HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Waterlogging: Waterlogging occurs when there is too much water in a plant’s root zone, which decreases the oxygen available to roots and Capillary fringe reaches the root zone of the plant. Waterlogging can be a major constraint to plant growth and production and, under certain conditions, will cause plant death.

Detailed explanation-2: -Answer: waterlogged-(of soil) soft and watery; “the ground was boggy under foot"; “a marshy coastline"; “miry roads"; “wet mucky lowland"; “muddy barnyard"; “quaggy terrain"; “the sloughy edge of the pond"; “swampy bayous” boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy, soggy, swampy, squashy, sloppy.

Detailed explanation-3: -Waterlogging is caused by a combination of excess rainfall (for the site), poor external drain-age (runoff), poor internal drainage (water movement in the soil profile) and the inability of the soil to store much water.