Soil and rhizosphere properties related to carbon allocation processe at Hohenschulen field site in the first trial year of Rhizo4Bio – RootWayS project.

In the winter half-year 2020/2021, winter cover crops were grown in 10 trial variants at the Hohenschulen trial site. The soils at the trial site are mainly stagnic Luvisols derived from glacial till. The variants were arranged in a randomized block design with four replications. In spring 2021, maize was planted on the site, and the soil of all plots was sampled in different depths at different growth stages of the maize. Soil samples were taken selectively from cover crop root channels and maize rhizosphere and analyzed for parameters related to carbon allocation and wettability.

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