Bio-organic amendment enhances apple yield and nutritional quality in degraded sandy soils
Mingjing Li, Chunguang Bao, Rui Luo, Guorui Li, Jianjun Di, Cheng Wang, Yong Zhao, Fenglan Huang · 2026
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Description
Mingjing Li and co-authors test a bio-organic fertilizer in 2026 on apple trees in poor sandy soil. The orchards sit in Inner Mongolia, where the soil holds little organic matter and few nutrients. Their fertilizer is made by fermenting castor bean meal with microbes.
Over two years, plots with the fertilizer beat untreated plots on several counts. The soil grew less alkaline and richer in organic matter, and its enzyme activity rose. A mid-level dose gave the best yield, through larger fruit. Most strikingly, vitamin C in the fruit more than doubled, far past the gains from manure or standard fertilizer. The team links the fruit gains to livelier soil biology.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Mingjing Li, Chunguang Bao, Rui Luo, Guorui Li, Jianjun Di, Cheng Wang, Yong Zhao, Fenglan Huang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 60 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |