nitrate and ammonium forms of nitrogen are being applied to improve plant growth and uptake of other nutrients. given that the effect of application of different nitrate to ammonium ratios accompanied by other fertilizers (i.e. fe, mn and zn) has not been studied on wheat growth as well as uptake of fe, mn and zn, three glasshouse pot studies were conducted with factorial arrangement of treatme...

Agricultural advancement and population growth have prompted increases in food supplies, and higher crop yields have been made possible through the application of fertilizers. Large quantities of livestock and poultry on farms, along with the accumulation of biomass and agricultural residues, can cause contamination of ground water resources and other water sanitation concerns in both developin...

the increasing use of nitrogen fertilizers due to high dynamics of nitrate in the soil would be a serious threat to groundwater, and therefore, to thuman health. this study is aimed to investigate the disperdivity values of nitrate in the coarse, medium and fine sandy soils in the short travel distance of 20, 40 and 80 cm in vitro using the hydrus-1d model. for this purpose, pure potassium nitr...

to study the effect of type and different nitrogen fertilizers on controlling egyptian broomrape, field and greenhouse studies based on randomized complete block with three replications, were conducted at ferdowsi university of mashhad. greenhouse study treatments were consisted of ammonium nitrate, ammonium sulfate and urea each of which applied at four rates (75, 150, 300 and 350 kg/ha). fiel...

according to the importance of groundwater resources in providing of human needs, lack of control and inappropriate management of these resources can lead to the problems such as nitrate pollutions arising from the use of chemical fertilizers in agricultural lands. with generalized point data to the area using the geostatistics methods can be determine the pollution content in areas without sam...

background and objectives: although chemical fertilizers in short-term can increase vegetables yield, but must be renewed each planting season that this trend increases the concentration of nitrate in the vegetables shoots, nitrogen leaching and contamination of water resources, loss of beneficial insects and microorganisms and soil fertility will decline, and over time reduce the yield and qua...

Nitrification inhibitors (NIs) delay the oxidation of ammonium by soil microorganisms, maintaining a higher proportion of applied nitrogen (N) in the soil by preventing nitrate-N loss from leaching and gaseous N losses from nitrification and denitrification. Thus, a large number of studies have shown N fertilizers with NIs are more environmentally friendly. In contrast, there are only a lim...

Balanced nutrients are essential for healthy plant growth, but there is no sensor available to monitor such as N and K. Electrical conductivity (EC) one of the key parameters that could be adopted nutrient contents because soil EC influenced by nutrients. Therefore, main objective this study was examine effects different basal fertilizers, including inorganic, organic, compost application ratio...

Silicon (Si) is important in mitigating abiotic and biotic plant stresses, yet many agricultural soils, such as those of the rainfed production areas of the South African sugar industry, are deficient in plant-available Si, making Si supplementation necessary. However, Si uptake by sugarcane (Saccharum spp. hybrids) is limited even where silicate amendments improve soil Si status. Rhizosphere p...