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Effect of Lead on the Transformation of Urea-N in Fly Ash-Contaminated Soils under Different Moisture Regimes

Urea is applied to soil for plant growth and undergoes various changes while in the soil. The mobility of heavy metals changes with the transformation of urea applied to the soil that, in turn, affects the activity of microbial biomass. The objective of this study was to determine the interaction be...

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Autores principales: Das, D. K., Bashetti, P., Naik, S. K., Sur, Pintu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: TheScientificWorldJOURNAL 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5901363/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17619777
http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2007.129
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description Urea is applied to soil for plant growth and undergoes various changes while in the soil. The mobility of heavy metals changes with the transformation of urea applied to the soil that, in turn, affects the activity of microbial biomass. The objective of this study was to determine the interaction between lead (Pb) and urea under two moisture regimes (60% and saturated water contents). At 60% water content, the amount of NH(4)-N decreased with the incubation time, irrespective of Pb and urea applied, while the amount of NO(3)-N content in the soil gradually increased with the incubation period to 28 days, and such an increase was counteracted by application of Pb. The amount of NO(3)-N content was higher than that of NH(4)-N, however, under saturated moisture condition, the amount of NH(4)-N was increased with the incubation time regardless of the levels of Pb application. The amount of NO(3)-N content in the soil gradually decreased with the advance of incubation at saturated condition. Although application of urea increased the NO(3)-N content in the soil, such an increase was suppressed by the application of different levels of Pb at water saturated condition throughout the incubation period.
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spelling pubmed-59013632018-06-03 Effect of Lead on the Transformation of Urea-N in Fly Ash-Contaminated Soils under Different Moisture Regimes Das, D. K. Bashetti, P. Naik, S. K. Sur, Pintu ScientificWorldJournal Research Article Urea is applied to soil for plant growth and undergoes various changes while in the soil. The mobility of heavy metals changes with the transformation of urea applied to the soil that, in turn, affects the activity of microbial biomass. The objective of this study was to determine the interaction between lead (Pb) and urea under two moisture regimes (60% and saturated water contents). At 60% water content, the amount of NH(4)-N decreased with the incubation time, irrespective of Pb and urea applied, while the amount of NO(3)-N content in the soil gradually increased with the incubation period to 28 days, and such an increase was counteracted by application of Pb. The amount of NO(3)-N content was higher than that of NH(4)-N, however, under saturated moisture condition, the amount of NH(4)-N was increased with the incubation time regardless of the levels of Pb application. The amount of NO(3)-N content in the soil gradually decreased with the advance of incubation at saturated condition. Although application of urea increased the NO(3)-N content in the soil, such an increase was suppressed by the application of different levels of Pb at water saturated condition throughout the incubation period. TheScientificWorldJOURNAL 2007-06-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5901363/ /pubmed/17619777 http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2007.129 Text en Copyright © 2007 Dilip Kumar Das et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Effect of Lead on the Transformation of Urea-N in Fly Ash-Contaminated Soils under Different Moisture Regimes
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title_short Effect of Lead on the Transformation of Urea-N in Fly Ash-Contaminated Soils under Different Moisture Regimes
title_sort effect of lead on the transformation of urea-n in fly ash-contaminated soils under different moisture regimes
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5901363/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17619777
http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2007.129
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