Plants grown under exclusive ammonium (NH) nutrition have high carbon (C) demand to sustain proper nitrogen (N) assimilation and energy required for plant growth, generally impaired when compared to nitrate (NO) nutrition. Thereby, the increment of the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO) concentration, in the context of climate change, will potentially allow plants to better face ammonium nutrition. In this work, tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCOVID-19 has been one of the major incidents in the global university education system in recent years. Its influence and effects on education are still difficult to determine today. Both students and teachers have had to change their study and work routines and disciplines, in many cases lacking the necessary infrastructure to adapt to online learning.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNitrogen (N) input from fertilizers modifies the properties of agricultural soils as well as bacterial community diversity, composition and relationships. This can lead to negative impacts such as the deterioration of system multifunctionality, whose maintenance is critical to normal nutrient cycling. Synthetic nitrification inhibitors (NIs) can be combined with fertilizers to improve the efficiency of N use by reducing N losses.
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April 2021
Improving fertilizer nitrogen (N) use efficiency is essential to increase crop productivity and avoid environmental damage. This study was conducted during four crop cycles of winter wheat under humid Mediterranean conditions (Araba, northern Spain). The effects of N-fertilization splitting and the application of the nitrification inhibitors (NIs) 3,4-dimethylpyrazole phosphate (DMPP) and 2-(3,4-dimethyl-1H-pyrazol-1-yl) succinic acid isomeric mixture (DMPSA) as strategies to improve grain quality were examined.
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