Control of nitrification of fertilizer nitrogen: Effect of inhibitors,banding and nesting |
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Authors: | S S Malhi M Nyborg |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Soil Science, University of Alberta, T6G 2E3 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada;(2) Present address: Research Station, Agriculture Canada, T0C 1S0 Lacombe, Alberta, Canada |
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Abstract: | Laboratory incubation and field experiments were conducted to evaluate thiourea, ATC (4-amino-1, 2, 4 triazole hydrochloride)
and N-Serve 24 E (2-chloro-6-trichloromethyl-pyridine) as inhibitors of nitrification of fertilizer N. In the incubation experiment,
most of the added aqueous NH3 or urea was nitrified at 14 days on both soils, but addition of the inhibitors to fertilizer N decreased the conversion of
NH4−N to NO3−N markedly. There was less nitrification for ATC and thiourea but not for N-Serve 24 E when the fertilizers and the inhibitors
were placed at a point as opposed to when mixed into soil. After 28 days, ATC and N-Serve 24 E were more effective in inhibiting
nitrification than thiourea. ATC and N-Serve 24 E also inhibited release of mineral N (NH4−N+NO3−N) from native soil N. In the uncropped field experiment, which received N fertilizers in the fall, nitrification of fall-applied
N placed in the 15-cm bands was almost complete by early May in the Malmo soil, but not in the Breton soil. When ATC or thiourea
had been applied with urea, nitrification of fall-applied N was depressed by May and the recovery of applied N as NH4−N was greater with increasing band spacing to 60 cm or placing N fertilizer in nests (a method of application where urea
prills were placed at a point in the soil in the center of 60×60 cm area). In late June, the percentage recovery of fall-applied
N in soil as NH4−N or mineral N increased with wide band spacing, or nest placement, or by adding ATC to fertilizer N on both soils. These
results indicate that placing ammonium-based N fertilizers in widely-spaced bands or in nests with low rates of inhibitors
slows nitrification enough to prevent much of the losses from fall-applied N.
Scientific Paper No. 552, Lacombe Research Station, Research Branch, Agric, Can. |
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Keywords: | aqua ammonia ATC banding fall-applied N inhibitors mineral N losses nesting nitrification N-Serve 24 E point placement thiourea urea |
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