Pomares-Garcia, F. and Pratt, P.F. (1978) Recovery of 15N-labeled fertilizer from manured and sludge-amended soil. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 42 (5). pp. 717-720.
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Abstract
A greenhouse pot experiment was conducted with various rates of manure (0, 20, 40, and 60 metric tons/ha) and sludge (0, 10, 20, and 30 metric tons/ha) combined factorially with 0, 50, 100, 150, and 200 mg N/kg soil as (NH4)2SO4 labeled with 15N, using barley and sudangrass as test crops. Most of the N from (NH4)2SO4 was recovered by the first cutting of barley forage (from 37.2 to 70.2%); the N from (NH4)2SO4 recovered by sudangrass, the last crop of the cropping sequence, ranged from 0.7 to 8.9%. No significant effect of both wastes and (NH4)2SO4 rates on the overall inorganic N fertilizer recovered by the crops was found. The difference method underestimated the (NH4)2SO4-N recoveries by the crops under sludge treatments. The depression in the mineralization rate of sludge by the (NH4)2SO4 applied was proposed to account for these discrepancies. A fertilizer N balance, in which the sum of (NH4)2SO4-N removed by the crops plus the N accumulated in the soil was subtracted from the (NH4)2SO4-N input, was used to estimate the fertilizer N losses. These losses were 7.8, 9.1, and 13.1%, respectively, for control (unamended), manure and sludge treatments. With increasing rates of (NH4)2SO4, the nitrogen “A” values defined as the N available in the soil in terms of N from (NH4)2SO4, increased in the control, remained almost constant with manure, and decreased with sludge treatments
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Author Affiliation: | Department of Soil and Environmental Science, University of California, Riverside, 92521, USA. (P.F.P.) |
| Subjects: | Animal Husbandary Soil Science and Microbiology > Soil Sciences |
| Divisions: | Other Crops |
| Depositing User: | Ms K Syamalamba |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Oct 2012 06:06 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Oct 2012 06:12 |
| Official URL: | https://www.soils.org/publications/sssaj/abstracts... |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/8409 |
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