Dicyandiamide enhances liming potential of two legume materials when incubated with an acid Ultisol

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1632-1635

  Mao, Jia ^a,b   Xu, Ren Kou ^a   Li, Jiu yu ^a   Li, Xing hui ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Acid soil; Amendment; Dicyandiamide; Legume material; Nitrification; Soil pH

Indexed keywords

ACID SOILS; AMENDMENT; DICYANDIAMIDE; SOIL PH;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; DENITRIFICATION; MATERIALS; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION;

SOILS;

ACID SOIL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LEGUME; NITRIFICATION; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PH; SOIL AMENDMENT; ULTISOL;

PISUM SATIVUM; VICIA;

EID: 77955174472     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2010.05.006     Document Type: Article

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