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Maize plays a crucial role in China’s grain production, with a cultivation area reaching 44.22 million hectares and an annual yield of 289 million tons in 2023. However, the challenge remains on how to further increase maize yield and water use...

Brackish water has been utilized extensively in agriculture around the world to cope with the global water deficit, but soil salt accumulation caused by brackish water irrigation cannot be ignored. Straw incorporation has been confirmed an effective...

Secondary salinization induced by brackish water irrigation has forced agricultural development to increasingly rely on soil management. A two-year field experiment was conducted to explore the effects of different straw incorporation rates (SIRs) wi...

Farmland soil water-soluble organic carbon (WSOC), serving as a labile carbon substrate for microbial utilization, demonstrates pronounced sensitivity to land-use modifications and agricultural management practices. This study systematically investig...

Water shortage and excessive chemical fertilizers application result in low soil water and nutrient availability and limit crop production in the Loess Plateau of Northwest China. Ammoniated straw incorporation with N fertilization may be an efficien...

Straw is widely incorporated into conservation agriculture around the world. However, its effects on greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) and nitrogen dynamics under soils formed by the long-term application of different amounts of nitrogen (N) fertilizer...

Returning crop residues to soil is fundamental to sustainable agriculture, yet its adoption in cold-climate regions is hampered by an agronomic paradox: surface mulching conserves water but suppresses the spring soil temperatures required for crop es...

Returning crop straw to soil can potentially improve soil health and crop production, facilitating sustainable agriculture. However, the effects of straw incorporation with various tillage management techniques combined with nitrogen (N) regimes on c...

Diminishing soil fertility and crop productivity due to traditional intensive cultivation has prompted the use of straw and manure to improve soil health in Northeast China. However, few comparative studies have explored the influence of varying stra...

Straw incorporation and manure are recognized as a sustainable farming practice to enhance soil fertility and improve crop yields. However, the effects of straw incorporation in combination with manure on productivity, soil nutrient status, N use eff...

Reducing fertilizer-N rate, applying a nitrification inhibitor (NI), and incorporating straw are widely recommended to improve N use efficiency of crops and decrease N losses. A field ¹⁵N tracer study was conducted to compare their effectiveness on f...

Straw incorporation, as a widely recommended agronomic practice, has been continuously enhancing global crop production and soil–water conservation. However, the absence of a direct predictive capability for the long-term residual biomass of in...

Chronic overapplication of inorganic fertilizers decreases crop yields and water use efficiency (WUE). This study aimed to assess the impact of substituting inorganic fertilizer with nitrogen supplied from maize stover (S) on soil physical properties...

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are widely present in heavy metal-polluted soils, but their effects on straw degradation and plant growth of rotated crops are poorly understood. In this study, a pot experiment was used to simulate the return of fo...

This study developed an innovative model integrating straw subsoil deep burial (SD) and mixing plow to mitigate albic soil’s physical and chemical constraints and enhance crop yield. A field experiment with four treatments, including convention...

To determine the effects of straw incorporation on soil nutrients, enzyme activity, and aggregates in tobacco fields, we conducted experiments with different amounts of wheat and maize straw in Zhucheng area of southeast Shandong province for three y...

Exploring suitable maize straw-return measures is essential for the new double-cropping system of maize (Zea mays L.)–rice (Oryza sativa L.) rotation in the middle reaches of Yangtze River in China, which can increase crop yield by improving so...

Surface mulch is an efficient plant production technique widely used in arid and water-scarce areas. In this study, a field experiment was conducted to determine whether plastic film combined with wheat straw returning could boost grain yield of maiz...

Tillage practices can regulate soil environmental factors and, thus, affect crop yield. Farmers’ acceptance of this is not high because of a lack of awareness, and, in the dryland farming region of the Longdong Loess Plateau in China, the lack...

This study hypothesized that different base fertilizer application has different effects on improving the efficiency of maize water utilization and promoting maize growth. Utilizing field positioning sloping farmland micro-zone experiments, six disti...

Soil organic matter (SOM), soil aggregates, and soil microbes play key roles in agriculture soil fertility. In intercropping systems, the influences of straw incorporation and N input on the dynamics of soil physicochemical and microbial properties a...

Straw incorporation offers significant advantages in agricultural crop cultivation systems. Mechanized methods constitute the predominant approach, potentially reducing yield costs and enhancing operational efficiency. The imperative to enhance the q...

Straw incorporation is known as an environmentally friendly agricultural practice that can effectively enhance soil nutrient contents and crop yields; its potential to suppress soil-borne disease has also been reported in recent years. Here, we perfo...

Microbial residual carbon is an important component in soil carbon pool stability. Here, we tested soils collected from the early (first year, R1), middle (10 years, R10), and long-term (30 years, R30) stages of reclamation in a coal mining area in C...

Conservation tillage is widely recognized as an important way to improve soil quality, ensure food security and mitigate climate change. However, relatively little attention has been paid to the subject in terms of sustainable evaluation of environme...

Long-term intensive cultivation has caused soil fertility decline and structural degradation in the Songnen Plain, thereby constraining maize root development and yield formation. As a fundamental conservation tillage practice, straw return enhances...

Straw return is an effective measure to increase soil sustainability. However, few studies have examined the effects of different straw return methods on soil structure, soil organic carbon content and maize yield or the potential relationships betwe...

This study investigates the effects of different tillage practices on soil quality and maize yield in black soil farmland. Based on an eight-year continuous field plot experiment initiated in 2017, we examined the impacts of five tillage methods: con...

A multi-parameter optimization-based design method for soil-mixing blades was proposed to address the issue of excessive straw residue in the seeding layer after maize straw incorporation. A discrete element model simulating the interaction between t...

Continuous potato monoculture leads to yield decline, soil degradation, and increased soil-borne disease incidence. This study evaluated the potential of crop rotation to mitigate these issues by examining its effects on potato performance, soil chem...

Soil amendments may enhance crop yield and quality by increasing soil nutrient levels and improving nutrient absorption efficiency, potentially through beneficial microbial interactions. In this work, the effects of amending soil with straw-based car...

A field experiment was designed to assess the impacts of various maize straw (stover) returning methods on the basic soil physicochemical properties and soil quality index in Jilin (NE China). The five treatments were no return of straw residues (CK)...

Incorporating carbon footprints into the production efficiency framework to construct a standardized technology model for cleaner production in black soil regions is of great significance for improving the soil environment and the sustainable develop...

The characterization of soil physicochemical properties and the resulting soil enzyme activity changes are crucial for understanding the effects of various tillage and straw management techniques on crop grain yield. In 2018–2019, we conducted...

Pesticide residues pose risks to the environment and human health. Little is known about how tillage and straw management affect herbicide behavior in soil. This study investigated the effects of different tillage practices under varying straw incorp...

Adoption of crop residue amendments has been increasingly recommended as an effective management practice for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions while enhancing soil fertility, thereby increasing crop production. However, the effect of biochar and s...

Straw returning is an environmentally friendly method to improve soil health and agricultural productivity by reusing organic waste products. However, fields are often also treated with inorganic fertilizers, and the effect of the interaction between...

Drip fertigation with reduced fertilizer and water inputs has been widely used in greenhouse vegetable production in China. However, farmers usually do not apply additional organic material with a high carbon content, although soil organic carbon (SO...

Appropriate agronomic management is vital for the soil fertility and crop output of coastal salt-affected farmlands. Cattle manure incorporation and straw mulching are targeted as effective methods that can improve soil structure and stimulate crop g...

Enhancing chlorophyll retention in maize leaves and prolonging the grain-filling duration constitute critical strategies for yield improvement in agricultural production systems. This study investigated the mechanistic relationship between yield enha...

Residue management at the farm level is essential for ensuring sustainable agricultural productivity. This field experiment, initiated in 2005, provides maize data from 2016 to 2018. This study evaluates the impact of crop residue management and fert...

The progressive replacement of conventional plastic films with biodegradable alternatives in agricultural systems has led to the accumulation of diverse plastic residues in soils, exerting documented impacts on microbial-mediated ecological processes...

Maize production in Fuxin City, Liaoning Province, China, is threatened by northern corn leaf blight (NCLB) and Fusarium stalk rot, with straw return under conservation tillage exacerbating the NCLB severity by 20% in local fields. This study evaluat...

In the waxy maize production of Zhejiang Province, China, conventional straw management often causes planting difficulties and nutrient competition. Although no-till with straw retention is known to benefit soil structure, its long-term impacts on lo...

Using a sample of 1166 maize-planting farmers from Liaoning province in China, in this paper, we provide a new explanation for the slow-proliferation situation of straw return. Both our theoretical and empirical results indicate that the low rate of...

Nitrogen fertilizer is an important component of crop production; however, its excessive application could result in N loss that could have serious environmental concerns. Straw incorporation in the soil after crop harvest is one of the most feasible...

Reducing the use of nitrogen fertilizers and returning straw to field are being promoted in northeast China (NEC). In this paper, the agricultural production system model (APSIM) was applied to assess the long-term variations of crop yield and soil G...

The study, conducted to evaluate the effects of long-term straw management combined with the application of increasing nitrogen rates on the yield of twenty winter wheat varieties, as well as on soil properties, was carried out in a long-term field t...

Enhancing soil stability through the incorporation of straw and biochar is well documented. Nevertheless, the combined impact of straw, biochar, and nitrogen supplementation on soil aggregates and organic carbon still needs to be explored, with limit...

Nitrogen (N) and water are key resources for crop production and improving the efficiency with which they are used remains a major global challenge in intensive cropping systems. Here, we report how crop yield, N and water use efficiency, N surplus,...