Publications by authors named "Song-juan Gao"

Milk vetch (Astragalus sinicus L.) is leguminous green manure (GM) which produces organic nitrogen (N) for subsequent crops and is widely planted and utilized to simultaneously reduce the use of synthetic N fertilizer and its environmental costs in rice systems. Determination of an optimal N application rate specific to the GM-rice system is challenging because of the large temporal and spatial variations in soil, climate, and field management conditions.

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Understanding the responses of winter green manure February orchid (Orychophragmus violaceus) to different levels of nitrogen (N) supply in Northern China and determining the optimal soil N supply level to meet N demands of green manure production with high yield and efficiency, could provide a theoretical foundation and practice reference for maximizing ecological effects of green manure and optimizing N management for spring maize-green manure rotation system in intensive farmland in Northern China. We carried out a field experiment in a site which had received no fertilizer for many years. The aboveground biomass accumulation, N uptake of February orchid and soil residual inorganic N before green manure incorporation, as well as the N balance during the green manure growing season were determined under different levels of N supply.

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Soil dissolved organic matter (DOM) plays an important role in the biogeochemistry of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus and in the transport of heavy metals and pesticides in soil. In moisture soil, green manures and soils were sampled in situ at the ploughed stage of green manures. A 56-day laboratory incubation experiment was conducted to simulate the dynamic changes of soil DOM influenced by the decomposition of green manures, the green manures were Hairy vetch (Vicia villosa Roth.

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Article Synopsis
  • The study investigated the effects of long-term fertilization on dissolved organic matter (DOM) in irrigation-desert soil in northwestern China, analyzing data from an experiment begun in 1988 with four treatments: organic fertilizer (OF), green manure (GM), chemical fertilizer (CF), and a control (CK).
  • Results showed that all fertilization treatments significantly increased dissolved organic carbon (DOC), dissolved nitrogen (DON), total carbohydrates (TCs), and total organic acids (TOAs) compared to CK, with organic fertilizer yielding the highest increases across all metrics.
  • Ultraviolet-visible spectrometry revealed that fertilization enhanced the stability and complexity of DOM, showing greater aromatic and hydrophobic characteristics, particularly in the OF treatment,
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The February orchid (Orychophragmus violaceus)-spring maize rotation system is established to resolve the problems caused by the expansion of fallow fields in North China. Based on a site-specific experiment, temporal and spatial variations of soil NO(3-)-N were investigated during the period from February orchid incorporation to maize harvest. The results showed that the nitrate content in soil profiles not only showed a temporal characteristic, i.

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