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Conservation tillage (CS) and deep tillage (DT) have received strong international support to help address these challenges but are less used in major global food production in China. Hence, we conducted a large-scale literature search of English and Chinese publications to synthesize the current scientific evidence to evaluate the effects of CS and DT on soil protection and yield maintenance in the Northeast China Plain, which has the most fertile black soil (Mollisols) and is the main agricultural production area of China. As a result, we found that CS had higher soil bulk density, strong soil penetration resistance, greater water contents, and lower soil temperature, and was well-suited for dry and wind erosion-sensitive regions i.e., the southwest areas of the Northeast. Conversely, DT had better performance in the middle belt of the Northeast China Plain, which contained a lower soil temperature and humid areas. Finally, we created an original dataset from papers [dataset 1, including soil physio-chemical parameters, such as soil water, bulk density, organic carbon, sand, silt, clay, pH, total and available nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K), etc., on crop biomass and yield], by collecting data directly from publications, and two predicted datasets (dataset 2 and dataset 3) of crop yield changes by developing random forest models based on our data.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/data8010006","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,27]],"date-time":"2022-12-27T07:02:12Z","timestamp":1672124532000},"page":"6","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["A Large-Scale Dataset of Conservation and Deep Tillage in Mollisols, Northeast Plain, China"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"8","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6424-5128","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Fahui","family":"Jiang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Land Resources and Environment, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang 330045, China"}]},{"given":"Shangshu","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Land Resources and Environment, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang 330045, China"},{"name":"Jiangxi Institute of Red Soil, Nanchang 330046, China"}]},{"given":"Yan","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Jiangxi Institute of Red Soil, Nanchang 330046, China"}]},{"given":"Mahbub Ul","family":"Islam","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Gazipur 1701, Bangladesh"}]},{"given":"Fangjin","family":"Dong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroeocology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harbin 150081, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0790-4996","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhen","family":"Cao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China"}]},{"given":"Guohui","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Jiujiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jiujiang 332000, China"}]},{"given":"Yuming","family":"Guo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Cultivated Land Quality Monitoring and Protection Center, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Beijing 100125, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"20260","DOI":"10.1073\/pnas.1116437108","article-title":"Global food demand and the sustainable intensification of agriculture","volume":"108","author":"David","year":"2011","journal-title":"Proc. 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