Journal of the Indian Society of Soil Science

Table of Contents

• RESEARCH NOTE

  68th annual convention of the indian society of soil science: A brief report

  • Author: R.K. Rattan

• Inaugural Address

  • Author: G.B. Singh

• Address by the Guest of Honour

  • Author: J.S.P. Yadav

• Soil science in India: An emerging scenario†

  • Author: G. Narayanasamy

• The 21st Prof. J.N. Mukherjee–ISSS Foundation Lecture†

  • Author: D.K. Pal

• 30th Dr. R.V. Tamhane Memorial Lecture†

  • Author: P.K. Chhonkar

• The 14th Dr. S.P. Raychaudhuri Memorial Lecture†

  • Author: J.C. Katyal

• The 10th Dr. D.P. Motiramani Memorial Lecture†

  • Author: H.S. Sen

• RESEARCH ARTICLE

  The 7th Dr. B.V. Mehta Memorial Lecture†

  • Author: K.L. Sahrawat

• RESEARCH NOTE

  The 5th Dr. N.S. Randhawa Memorial Lecture†

  • Author: J.S. Samra

• The 2nd Dr. R.S. Murthy Memorial Lecture†

  • Author: R.K. Saxena

• Ist Dr. R.R. Agarwal Memorial Lecture†

  • Author: J.S.P. Yadav

• GIS applications for soil resources and its importance for the country†

  • Author: B.R. Marwah

• RESEARCH ARTICLE

  Soil microbial biomass and microbial activities as indicators of heavy metal pollution*

  • Author: K.C. Banger

• Development and validation of pedotransfer functions for water retention, saturated hydraulic conductivity and aggregate stability of soils of banha watershed in Jharkhand

  • Author: U.S. Saikia, Anil Kumar Singh

• Comparison of conventional and geostatistical procedures for assessing hydraulic conductivity for drainage design

  • Author: K.K. Sharma, S.K. Gupta, R.P. Singh, H.S. Chauhan

• Efficacy of mulches in conserving monsoonal moisture for the Rabi crops

  • Author: R.S. Chaudhary, U.S. Patnaik, A. Dass

• Effect of varying organic matter contents of compacted soils on soil-water properties and modulus of rupture

  • Author: Nidal H. Abu-Hamdeh

• Effect of sugarcane trash and enriched sugarcane trash mulches on ratoon cane yield and soil properties

  • Author: Rita Dahiya, R.S. Malik, B.S. Jhorar

• Effect of soil properties on the kinetics of phosphate desorption in acid soils

  • Author: Tek Chand, N.K. Tomar

• Sulphate sorption-desorption characteristics of alfisols of dumka district (Jharkhand)

  • Author: Rakesh Kumar, K.P. Singh, A.K. Sarkar, A. Wadood, Surendra Singh

• Vertical distribution of micronutrient cations in some soil series of northern Madhya Pradesh

  • Author: Naresh Gupta, S.K. Trivedi, K.N. Bansal, R.K. Kaul

• Correlation studies on micronutrients vis-à-vis soil properties in some soils of nagaur district in semi-arid region of Rajasthan

  • Author: R.P. Sharma, Megh Singh, J.P. Sharma

• Studies on the fate of fungicides in different soil environments

  • Author: T.H. Hanumantharaju, M.D. Awasthi

• Influence of nitrification inhibitors, placement technique and irrigation sequence on utilization of labelled urea-N by wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

  • Author: Pramod Jha, R.K. Rattan, Suresh Chandra

• Indexing of potassium, phosphorus and ca +mg in wheat grown on six benchmark soil series of northern India

  • Author: Komal Singh, S.K. Bansal, Moinuddin , N.S. Pasricha

• Effect of sulphur and potassium on yield, nutrient uptake and quality characteristics of mustard (Brassica juncea L.) in udic haplustepts of Kanpur

  • Author: S.K. Misra

• Leaching requirement of super-cyclone affected coastal soils of Orissa

  • Author: Ravender Singh, D. K. Kundu

• SHORT COMMUNICATION

  A comparative assessment of tolerance of three Rabi crops to water stagnation on soil surface

  • Author: N.K. Thakur, S.K. Gupta, D.P. Sharma, Anand Swarup, S.N. Panda

• Rationale for using effective cation exchange capacity in characterising exchange properties of acid soils

  • Author: T.K. Sen, D.C. Nayak, P.N. Dubey, S. Chatterji

• Integrated effect of chemical fertilizer and green manure on forms of nitrogen and their availability under rice-wheat cropping system in calciorthents

  • Author: Vipin Kumar

• Impact of distillery and paper mill effluent irrigation on yield of rice and soil fertility

  • Author: A. Chatterjee, H.C. Joshi, H. Pathak

• OBITUARIES

  Obituary