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Conservation tillage: a way to improve yield and soil properties and decrease global warming potential in spring wheat agroecosystems
- Source :
- Frontiers in Microbiology, Vol 15 (2024)
- Publication Year :
- 2024
- Publisher :
- Frontiers Media S.A., 2024.
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Abstract
- Climate change is one of the main challenges, and it poses a tough challenge to the agriculture industry globally. Additionally, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are the main contributor to climate change; however, croplands are a prominent source of GHG emissions. Yet this complex challenge can be mitigated through climate-smart agricultural practices. Conservation tillage is commonly known to preserve soil and mitigate environmental change by reducing GHG emissions. Nonetheless, there is still a paucity of information on the influences of conservation tillage on wheat yield, soil properties, and GHG flux, particularly in the semi-arid Dingxi belt. Hence, in order to fill this gap, different tillage systems, namely conventional tillage (CT) control, straw incorporation with conventional tillage (CTS), no-tillage (NT), and stubble return with no-tillage (NTS), were laid at Dingxi, Gansu province of China, under a randomized complete block design with three replications to examine their impacts on yield, soil properties, and GHG fluxes. Results depicted that different conservative tillage systems (CTS, NTS, and NT) significantly (p
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1664302X and 13601245
- Volume :
- 15
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Frontiers in Microbiology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.43fdd13601245de8d657fce98421517
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2024.1356426