Not long ago, an innovative sand fixation process using ion beam improved vegetations and novel materials, developed by the Institute of Plasma Physics affiliated to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, passed a verification check. In an effort to develop a micro environment based growing system for liquorices, and a heat proof radiation and humid preservation growing process for Salix matsudana (corkscrew willow) and Salix longiolia (sand bar willow), the project has established an advanced technical system that protects and facilitates the growth of these desert plants. Two-year experiments in the Kubuqi Desert in China proves that the new process can improve the survival rate of liquorices, corkscrew willow and sand bar willow, and is a reliable and practical application for vegetation reconstruction in deserts and sand lands.
Started from 2000, Chinese researchers developed a novel material from the ion beam improved Hippophae rhamnoides ?ì. They mixed the ion beam process, microbes, and novel material together, using ion beams to make plant roots produce more organic acid for microbes, which in turn give out more nitrogen fixing and phosphor and potassium dissolving bacteria for the plants. Plus the moisture preserving function of the novel material, a sound microbiologic root growing cycle is developed. Lab tests confirmed that a small-scale trial in 2003 at the edge of the Ke?¯erqin Desert was a success. In 2004, researchers applied the new process over 60 mu (1 mu= 0.0667 hectare) of sandy land at the edge of the rougher Kubuqi Desert. The process has stood up two-year wind sweeping, sand erosion, drought, and sever cold spell, and also proved a success.
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