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Nutrition and fertilisers
Fertilisers are plant nutrient substances given to improve plant growth rates and to boost the yields of crops. However, feeding plants is not always necessary. Soils vary in their nutrient levels. Sandy soils and chalky soils, for example, tend to be lower in nutrients than clay or loam soils. Soils also vary in the availability of nutrients. Soils that are dry, waterlogged, very acid or very alkaline may not allow plants to access existing nutrients. Correcting these factors (where possible) may be more effective than giving fertiliser, and in fact may be necessary for fertilisers to be effective.
A sample of Items held in the Nutrition and fertilisers category
- Genetic Reduction of Energy use and Emissions of Nitrogen through cereal production: GREEN grain
- Nitrates Action Programme: Impacts on Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Diffuse Nitrogen Pollution
- Assessing the nutrient content of cereal straw
- Measuring spatially-variable N requirements of maize
- Climate change series: Focus on sustainable dairying
- Minimising nitrous oxide intensities of arable crop products (MIN-NO) (LK9128) - Annual Project Report, 2011 results
- Successive annual applications of organic manures for cut grass: short-term observations on utilisation of manure nitrogen
- Optimising the N rate and timing for semi-dwarf oilseed rape - Annual Report 2009
- Soil sensors for nitrogen availability - AR0910
- Sulphur accumulation and re-distribution in wheat (Triticum aestivum): a study using stable sulphur isotope ratios as a tracer system
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