{"id":11480,"date":"2026-08-31T08:07:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T08:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/?p=11480"},"modified":"2026-08-31T08:07:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T08:07:23","slug":"the-effect-of-no-till-agriculture-on-nitrogen-mineralization-and-soil-organic-matter-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/?p=11480","title":{"rendered":"The Effect of No &#8211; Till Agriculture on Nitrogen Mineralization and Soil Organic Matter Content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><strong>Afraa Myhoub*<sup>1<\/sup>, Mohammad Dikkeh<sup>1<\/sup>, Basima Barhoum<sup>2<\/sup> and Qusay Al-Rahiya<sup>2<\/sup><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">1 Department of Soil and Water Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering, University of Lattakia, Syria.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">2 Agricultural Scientific Research Center, GCSAR,Lattakia, Syria.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">(*Corresponding author: Afraa Myhoub, Email: <a href=\"http:\/\/afraa ismael@latakia.edu.sy\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">afraa ismael@latakia.edu.sy<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><strong>Received:<\/strong> 1\/09 \/2025\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Accepted:<\/strong> 31\/03 \/ 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; font-size: 17px;\"><strong>Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; font-size: 17px;\">Filed experiment was conducted in an olive orchard at the Agricultural Scientific Research Center in Al-Latamneh, Latakia Governorate. The experimental site had maintained an established NT system for eight years, which was compared against an adjacent CT practice. The experimental design was a randomized complete block design (RCBD) with two treatments (NT and CT) and three replications per treatment.Soil samples were systematically collected from all experimental plots across four depth intervals: 0\u201310 cm, 10\u201320 cm, 20\u201340 cm, and 40\u201360 cm during the 2022 and 2023 agricultural seasons. The results demonstrated a statistically significant superiority of the NT system over the CT system in enhancing nitrogen available content within the 0\u201320 cm. Conversely, no significant differences were observed between the treatments for the studied parameters in the deeper soil layers (&gt;20 cm). Furthermore, the findings indicated a temporal increase in SOM and nitrogen content in the spring of 2023 compared to the spring of 2022. This increase was markedly more pronounced under the conservation tillage (NT) system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><strong>Keywords:<\/strong> No-tillage, Conventional tillage, Soil organic matter, Total nitrogen, Available nitrogen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">\u00a0Full paper in Arabic: <a href=\"http:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/wp-content\/uploads\/v13n4p11.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afraa Myhoub*1, Mohammad Dikkeh1, Basima Barhoum2 and Qusay Al-Rahiya2 1 Department of Soil and Water Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering, University of Lattakia, Syria. 2 Agricultural Scientific Research Center, GCSAR,Lattakia, Syria. (*Corresponding author: Afraa Myhoub, Email: afraa ismael@latakia.edu.sy) Received: 1\/09 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/?p=11480\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sjar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11482,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11480\/revisions\/11482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}