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air-filled porosity was higher under no tillage than conventional ploughing in topsoil.
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e0“Results show differences in soil parameters primarily in the top soil where aggregate stability, bulk density, air-filled porosity, plant-available water, nitrogen and phosphorus contents were higher in NT than in CP.”
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No-tillage farming, soil fertility and maize root growth
Margarita L. Himmelbauer; Monika Sobotik; Willibald Loiskandl Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science 2012. doi:10.1080/03650340.2012.695867
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect aggregate stability was higher under no tillage than conventional ploughing in topsoil.
- Intervention effect bulk density was higher under no tillage than conventional ploughing in topsoil.
- Intervention effect plant-available water was higher under no tillage than conventional ploughing in topsoil.
- Intervention effect nitrogen and phosphorus contents was higher under no tillage than conventional ploughing in topsoil.
- Observation Maize roots spread widely in the ploughed field.
- Intervention effect Maize root growth was deeper in the no-tillage field than the ploughed field.
- Intervention effect Maize shoot growth was better under no tillage than conventional ploughing.
- Intervention effect Maize yields were higher under no tillage than conventional ploughing.