2026 September - 38 articles
Reducing nitrogen inputs while maintaining grain yield and quality is an important objective for sustainable barley production. This study evaluated 39 winter barley genotypes (20 six-row and 19 two-row) under two N management treatments following pe...
Biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) is a key nitrogen source in paddy soils, yet its spatial variability remains poorly understood. In this study, we conducted a 90-day 15N2 labeling experiment using soils from seven paddy fields in Zhejiang Province,...
Plants commonly encounter spatially heterogeneous distributions of nitrogen (N) forms and iron (Fe) in soils, but how N form modifies plant responses to heterogeneous Fe availability remains poorly understood. Using a split-root system, we examined t...
Soil ammonia (NH3) emissions are a major pathway for reactive nitrogen loss, but their spatial variability is difficult to explain using equilibrium-based approaches alone. This study evaluated whether machine learning can improve the interpretation...
Soybean (Glycine max) is a globally important source of protein and oil, and its capacity for biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) underpins its strategic role in sustainable agriculture. However, BNF efficiency is highly sensitive to abiotic stresses,...
Improving nitrogen (N) use efficiency while reducing environmental losses remains a major challenge in crop production. Zeolites, due to their high cation exchange capacity, have been proposed as carriers for ammonium-based fertilizers, potentially m...
Nitrogen deficiency is one of the key factors limiting the growth and raw-material quality of tea plants; however, cell-autonomous mechanisms underlying the response of Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze to reduced nitrogen availability remain insufficien...
Climate change increasingly challenges winter wheat production, making balanced nutrient management essential for maintaining crop productivity and grain quality. In this context, fertilization remains a key factor determining crop productivity and y...
Nickel (Ni) and copper (Cu) are essential soil micronutrients that are beneficial for plant growth and development when applied at the right levels to deficient soils. However, they can also be of concern if excessive application leads to accumulatio...
Excessive nitrogen (N) fertilization poses environmental risks and can induce micronutrient imbalances that limit crop productivity. This two-season field study (2024/2025–2025/2026) investigated the interactive effects of four nitrogen (N) rat...
Nitrogen cycling during the biological treatment of organic waste is governed by a consortium of microorganisms whose activity determines whether nitrogen is conserved as a fertiliser resource or lost as ammonia, nitrous oxide, or dinitrogen. Compost...
To support in situ lunar regolith resource utilization for a lunar base Controlled Ecological Life Support System (CELSS), this study selected the nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Nostoc commune and halophyte Suaeda salsa (L.) Pall. based on extremophi...
Accurate assessment of nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from agricultural soils is essential for developing effective mitigation strategies. However, Pakistan’s current baseline estimates show inconsistencies. The updated Nationally Determined Con...
This study aimed to evaluate the comprehensive effects of foliar fertilization on maize-related traits and to identify nutrient-related factors associated with yield variation. A single-site field experiment was conducted during the 2024 growing seas...
Wheat dust, an underutilized agro-industrial by-product, is rich in nutrients and may serve as a sustainable soil amendment. This study evaluated its effects on wheat (Triticum durum L.) growth, nitrogen metabolism, and drought tolerance. Two greenho...
Crop rotation and fertilization are two of the most important agrotechnical measures that influence the chemical properties of the soil and its capacity to support stable agricultural production, especially in areas affected by erosion and climate ch...
Variation in maize performance under different nitrogen fertilization regimes depends on genotype response, environmental conditions, and their interaction. This study evaluated three commercial maize hybrids contrasting maturity groups (G1–P95...
Partial replacement of chemical fertilizers, particularly nitrogen fertilizers, with biological fertilizers is considered an effective strategy for reducing the negative environmental impacts associated with excessive fertilizer use. This study aimed...
Nitrogen (N) is one of the most important nutrients influencing wheat growth, plant nutrition, and grain production. Appropriate timing of nitrogen application is essential to synchronize nutrient availability with crop demand. This study evaluated s...
Symbiotic nitrogen fixation (SNF) in forage legumes is a key biological process that provides nitrogen inputs and enhances soil fertility in agroecosystems. Enhancing SNF efficiency helps reduce dependence on synthetic nitrogen fertilizers and improv...
Feeds rich in protein are the dominant nitrogen input in intensive aquaculture, yet only part of dietary nitrogen is retained as animal biomass; the remainder enters water and sediment through uneaten feed, feces, dissolved wastes, mucus, sloughed ti...
This study aimed to investigate the effects of different nitrogen (N) fertilizer rates and sowing dates on grain yield, protein content, grain N uptake, and nitrogen recovery efficiency (NRE) in spring and facultative wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cul...
Efficient nitrogen (N) management is essential for sustaining crop productivity while minimizing environmental impacts associated with nitrogen losses. However, the high spatial and temporal variability of soil nitrogen dynamics and crop nitrogen sta...
Rice production in coastal tidal floodplains is severely constrained by periodic tidal submergence, making modern semi-dwarf varieties unsuitable. While local landrace cultivars are widely grown for their adaptability, their adaptation mechanisms and...
Acidic soil stress can limit sunflower productivity by reducing nutrient availability, impairing root development, and affecting early plant establishment, while foliar nutrient application and seed pretreatment may provide additional support under r...
Nitrogen is integral to all living systems, but its diverse forms are interconverted dynamically through reductions and oxidations that constitute the nitrogen cycle. Ecosystems gain combined nitrogen by bacterial and archaeal reduction in atmospheri...
Forage sorghum is widely used in the southern Great Plains because of its drought tolerance, high biomass productivity, and suitability for multi-cut hay systems; however, information on nitrogen (N) management for forage production and quality in th...
Despite the pivotal importance of soil microbial communities in regulating the terrestrial carbon (C) cycle and ecosystem functioning, their vertical patterns and their responses to long-term nitrogen (N) deposition, in terms of microbial biomass and...
Balanced fertilization is essential for improving the growth and productivity of Sapindus mukorossi plantations. In this study, a three-year “3414” fertilization experiment was conducted in a six-year-old plantation of the new S. mukoross...
Adequate fertilization is essential for optimizing soybean productivity and seed quality, while supplementary fertilization plays a key role in correcting nutrient deficiencies and supporting plant performance under varying environmental conditions....
Global food demand is projected to rise by approximately 56 percent between 2010 and 2050, intensifying reliance on synthetic nitrogen fertilizer during a time when only about half of all applied nitrogen is recovered by crops, with the remainder spl...
In animal production, gases such as ammonia and greenhouse gases (GHGs) originate from wastes in three main compartments: the animal house of an experimental facility in Northern Italy, storage sites and the slurry-spreading process on cultivated soi...
Nitric oxide (NO) is a small, highly reactive gaseous signaling molecule that plays diverse and context-dependent roles in microbial physiology and host–microbe interactions. Over the past decade, increasing evidence has revealed the dual natur...
This study investigates nitrogen-fixing rhizobia associated with Pisum sativum, a member of the tribe Vicieae (Fabaceae), whose species establish symbioses with bacteria belonging predominantly to the symbiovar viciae within the Rhizobium leguminosar...
Effective nitrogen (N) management is essential for ensuring food security, promoting agricultural sustainability, and addressing climate change due to the rise in fertilizer use since the 20th century. However, environmental improvements from N manag...
Nitrogen fertilization plays a central role in the intensification and sustainability of tropical pasture systems by influencing forage production, animal performance, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Although the individual components of these sy...
Excess or deficiency of nitrogen affects wheat yield significantly. Several destructive and non-destructive methods are used for nitrogen diagnosis to support precision fertilizer management in wheat. Recently, UAV-based remote sensing combined with...
Soil salinity inhibits biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) in legumes, compromising nitrogen nutrition and crop productivity. This study evaluated whether two halotolerant Mesorhizobium ciceri strains (S1, S2) can sustain BNF and alleviate moderate sa...
