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An Environmental Study To Adapt Some Hadhramout Coast Plant For Drought And Salinity Tolerance, Fatehia Ali Bashantoof, Ahmed Sbit Bamousy, Abdulkarim Saber Ali
An Environmental Study To Adapt Some Hadhramout Coast Plant For Drought And Salinity Tolerance, Fatehia Ali Bashantoof, Ahmed Sbit Bamousy, Abdulkarim Saber Ali
Hadhramout University Journal of Natural & Applied Sciences
The study was conducted between May 2016-August 2017. An auger was used to collect 60 random soil samples to carry out the physical and chemical analyses. The selected plants were Salola baryosma and Aeurops lagopoides in the salt marsh and Prosopis juliflora and Calotropis procera in the valleys. The results revealed clear physical and chemical differences within the soils of the salt marshes and valleys that prove to be sandy, loamy, basic and saline. All investigated variables differ in the selected areas e.g. % of sand, silt, clay. The soil of all the salt marshes was devoid of gravel which …