Claim · model-written summary
Plowing tillage with straw returning significantly increased maize yield and N, P and K accumulation by 7.5%, 6.1%, 13.3% and 13.6% respectively compared with rotary tillage with straw returning.
- Treatment
- PTSRe1
- Outcome
- yield and N, P, and K accumulatione1
- Direction
- increasede1
- Value
- 7.5%, 6.1%, 13.3% and 13.6%e1
- Comparator
- RTSRe1
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Verbatim
e1“Compared with RTSR, PTSR significantly increased the yield and N, P, and K accumulation by 4.0%, 19.5%, 19.6%, and 7.0% in wheat, respectively, and 7.5%, 6.1%, 13.3% and 13.6% in maize”
Title
Ming Huang; Huishu Xiao; Jun Zhang; et al. Agronomy 2025. doi:10.3390/agronomy15020363
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- Intervention effect Tillage methods and straw management significantly affected wheat, maize and annual yield during the experimental years.
- Intervention effect Rotary tillage significantly increased wheat yield by 9.5% compared with no-tillage.
- Intervention effect Rotary tillage significantly increased maize K accumulation by 5.8% compared with no-tillage.
- Intervention effect Plowing tillage significantly increased wheat K accumulation by 11.1% compared with no-tillage.
- Intervention effect Plowing tillage significantly increased maize yield by 6.3% compared with no-tillage.
- Intervention effect Plowing tillage significantly increased maize N accumulation by 7.8% compared with no-tillage.
- Intervention effect Plowing tillage significantly increased maize P accumulation by 8.9% compared with no-tillage.
- Intervention effect Plowing tillage significantly increased maize K accumulation by 5.3% compared with no-tillage.
- Intervention effect Plowing tillage with straw returning significantly increased wheat yield and N, P and K accumulation by 4.0%, 19.5%, 19.6% and 7.0% respectively compared with rotary tillage with straw returning.
- Intervention effect Plowing tillage significantly increased wheat yield and K accumulation compared with rotary tillage.
- Intervention effect Plowing tillage significantly increased maize yield and N and P accumulation compared with rotary tillage.
- Intervention effect Plowing tillage with straw returning significantly increased wheat yield and N, P and K accumulation compared with no-tillage with straw returning.
- Intervention effect Plowing tillage with straw returning did not affect maize yield and nutrient accumulation compared with no-tillage with straw returning.
- Intervention effect Rotary tillage with straw returning significantly increased wheat yield compared with no-tillage with straw returning.
- Intervention effect Rotary tillage with straw returning significantly decreased maize yield and N, P and K accumulation compared with no-tillage with straw returning.
- Intervention effect Under the same tillage method, straw returning significantly increased crop yield and N, P and K accumulation by 2.4-25.4%, 8.5-43.3%, 12.9-37.8% and 11.0-51.0% respectively compared with zero straw returning.
- Intervention effect Straw returning significantly reduced wheat K internal efficiency and maize N, P and K internal efficiency compared with zero straw returning.
- Intervention effect The effectiveness of straw management on crop yield and N, P and K accumulation was greater than that of tillage methods.
- Recommendation The authors conclude that plowing tillage combined with straw returning is an effective tactic to promote crop yield in the dryland wheat-maize double-cropping system.