Agricultural and Biological Sciences
2 years ago

No-tillage boosts crop yields in arid regions with fertilization.

Soil Ecology Letters
No tillage outperforms conventional tillage under arid conditions and following fertilization
Stavros D. Veresoglou, Junjiang Chen, Xuheng Du, Qi Fu, QingLiu Geng, Chenyan Huang, Xilin Huang, Nan Hu, Yiming Hun, Guolin C. Li, Zhiman Lin, Zhiyu Ma, Yuyi Ou, Shuo Qi, Haitian Qin, Yingbo Qiu, Xibin Sun, Tao Ye, YiLing Tian, Jie Wang, Lingxiao Wu, Ziwei Wu, Siqi Xie, Ao Yang, Dan Yang, Chen Zeng, Ying Zeng, RuJie Zhang

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