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N use by winter wheat established in cultivated and direct-drilled soils

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

M. H. Leitch  and
L. V. Vaidyanathan
M. H. Leitch
Affiliation:
Soil Science Department, ADAS, Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge, CB2 2DR
L. V. Vaidyanathan
Affiliation:
Soil Science Department, ADAS, Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge, CB2 2DR
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Labelled fertilizer N (15N depleted ammonium sulphate) was used to investigate both soil and fertilizer N use by winter wheat established in contrasting seed beds, these being soil cultivated to 20 cm depth or left undisturbed. The crop's response to, and recovery of, a range of N levels from 0 to 280 kg/ha given as a divided application in spring, were measured over two seasons. It was found that during the first season the direct-drilled wheat took up, on average, more fertilizer N but less soil N than wheat in cultivated soil, probably through differences in organic-matter mineralization. The different cultivation systems produced similar grain yields at all rates of applied N; however, when no fertilizer N was given, dry-matter production and soil-N uptake by the crop in the undisturbed soil were substantially less than by the crop in the cultivated soil. Crop recovery of the fertilizer N at harvest was between 29 and 40% of that given. After harvest, an average of one third of the applied fertilizer N was found in the top 60 cm of the soil profile. In the following season on the same plots a second winter wheat crop, receiving no fertilizer N, was drilled. At harvest there was shown to be an increase in grain yield and soil- and fertilizer-N uptake at the higher srates of N given in the previous season. In spite of this the recovery of the labelled residues was small, no more than 6% of the original application, or 15% of the residues remaining in the soil, irrespective of cultivation system.

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The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 100 , Issue 2 , April 1983 , pp. 461 - 471
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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