Claim · model-written summary
Tillage practices and straw return increased maize yield versus conventional tillage without straw.
- Treatment
- tillage practices and straw returninge0
- Outcome
- maize yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- CK treatmente0
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Verbatim
e0“both tillage practices and straw returning increased maize yield and the 15N fertilizer recovery rate, accompanied by improvements in the soil water content (SWC) and regulation of soil temperature changes, as compared to the CK treatment”
Title
Fang Song; Ming Liu; Zhongxue Zhang; et al. Agricultural Water Management 2024. doi:10.1016/j.agwat.2024.108687
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Intervention effect Tillage practices and straw return increased fertilizer recovery versus CK.
- Intervention effect RM increased total fertilizer recovery by 15.23% relative to NM.
- Intervention effect RM increased total fertilizer recovery by 23.46% relative to RR.
- Intervention effect RM reduced fertilizer losses by 14.99% versus NM.
- Intervention effect RM reduced fertilizer losses by 25.12% versus RR.
- Intervention effect RM increased maize yield by 3.10% in 2021 versus RR.
- Intervention effect RM increased maize yield by 1.97% in 2022 versus RR.
- Intervention effect RM increased maize yield by 2.06% in 2021 versus NM, without a significant difference.
- Intervention effect RM increased maize yield by 0.91% in 2022 versus NM, without a significant difference.
- Intervention effect RM increased soil water content by 7.99% in 2021 versus NM.
- Intervention effect RM increased soil water content by 5.74% in 2021 versus RR.
- Intervention effect RM increased soil water content by 8.09% in 2022 versus NM.
- Intervention effect RM increased soil water content by 5.50% in 2022 versus RR.
- Intervention effect At 60–80 DAS, RM soil temperature was lower than NM and RR in both years.
- Intervention effect At 100–140 DAS, RM soil temperature was higher than NM and RR in both years.
- Recommendation The authors identify RM as the most suitable tillage and straw-return method in the Mollisol region of northeast China.