Our Vast Experience

Wallace Labs provides analytical testing and consulting on soil, fertility, plant physiology, water quality, land restoration, salinity, toxicity, trace minerals, composts, amendments, soil conditioners and most related areas to plant growth, establishment of vegetation, erosion control and plant propagation.

The lab is located in Los Angeles County adjacent to LAX. Services are provided world-wide. The lab is equipped with simultaneous optical emission spectrophotometers, atomic adsorption, carbon/nitrogen/hydrogen/sulfur/oxygen instrument, microwave digester, and related instruments. It services federal, state, local, foreign governments, corporate and individuals.

The principals

Garn A. Wallace, Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles, 1972 (biochemistry)

John S. Wallace,
B. S., California State University, Dominguez Hills, 2008 (chemistry)

Elizabeth M. Wallace,
B. S., California State University, Long Beach, 2010 (chemistry)

Co-founder: Arthur Wallace, Ph.D., deceased,
Rutgers University, 1949 (soils and plant nutrition) upon whose scientific publications, findings and data are used in part for our evaluations, conclusions and recommendations

Qualifications: Soil and Plant Analysis Laboratory Registry Number CA006, US Department of Agriculture permit number S-56869, member of Soil and Plant Analysis Council, Inc.

Scientific and Professional Organizations: 
Soil Science Society of American, American Society of Agronomy, American Chemical Society, Crop Science Society of America, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Services

1.  Soil chemistry and nutrient interactions
2.  Land reclamation
3.  Salinity effects on plants
4.  Plant analysis to assess mineral needs of plants
5.  Ornamental horticulture and tree horticulture
6.  Environmental effects on plants
7.  Special problems of iron nutrition in plants
8.  Water relations in plants
9.  Trace element excesses on plants
10.  Role of mineral elements in plant growth
11.  Development of fertilizers and chelating agents for plants
12.  Crop management systems
13.  Comparative mineral nutrition of different plant species
14.  Growth of plants with hydroponic nutrients in solution culture
15.  Soil conditioning, soil conditioners and mechanisms
16.  Re-vegetation and restoration of disturbed lands

Special Issue Publications in scientific journals devoted to our research

Sustainability of the Soil and the Environment – 29 articles
Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, vol. 25, Nos. 1 & 2, 1994

Interactions of Limiting Factors in Crop Production – 15 articles
Journal of Plant Nutrition, vol. 13, Nos. 3 & 4 March/April 1990

Multiple Elemental Toxicities Interactions – 21 articles
Soil Science, vol. 147, No. 6, June 1989

Water-Soluble Polymeric Soil Conditioners , 18 articles
Soil Science, vol. 141, No. 5, May 1986

Third Decade of Chelating Agents in Plant Nutrition – 21 articles
Journal of Plant Nutrition, vol. 6, No. 6, June 1983

Mineral Composition of Plants – 14 articles
Soil Science, vol. 134, No. 1, July 1982

Trace Elemental Excesses in Plants – 48 articles
Journal of Plant Nutrition, vol. 2, Nos. 1 & 2, 1980

Restoration of Disturbed Lands – 31 articles
Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs, vol. 4, 1980

Elemental Phytotoxicities – 21 articles
Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, vol. 8, No. 9, 1977

Iron Deficiencies in Plants and Its Correction – 22 articles
Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, vol. 7, No. 1, 1986

Major publications stating our scientific concepts, methods of evaluation, basis of recommendations are:
Soil Conditioner and Amendment Technologies, Vol. 1 (1995)Soil Conditioner and Amendment Technologies, Vol. 2 (1997)Handbook of Soil Conditioners: Substances that enhance the physical properties of soil (1998)
Polyacrylamide (PAM) and Micronized PAM Soil Conditioners (2003)
Closing the Crop-Yield Gap Through Better Soil and Better Management (2003)