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The importance of organized and structured societies linked to a specific career is to oversee activities and facilitate successful achievements within the ecosystem of same, but in the field of Soil Science and the Soil Science Society of Nigeria, the narrative is quite pitiable. The field of soil science in Nigeria is one that have received less or no concern from her so called stake holders, academicians, board members and specialists.  And it is utterly disheartening that the SSSN have been dormant and inactive for a while—from her website being down, firstly, to her reluctancy in engaging activities, to an inactive socialmedia  handle and a lot to worry about. Going through the social media pages of other soil science societies like British Society of Soil Science, Canadian Society of Soil Science, Soil Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of Ireland etc the activities, updates, engagement and work is top notch and I bitterly wonder why the SSSN remains badly ...

The pledge to protect environment and forests comes as more than 120 world leaders gathered in Glasgow to make new pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, despite fears that important countries have failed to do so. As part of a huge multinational package to combat sentient greenhouse gas emissions, world government has pledged to a pact that seeks to halt and reverse worldwide deforestation throughout the next decade. Joe Biden, Jair Bolsonaro and Xi Jinping were among the global leaders who signed the agreement on Tuesday at Cop26 in Glasgow, pledging to safeguard huge ecosystems ranging from the eastern Siberian tundra to the Rift valley, which is home to the world's second biggest rainforest. Presidents and prime ministers from significant suppliers and users of deforestation-linked products will sign the Glasgow Leaders' Declaration on Forest and Land Use, pledging to conserve forest ecosystems. Human-caused land clearance accounts for over a quarter of global greenhou...

  Image : Exudate from sorghum root hair, contains 80-90% of sorgoleone—an important allelochemical. (Source: USDA ) One major concern of every passionate farmer is the health of the soil and a healthy crop growth. However, the latter has gained more attention than the former. The health of the former is not only dependent on the management measures carried out on it, but is also dependent on the state of crops, especially it's root. This is possible due to a form of secretion from plant roots called exudates. Root exudates are secretions emitted through the root of plants. They are substances taking spaces in the rhizophere.  These secretions affect greatly the rhizophere, laying around the root inhibiting microbes that can be harmful to beneficial soil microorganisms in the soil. On soil-plant relationship, the root exudate impacts it via the mechanism of dispersion as stated by UK soil science researcher, Hallet and as this dispersion takes place, the soil is been weakened ...