Claim · model-written summary
Straw mulch with nitrogen fertilizer increased soybean biomass by 67% compared with the control.
- Taxon
- soybean
Glycine maxt0 - Treatment
- integrated straw mulch (S) and nitrogen fertilizer (N) treatmentse0
- Outcome
- biomasse1
- Direction
- increasede1
- Value
- 67e1
- Comparator
- control treatmente0
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Verbatim
t0“soybean production”
e0“integrated straw mulch (S) and nitrogen fertilizer (N) treatments enhanced the activities of soil urease, invertase, alkaline phosphatase, and catalase by >1.8, 2.1, 2.0 and 1.4 fold, respectively, compared with the control treatment”
e1“These improvements in soil fertility and carbon indices increased the biomass and grain yield of soybean (67 and 75%, respectively) during the three-year study period”
Title
Kashif Akhtar; Weiyu Wang; Guangxin Ren; et al. Environment International 2019. doi:10.1016/j.envint.2019.105092
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Straw mulch with nitrogen fertilizer enhanced soil urease activity by more than 1.8-fold compared with the control.
- Intervention effect Straw mulch with nitrogen fertilizer enhanced soil invertase activity by 2.1-fold compared with the control.
- Intervention effect Straw mulch with nitrogen fertilizer enhanced soil alkaline phosphatase activity by 2.0-fold compared with the control.
- Intervention effect Straw mulch with nitrogen fertilizer enhanced soil catalase activity by 1.4-fold compared with the control.
- Intervention effect Straw mulch with nitrogen fertilizer increased soil available N by 28% compared with the control.
- Intervention effect Straw mulch with nitrogen fertilizer increased phosphorus by 45% compared with the control.
- Intervention effect Straw mulch with nitrogen fertilizer increased potassium by 55% compared with the control.
- Intervention effect Soil organic carbon, dissolved carbon and labile organic carbon contents were approximately 1.2-2.9 times greater in the treated plot than in the control plot.
- Intervention effect Straw mulch with nitrogen fertilizer increased soybean grain yield by 75% compared with the control.
- Intervention effect Straw mulch with nitrogen fertilizer increased soil moisture by 23% in the 0-0.2 m soil layer compared with the control.
- Intervention effect Straw mulch with nitrogen fertilizer decreased soil temperature by 8% in the 0-0.2 m soil layer compared with the control.