Investigations of the effect of the amount of biochar on soil porosity and aggregation and crop yields on fertilized black soil in northern China.

The combination of chemical fertilizer and biochar is regarded as a useful soil supplement for improving the properties of soil and crop yields, and this study describes how the biochar of maize straw can be used to improve the quality of the degraded black soil. This has been achieved by examining...

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Main Authors: Liang Jin, Dan Wei, Dawei Yin, Baoku Zhou, JianLi Ding, Wei Wang, Jiuming Zhang, Shaojun Qiu, Chengjun Zhang, Yan Li, Zhizhuang An, Jialin Gu, Lei Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0238883