Producingmore grain with lower environmental costs

Nature

Volumn 514, Issue 7253, 2014, Pages 486-489

  Chen, Xinping ^a   Cui, Zhenling ^a   Fan, Mingsheng ^b   Vitousek, Peter ^c   Zhao, Ming ^d   Ma, Wenqi ^e   Wang, Zhenlin ^c   Zhang, Weijian ^f   Yan, Xiaoyuan ^g   Yang, Jianchang ^h   Deng, Xiping ⁱ   Gao, Qiang ^j   Zhang, Qiang ^k   Guo, Shiwei ^l   Ren, Jun ^h   Li, Shiqing ^m   Ye, Youliang ^h   Wang, Zhaohui ⁿ   Huang, Jianliang ^o   Tang, Qiyuan ^p   Sun, Yixiang ^q   Peng, Xianlong ^e   Zhang, Jiwang ^e   He, Mingrong ^m   Zhu, Yunji ^h   Xue, Jiquan ^a   Wang, Guiliang ^a   Wu, Liang ^a   An, Ning ^a   Wu, Liangquan ^a   Ma, Lin ^a   Zhang, Weifeng ^a   Zhang, Fusuo ^a   more..

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^d AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF HEBEI   (China)

^e SHANDONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^g YANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

ⁱ JILIN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^j Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences   (China)

^k NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^l JILIN ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (China)

^m HENAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

ⁿ HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^o HUNAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^p RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

^q NORTHEAST AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN FERTILIZER; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES; FERTILIZER; NITROGEN;

AGRICULTURAL EMISSION; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; AGROECOLOGY; CEREAL; CROP YIELD; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; FOOD SECURITY; GREENHOUSE GAS; INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; PRODUCTIVITY; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CHINA; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; CROP PRODUCTION; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GRAIN YIELD; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICE; SIMULATION; WHEAT; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL FOOD; CEREAL; ENVIRONMENT; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION; UTILIZATION;

CHINA;

ANIMALIA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL FEED; CEREALS; CHINA; ENVIRONMENT; FERTILIZERS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; NITROGEN;

EID: 84920871007     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13609     Document Type: Article

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