Presentations | INSAS third meeting

• Introducing the COST Actions | Ms Carmencita Malimban, Senior Administrative Officer, COST Association, Belgium
• Sustainable use of salt-affected lands: community of research and practice | Ms Katarzyna Negacz, COST Action on the sustainable use of salt-affected lands (SUSTAIN), Chair, Kingdom of the Netherlands
• International network of salt-affected soils (INSAS) and its main areas of work | Mr Jorge Batlle-Sales, International network of salt-affected soils (INSAS), Chair, Spain
• Living with salinity in South Asia: comparisons between three projects | Mr Edward Barrett-Lennard, Murdoch University, Australia
• From Niche to Global: Unlocking the Scaling Potential of Saline Agriculture | Mr Pim van Tongeren, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Kingdom of the Netherlands
• Soil Salinity Management through Cropping Systems online | Ms Bilquees Gul, Institute of Sustainable Halophyte Utilization, University of Karachi Pakistan
• Assessing soil potassium and phosphorus dynamics in potato and maize under drip irrigation | Mr Meisam Rezaei, Soil and Water Research Institute (SWRI), Agricultural Research, Education, Extension Organization (AREEO), Karaj, Iran
• Crop modelling to assess the performance of quinoa under saline conditions in various management scenarios | Ms Diana Estrella, Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (ILVO), Belgium
• Leaching or reclamation, which one matters? online | Mr Yousef Hasheminejhad, Soil and water research department, Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization, Mashhad, Iran
• Policy and legal frameworks for sustainable management of salt-affected soils online | Mr Pradip Dey, ICAR-ATARI, Kolkata, India
• Effect of halophyte-based management in physiological, biochemical and metabolomic responses of tomato plants under moderately saline conditions | Mr Jose Antonio Hernandez, CEBAS-CSIC, Spain
• Considering spatial heterogeneity of drip irrigated salinity in soil monitoring online | Ms Olena Drozd, Estación Experimental de Aula Dei, EEAD-CSIC, España / Ukraine
• Mapping environmental vulnerability to soil salinization in a semi-arid river basin in Brazil online | Mr Flavio Rodrigues do Nascimento, Federal University of Ceara, Brazil
• Expanding food options through Tetragonia tetragonioides: A solution to soil salinization challenges | Ms Giulia Mozzo, Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry (DAGRI), University of Florence, Italy
• Projects, policies and actions in the sustainable use of saline soils in Turkey | Mr Turgay Dindaroglu, Karadeniz Technical University, Türkiye
• Salinity shapes Salicornia europaea L. functional traits | Ms Agnieszka Piernik, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland
• Hormonal responses to combined phosphorus deficiency and salinity in soybean (Glycine max L. Merr.) | Mr Francisco Pérez Alfocea, CEBAS-CSIC, Spain
• Insights on how the halophyte Tetragonia tetragonioides deals with saline environments | Ms Giulia Atzori, National Research Council of Italy - Institute of Sustainable Plant Protection (CNR-IPSP), Italy 

3rd Meeting of the International Network on Salt-affected Soils INSAS | Valencia, May 2024

Posters

• Seed pre-treatment with bioregulator thiourea improves salinity tolerance in wheat at booting stage | Ms Azka Saleem, Univeristy of Agriculture Faisalabad
• Fertilizer prescriptions for Brinjal (Solanum Melangena) in coastal Karaikal region | Ms Uma Bagavathi Ammal, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru College of Agriculture and Research Institute
• Impact of environmental and climatic changes on a Protected Salt Plain in Danube valley, Hungary | Ms Zsófia Bakacsi, HUN-REN ATK Institute for Soil Sciences
• Tillage and amendment management impact on saline soil properties and crop yields in Mediterranean organic farm in Croatia | Mr Igor Bogunović, University of Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture
• Utilization of organic fertilizers for sustainable management of salt-affected soils: a synthesis of studies and trends | Ms Nuray Çiçek
• Endophytic diversity of Salicornia europaea: a key to salinity management | Ms Bliss Furtado
• Combination of biostimulants application with soil amendments enhances quinoa tolerance to high salinity stress under greenhouse conditions Mr Cherki Ghoulam, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech
• Exploring the interactive effects of salt and UV-B on Chenopodium quinoa Willd. growth and physiology | Ms Giorgia Guardigli, Department of Biology, University of Florence
• Sustaining crop productivity and soil health in soybean-mustard cropping with soil amendments under sodic soils of western India | Ms Rashmi I., ICAR-IISWC, RC, Kota
• Reclamation of salt affected soil by municipal solid waste compost | Ms Taymaa Ibraheem, al-Baath University
• Does the recipe of nutrient solution for alkalinity experiments in hydroponics need modifications? | Mr Muhammad Imran
• Monitoring seasonal dynamic of soil salinity in pistachio orchard field in Central Iran Ms Leila Jahanbazi, AARHUS UNIVERSITY
• The spatial variability of different levels of electrical conductivity (EC) in croplands remains poorly captured by various remote sensing-based indices | Mr Fuat Kaya, Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, Faculty of Agriculture, Isparta University of Applied Sciences, Isparta, Türkiye
• Alleviation of salt-affected soils using plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (pgpr): agro-ecological perspectives and crop responses |  Mr Prasada Rao Kongala, Sam Higginbottom University ofAgriculture,Technology and Sciences (Formerly Allahabad Agriculture Institute)
• Haloxerophytization of the vegetation cover of the lower reaches of the Amu Darya in modern conditions | Mr Nizamatdin Mamutov, Karakalpak state university
• Preliminary outputs from meetings with Portuguese institutions about policies related to soil salinisation | Mr Vítor João Pereira Domingues Martinho, Agricultural School (ESAV) and CERNAS-IPV Research Centre, Polytechnic Institute of Viseu (IPV), 3504-510 Viseu, Portugal
• Estimation of saturated soil paste electrical conductivity and soluble salts from extract of different soil to water (1:1, 1:2.5, and 1:5) ratios in non‐gypsiferous soils | Mr Mostafa Marzi, Soil and Water Research Institute (SWRI), Agricultural Research, Education, Extension Organization (AREEO), Karaj, Iran
• Farmers coping strategies to manage salt affected soils for sustainable rice farming in the face of climate change in Tanzania | Ms Primitiva Andrea Mboyerwa Mboyerwa , Sokoine University of Agriculture
• Impact of different salinity levels on the early growth of wild rice (Oryza Coarctata.l) and to improve soil health | Ms Fozia Naz Memon, Soil and Environment Research Institute
• Screening new genetic resources of grain amaranth (Amaranthus spp.) for salinity tolerance | Ms Veronika Mistríková, Institute of Plant Genetics and Biotechnology, Plant Science and Biodiversity Center, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Nitra, Slovakia
• Identification of adaptive physiological mechanisms in saline condition: Tetragonia tetragonioides and Chenopodium quinoa | Ms Giulia Mozzo, Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry (DAGRI), University of Florence
• Mobilising carbon markets to scale saline agriculture | Mr Yanik Nyberg, Seawater Solutions / NARA Climate
• Investigating the impact of saline irrigation on Tetragonia tetragonioides growth and productivity under different pedoclimatic conditions | | Mr Michele Petrillo, University of Florence
• Simulating soil salinity and determining proper irrigation scheduling in pistachio orchards of Qazvin (Iran) | Mr Meisam Rezaei, Soil and Water Research Institute
• Effect of the application of a compost of rice straw and sewage sludge on the salinity of a clay loam soil dedicated to citrus cultivation | Mr Luis Roca-Pérez
• Comparative effect of nitrogenous fertilizers on mobilization and absorption of phosphorus by wheat in saline-sodic soil | Mr Muhammad Sabir, Institute of Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan
• Regeneration and utilization of salt-affected soils using salt-tolerant grass species | Mr Muhammad Saqib, Institute of Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan
• Mapping and monitoring of soil salinization by remote sensing, case study: Sabkha Tazra and its surroundings, Morocco | Ms Najat Sarkouh, Mediterranean youth for water network
• Salinity in African countries: from local challenges to global solutions | Ms Janina Smaoui, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• Sodium ions have the strongest negative impact on the chlorophyll synthesis and greening of wheat seedlings | Mr Katalin Solymosi, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University
• Characterization of the mangrove swamp rice soils along the great scarcies river in sierra leone using principal component analysis (2018) | Mr Foday Sumah, Sierra Leone Agricultural Research Institute
• Saline agriculture, climate funds and impact investors | Mr Pier Vellinga, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Kingdom of the Netherlands
• Integrated soil and water management under saline conditions in Ukraine | Ms Ludmila Vorotyntseva, National Scientific Center «Institute for Soil Science and Agrochemistry Research named after O.N. Sokolovsky», Ukraine
• The potential of selected wild plant species as crops on poor soil | Ms Katja Witzel, Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops, Germany
• Salt-affected soils in Türkiye | Mr Tugrul Yakupoglu, Yozgat Bozok University

Day 1

• Day 1 pt2

Day 2

Day 3

• Training 1: Living with salinity: getting the right plant into the right place in saline landscapes.
• Training 2: Different methods of determining soil salinity.
• Training 3: Visualization of geospatial data of the “Comunidad Valenciana” using smartphone.
• Training 4: Modelling of water flow and solute transport in salt-affected soils.