Improvement of nutritional quality of food crops with fertilizer: a global meta-analysis

M Ishfaq, Y Wang, J Xu, MU Hassan, H Yuan… - Agronomy for …, 2023 - Springer
Providing the world's population with sufficient and nutritious food through sustainable food
systems is a major challenge of the twenty-first century. Fertilizer use is a major driver of crop …

Mineral vs. organic amendments: microbial community structure, activity and abundance of agriculturally relevant microbes are driven by long-term fertilization …

D Francioli, E Schulz, G Lentendu, T Wubet… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Soil management is fundamental to all agricultural systems and fertilization practices have
contributed substantially to the impressive increases in food production. Despite the pivotal …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of conservation tillage on soil enzyme activities of global cultivated land: A meta-analysis

L Wen, Y Peng, Y Zhou, G Cai, Y Lin, B Li - Journal of Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
The negative impacts of conventional agriculture and the imperative to adopt conservation
tillage garnered significant attention. However, the effects of conservation tillage on soil …

Influence of green manure and rice straw management on soil organic carbon, enzyme activities, and rice yield in red paddy soil

T Li, J Gao, L Bai, Y Wang, J Huang, M Kumar… - Soil and Tillage …, 2019 - Elsevier
Both the quantity and quality of organic amendments can influence the accumulation of soil
organic carbon (SOC) and agroecosystem functioning. However, the evidences of the effect …

Effects of 15 years of manure and mineral fertilizers on enzyme activities in particle-size fractions in a North China Plain soil

Q Liang, H Chen, Y Gong, H Yang, M Fan… - European Journal of Soil …, 2014 - Elsevier
Soil organic matter (SOM) and enzymes are essential for nutrient cycling, and are
considered as important indicators of soil quality. The effects of organic and mineral …

Reduced tillage and increased residue retention increase enzyme activity and carbon and nitrogen concentrations in soil particle size fractions in a long-term field …

H Chen, Q Liang, Y Gong, Y Kuzyakov, M Fan… - Soil and Tillage …, 2019 - Elsevier
Soil organic matter (SOM) concentration and enzyme activity are important biochemical
indicators of soil health for assessing the sustainability of agricultural management …

Soil microbial communities and enzyme activities after long-term application of inorganic and organic fertilizers at different depths of the soil profile

L Holík, L Hlisnikovský, R Honzík, J Trögl, H Burdová… - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
Fertilization is a key factor for sustaining productivity in agroecosystems. A long-term
experiment in cambisol following periodical application of several types of fertilization has …

Long-term application of bioorganic fertilizers improved soil biochemical properties and microbial communities of an apple orchard soil

L Wang, F Yang, YE, J Yuan, W Raza… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Soil biochemical properties and microbial communities are usually considered as important
indicators of soil health because of their association with plant nutrition. In this study, we …

Long-term effect of tillage, rotation and nitrogen fertiliser on soil quality in a Mediterranean Vertisol

S Melero, RJ López-Bellido, L López-Bellido… - Soil and tillage …, 2011 - Elsevier
Studies of the impacts of the interactions of soil agricultural practices on soil quality could
assist with assessment of better management to establish sustainable crop production …

Organic fertilization drives shifts in microbiome complexity and keystone taxa increase the resistance of microbial mediated functions to biodiversity loss

J Luo, S Banerjee, Q Ma, G Liao, B Hu, H Zhao… - Biology and Fertility of …, 2023 - Springer
Long-term intensive fertilization profoundly alters soil properties including microbial diversity
and co-occurrence associations, but little is known about the relative and combined …