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Could Global Intensification of Nitrogen Fertilisation Increase Immunogenic Proteins and Favour the Spread of Coeliac Pathology?
- Josep Penuelas,
- Albert Gargallo-Garriga,
- Ivan A. Janssens,
- Philippe Ciais,
- Michael Obersteiner,
- Karel Klem,
- Otmar Urban,
- Yong-Guan Zhu and
- Jordi Sardans
Fertilisation of cereal crops with nitrogen (N) has increased in the last five decades. In particular, the fertilisation of wheat crops increased by nearly one order of magnitude from 1961 to 2010, from 9.84 to 93.8 kg N ha−1 y−1. We hypo...