Claim · model-written summary
Aerated irrigation increased soil bacterial biomass, although the reported range is internally inconsistent.
- Treatment
- AIe1
- Outcome
- soil bacterial biomasse0
- Direction
- Increasese0
- Value
- 26.37% to 0.09%e0
- Comparator
- conventional underground drip irrigation (CK)e1
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Verbatim
e0“Increases in soil oxygen content, soil respiration rate, soil bacterial biomass, and soil urease activity were observed, corresponding to increases from 3.08% to 21.34%, 1.90% to 24.71%, 26.37% to 0.09%, and 12.35% to 100.96%, respectively.”
e1“conventional underground drip irrigation (CK) and AI”
t0“maize”
Title
Zhen-zhen Yu; Hong-xuan Wang; De-shui Yu; et al. Frontiers in Plant Science 2024. doi:10.3389/fpls.2024.1464624
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Aerated irrigation increased soil oxygen content by 3.08% to 21.34%.
- Intervention effect Aerated irrigation increased soil respiration rate by 1.90% to 24.71%.
- Intervention effect Aerated irrigation increased soil urease activity by 12.35% to 100.96%.
- Observation The effect of aerated irrigation on maize indicators increased year by year.
- Intervention effect Aerated irrigation enhanced maize root length by 15.56% to 53.79% compared with conventional irrigation.
- Intervention effect Aerated irrigation enhanced maize root surface area by 30.13% to 62.31% compared with conventional irrigation.
- Intervention effect Aerated irrigation enhanced maize root dry weight by 19.23% to 35.64% compared with conventional irrigation.
- Intervention effect Aerated irrigation improved maize agronomic traits and physiological characteristics.
- Intervention effect Aerated irrigation increased maize yield by 1.16% to 14.42%.
- Mechanism Structural equation modeling indicated that aerated irrigation improved maize root indicators through enhanced soil aeration and fertility.