Claim · model-written summary
No-till with straw retention increased the soil quality index by 11.3% versus rotary tillage with straw retention.
- Treatment
- NTSRe0
- Outcome
- SQI indexe0
- Direction
- highere0
- Value
- 11.3%e0
- Qualifier
- 0–10 cm soil layere0
- Comparator
- RTSRe0
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Verbatim
e0“NTSR improved the SQI index by 22.4% and 11.3% higher than PTSR and RTSR, respectively, within the 0–10 cm soil layer”
e1“maize yield under different tillage practices”
Title
Wen‐Sheng Liu; Zhang‐Hua Zhu; Zhi‐Gang Lu; et al. Land Degradation and Development 2024. doi:10.1002/ldr.5249
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect No-till with straw retention increased the soil quality index by 22.4% versus plough tillage with straw retention.
- Association Soil quality improvement correlated with maize yield.
- Association Soil depth and tillage significantly affected microbial community composition.
- Intervention effect Conservation tillage increased arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis abundance by 78.6%–460.3% versus plough and rotary tillage with straw retention.
- Intervention effect Conservation tillage decreased saprophytic fungal abundance by 27.5%–28.3% versus plough and rotary tillage with straw retention.
- Association Bacterial-dominated Module 2 was associated with lower soil quality in the 0–10 cm layer.