Claim · model-written summary
Conservation tillage improved soil organic carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus properties over conventional tillage.
- Taxon
- spring wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- conservation tillage systemse1
- Outcome
- organic carbon, light fraction organic carbon, carbon storagee0
- Direction
- improvede1
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Verbatim
e0“organic carbon, light fraction organic carbon, carbon storage, microbial biomass carbon, total nitrogen, available nitrogen storage, microbial biomass nitrogen, total phosphorous, available phosphorous”
e1“these conservation tillage systems notably improved the soil properties”
t0“spring wheat”
Title
Mahran Sadiq; Nasir Rahim; Majid Mahmood Tahir; et al. Frontiers in Microbiology 2024. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2024.1356426
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Intervention effect Conservation tillage significantly increased wheat plant height, spikes per plant and seeds per square meter relative to conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect Conservation tillage significantly increased wheat root, aboveground biomass and dry matter yields relative to conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect Conservation tillage significantly increased wheat thousand-grain weight and grain yield relative to conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect Conservation tillage improved soil water content, pore space and water storage over conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect Conservation tillage improved soil potassium, microbial counts and measured soil enzyme activities over conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect Conservation tillage lowered soil temperature and bulk density relative to conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect Conservation tillage showed non-significant effects on soil electrical conductivity, pH and stoichiometric ratios.
- Intervention effect NTS reduced greenhouse gas emissions and net global warming potential by 23.44% relative to conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect NT reduced greenhouse gas emissions and net global warming potential by 19.57% relative to conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect CTS reduced greenhouse gas emissions and net global warming potential by 16.54% relative to conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect NTS reduced greenhouse gas intensity by 23.20% relative to conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect NT reduced greenhouse gas intensity by 29.96% relative to conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect CTS reduced greenhouse gas intensity by 18.72% relative to conventional tillage.
- Recommendation The authors recommend NTS to increase yield and improve soil and water conservation and climate resilience.