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Library Fate of residual 15N-labeled fertilizer in dryland farming systems on soils of contrasting fertility

Fate of residual 15N-labeled fertilizer in dryland farming systems on soils of contrasting fertility

Fate of residual 15N-labeled fertilizer in dryland farming systems on soils of contrasting fertility

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Date of publication
December 2015
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AGRIS:US201500207835
Pages
846-855

Up to 50% of nitrogen (N) fertilizer can remain in soil after crop harvest in dryland farming. Understanding the fate of this residual fertilizer N in soil is important for evaluating its overall use efficiency and environmental effect. Nitrogen-15 (¹⁵N)-labeled urea (165 kg N ha ⁻¹) was applied to winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) growing in three different fertilized soils (no fertilizer, No-F; inorganic nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilization, NPK; and manure plus inorganic NPK fertilization, MNPK) from a long-term trial (19 years) on the south of the Loess Plateau, China. The fate of residual fertilizer N in soils over summer fallow and the second winter wheat growing season was examined. The amount of the residual fertilizer N was highest in the No-F soil (116 kg ha ⁻¹), and next was NPK soil (60 kg ha ⁻¹), then the MNPK soil (43 kg ha ⁻¹) after the first winter wheat harvest. The residual fertilizer N in the No-F soil was mainly in mineral form (43% of the residual ¹⁵N), and for the NPK and MNPK soils, it was mainly in organic form. The loss rate of residual ¹⁵N in No-F soil over summer fallow was as high as 48%, and significantly (P 

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Zhao, Wei
Liang, Bin
Yang, Xueyun
Zhou, Jianbin

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