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ARCHIVES OF AGRONOMY AND SOIL SCIENCE
Volume 64, Issue 9, Pages 1315-1320Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/03650340.2017.1419196
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Balanced fertilization; lability index; recalcitrance index; rice-wheat cropping; soil organic carbon pools
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Knowledge about soil organic carbon (SOC) stock and its allocation into different pools is important for global food and environmental security. Accordingly, an attempt is made in the present study to investigate into the dynamics of SOC pools i.e. total soil organic carbon (TOC), oxidisable organic carbon (OC) and its different fractions viz. very labile (C-VL), labile (C-L), less labile (C-LL) and non-labile (C-NL) in soils under a 26years old long-term experiment with rice (Oryza sativaL) - wheat (Triticum aestivumL) cropping system on Inceptisols under humid agro-climatic region of India with different soil management practices (control, 100% recommended dose of NPK, and 50% recommended dose of NPK + 50% N through farmyard manure (FYM). Of the several pools analyzed, a higher proportion of C was found in labile pool followed by very labile, non-labile, and less labile ones constituting about 46, 26.5, 20 and 7.3% of the total organic C at surface soil. The NPK+FYM treatment was found to have higher SOC pools, lability index (LI), recalcitrance indices and stratification ratio as compared to others. Results indicated that balanced fertilization with inorganic and organics is important for maintaining overall sustainability of the rice-wheat system.
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