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Straw incorporation (SI) and straw mulching (SM) also improved certain physiological indices of maize, but their effects were weaker than those of deep straw incorporation (DF).
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t0“Maize”
e0“Although SI and SM also improved certain physiological indices, their effects were weaker than those of DF”
Title
Chenglong Guan; Tai Ma; Ming Miao; et al. Plants 2025. doi:10.3390/plants14213331
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- Intervention effect Compared with conventional tillage, deep straw incorporation increased maize root length by 16.46%.
- Intervention effect Compared with conventional tillage, deep straw incorporation increased maize root surface area by 23.87%.
- Intervention effect Compared with conventional tillage, deep straw incorporation increased maize root volume by 26.64%.
- Intervention effect Compared with conventional tillage, deep straw incorporation increased the maize root-shoot ratio by 51.34%.
- Intervention effect Compared with conventional tillage, deep straw incorporation increased maize root bleeding intensity by 23.63%.
- Intervention effect Compared with conventional tillage, deep straw incorporation increased the amino acid content of maize bleeding sap by 29.20%.
- Intervention effect Compared with conventional tillage, deep straw incorporation increased the nitrate content of maize bleeding sap by 65.93%.
- Intervention effect Compared with conventional tillage, deep straw incorporation increased maize chlorophyll SPAD value by 16.05%.
- Intervention effect Compared with conventional tillage, deep straw incorporation increased maize net photosynthetic rate (Pn) by 11.28%.
- Intervention effect Compared with conventional tillage, deep straw incorporation increased maize RuBP activity by 10.59%.
- Intervention effect Compared with conventional tillage, deep straw incorporation increased maize PEP activity by 24.36%.
- Intervention effect Compared with conventional tillage, deep straw incorporation increased maize nitrate reductase (NR) activity by 29.94%.
- Intervention effect Compared with conventional tillage, deep straw incorporation increased maize glutamine synthetase (GS) activity by 12.47%.
- Intervention effect Compared with conventional tillage, deep straw incorporation increased maize nitrogen accumulation at the R3 stage by 26.61%.
- Intervention effect Compared with conventional tillage, deep straw incorporation increased maize dry matter accumulation at the R3 stage by 15.67%.
- Intervention effect Compared with conventional tillage, deep straw incorporation raised average maize yield by 8.34%.
- Intervention effect Compared with conventional tillage, deep straw incorporation increased maize 100-grain weight by 11.96%.
- Association Random forest analysis identified sap nitrate content, bleeding intensity, root length and root volume as key determinants of maize yield.
- Mechanism PLS-SEM showed that straw return enhanced maize root morphology and bleeding traits (path coefficients 0.96 and 0.82), which improved leaf photosynthetic traits (0.52 and 0.39) and biomass accumulation (0.71).