Back to Search
Start Over
A single nitrogen application maintains wheat yield and quality in dryland Mediterranean Vertisol.
- Source :
- Soil Use & Management; Jan2024, Vol. 40 Issue 1, p1-14, 14p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
-
Abstract
- In dryland Mediterranean Vertisols, split nitrogen (N) application is usual in wheat crops. Because of the high clay content of these soils and the low rainfall, a single application might offer ecological and economic benefits without yield loss. We conducted a 5-year study as part of a long-term experiment and compared the split application of N (50% at tillering, 50% at stem elongation phase) with a single application (tillering) in 10 cropping systems resulting from the combination of type of cultivation (no-till and conventional tillage) and 2-year crop rotations (wheat-wheat, wheat-fallow, wheat-chickpea, wheat-faba bean and wheat-sunflower). Depending on the system × crop rotation interaction, a single application of 100 or 150 kg N ha-1 maintained grain yield, protein content and apparent N recovery, with no effect on nitrate content compared with a traditional split application. The average grain yield did not differ between split and single application of N (3.27 and 3.23 Mg ha-1, respectively, for single and split application of 100 kg N ha-1 rate; 3.46 and 3.40 Mg ha-1, respectively, for single and split application of 150 kg N ha-1 rate). The soil nitrate concentration at pre-seeding in the 0-0.3 m layer showed similar results, except in the case of the wheat-faba rotation, with lower nitrate concentration in the sub-subplots of single application and no-till. This work shows that adopting the single N application strategy in rotations on Mediterranean dryland Vertisols will reduce economic and environmental costs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02660032
- Volume :
- 40
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Soil Use & Management
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 176063232
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/sum.12975