Abstract
The diffusion of no-tillage (NT) is to be encouraged because of the benefits it can provide in terms of improving soil fertility and counteracting global warming and climate change as part of climate-smart agriculture practices. However, the introduction of this management can be difficult, especially in the first years of application, and can lead to unpredictable yield results depending on the soil type. Therefore, the aim of this experiment was to evaluate the early effect of NT use, compared to the conventional mouldboard ploughing (CT), on two different soils, a clay-loam (GAL) and a sandy-clay-loam soil (SMA), by monitoring a set of 43 different soil and plant variables that were expected to vary with tillage and/or soil type. At both experimental sites, NT showed lower wheat total biomass (−29%) and grain yields (−17%) than CT with a more pronounced decrease in GAL than in SMA. Yield differences were accompanied by modifications in nutrient, microbial community and soil enzyme activity dynamics which highlighted higher stress in GAL, than in SMA soil, attributable to lower crop residues decomposition and substrate availability. Therefore, our findings suggest that the negative consequences due to the transition to NT depend on specific soil characteristics, like texture and organic matter concentration, with different repercussions on soil quality as well as on wheat growth and productivity.
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Claim · model-written summary
No-till reduced wheat total biomass by 29% relative to conventional ploughing at both sites.
- Taxon
- Durum Wheat
Triticum turgidum subsp. durumt0 - Treatment
- NTe0
- Outcome
- wheat total biomasse0
- Direction
- lowere0
- Value
- −29%e0
- Comparator
- CTe0
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Verbatim
e0“At both experimental sites, NT showed lower wheat total biomass (−29%) and grain yields (−17%) than CT”
e1“conventional mouldboard ploughing (CT)”
t0“Durum Wheat”
Claim · model-written summary
No-till reduced wheat grain yield by 17% relative to conventional ploughing at both sites.
- Taxon
- Durum WheatTriticum turgidum subsp. durumt0
- Treatment
- NTe0
- Outcome
- grain yieldse0
- Direction
- lowere0
- Value
- −17%e0
- Comparator
- CTe0
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Verbatim
e0“At both experimental sites, NT showed lower wheat total biomass (−29%) and grain yields (−17%) than CT”
t0“Durum Wheat”
Claim · model-written summary
The no-till yield decrease was more pronounced in GAL than SMA.
- Taxon
- Durum WheatTriticum turgidum subsp. durumt0
- Outcome
- Yield differencese2
- Direction
- more pronounced decreasee0
- Comparator
- SMAe0
- Setting
- GALe0
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Verbatim
e0“with a more pronounced decrease in GAL than in SMA”
e1“a clay-loam (GAL) and a sandy-clay-loam soil (SMA)”
e2“Yield differences”
t0“Durum Wheat”
Claim · model-written summary
Nutrient, microbial community and soil enzyme activity dynamics indicated higher stress in GAL than SMA soil.
- Taxon
- Durum WheatTriticum turgidum subsp. durumt0
- Outcome
- nutrient, microbial community and soil enzyme activity dynamicse0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- SMA soile0
- Setting
- GALe0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“modifications in nutrient, microbial community and soil enzyme activity dynamics which highlighted higher stress in GAL, than in SMA soil”
t0“Durum Wheat”
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