Methane dosage to soil and its effect on plant growth

Arif, Mas Achmad Syamsul; Verstraete, Willy

doi:10.1007/bf00286368

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“…Hoeks (1972a) found an increase in soil organic matter in the vicinity of gas leaks, and Arif and Verstraete (1995) found an increase in the soil microbial biomass. The increase in number of worm casts is possibly due to additional organic matter as a food source or increased moisture content created by bacterial oxidation of the gas, which would have been particularly beneficial in the dry summer (2003) of this study.…”

Section: Ecological Observationsmentioning

confidence: 97%

A Facility to Investigate Effects of Elevated Soil Gas Concentration on Vegetation

Smith

Colls

Steven

2005

Water Air Soil Pollut

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A facility has been developed at the University of Nottingham at which natural gas can be injected into soil to investigate the effects on the soil ecology and on the growth and development of plants. The facility involves 18 plots, 12 of which are equipped with a regulated and metered gas supply. The gas is released from a diffusive point source 1 m below the centre of each plot. Permanent pasture grass, wheat and bean were gassed from gas was injected into additional plots of each species to determine the effects of a new leak on a fully established crop. Spatial and temporal variability of soil gas concentrations were determined by two complementary methods. First, by daily extraction of soil gas samples from permanently buried sample pipes that come to diffusive equilibrium with the adjacent soil gas concentration. Second, by intermittent extraction of soil gas samples from bar holes inserted on a 50-cm grid. Contour plots of spatial variation were then constructed from the bar hole data.Methane (CH 4 ) concentrations near the centres of the plots were variable. They could reach values of up to 80% gas, but decreased rapidly away from the area of peak concentration. No relationship was found between gas flow rate or soil gas concentration and atmospheric pressure or other meteorological parameters. Soil structure affected gas dispersion, and an inverse relationship was found between CH 4 and O 2 concentrations.The grass showed visible symptoms within 44 days, whereas wheat and bean developed symptoms after four months. These symptoms included a circle of chlorosis in grass and poor development and leaf chlorosis for the wheat and bean. When the same species were gassed from mid-May; the wheat and bean showed no visible symptoms but the late-gassed grass also developed a further circle of yellowing.

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Section: Ecological Observationsmentioning

confidence: 97%

A Facility to Investigate Effects of Elevated Soil Gas Concentration on Vegetation

Smith

Colls

Steven

2005

Water Air Soil Pollut

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“…Se sugiere que el CH 4 exógeno no es fitotóxico en el metabolismo vegetal, sin embargo el CH 4 no es un componente estándar del aire del suelo, una parte se genera por la DA de la FO realizada por bacterias metanogénicas, aunque de manera natural aumenta desde 0.1-2% y en suelos anegados hasta un 14%. En la naturaleza las bacterias metanotróficas usan el CH 4 como fuente de carbono y energía mientras que al mismo tiempo estimulan el crecimiento vegetal al fijar N 2 (Arif & Verstraete 1995), pero si no existe suficiente O 2 en el suelo su oxidación es incompleta y se generan compuestos secundarios como el metanol, formol, ácido fórmico o etileno que en concentración mayor al 5% es tóxico para las raíces de las plantas (Jackson 2002).…”

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El efecto de los gases de relleno sanitario en el crecimiento vegetal

Sanchez–Yáñez¹,

Baltierra-Trejo²,

Márquez-Benavides

2012

J. Selva Andina Res. Soc.

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Las plantas realizan el intercambio gaseoso durante la fotosíntesis y la respiración, la apertura estomática de las hojas o el flujo de gases es a través de lenticelas en la raíz no es selectivo, por lo que el biogás de emisión antropogénica en los rellenos sanitarios (RESA) ingresan a los tejidos vegetales y afectan negativamente su fisiología normal.En un RESA raíces de las plantas están expuestas al flujo de una concentración variable de biogás constituido principalmente de metano (CH 4 ) 50-60% y dióxido de carbono (CO 2 ) 40-55%, producto de la digestión anaerobia (DA) de la fracción orgánica (FO) de los residuos sólidos urbanos (RSU). El biogás, en función de la concentración y el tiempo de exposición ejerce un efecto desfavorable en el crecimiento radical, aunque se desconoce la manera en la que lo causa, así como los mecanismos de adaptación de esas plantas para supervivir. El objetivo de esta breve revisión fue analizar el estado del arte del efecto negativo del biogás y sus constituyentes sobre especies vegetales que crecen en un RESA. © 2012. Journal of the Selva Andina Research Society. Bolivia. Todos los derechos reservados. Palabras clave:Gases metabolismo vegetal respuesta fisiológica. Soc. 2012; 3(1):55-65. Abstract J Selva Andina ResThe plants carry out the gaseous exchange during the photosynthesis and the respiration, however the stomal opening of the leaves or the flow through lenticels in the root are not selective, the anthropogenic biogas emissions enter to vegetable tissues altering its normal physiology.In landfill sites roots plants are exposed to a flow of a variable concentration of biogas, mainly composed by methane (CH 4 ) 50-60% and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) 40-55%, product of the anaerobic digestion of the organic fraction of municipal solid waste (MSW). Biogas, according to its concentration and exposure time is likely to exert a negative effect on plant root growth; however, the mechanism is largely unknown. The aim of this revision was to revise the state of the art of the negative effect of biogas on plants that are close to landfill sites.

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“…Hydrogen sulphide interferes with the release of energy in the cells and, like ammonia, inhibits cell respiration by blocking oxygen transport. Methane inhibits plant growth (Arif and Verstraete 1995). Other gases present in the air also have a harmful effect on the plants.…”

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Mycobiota of juniper Juniperus x media with symptoms of dieback in sewage plant facilities area in Poznań

Behnke‐Borowczyk

Kwaśna

Szewczyk

et al. 2019

Forest Research Papers

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The frequency and diversity of fungi in branches, roots and soil was examined in 3–10-years-old diseased Juniperus x media trees growing in the surroundings of the sewage treatment facility in Poznań. Symptoms of branch dieback appeared first on the older parts inside the crown and mostly in the lower part of trees subsequently spreading upwards and outwards. Our analyses included extraction of environmental rDNA from branches, roots and soil, amplification of the rDNA with fungi specific primers and sequencing. Fungal taxa from Ascomycota, Basidiomycota, Chytridiomycota, Glomeromycota and Zygomycota were detected with a total of 695, 135 and 196 taxa in branches, roots and soil, respectively. Fungal communities included plant pathogens, opportunistic pathogens, epiphytes or endophytes, mycorrhizal taxa, saprotrophs common on organic debris and in soil, human and animal pathogens, entomopathogenic taxa, mycoparasites, white and black yeasts, taxa with antagonistic and medicinal properties and lichenized fungi. The frequency of potential plant pathogens was 2.64–33.12% in branches, 0.88% in roots and 1.29–2.93% in soil. The most common pathogens were species from Chalara, Cytospora, Fusarium, Ilyonectria, Mycosphaerella, Setomelanomma (Ascomycota) and Armillaria, Rhizoctonia (Basidiomycota) genera. The less frequent pathogens included species from Leptosphaeria, Lophodermium and Septoria genera. In conclusion, oxygen deficiency and the presence of poisonous gases in the air around the sewage plant is likely to have had damaging effects on plants infected or colonized by opportunistic and facultative parasites.

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Methane dosage to soil and its effect on plant growth

Cited by 9 publications

References 25 publications

A Facility to Investigate Effects of Elevated Soil Gas Concentration on Vegetation

A Facility to Investigate Effects of Elevated Soil Gas Concentration on Vegetation

El efecto de los gases de relleno sanitario en el crecimiento vegetal

Mycobiota of juniper Juniperus x media with symptoms of dieback in sewage plant facilities area in Poznań

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