ArticleScience China. Life sciences2025
Cereal-legume intercropping stimulates straw decomposition and promotes soil organic carbon stability.
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- Mixed Cropping Improves Soil Fertility via Enhancing Plant Facilitation in Alpine Artificial Grassland.Biology · 2026Article
- National Evidence of Depth-Dependent Stabilization and Controls of Soil Organic Carbon in Dryland Croplands.Global change biology · 2026Article
- Nitrogen fertilization increases soil organic carbon through distinct pathways in contrasting cropland soils.Science China. Life sciences · 2026Article
- Microbial community structure and function and their linkages with methane production in sediments of thermokarst lakes on the Tibetan Plateau.Science China. Life sciences · 2026Article
- Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi as a hub for soil carbon transformation in intercropping systems: a review of microbial mechanisms and ecological significance.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Review
- Malate metabolism in horticultural crops: mechanistic insights and agricultural practices for quality improvement.Molecular horticulture · 2025Review
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Abstract
Increasing carbon (C) sequestration and stability in agricultural soils is a key strategy to mitigate climate change towards C neutrality. Crop diversification is an initiative to increase C sequestration in fields, but it is unclear how legume-based crop diversification impacts the functional components of soil organic carbon (SOC) in dryland, including the formation and transformation of particulate organic carbon (POC) and mineral-associated organic carbon (MAOC). We investigated the decomposition of straw residues, the fate of photosynthesized C, as well as the formation of MAOC and POC fractions using an in situ
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