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Carbon Cycling in Cropping Systems: From Soil to Plant
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Carbon Cycling in Cropping Systems: From Soil to Plant

A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Soil and Plant Nutrition".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 February 2022) | Viewed by 5454

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Xiaorong Wei

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Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
Interests: carbon and nitrogen cycling in ecosystems
Dr. Yufei Yao

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Guest Editor
College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Northwest University, Xi’an 710127, China
Interests: soil biogeochemistry

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The prestigious MDPI journal Agronomy (IF 3.417) (ISSN 2073-4395) is currently running a Special Issue entitled “Carbon Cycling in Cropping Systems: From Soil to Plant (C Cycling from Soil to Plant)”. As we are acting as Guest Editors for this issue, we would like to welcome contributions from various disciplines. We kindly invite you to consider submitting your full paper to this Special Issue.

Agricultural soils are among the largest terrestrial carbon (C) reservoirs and have great potential to mitigate atmospheric CO2. Understanding C cycling processes in cropping systems would improve mechanism understanding and model predicting of the C fate in the agriculture ecosystem and is urgently needed to better assess the role of agriculture within the Earth system. In this Special Issue, a group of leading experts plan to share their innovative ideas from experimental, observational, and modeling perspectives regarding the turnover, stability, and transfer of C from soil to plant in cropping systems, and their responses to human activities and climate change factors from various spatial and temporal scales.

This Special Issue will mainly address the following scientific issues:

(1) How do C emission and sequestration inventories and the C footprint change in different cropping systems?

(2) How does plant C contribute to soil C turnover and how do soil C cycling and related to plant C?

(3) How do environmental stresses and agriculture practices trigger plant response, soil C cycling, and their interaction?

Dr. Xiaorong Wei
Dr. Yufei Yao
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • carbon cycling
  • agriculture ecosystem
  • soil
  • plant
  • plant–soil interaction
  • biogeochemistry

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The Thresholds and Management of Irrigation and Fertilization Earning Yields and Water Use Efficiency in Maize, Wheat, and Rice in China: A Meta-Analysis (1990–2020)
by Zhihong Yang, Yi Hu, Sheng Zhang, Sajjad Raza, Xiaorong Wei and Xiaoning Zhao
Agronomy 2022, 12(3), 709; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12030709 - 15 Mar 2022
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The increases in crop yield in China are linked to massive increases in fertilizer and water input, which have also accelerated the degradation of soil and environmental pollution. Nevertheless, the long-term changes in crop yield and water use efficiency (WUE) of three major [...] Read more.
The increases in crop yield in China are linked to massive increases in fertilizer and water input, which have also accelerated the degradation of soil and environmental pollution. Nevertheless, the long-term changes in crop yield and water use efficiency (WUE) of three major cereals (maize, wheat and rice) in response to field management practices are rarely reported. This meta-analysis evaluated the effect of field management (nitrogen input (N), irrigation, fertilizer type, fertilization frequency, and irrigation method) on crop yield and WUE between 1990 and 2020 based on 3152 observations. We found that the N thresholds for maize, wheat, and rice were 150–200 kg ha−1, 140–210 kg ha−1, and 90–135 kg ha−1, respectively. N fertilization within the threshold levels increased the crop yield and WUE of maize (84% and 74%), wheat (47% and 41%), and rice (55% and 30%). The irrigation (mm) thresholds for maize and wheat were 180–240 mm and 300–400 mm and crop yield and WUE were increased by 37% and 13% for maize and by 84% and 41% for wheat. Agricultural management increased yield and WUE (% and %) through drip irrigation (23 and 13 maize; 31 and 14 wheat), alternate wetting and drying (AWD) (26 and 30 rice), split fertilization (31 and 21 maize; 64 and 40 wheat; 33 and 25 rice) and organic–inorganic fertilizer (43 and 39 maize; 68 and 66 wheat; 38 and 34 rice). With the increase in HI (humidity index) from 10 to 30, the contribution of irrigation to WUE decreased, but that of fertilization increased. This study concludes that N fertilizer and irrigation applications between threshold levels along with suitable field management is a win–win strategy to achieve climate-smart agricultural production with minimum damages to soil and environment and at lower dependence on fertilizer and irrigation. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Carbon Cycling in Cropping Systems: From Soil to Plant)
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