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@article{Majumdar:2026:10.1002/advs.76645,
author = {Majumdar, A and Upadhyay, MK and Ghosh, A and Biswas, R and Loizou, IK and Buck, M and Tibbett, M and Giri, B and Moulick, D and Kumar, Jaiswal M and Roychowdhury, T},
doi = {10.1002/advs.76645},
journal = {Adv Sci (Weinh)},
title = {Revolutionising Agricultural Sustainability: New 'Furrow Tillage' can Mitigate Short-Term Soil-to-Atmosphere CO2 Flux and Promote Soil-Plant-Microbe Health.},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.76645},
year = {2026}
}
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TY - JOUR
AB - Global agricultural carbon loss demands refined tillage practices. This study evaluates a hybrid furrow tillage field (FTF) approach that combines the bed geometry of conservation tillage with controlled, localised disturbance of conventional tillage. Distinct from strip-tillage and permanent-bed planting, FTF is designed for puddled, lowland rice systems, featuring a continuously water-filled furrow and an alternately wet-dry mid-bed. A two-year, twelve-site field trial across the Gangetic deltaic plain of West Bengal, India, assessed FTF through agronomy, geochemistry, crop physiology, and molecular microbiology, and presented all CO2-flux and labile-carbon results as short-term responses. FTF produced CO2 efflux comparable to no-tillage (3.94-4.38 vs. 2.43-2.84 g C m- 2 d- 1) while sustaining nutrient bioavailability close to conventional deep tillage (6.29-7.11 g C m- 2 d- 1), demonstrating that hybrid bed-and-furrow geometry can decouple short-term CO2 flux from nutrient-mineralisation benefits. Microbial diversity and gene-ontology profiles indicate active microbial interactions with reduced soil-to-atmosphere CO2 transfer. Molecular modelling identifies AmtB and HypC-HypD as candidate CO2-handling routes; mid-bed physical properties independently contribute to flux reduction. Long-term SOC stability requires multi-year, multi-soil-order validation with isotopic partitioning. The study integrates CO2 flux chambers, Kriging interpolation, elemental bioavailability analysis, plant ultrastructural observation, metagenomics, and molecular modelling.
AU - Majumdar,A
AU - Upadhyay,MK
AU - Ghosh,A
AU - Biswas,R
AU - Loizou,IK
AU - Buck,M
AU - Tibbett,M
AU - Giri,B
AU - Moulick,D
AU - Kumar,Jaiswal M
AU - Roychowdhury,T
DO - 10.1002/advs.76645
PY - 2026///
TI - Revolutionising Agricultural Sustainability: New 'Furrow Tillage' can Mitigate Short-Term Soil-to-Atmosphere CO2 Flux and Promote Soil-Plant-Microbe Health.
T2 - Adv Sci (Weinh)
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.76645
UR - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/42467857
ER -