Week 12: Soil water and water potential and plant available water
Course Material
- Week 1: Course File for SES-301, Time Table for Fall Semester 2020, Introduction and importance of the course
- Week 2: Soil texture, specific surface area and importance
- Week 3: Soil texture and importance
- Week 4: Soil structure: genesis and description
- Week 5: Soil crusting and surface sealing with their role in seedling emergence
- Week 6: Particle and bulk density: description and significance
- Week 7: Total porosity and pore-size distribution and root development
- Week 8: Soil air composition and aeration
- Week 9: Soil temperature and its management
- Week 10: Soil color: causes and significance
- Week 11: Soil consistency and strength and interpretation for soil mechanics
- Week 12: Soil water and water potential and plant available water
- Week 13: Water and solute movement through soil
- Week 14: Soil compaction: causes and remedies
- Week 15: Soil tillage systems and tilth
- Week 16: Soil physical environment and root architecture
- Chapters 16
- Department Soil and Environmental Sciences
- Teacher
Dr. Ghulam Sarwar
