Claim · model-written summary
CSA scenarios raised surface-soil microbial biomass nitrogen by 79% at wheat harvest.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- CSA based scenariose0
- Outcome
- nitrogene0
- Direction
- highere0
- Value
- 79 %e0
- Comparator
- CT based/ conventional scenarioe0
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Verbatim
e0“Significantly higher microbial biomass carbon (42 %) and nitrogen (79 %) were found in surface soil (0−15 cm depth) under CSA based scenarios (Sc2, Sc3 and Sc4) at harvest stage of wheat over CT based/ conventional scenario (Sc1)”
t0“wheat crop growth stages”
Title
H.S. Jat; Madhu Choudhary; Ashim Datta; et al. Soil and Tillage Research 2020. doi:10.1016/j.still.2020.104595
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect CSA scenarios raised surface-soil microbial biomass carbon by 42% at wheat harvest.
- Intervention effect CSA scenarios raised surface-soil alkaline phosphatase activity by 58%.
- Intervention effect CSA scenarios raised surface-soil dehydrogenase activity by 14%.
- Intervention effect CSA scenarios raised surface-soil β-glucosidase activity by 13%.
- Intervention effect CSA scenarios increased carbon mineralization after three days of incubation.
- Intervention effect CSA scenarios increased wheat nitrogen uptake by 15%.
- Intervention effect CSA scenarios increased wheat phosphorus uptake by 48%.
- Intervention effect CSA scenarios increased wheat potassium uptake by 17%.
- Intervention effect Full CSA scenarios had 7% more dry matter than Sc1 at harvest.
- Intervention effect CSA scenarios raised wheat grain yield by approximately 10%.
- Recommendation The authors recommend wider farmer adoption of CSA scenarios.