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Innovative Conservation Cropping Systems and Practices—2nd Edition
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Innovative Conservation Cropping Systems and Practices—2nd Edition

A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Production".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 614

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Lijin Guo

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International Magnesium Institute, College of Resources and Environment, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
Interests: conservation tillage; soil organic carbon; carbon sequestration; soil microbial community; mycorrhizal fungi; abiotic stress; greenhouse gas emission; climate change impact and adaptation
Prof. Dr. Chengfang Li

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MOA Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology and Farming System in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River, College of Plant Science & Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
Interests: conservation tillage; plant fertilization; water-saving irrigation; global warming potential; soil nutrient cycles; soil carbon sequestration; crop yield; soil microbial community; greenhouse gas emission
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Dear Colleagues,

Maintaining economically and environmentally sustainable cropping systems and practices is one of the most imperative challenges in innovative sustainable agriculture. In this view, it is essential to note that the sacrifice of crop yields in the farmland ecosystem may not appeal to farmers who are heavily focused on increasing economic outcomes. Therefore, a deeper understanding of how to innovate cropping systems and practices with the aim of maintaining sustainability in agriculture is of crucial importance. Innovative conservation cropping systems and practices can improve agroecosystems’ productivity, reduce energy input, increase synergies between food production and ecosystem conservation, and increase farmers’ profits.

This Special Issue focuses on the development and assessment of innovative conservation cropping systems and practices for determining system productivity and enhancing crop production and soil quality. “Innovative Conservation Cropping Systems and Practices—2nd Edition” is a continuation of a previous Special Issue and will cover applied engineering for achieving a sustainable balance between productivity, environmental, and profitability factors. The aim is to present a collection of research articles that cover a broad range of cropping systems and practices from farmland ecosystem. All types of articles, e.g., original research, opinions, and reviews, are welcome.

Dr. Lijin Guo
Prof. Dr. Chengfang Li
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • conservation tillage
  • tillage technology
  • conservation crop system
  • soil carbon and nitrogen cycle
  • soil nutrition
  • soil organic carbon
  • soil aggregate
  • crop yield
  • soil microbial diversity
  • greenhouse gas emission
  • resource utilization efficiency
  • economic benefit
  • fertilizer use efficiency

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Land Use Rather than Microplastic Type Determines the Diversity and Structure of Plastisphere Bacterial Communities
by Yangyang Wang, Zixuan Zhang, Shuang Zhang, Wanlin Zhuang, Zhaoji Shi, Ziqiang Liu, Hui Wei and Jiaen Zhang
Agriculture 2025, 15(7), 778; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture15070778 - 3 Apr 2025
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Microplastic (MP) pollution has raised global concerns, and biodegradable plastics have been recommended to replace conventional ones. The “plastisphere” has been considered a hotspot for the interactions among organisms and environments, but the differences in the properties of soil microbial communities in the [...] Read more.
Microplastic (MP) pollution has raised global concerns, and biodegradable plastics have been recommended to replace conventional ones. The “plastisphere” has been considered a hotspot for the interactions among organisms and environments, but the differences in the properties of soil microbial communities in the plastisphere of conventional and biodegradable MPs remain unclear. This in situ experiment was conducted to compare the diversity and structure of the bacterial community in the plastisphere of conventional MPs (polyethylene [PE]) and biodegradable MPs (polylactic acid [PLA]) in vegetable fields, orchards, paddy fields, and woodlands. It was discovered that the bacterial α-diversity within the plastisphere was significantly lower than that in the soil across all land use. Significant differences between plastic types were only found in the vegetable field. Regarding the community composition, the relative abundances of Actinobacteriota (43.2%) and Proteobacteria (70.9%) in the plastisphere were found to exceed those in the soil, while the relative abundances of Acidobacteriota (45.5%) and Chloroflexi (27.8%) in the soil were significantly higher. The complexity of the microbial network within the plastisphere was lower than that of the soil. Compared with the soil, the proportion of dispersal limitation in the PLA plastisphere significantly decreased, with the greatest reduction observed in the vegetable field treatment, where it dropped from 57.72% to 3.81%. These findings indicate that different land use types have a greater impact on bacterial community diversity and structure than plastics themselves, and that biodegradable MPs may pose a greater challenge to the ecological function and health of soil ecosystems than conventional MPs. Full article
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