Shikha Dubey
@shikha_for_soil
PhD Candidate at Clemson University 🐾
Extrovert and ready to talk about Soil Science🌱🇮🇳
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30-01-2021 20:52:54
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What a 45th special birthday gift from my soil fertility team members! 🎂 They decorated my office photos full of memories. Grateful for colleagues who make work feel like family! #BirthdaySurprise Simranpreet Kaur Karamvir Kaur Shikha Dubey
"Essentially, all life depends on the soil ... There can be no life without soil and no soil without life; they have evolved together.” — Charles E. Kellogg, USDA Yearbook of Agriculture, 1938 Learn more about #SoilBiodiversity: lnkd.in/d-tWc-Ck via Food and Agriculture Organization
We need to have a long conversation about nematodes in MS. The first part of that conversation starts with “sample your soil to determine what’s present (species and # present)”. SOIL SAMPLES sent to MSU Extension Plant Diagnostic Lab ARE FREE through 3/31/2026 MS SOYBEAN BOARD Chang Liu, Ph.D. #mscrops
How much cadmium is uptake within the soil‒plant system ? 🌱🌿🏝️ Is this dangerous?🍡⚡️Total cadmium content in Chinese 🇨🇳topsoils was ~11% higher than the Europe🇪🇺, while average dissolved cadmium content was ~16.8% higher. Published in Nature Portfolio nature.com/articles/s4324…
Finally Dr. Shikha Dubey! I want to thank my advisor Dr. Bhupinder S. Farmaha Bhupinder Farmaha, Clemson Soil Fertility and committee members Dr. Alan Franzluebbers, Dr. Michael Jones, and Dr. William Bridges for this journey. Sharing a few cotton pictures for remembering this 4.5 years.
Proudly wearing Clemson orange turban while presenting our cotton nitrogen results at yesterday’s field day in Blackville, SC! Shared findings from Shikha Dubey’s PhD research about saving 50-80% on some fields by cutting fertilizer costs while maintaining yields.