based on mussel-inspired reduced graphene oxide-supported gold nanoparticles.

Polydopamine functionalized reduced graphene oxide-gold nanoparticle (PDA-RGO/Au) nanocomposites were successfully prepared by a simple and mild procedure. The PDA-RGO/Au nanocomposite is successfully formed in an aqueous buffer solution (pH 8.5) without using any reducing agent.

[Effects of potassium application rate and its supplemental proportion on dry matter accumulation and potassium absorption of flue-cured tobacco].

A field trial with flue-cured tobacco conducted on a red paddy soil showed that the dry matter accumulation in the tobacco reached a peak in 50-60 days after transplanting, but was lower within 30 days or over 80 days after transplanting. The dry matter accumulation was increased with increasing K application rate and its supplemental proportion. The K content in the tobacco got its peak in 30-50 days after transplanting, and then went down, with the K content at maturing stage being as half as that in the peak period.