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The growth and nitrogen uptake of Rhodes grass grown on soils with varying histories of legume cropping


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Yaacob, Othman and Blair, Graeme J. (1980) The growth and nitrogen uptake of Rhodes grass grown on soils with varying histories of legume cropping. Plant and Soil, 57 (2-3). pp. 249-255. ISSN 0032-079X

Abstract

Rhodes grass (Chloris oayana) was grown under glasshouse conditions on soils that had previously grown from 1 to 6 soybean (Glycine max) or Siratro (Macroptillium atropurpureum) crops. Soil mineral N contents at sowing were higher in Siratro-cropped than soybean-cropped soils and increased with cropping history. Yields of Rhodes grass at the first harvest (14 weeks) were related to soil mineral N levels at sowing by the relationship Y = 138.7 (l~0.917e~~)Grass grown on all soybean soils was responsive to N at both harvests (14 and 28 weeks). Grass grown on soils that had grown three or more Siratro crops was non-responsive to N at the first harvest but responses to N were recorded on all Siratro soils at the second harvest. The amount of N removed by the grass crops was small in relation to the total amount present in the soil system. This resulted in no change in soil total N levels over the two crop periods. These results highlight the need to study N dynamics in crop systems rather than continue to measure N pool sizes when evaluating the contribution of biologically fixed N to the nutrition of subsequent non-legume crops


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Universiti Pertanian Malaysia
Faculty of Agriculture
DOI Number: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02211685
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Keywords: Legumes; Nitrogen; Rhodes grass
Depositing User: Azhar Abdul Rahman
Date Deposited: 20 Apr 2015 01:59
Last Modified: 20 Apr 2015 01:59
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URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/33802
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