Harnessing nitrate over ammonium to sustain soil health during monocropping.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

In achieving food security and sustainable agricultural development, improving and maintaining soil health is considered as a key driving factor. The improvement based on different forms of nitrogen fertilization has aroused great public interest in improving and restoring monocropping obstacles for specific soil problems.

Methods

For this, a short-term cucumber cropping field experiment was conducted in the subtropical region of China under four fertilization treatments: ammonium (AN), nitrate (NN), ammonium with dicyandiamide (AN+DCD), nitrate with dicyandiamide (NN+DCD). In this study, we measured the effects of nitrogen forms addition on plant productivity and soil health in a monocropping system over seven seasons.

Results

To systematically evaluate

SUBMITTER: Zhu L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10389047 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature