Abstract Aims The home-field advantage (HFA) hypothesis predicts faster decomposition of plant residues in home soil compared to soils with different plants ( away ), and has been demonstrated forest grassland ecosystems. It remains unclear if this legacy effect applies crop residue arable rotations. Such knowledge could improve our understanding dynamics may allow optimisation amendments syste...

Conservation agriculture (CA) involving zero tillage, crop diversification, and residue retention is considered a panacea for several interrelated problems in agricultural production. However, the mixed crop-livestock production systems of drylands, residues have great significance as sources animal feed, posing major challenge promotion CA. While economic benefits drivers adoption tillage rota...

Information on the effect of long-term management on soil nutrients and chemical properties is scanty. We examined the 30-year effect of tillage frequency and cropping sequence combination on dryland soil Olsen-P, K, Ca, Mg, Na, SO4-S, and Zn concentrations, pH, electrical conductivity (EC), and cation exchange capacity (CEC) at the 0-120 cm depth and annualized crop yield in the northern Great...

Physical, chemical and biological attributes of soil surface are significantly affected by tillage practices and crop rotation. The objective of this study was to determine the short-term (2006-2009) effects of conventional and conservational tillage practices on selected soil physical properties of a heavy clay soil under two wheat-corn and wheatlegume rotation in a semi-arid Mediterranean...

The effect of autohydrolysis (AH) temperature (165 °C, 195 225 °C) on the structure, purity, and recovery yield cellulose residue isolated after additional alkaline bleaching steps from wheat straw, was investigated. processes were quantified for mass yields in different antioxidants sugars release during AH. AH at °C allowed highest (83.5%) with purity (∼70%) structure similar to other residue...

Wheat ( Triticum spp .) gluten consists mainly of intrinsincally disordered storage proteins (glutenins and gliadins) that can form megadalton-sized networks. These networks are responsible for the unique viscoelastic properties wheat dough affect quality bread. have not yet been studied by molecular level simulations. Here, we use a newly developed α -C-based coarse-grained model to study ∼ 40...

With increased cropping intensity, one would expect that more crop residue and C would be added to the Soil C sequestration can improve soil quality and reduce agriculsoil than with a crop-fallow system (Campbell et al., ture’s contribution to CO2 emissions. The long-term (12 yr) effects of tillage system and N fertilization on crop residue production and 1995, 2000b; Janzen et al., 1998a; Pete...

this study evaluated direct drilling planters used for wheat cultivation in khorasan-e razavi province. a randomized complete block design with three replications was used. the treatments were direct drilling of wheat plants into wheat residue using the following direct planters: (1) sfoggia (13-25), (2) baldan (spd3000), (3) tondar (spd 2500), (4) semeato (shm 11/13). the parameters measured w...