Improved nitrogen management for an intensive winter wheat/summer maize double-cropping system

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 286-297

  Qiu, Shaojun ^a,b   Ju, Xiaotang ^a   Lu, Xing ^a   Li, Ling ^c   Ingwersen, Joachim ^d   Streck, Thilo ^d   Christie, Peter ^a,e   Zhang, Fusuo ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^c BINZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^e AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOS TAURUS; C/N RATIO; CHEMICAL FERTILIZERS; CROP PERFORMANCE; CROP YIELD; DOUBLE CROPPING; FARMING PRACTICES; FIELD EXPERIMENT; MAIZE (ZEA MAYS L.); MAIZE YIELD; MUNICIPAL WASTE COMPOST; N BALANCE; N IMMOBILIZATION; NITRATE LEACHING; NITROGEN MANAGEMENT; NORTH CHINA PLAIN; ORGANIC AMENDMENTS; ROOT ZONE; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL PROFILES; STRAW MANAGEMENT; WINTER WHEAT; WINTER WHEAT (TRITICUM AESTIVUM L.);

COMPOSTING; CROPS; FERTILIZERS; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); LEACHING; MANURES; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOILS;

WASTE MANAGEMENT;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; COMPOST; CROP YIELD; DOUBLE CROPPING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELD METHOD; IMMOBILIZATION; INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; LEACHING; MAIZE; MANURE; NITRATE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; RHIZOSPHERE; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL PROFILE; STRAW; WHEAT;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA PLAIN;

BOS; BOS TAURUS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84855430204     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2011.0156     Document Type: Article

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