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Effect of Urea Coated with Polyaspartic Acid on the Yield and Nitrogen Use Efficiency of Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor, (L.) Moench.)

Innovative approaches to enhance N fertilization to improve season-long N availability are essential to optimal sorghum (Sorghum bicolor, (L.) Moench.) productivity and N use efficiency. A two-year field experiment was conducted in the 2020 and 2021 summer seasons on the North China Plain to determi...

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Autores principales: Yan, Peng, Fang, Mengying, Lu, Lin, Ren, Liang, Dong, Xuerui, Dong, Zhiqiang
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9268984/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35807676
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants11131724
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author Yan, Peng
Fang, Mengying
Lu, Lin
Ren, Liang
Dong, Xuerui
Dong, Zhiqiang
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Fang, Mengying
Lu, Lin
Ren, Liang
Dong, Xuerui
Dong, Zhiqiang
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description Innovative approaches to enhance N fertilization to improve season-long N availability are essential to optimal sorghum (Sorghum bicolor, (L.) Moench.) productivity and N use efficiency. A two-year field experiment was conducted in the 2020 and 2021 summer seasons on the North China Plain to determine the effects of a novel urea coated with polyaspartic acid (PAA) (PN) and a control treatment (CN) on grain sorghum yield and N utilization characteristics at four N application rates (0, 60, 120, and 240 kg ha(−1)). The results showed that sorghum yield, agronomic traits (including leaf area duration (LAD), crop growth rate (CGR), and dry matter accumulation (DMA)), the accumulation of nitrate N and ammonium N in the 0–60 cm soil layer, stover and grain N content, and total N uptake (NUT) in 2020 and 2021 significantly increased as N application rates increased from 0 to 240 kg ha(−1), whereas nitrogen agronomic efficiency (NAE), N uptake efficiency (NUpE), and N utilization efficiency (NUtE) varied inversely with increasing N application rates. Compared to CN, PN demonstrated a significant enhancement in grain sorghum yield, LAD, and CGR, from 3.3% to 7.1%, from 4.8% to 6.1%, and from 5.8% to 6.8%, respectively, at 60 and 120 kg N ha(−1). PN improved the N availability (mainly nitrate-N) in the sorghum soft dough and the stover and grain N content at harvest and NUT, NUpE, and NAE accordingly compared with CN at the 60 and 120 kg ha(−1) N application rates. In short, our two-year field trials demonstrated that PN with 120 kg N ha(−1) is recommended in grain sorghum to optimize sorghum productivity and nitrogen use efficiency at the current yield level in the North China Plain.
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spelling pubmed-92689842022-07-09 Effect of Urea Coated with Polyaspartic Acid on the Yield and Nitrogen Use Efficiency of Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor, (L.) Moench.) Yan, Peng Fang, Mengying Lu, Lin Ren, Liang Dong, Xuerui Dong, Zhiqiang Plants (Basel) Article Innovative approaches to enhance N fertilization to improve season-long N availability are essential to optimal sorghum (Sorghum bicolor, (L.) Moench.) productivity and N use efficiency. A two-year field experiment was conducted in the 2020 and 2021 summer seasons on the North China Plain to determine the effects of a novel urea coated with polyaspartic acid (PAA) (PN) and a control treatment (CN) on grain sorghum yield and N utilization characteristics at four N application rates (0, 60, 120, and 240 kg ha(−1)). The results showed that sorghum yield, agronomic traits (including leaf area duration (LAD), crop growth rate (CGR), and dry matter accumulation (DMA)), the accumulation of nitrate N and ammonium N in the 0–60 cm soil layer, stover and grain N content, and total N uptake (NUT) in 2020 and 2021 significantly increased as N application rates increased from 0 to 240 kg ha(−1), whereas nitrogen agronomic efficiency (NAE), N uptake efficiency (NUpE), and N utilization efficiency (NUtE) varied inversely with increasing N application rates. Compared to CN, PN demonstrated a significant enhancement in grain sorghum yield, LAD, and CGR, from 3.3% to 7.1%, from 4.8% to 6.1%, and from 5.8% to 6.8%, respectively, at 60 and 120 kg N ha(−1). PN improved the N availability (mainly nitrate-N) in the sorghum soft dough and the stover and grain N content at harvest and NUT, NUpE, and NAE accordingly compared with CN at the 60 and 120 kg ha(−1) N application rates. In short, our two-year field trials demonstrated that PN with 120 kg N ha(−1) is recommended in grain sorghum to optimize sorghum productivity and nitrogen use efficiency at the current yield level in the North China Plain. MDPI 2022-06-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9268984/ /pubmed/35807676 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants11131724 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Yan, Peng
Fang, Mengying
Lu, Lin
Ren, Liang
Dong, Xuerui
Dong, Zhiqiang
Effect of Urea Coated with Polyaspartic Acid on the Yield and Nitrogen Use Efficiency of Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor, (L.) Moench.)
title Effect of Urea Coated with Polyaspartic Acid on the Yield and Nitrogen Use Efficiency of Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor, (L.) Moench.)
title_full Effect of Urea Coated with Polyaspartic Acid on the Yield and Nitrogen Use Efficiency of Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor, (L.) Moench.)
title_fullStr Effect of Urea Coated with Polyaspartic Acid on the Yield and Nitrogen Use Efficiency of Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor, (L.) Moench.)
title_full_unstemmed Effect of Urea Coated with Polyaspartic Acid on the Yield and Nitrogen Use Efficiency of Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor, (L.) Moench.)
title_short Effect of Urea Coated with Polyaspartic Acid on the Yield and Nitrogen Use Efficiency of Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor, (L.) Moench.)
title_sort effect of urea coated with polyaspartic acid on the yield and nitrogen use efficiency of sorghum (sorghum bicolor, (l.) moench.)
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9268984/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35807676
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants11131724
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