TY - JOUR
T1 - On-farm estimation of indigenous nitrogen supply for site-specific nitrogen management in the North China plain
AU - Cui, Zhenling
AU - Zhang, Fusuo
AU - Chen, Xinping
AU - Miao, Yuxin
AU - Li, Junliang
AU - Shi, Liwei
AU - Xu, Jiufei
AU - Ye, Youliang
AU - Liu, Chunsheng
AU - Yang, Zhiping
AU - Zhang, Qiang
AU - Huang, Shaomin
AU - Bao, Dejun
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments We thank the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30390084; 30700478) and the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (IRT0511) for their financial support.
PY - 2008/5
Y1 - 2008/5
N2 - Estimating indigenous nitrogen supply (INS) by measurement of crop N uptake in N omission plots for site-specific N management is not feasible on a routine basis because it involves destructive plant sampling and plant tissue analysis, which is time-consuming and expensive. The objective of this study was to determine the amount of INS and develop a method to estimate it using soil testing in the North China plain (NCP). On-farm experiments at 229 sites were conducted from 2003 to 2005 in seven key winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)/summer maize (Zea mays L.) production regions of the NCP. The mean INS during the wheat-growing season was129 kg N ha-1 with a range from 62 to 212 kg N ha-1, and it varied from 69 to 202 kg N ha-1 with a mean of 142 kg N ha-1 during the maize-growing season. Considering all sites, the variability of INS was not simulated by initial soil Nmin or apparent N mineralization (Norganic) alone, while together they could explain about 38% and 60% of INS during the wheat and maize-growing seasons, respectively. During the wheat-growing season, mean Norganic was 63 kg N ha-1, and 59% and 33% of its variation could be explained by SOM in high-yielding regions (mean yield, 7.6 t ha-1) and low-yielding regions (mean yield, 5.3 t ha-1), respectively. Mean Norganic during the maize-growing season was 109 kg N ha-1, 22% of which could be explained by SOM across all sites. An average of 40% and 42% of INS variation could be explained by both SOM and initial soil Nmin content during the wheat and maize-growing seasons, respectively. We conclude that the accuracy of estimating crop N requirement for site-specific N management will be increased by using initial soil N min and SOM.
AB - Estimating indigenous nitrogen supply (INS) by measurement of crop N uptake in N omission plots for site-specific N management is not feasible on a routine basis because it involves destructive plant sampling and plant tissue analysis, which is time-consuming and expensive. The objective of this study was to determine the amount of INS and develop a method to estimate it using soil testing in the North China plain (NCP). On-farm experiments at 229 sites were conducted from 2003 to 2005 in seven key winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)/summer maize (Zea mays L.) production regions of the NCP. The mean INS during the wheat-growing season was129 kg N ha-1 with a range from 62 to 212 kg N ha-1, and it varied from 69 to 202 kg N ha-1 with a mean of 142 kg N ha-1 during the maize-growing season. Considering all sites, the variability of INS was not simulated by initial soil Nmin or apparent N mineralization (Norganic) alone, while together they could explain about 38% and 60% of INS during the wheat and maize-growing seasons, respectively. During the wheat-growing season, mean Norganic was 63 kg N ha-1, and 59% and 33% of its variation could be explained by SOM in high-yielding regions (mean yield, 7.6 t ha-1) and low-yielding regions (mean yield, 5.3 t ha-1), respectively. Mean Norganic during the maize-growing season was 109 kg N ha-1, 22% of which could be explained by SOM across all sites. An average of 40% and 42% of INS variation could be explained by both SOM and initial soil Nmin content during the wheat and maize-growing seasons, respectively. We conclude that the accuracy of estimating crop N requirement for site-specific N management will be increased by using initial soil N min and SOM.
KW - Apparent N mineralization
KW - Indigenous nitrogen supply
KW - Soil N supply
KW - Soil organic matter
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U2 - 10.1007/s10705-007-9149-8
DO - 10.1007/s10705-007-9149-8
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:42149154951
SN - 1385-1314
VL - 81
SP - 37
EP - 47
JO - Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems
JF - Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems
IS - 1
ER -