PMID- 37346349 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20230701 IS - 2405-8440 (Print) IS - 2405-8440 (Electronic) IS - 2405-8440 (Linking) VI - 9 IP - 6 DP - 2023 Jun TI - Soil type and integrated nitrogen nutrient-rice straw residue management techniques affect soil microbes, enzyme activities and yield of wheat crop. PG - e16645 LID - 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e16645 [doi] LID - e16645 AB - Sporadic burning of rice straw and the particulate air pollution caused consequently have created a pressing need for identification of practical environmentally sound in situ rice residue management methods. However, the agronomic interventions associated with the agri-inputs particularly the type of nitrogen fertilizer source must be worked out for these interventions. In a two-year field study performed at two different locations representing sandy loam and clay loam soil types, zero tillage with application of nitrophosphate (applied as basal dose through drilling) in combination with urea (applied at 1st irrigation + 3 foliar sprays of urea at weekly interval) significantly enhanced the grain and straw yield of wheat. The soil microbial viable cell counts and dehydrogenase and urease enzyme activities were also recorded to be highest in this treatment indicating the occurrence of higher living microbial population. The treatment x response variable Principle component analysis (PCA) biplot depicted relative variation among the residue management treatments/Nitrogen fertilizer sub-treatments and the enzyme activities as response variables. A variation in the soil organic content components was recognized through Fourier transform infra-red spectroscopy (FT-IRS) studies. Irrespective of the soil types under study, the FT-IR spectra exhibited presence of the aromatic carbon functional groups in residue incorporated treatments as compared to the no residue incorporation treatment. CI - (c) 2023 Published by Elsevier Ltd. FAU - Singh, Vicky AU - Singh V AD - Department of Soil Science, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India. FAU - Gupta, Rajeev Kumar AU - Gupta RK AD - Department of Soil Science, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India. FAU - Kalia, Anu AU - Kalia A AD - Department of Soil Science, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India. FAU - Al-Ansari, Nadhir AU - Al-Ansari N AD - Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Lulea University of Technology, 97187 Lulea, Sweden. FAU - Alataway, Abed AU - Alataway A AD - Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water Chair, Prince Sultan Institute for Environmental, Water and Desert Research, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia. FAU - Dewidar, Ahmed Z AU - Dewidar AZ AD - Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water Chair, Prince Sultan Institute for Environmental, Water and Desert Research, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia. AD - Department of Agricultural Engineering, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia. FAU - Mattar, Mohamed A AU - Mattar MA AD - Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water Chair, Prince Sultan Institute for Environmental, Water and Desert Research, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia. AD - Department of Agricultural Engineering, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia. AD - Agricultural Engineering Research Institute (AEnRI), Agricultural Research Centre, Giza 12618, Egypt. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20230601 PL - England TA - Heliyon JT - Heliyon JID - 101672560 PMC - PMC10279798 OTO - NOTNLM OT - FT-IR spectroscopy OT - Residue management OT - Soil enzyme activity OT - Soil microbes OT - Zero tillage COIS- The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. EDAT- 2023/06/22 13:09 MHDA- 2023/06/22 13:10 PMCR- 2023/06/01 CRDT- 2023/06/22 09:49 PHST- 2023/02/15 00:00 [received] PHST- 2023/04/18 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2023/05/23 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2023/06/22 13:10 [medline] PHST- 2023/06/22 13:09 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/06/22 09:49 [entrez] PHST- 2023/06/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - S2405-8440(23)03852-5 [pii] AID - e16645 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e16645 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Heliyon. 2023 Jun 1;9(6):e16645. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e16645. eCollection 2023 Jun.