[HTML][HTML] Cover crop legacy impacts on soil water and nitrogen dynamics, and on subsequent crop yields in drylands: a meta-analysis

II Garba, LW Bell, A Williams - Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 2022 - Springer
Cover crops can provide a wide range of ecosystem services including soil water
conservation, improved soil nutrient supply and retention, and enhanced crop yields …

[HTML][HTML] Cover crops for sustainable cropping systems: a review

V Quintarelli, E Radicetti, E Allevato, SR Stazi… - Agriculture, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cover cropping is a promising and sustainable agronomic practice to ameliorate soil health
and crop performances in agro-ecosystems. Indeed, cover crops (CCs) may regulate several …

Linking soil carbon availability, microbial community composition and enzyme activities to organic carbon mineralization of a bamboo forest soil amended with …

S Zhang, Y Fang, Y Luo, Y Li, T Ge, Y Wang… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Despite fresh and pyrogenic organic matter have been widely used as amendments to
improve soil organic carbon (SOC) storage, mineralization that links to C quality and soil …

Cover crops and carbon sequestration: Lessons from US studies

H Blanco‐Canqui - Soil Science Society of America Journal, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Sequestering soil organic carbon (SOC) with cover crops (CCs) to mitigate climate change
and enhance other soil ecosystem services is generating much enthusiasm. However, the …

Response of soil organic matter to cover cropping in water-limited environments

VR Thapa, R Ghimire, D VanLeeuwen… - Geoderma, 2022 - Elsevier
Cover crops are promoted to improve soil health and soil carbon (C) sequestration in
agroecosystems, yet responses of various soil organic carbon (SOC) and nitrogen (N) …

Green manure incorporation accelerates enzyme activity, plant growth, and changes in the fungal community of soil

W Asghar, R Kataoka - Archives of microbiology, 2022 - Springer
Green manure can sustain agricultural production, preserve biodiversity, and mitigate soil
degradation caused by long-term application of chemical fertilizers. Moreover, the …

Cover crop-mediated soil carbon storage and soil health in semi-arid irrigated cropping systems

P Acharya, R Ghimire, V Acosta-Martínez - Agriculture, Ecosystems & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Cover cropping is considered a climate-smart strategy to regenerate low-fertility soils in arid
and semi-arid regions. However, the mechanisms of soil organic carbon (SOC) storage and …

[HTML][HTML] Net greenhouse gas balance with cover crops in semi-arid irrigated cropping systems

P Acharya, R Ghimire, WS Paye, AC Ganguli… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Climate smart agriculture has been emphasized for mitigating anthropogenic greenhouse
gas (GHG) emissions, yet the mitigation potential of individual management practices …

[HTML][HTML] Cover crop species composition alters the soil bacterial community in a continuous pepper cropping system

H Gao, G Tian, M Khashi u Rahman, F Wu - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Cover crops can improve soil biological health and alter the composition of soil microbial
communities in agricultural systems. However, the effects of diversified cover crops on soil …

[HTML][HTML] Cover crop-driven shifts in soil microbial communities could modulate early tomato biomass via plant-soil feedbacks

M Tosi, J Drummelsmith, D Obregón, I Chahal… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Sustainable agricultural practices such as cover crops (CCs) and residue retention are
increasingly applied to counteract detrimental consequences on natural resources. Since …