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040 _aMX-TxCIM
072 0 _aA50
072 0 _aP30
090 _aCIS-3114
100 1 _aLimon-Ortega, A.
245 0 0 _aSoil attributes in a furrow-irrigated bed planting system in northwest Mexico
260 _c2002
340 _aPrinted
500 _aPeer-review: Yes - Open Access: Yes|http://science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=MASTER&ISSN=0167-1987
520 _aIn the Yaqui valley, northwest Mexico, wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is grown as a winter crop followed by maize (Zea mays L.) as a summer crop both planted on beds. Straw of both crops is usually bummed to facilitate seedbed preparation for the succeeding crop. Soil physical and biological attributes were determined from 1996 to 2000 from a study initiated in 1992 at the CIANO (Centro de Investigaciones Agricolas del Noroeste) experiment station. The objective was to compare five treatments: (1) conventional tilled bed (CTB)-straw incorporated, and permanent bed (PB) with (2) straw removed, (3) straw partly removed, (4) straw retained, and (5) straw bummmed-on soil strength, soil structure, and soil microbial biomass carbon (SMB). Seven N treatments were applied to wheat, but for the purpose of this study we chose a subset of three N treatments (0, 150 and 300 kg N ha~l) for measurements. Maize received a uniform application of 150 kg N ha-l each year. Soil strength decreased as the amount of crop residues applied for each tillage-straw treatment increased. Permanent beds-straw bummed treatment had the highest soil strength and CTB-straw incorporated the lowest. The largest soil aggregate fractionation, evaluated with a fractal dimension parameter (D), corresponded to PB-straw bummed treatment and the lowest to PB-straw retained treatment. 5MB was greater at 0-7 cill than at 7-15 cill depth. As the amount of crop residues increased in each tillage PB-straw treatment, the 5MB generally increased. The largest amount of 5MB occurred most often on either CTB-straw incorporated or PB-straw retained and the lowest in PB-straw burned treatment. The practice of retaining crop residues as stubble should be adopted in the Yaqui valley since changes resulting from bumming crop residues showed the tendency to decrease productivity and soil quality as shown by increased soil strength and soil fractionation, and reduced SMB.
536 _aConservation Agriculture Program
546 _aEnglish
591 _a0201|AGRIS-0201|AL-Wheat Program|R01JOURN|3
592 _aUS-UNeb 1998 LIMÓN-ORTEGA D rf
593 _aJuan Carlos Mendieta
594 _aCSAY01
595 _aCSC
650 1 7 _aMaize
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650 1 0 _aMexico
650 1 0 _aProduction
650 1 0 _aSoil biology
650 1 0 _aSoil microorganisms
650 1 0 _aSoil strength
650 1 0 _aWinter crops
653 0 _aCIMMYT
650 1 0 _91296
_aTriticum aestivum
_gAGROVOC
650 1 7 _aWheat
_gAGROVOC
_2
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700 1 _aDrijber, R.A.,
_ecoaut.
700 1 _aFrancis, CH.A.,
_ecoaut.
700 1 _aSayre, K.D.,
_ecoaut.
740 _a66776
740 _a75856
773 0 _tSoil and Tillage Research
_n630977
_gv. 63, no. 3-4, p. 123-132
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