Distinct pathways of straw management practices regulate soil water, salinity, fertility and barley productivity in coastal saline soil
Min Tang, Zhen Lin, Yu Liu, Chao Zhang, Zhijun Jia, Ziang Xie, Huailiang Wang, Lei Xie · 2026
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Min Tang and seven co-authors compare three fates for crop straw on salty coastal farmland, in this 2026 field study. Salt chokes coastal soils, starving roots of water and nutrients. Straw is the region's spare carbon, and the team tested it as a surface mulch, plowed straight in, or charred first into biochar, against an untreated control, over two barley seasons.
Each route helped by a different pathway. Mulch ruled water and salt: soil moisture at heading rose 84.9 percent over control in 2024, and salt kept migrating in the right direction all season. Mulch also yielded most, about 6,582 and 7,533 kilograms per hectare across the two years, gains of 6 and 19 percent. Biochar was the fertility champion, lifting soil organic matter by more than a third. The comparison gives farmers a menu rather than a verdict.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Min Tang, Zhen Lin, Yu Liu, Chao Zhang, Zhijun Jia, Ziang Xie, Huailiang Wang, Lei Xie |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 63 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |