Background The growth of rice is reduced by the slow decomposition of accumulated straw,
which competes with rice for soil nitrogen nutrient. In recent year, straw-decomposing …

Straw return plays an important role in the improvement of farmland ecological
environments, increasing soil fertility, crop quality, and yield. However, in the early growth of …

Straw returning is a promising approach to improve soil fertility and to mitigate the negative
effects of chemical fertilizers on soil quality. However, straw degradation is a slow and …

Aims Soil salinization poses a significant challenge to agriculture. The practice of returning
straw to the field has garnered increasing attention as a sustainable method to improve …

Irrigation methods have both direct effect and remote effect (through straw decomposition
and nitrogen release especially when integrated with nitrogen management) on rice growth …

Slow decomposition of crop straws under field conditions affects sowing and emergence of
rice. Microbial inoculants can be used to promote crop straw decomposition for solving these …

Objectives Many factors impact the promotion effect of some identified inoculants on straw
decomposition under natural environment. Activities of extracellular enzymes are closely …

Litter bag method was conducted to investigate the decomposition characteristics of rice
straw (6000 kg ha− 1) and its associated microbial community under different nitrogen (N) …

In recent years, straw incorporation as an important way of straw utilization and culture
fertility has been applied widely to achieve sustainable development of agriculture …

Straw is often incorporated into field by covering on soil surface or being plowed into soil in
China, which may cause problems such as competition of nutrients between soil microbes …