Effect of Tillage Practices and Cultivation Year on Natural Mycorrhization and Mineral Uptake of....

Conservation agriculture has been recommended as a climate change mitigation and food security alternative to traditional agriculture. For three cultivation years during the tillering stage, this study looked at the effects of conventional tillage (CT) and no tillage (NT) on mycorrhization and mineral element uptake in durum wheat. The experiment was carried out on a reference farm (Krib, Siliana, North West Tunisia). The findings revealed that tillage practises (T) had a substantial impact on mycorrhization rate (MR) for the first cultivation year, with NT having the highest mycorrhization rate (24%). Furthermore, for the three cultivation years, tillage (T) had no significant effect on plant mineral composition at the tillering stage. The cultivation year (Y) had a substantial effect on the amounts of P and K for both tillage techniques, but had no effect on the amounts of Ca and Na. The interaction T x Y had no influence on the concentration of mineral elements. The rate of mycorrhization (MR) was found to have a strong negative connection with K. MR revealed substantial negative correlations with P and K for partial correlations based on tillage techniques. MR had no significant relationships with the examined parameters when partial correlations based on cultivation year were included (P, K, Ca and Na concentrations). This study adds to our understanding of durum wheat natural mycorrhization and mineral element uptake as a function of tillage techniques, assisting decision-makers in scaling up the use of no-till in Tunisia under rainfed circumstances. Please see the link :- https://www.journalarja.com/index.php/ARJA/article/view/30106