Fertilizer-intensive soya bean agriculture has recently expanded in southeastern Amazonia, and whereas intensive fertilizer use in the temperate zone has led to widespread eutrophication of freshwater ecosystems, the effects in tropical systems are less well understood. We examined the fate of fertilizer phosphorus (P) by comparing P forms and budgets across a chronosequence of soya bean fields...

Prediction of phosphorus (P) availability from soil-applied composts and manure is important for agronomic and environmental reasons. This study utilized chemical properties of eight composted and two non-composted beef cattle (Bos taurus) manures to predict cumulative phosphorus uptake (CPU) during a 363-d controlled environment chamber bioassay. Ten growth cycles of canola (Brassica napus L.)...

being an environment friendly and more sustainable farming system. Ironically, scientists one-half century Groundwater has become increasingly degraded by NO3, and this ago devoted much research emphasis to providing farmdegradation has been partially attributed to the use of commercial inorganic N fertilizers. Conversion from conventional fertilizer maners information on the beneficial use of ...

Nitrogen utilization by corn (Zea mays L.) is influenced by the form of inorganic N present in the root zone. A field experiment was conducted on Enon sandy loam (fine, mixed, thermic Ultic Hapludalf) to determine N use efficiency and its partitioning in various plant parts of corn. Ammonium nitrate labeled either as NH4-N or NO3-N and applied at 50, 100, or 200 kg N ha" was evaluated. Microplo...

management of organic and inorganic fertilizer application and residual of them are very important in their effect on environment and plant yield. in order to determine the effect of drought stress and different amendments on flower, essential oil and chamazulene yield and its components of matricaria chamomilla l., this study was conducted as a split plot design with three replications, at agr...

Plant health and performance are highly dependent on the root microbiome. The impact of agricultural management soil microbiome has been studied extensively. However, a comprehensive understanding how types fertilization regimes affect both is still lacking, such as microbiome’s stability, whether it follows same patterns In this study, we carried out long-term experiment to see different types...

Field experiment was conducted in 2008 at the Research Field of Agricultural College of Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran to investigate the effects of urban waste compost (UWC), manure and chemical fertilizer on the initial growth of corn (Zea mays). Experimental design was split plot factorial with three replications. Main plots were assigned to nitrogen (N) fertilizer (0 and 200 kg N ha-1), an...

Half of field crop nitrogen (N) is often derived soil organic matter (SOM) mineralization, yet we do not fully understand the extent to which plant genotypic differences influence SOM mineralization dynamics across different N contexts. We explored effects rapeseed (Brassica napus) diversity on uptake from and inorganic sources. In a greenhouse study, applied dual 15N labeled ammonium-nitrate f...

The composition and structure of humic acid (HA) can be affected by fertilization, but the short-term effects are difficult to detect using traditional analysis methods. Using a 35-year long-term experiment in Black Soil, the molecular structure of HA was analyzed with Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), 13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), and fluorescence spectroscop...