Claim · model-written summary
Moldboard plow gave greater microaggregate stability (<63 µm) than no-tillage and strip-tillage.
- Treatment
- MPe1
- Outcome
- microaggregate stabilitye1
- Direction
- greatere1
- Qualifier
- <63 µme1
- Comparator
- NT and STe1
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Verbatim
e0“Mean maize yield over 2 years was higher in ST (10.70 Mg ha − 1 ) and MP (10.65 Mg ha − 1 ) than in NT (8.45 Mg ha − 1 )”
e1“Macroaggregate stability (>250 µm) was greater under NT and ST, whereas MP had greater microaggregate stability (<63 µm)”
Title
Sujani De Silva; Christine Booth; Deepak Ghimire; et al. Soil Science Society of America Journal 2026. doi:10.1002/saj2.70273
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Strip-tillage gave higher two-year mean maize yield than no-tillage.
- Intervention effect Moldboard plow gave higher two-year mean maize yield than no-tillage.
- Intervention effect No-tillage and strip-tillage improved soil organic matter, organic carbon and microbial activity relative to moldboard plow.
- Intervention effect Macroaggregate stability (>250 µm) was greater under no-tillage and strip-tillage.
- Association Mean CO2 emissions did not differ among tillage systems.
- Intervention effect N2O emissions were higher under no-tillage and strip-tillage than under moldboard plow.
- Recommendation Strip-tillage is recommended because it gives the benefit of localized tillage along crop rows while preserving no-tillage conditions between rows.