Application of ammonium to a N limited arable soil enriches a succession of bacteria typically found in the rhizosphere

Yendi Navarro-Noya Marco Luna_Guido Nele Verhulst Bram Govaerts Luc Dendooven (2022, [Artículo])

Crop residue management and tillage are known to affect the soil bacterial community, but when and which bacterial groups are enriched by application of ammonium in soil under different agricultural practices from a semi-arid ecosystem is still poorly understood. Soil was sampled from a long-term agronomic experiment with conventional tilled beds and crop residue retention (CT treatment), permanent beds with crop residue burned (PBB treatment) or retained (PBC) left unfertilized or fertilized with 300 kg urea-N ha-1 and cultivated with wheat (Triticum durum L.)/maize (Zea mays L.) rotation. Soil samples, fertilized or unfertilized, were amended or not (control) with a solution of (NH4)2SO4 (300 kg N ha-1) and were incubated aerobically at 25 ± 2 °C for 56 days, while CO2 emission, mineral N and the bacterial community were monitored. Application of NH4+ significantly increased the C mineralization independent of tillage-residue management or N fertilizer. Oxidation of NH4+ and NO2- was faster in the fertilized soil than in the unfertilized soil. The relative abundance of Nitrosovibrio, the sole ammonium oxidizer detected, was higher in the fertilized than in the unfertilized soil; and similarly, that of Nitrospira, the sole nitrite oxidizer. Application of NH4+ enriched Pseudomonas, Flavisolibacter, Enterobacter and Pseudoxanthomonas in the first week and Rheinheimera, Acinetobacter and Achromobacter between day 7 and 28. The application of ammonium to a soil cultivated with wheat and maize enriched a sequence of bacterial genera characterized as rhizospheric and/or endophytic independent of the application of urea, retention or burning of the crop residue, or tillage.

CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA AMMONIUM CROP RESIDUES WHEAT MAIZE TILLAGE SOIL

Saneamiento del vaso Cencali, Villahermosa, Tabasco. II. Diseño del proceso

ANNE MARGRETHE HANSEN HANSEN Franklin Torres-Bejarano (2008, [Artículo])

Este artículo es el segundo de dos partes que resumen las actividades y los estudios realizados durante la evaluación y el diseño del proceso de saneamiento del vaso Cencali, en el centro de Villahermosa, Tabasco, México. El estado hipereutrófico de este cuerpo de agua está constituido principalmente por la acumulación de una gran cantidad de sedimentos provenientes de escurrimientos urbanos y aguas residuales. Por lo tanto, se identificó la remoción de estos sedimentos como medida más urgente para el rescate del vaso. La ubicación del vaso, el reducido espacio disponible en zonas adyacentes, así como las características propias de los sedimentos, impidieron un diseño tradicional del proceso. Por ello se diseñó y adaptó un proceso que consiste en los componentes de dragado por bombeo, sedimentación, transporte y secado de los sedimentos. De acuerdo con el análisis de humedad de sedimentos y experimentos piloto de bombeo, la mezcla de agua-sedimento dragada tenía entre 65 y 85% de humedad, resultando en volúmenes a remover entre 50,400 m3 y 130,000 m3. Para controlar y reducir el volumen de sedimentos transportados y evitar tiempos y costos excesivos, se diseñó una tecnología de sedimentación en cuatro tanques flotantes-sumergibles colocadas en el vaso Cencali. Además, se propuso un concepto para el futuro mantenimiento del vaso, consistente en la combinación de procesos de sedimentación y dragado en una depresión topográfica construida dentro del vaso para este propósito.

Lagunas urbanas Dragado Transporte de sedimentos Disposición de sedimentos Villahermosa, Tabasco INGENIERÍA Y TECNOLOGÍA

Evaluación de indicadores de vulnerabilidad para localizar áreas de sedimentos en tres subcuencas de Chiapas, México

Vulnerability indicators assessment to locate areas of sediments in three sub-basins of Chiapas, Mexico

CERVANDO CASTILLO ROMANO Jorge Enrique Brena Zepeda Perla Edith Alonso Eguía Lis Ana Wagner (2014, [Memoria de congreso])

Para cuantificar la alternación ecológica en las subcuencias se consideraron los siguientes indicadores: cambio de cobertura vegetal y uso de suelo; número de poblaciones y densidad de población; erosión potencial; cambios provocados por la acción humana en la hidrografía; evaluación de la condición de la vegetación riparia; calidad del sistema acuático a partir de bioindicadores; condición de la fauna y; sedimentación en zona de humedales. Los resultados del estudio muestran que la sedimentación en la zona de humedales en las tres subcuencas presenta la máxima alteración de acuerdo con la escala utilizada, lo que indica una alta depositación de sedimentos en los humedales producto del deterioro ecológico. En general la parte alta, media y baja presentan un deterioro moderado, y en menor proporción se observan zonas con alto deterioro.

Humedales Sedimentación Vulnerabilidad Bioindicadores CIENCIAS FÍSICO MATEMÁTICAS Y CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA

Agricultural emissions reduction potential by improving technical efficiency in crop production

Arun Khatri-Chhetri Tek Sapkota sofina maharjan Paresh Shirsath (2023, [Artículo])

CONTEXT: Global and national agricultural development policies normally tend to focus more on enhancing farm productivity through technological changes than on better use of existing technologies. The role of improving technical efficiency in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction from crop production is the least explored area in the agricultural sector. But improving technical efficiency is necessary in the context of the limited availability of existing natural resources (particularly land and water) and the need for GHG emission reduction from the agriculture sector. Technical efficiency gains in the production process are linked with the amount of input used nd the cost of production that determines both economic and environmental gains from the better use of existing technologies. OBJECTIVE: To assess a relationship between technical efficiency and GHG emissions and test the hypothesis that improving technical efficiency reduces GHG emissions from crop production. METHODS: This study used input-output data collected from 10,689 rice farms and 5220 wheat farms across India to estimate technical efficiency, global warming potential, and emission intensity (GHG emissions per unit of crop production) under the existing crop production practices. The GHG emissions from rice and wheat production were estimated using the CCAFS Mitigation Options Tool (CCAFS-MOT) and the technical efficiency of production was estimated through a stochastic production frontier analysis. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: Results suggest that improving technical efficiency in crop production can reduce emission intensity but not necessarily total emissions. Moreover, our analysis does not support smallholders tend to be technically less efficient and the emissions per unit of food produced by smallholders can be relatively high. Alarge proportion of smallholders have high technical efficiency, less total GHG emissions, and low emissions intensity. This study indicates the levels of technical efficiency and GHG emission are largely influenced by farming typology, i.e. choice and use of existing technologies and management practices in crop cultivation. SIGNIFICANCE: This study will help to promote existing improved technologies targeting GHG emissions reduction from the agriculture production systems.

Technical Efficiency Interventions CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA MITIGATION PRODUCTIVITY CROP PRODUCTION GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

The fate of rice crop residues and context-dependent greenhouse gas emissions: Model-based insights from Eastern India

Sonam Sherpa virender kumar Andrew Mcdonald (2024, [Artículo])

Crop residue burning is a common practice in many parts of the world that causes air pollution and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Regenerative practices that return residues to the soil offer a ‘no burn’ pathway for addressing air pollution while building soil organic carbon (SOC). Nevertheless, GHG emissions in rice-based agricultural systems are complex and difficult to anticipate, particularly in production contexts with highly variable hydrologic conditions. Here we predict long-term net GHG fluxes for four rice residue management strategies in the context of rice-wheat cropping systems in Eastern India: burning, soil incorporation, livestock fodder, and biochar. Estimations were based on a combination of Tier 1, 2, and 3 modelling approaches, including 100-year DNDC simulations across three representative soil hydrologic categories (i.e., dry, median, and wet). Overall, residue burning resulted in total direct GHG fluxes of 2.5, 6.1, and 8.7 Mg CO2-e in the dry, median, and wet hydrologic categories, respectively. Relative to emissions from burning (positive values indicate an increase) for the same dry to wet hydrologic categories, soil incorporation resulted in a −0.2, 1.8, or 3.1 Mg CO2-e change in emissions whereas use of residues for livestock fodder increased emissions by 2.0, 2.1, or 2.3 Mg CO2-e. Biochar reduced emissions relative to burning by 2.9 Mg CO2-e in all hydrologic categories. This study showed that the production environment has a controlling effect on methane and, therefore, net GHG balance. For example, wetter sites had 2.8–4.0 times greater CH4 emissions, on average, than dry sites when rice residues were returned to the soil. To effectively mitigate burning without undermining climate change mitigation goals, our results suggest that geographically-target approaches should be used in the rice-based systems of Eastern India to incentivize the adoption of regenerative ‘no burn’ residue management practices.

Soil Carbon Rice Residue Burning Life Cycle Assessment CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA SOIL CARBON RICE LIFE CYCLE GREENHOUSE GASES CLIMATE CHANGE

Calibración de los modelos de pérdidas de suelo USLE y MUSLE en una cuenca forestal de México: caso El Malacate

Calibration of the USLE and MUSLE soil loss models in a Mexican forest watershed: El Malacate case study

JORGE VICTOR PRADO HERNANDEZ PEDRO RIVERA RUIZ FELIPE BENJAMIN DE LEON MOJARRO MAURICIO CARRILLO GARCIA ANTONIO MARTINEZ RUIZ (2016, [Artículo])

La cuantificación de la erosión hídrica de los suelos en cuencas hidrográficas sirve para conocer el grado de su deterioro y para implementar medidas de conservación que minimicen la pérdida del suelo. Dada la carencia de la información para cuantificar con precisión aceptable la erosión en México, es necesario estudiar su estimación con la información disponible mediante metodologías validadas con información experimental. Por tal motivo, el objetivo de este estudio fue calibrar los modelos USLE (EUPS o Ecuación Universal de la Pérdida del Suelo, por sus siglas en inglés) y MUSLE (EUPS modificada) en la microcuenca El Malacate, perteneciente a la cuenca del Lago de Pátzcuaro en Michoacán, México con información experimental de 2013.

Erosión del suelo Conservación del suelo Modelación hidrológica INGENIERÍA Y TECNOLOGÍA

Response to heat stress and glutenins allelic variation effects on quality traits in durum wheat

Facundo Tabbita Karim Ammar Maria Itria Ibba MARCO MACCAFERRI ROBERTO TUBEROSA Carlos Guzman (2024, [Artículo])

Gluten Quality Sedimentation Volume Wheat Quality CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA GLUTEN QUALITY GLUTENINS HEAT STRESS WHEAT

Agricultural lime value chain efficiency for reducing soil acidity in Ethiopia

Moti Jaleta (2023, [Artículo])

Soil acidity is challenging agricultural production in Ethiopia. Above 43% of the farmland is under soil acidity problem and it leads to low crop yields and production losses. Ag-lime is widely considered as an effective remedy for amending soil acidity. This study assesses the current structure of ag-lime value chain and its functionality focusing on central parts of Ethiopia where lime is produced and channeled to acidity affected areas. The study uses Ethiopia as a case study and applies qualitative methods such as key informant interviews and focus group discussions to collect data from different actors in the ag-lime value chain. Key findings indicate that both public and private ag-lime producing factories are operating below their capacity. Due to limited enabling environments, the engagement of private sector in ag-lime value chain is minimal. In addition, farmers have a good awareness of soil acidity problem on their farms, and its causes and mitigation strategies in all regions. However, the adoption of ag-lime by smallholders was minimal. Overall, the current structure of the ag-lime value chain appears fragmented and needs improvement. Addressing soil acidity challenge through efficient ag-lime value chain could narrow lime supply-demand mismatches and increase widespread adoption by farmers to enhance crop productivity and food security in acidity-prone areas of the country.

CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA LIMES PRODUCTION COSTS VALUE CHAINS SOIL PH

Expanding the WOFOST crop model to explore options for sustainable nitrogen management: A study for winter wheat in the Netherlands

João Vasco Silva Pytrik Reidsma (2024, [Artículo])

Nitrogen (N) management is essential to ensure crop growth and to balance production, economic, and environmental objectives from farm to regional levels. This study aimed to extend the WOFOST crop model with N limited production and use the model to explore options for sustainable N management for winter wheat in the Netherlands. The extensions consisted of the simulation of crop and soil N processes, stress responses to N deficiencies, and the maximum gross CO2 assimilation rate being computed from the leaf N concentration. A new soil N module, abbreviated as SNOMIN (Soil Nitrogen for Organic and Mineral Nitrogen module) was developed. The model was calibrated and evaluated against field data. The model reproduced the measured grain dry matter in all treatments in both the calibration and evaluation data sets with a RMSE of 1.2 Mg ha−1 and the measured aboveground N uptake with a RMSE of 39 kg N ha−1. Subsequently, the model was applied in a scenario analysis exploring different pathways for sustainable N use on farmers' wheat fields in the Netherlands. Farmers' reported yield and N fertilization management practices were obtained for 141 fields in Flevoland between 2015 and 2017, representing the baseline. Actual N input and N output (amount of N in grains at harvest) were estimated for each field from these data. Water and N-limited yields and N outputs were simulated for these fields to estimate the maximum attainable yield and N output under the reported N management. The investigated scenarios included (1) closing efficiency yield gaps, (2) adjusting N input to the minimum level possible without incurring yield losses, and (3) achieving 90% of the simulated water-limited yield. Scenarios 2 and 3 were devised to allow for soil N mining (2a and 3a) and to not allow for soil N mining (2b and 3b). The results of the scenario analysis show that the largest N surplus reductions without soil N mining, relative to the baseline, can be obtained in scenario 1, with an average of 75%. Accepting negative N surpluses (while maintaining yield) would allow maximum N input reductions of 84 kg N ha−1 (39%) on average (scenario 2a). However, the adjustment in N input for these pathways, and the resulting N surplus, varied strongly across fields, with some fields requiring greater N input than used by farmers.

Crop Growth Models WOFOST CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA CROPS NITROGEN-USE EFFICIENCY WINTER WHEAT SOIL WATER

Targeted nitrogen management to increase cereal production while reducing nitrogen consumption in India

Tek Sapkota Sieglinde Snapp (2022, [Objeto de congreso])

CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA CEREAL PRODUCTS PRODUCTION SYSTEMS CEREALS NITROGEN RICE WHEAT MAIZE