Soil microbial population as affected by tillage and rice cultivation modes in Stagnic Anthrosols and Lateritic Red Earth soils in Southern China
The microbial population (MP) is considered to be a relatively important part of soil health, quality, and productivity. Therefore, this study aimed to access the effects of tillage and rice cultivation modes on soil MP in Stagnic Anthrosols and Lateritic Red Earth soils. The treatments were as foll...
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| description | The microbial population (MP) is considered to be a relatively important part of soil health, quality, and productivity. Therefore, this study aimed to access the effects of tillage and rice cultivation modes on soil MP in Stagnic Anthrosols and Lateritic Red Earth soils. The treatments were as follows: (i) MDS: land tilled twice with a moldboard plow and hill-seeding of pregerminated seeds with a direct seeding machine of four to six seeds per hill at a planting space of 25 × 15 cm, (ii) RDS: land tilled twice with a rotary tiller and hill-seeding of pregerminated seeds with a direct seeding machine of four to six seeds per hill at a planting space of 25 × 15 cm, (iii) MMT: land tilled twice with a moldboard plow and 15-day-old seedlings were mechanically transplanted with a transplanting machine at a transplanting hill of four to six seedlings and at a transplanting space of 25 × 15 cm, and (iv) RMT: land tilled twice with a rotary tiller and 15-day-old seedlings were mechanically transplanted with a transplanting machine at a transplanting hill of four to six seedlings and a transplanting space of 25 × 15 cm. The findings showed that MDS improved the MP and increases rice yield. MDS showed a high increase in MP in both locations and the rice productivity of 32.81% (1H; first harvest) and 13.91% (2H; second harvest) and 16.48% (1H) and 18.13% (2H) for Zeng-Cheng and Yi-Yang, respectively. In conclusion, MDS was found to be better in improving the MP and increasing rice yield and could be adopted as a suitable approach for improving soil health, quality, and productivity. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2f72fb6ee45e4c56903f13173e8589e82022-12-22T04:30:09ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Soil Science2673-86192022-10-01210.3389/fsoil.2022.10208141020814Soil microbial population as affected by tillage and rice cultivation modes in Stagnic Anthrosols and Lateritic Red Earth soils in Southern ChinaEvans Asenso0Evans Asenso1Zhimin Wang2Tian Kai3Jiuhao Li4Lian Hu5College of Water Conservancy and Civil Engineering, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, ChinaDepartment of Agricultural Engineering, School of Engineering Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, GhanaCollege of Engineering, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, ChinaNational Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen, Shenzhen, ChinaCollege of Water Conservancy and Civil Engineering, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, ChinaCollege of Engineering, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, ChinaThe microbial population (MP) is considered to be a relatively important part of soil health, quality, and productivity. Therefore, this study aimed to access the effects of tillage and rice cultivation modes on soil MP in Stagnic Anthrosols and Lateritic Red Earth soils. The treatments were as follows: (i) MDS: land tilled twice with a moldboard plow and hill-seeding of pregerminated seeds with a direct seeding machine of four to six seeds per hill at a planting space of 25 × 15 cm, (ii) RDS: land tilled twice with a rotary tiller and hill-seeding of pregerminated seeds with a direct seeding machine of four to six seeds per hill at a planting space of 25 × 15 cm, (iii) MMT: land tilled twice with a moldboard plow and 15-day-old seedlings were mechanically transplanted with a transplanting machine at a transplanting hill of four to six seedlings and at a transplanting space of 25 × 15 cm, and (iv) RMT: land tilled twice with a rotary tiller and 15-day-old seedlings were mechanically transplanted with a transplanting machine at a transplanting hill of four to six seedlings and a transplanting space of 25 × 15 cm. The findings showed that MDS improved the MP and increases rice yield. MDS showed a high increase in MP in both locations and the rice productivity of 32.81% (1H; first harvest) and 13.91% (2H; second harvest) and 16.48% (1H) and 18.13% (2H) for Zeng-Cheng and Yi-Yang, respectively. In conclusion, MDS was found to be better in improving the MP and increasing rice yield and could be adopted as a suitable approach for improving soil health, quality, and productivity.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoil.2022.1020814/fullmicrobial populationdirect seedingrice cultivation modespregerminated seedssoil health and quality |
| spellingShingle | Evans Asenso Evans Asenso Zhimin Wang Tian Kai Jiuhao Li Lian Hu Soil microbial population as affected by tillage and rice cultivation modes in Stagnic Anthrosols and Lateritic Red Earth soils in Southern China Frontiers in Soil Science microbial population direct seeding rice cultivation modes pregerminated seeds soil health and quality |
| title | Soil microbial population as affected by tillage and rice cultivation modes in Stagnic Anthrosols and Lateritic Red Earth soils in Southern China |
| title_full | Soil microbial population as affected by tillage and rice cultivation modes in Stagnic Anthrosols and Lateritic Red Earth soils in Southern China |
| title_fullStr | Soil microbial population as affected by tillage and rice cultivation modes in Stagnic Anthrosols and Lateritic Red Earth soils in Southern China |
| title_full_unstemmed | Soil microbial population as affected by tillage and rice cultivation modes in Stagnic Anthrosols and Lateritic Red Earth soils in Southern China |
| title_short | Soil microbial population as affected by tillage and rice cultivation modes in Stagnic Anthrosols and Lateritic Red Earth soils in Southern China |
| title_sort | soil microbial population as affected by tillage and rice cultivation modes in stagnic anthrosols and lateritic red earth soils in southern china |
| topic | microbial population direct seeding rice cultivation modes pregerminated seeds soil health and quality |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoil.2022.1020814/full |
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