Erratum to: Nitrogen-efficient rice cultivars can reduce nitrate pollution

Responses of rice cultivars with different nitrogen use efficiency to partial nitrate nutrition.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS There is increased evidence that partial nitrate (NO3-) nutrition (PNN) improves growth of rice (Oryza sativa), although the crop prefers ammonium (NH4+) to NO3- nutrition. It is not known whether the response to NO3- supply is related to nitrogen (N) use efficiency (NUE) in rice cultivars. Methods Solution culture experiments were carried out to study the response of two ri...

Comparing nitrate storage and remobilization in two rice cultivars that differ in their nitrogen use efficiency.

Soil nitrogen (N) is available to rice crops as either nitrate or ammonium, but only nitrate can be accrued in cells and so factors that influence its storage and remobilization are important for N use efficiency (NUE). The hypothesis that the ability of rice crops to remobilize N storage pools is an indicator of NUE was tested. When two commonly grown Chinese rice cultivars, Nong Ken (NK) and ...

Hybrid Spectral Efficient Cellular Network Deployment to Reduce RF Pollution

As the mobile telecommunication systems are growing tremendously all over the world, the numbers of handheld and base stations are also rapidly growing and it became very popular to see these base stations distributed everywhere in the neighborhood and on roof tops which has caused a considerable amount of panic to the public in Palestine concerning wither the radiated electromagnetic fields fr...

Robust relationship between yields and nitrogen inputs indicates three ways to reduce nitrogen pollution

The Nitrogen Footprint Tool Network: A Multi-Institution Program To Reduce Nitrogen Pollution

Anthropogenic sources of reactive nitrogen have local and global impacts on air and water quality and detrimental effects on human and ecosystem health. This article uses the Nitrogen Footprint Tool (NFT) to determine the amount of nitrogen (N) released as a result of institutional consumption. The sectors accounted for include food (consumption and upstream production), energy, transportation,...