Fertilizers and nitrate pollution of surface and ground water: an increasingly pervasive global problem

E Craswell - SN Applied Sciences, 2021 - Springer
Nitrate pollution of ground and surface water bodies all over the world is generally linked
with continually increasing global fertilizer nitrogen (N) use. But after 1990, with more …

Nitrogen use efficiency—a key to enhance crop productivity under a changing climate

P Govindasamy, SK Muthusamy… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Nitrogen (N) is an essential element required for the growth and development of all plants.
On a global scale, N is agriculture's most widely used fertilizer nutrient. Studies have shown …

Nitrogen use efficiency definitions of today and tomorrow

KA Congreves, O Otchere, D Ferland… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Crop production has a large impact on the nitrogen (N) cycle, with consequences to climate,
environment, and public health. Designing better N management will require indicators that …

Nanoparticle charge and size control foliar delivery efficiency to plant cells and organelles

P Hu, J An, MM Faulkner, H Wu, Z Li, X Tian… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Fundamental and quantitative understanding of the interactions between nanoparticles and
plant leaves is crucial for advancing the field of nanoenabled agriculture. Herein, we …

Intercrop** of grain legumes and cereals improves the use of soil N resources and reduces the requirement for synthetic fertilizer N: A global-scale analysis

ES Jensen, G Carlsson… - Agronomy for sustainable …, 2020 - Springer
Planetary boundaries for terrestrial inputs of reactive nitrogen (Nr) are transgressed and
reducing the input of new Nr and its environmental impacts are major global challenges …

Nitrogen transformations in modern agriculture and the role of biological nitrification inhibition

D Coskun, DT Britto, W Shi, HJ Kronzucker - Nature plants, 2017 - nature.com
The nitrogen (N)-use efficiency of agricultural plants is notoriously poor. Globally, about 50%
of the N fertilizer applied to crop** systems is not absorbed by plants, but lost to the …

[BOOK][B] Growth and mineral nutrition of field crops

NK Fageria, VC Baligar, CA Jones - 2010 - books.google.com
This new edition of a bestseller examines plant nutrition's role as one of the most important
limiting factors that must be overcome to optimize food production. Extensively revised and …

Exploring global changes in nitrogen and phosphorus cycles in agriculture induced by livestock production over the 1900–2050 period

L Bouwman, KK Goldewijk… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Crop-livestock production systems are the largest cause of human alteration of the global
nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) cycles. Our comprehensive spatially explicit inventory of N …

Biological nitrogen fixation and prospects for ecological intensification in cereal-based crop** systems

JK Ladha, MB Peoples, PM Reddy, JC Biswas… - Field Crops …, 2022 - Elsevier
The demand for nitrogen (N) for crop production increased rapidly from the middle of the
twentieth century and is predicted to at least double by 2050 to satisfy the on-going …

Nitrogen uptake, fixation and response to fertilizer N in soybeans: A review

F Salvagiotti, KG Cassman, JE Specht, DT Walters… - Field Crops …, 2008 - Elsevier
Although relationships among soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merr) seed yield, nitrogen (N)
uptake, biological N2 fixation (BNF), and response to N fertilization have received …