Soil aggregation and associated organic carbon fractions as affected by tillage in a rice-wheat rotation in north India

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 560-567

  Kumari, Mamta ^a   Chakraborty, Debashis ^a   Gathala, Mahesh K ^b   Pathak, H ^a   Dwivedi, B S ^a   Tomar, Rakesh K ^a   Singh, Ravender ^a   Garg, R N ^a   Ladha, Jagdish K ^b  

^a INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL TILLAGE; MACROAGGREGATES; NORTH INDIA; ORGANIC CARBON FRACTION; RICE-WHEAT ROTATIONS; SOIL AGGREGATION; SOIL SAMPLE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURE; ROTATION; SOILS;

ORGANIC CARBON;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; CROP ROTATION; MACROAGGREGATE; ORGANIC CARBON; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; RICE; SILTY LOAM; SOIL AGGREGATE; SOIL CARBON; TILLAGE; WHEAT;

INDIA;

EID: 83155182071     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2010.0185     Document Type: Article

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