Nitrogen fluxes at the root-soil interface show a mismatch of nitrogen fertilizer supply and sugarcane root uptake capacity. Brackin, R., Nasholm, T., Robinson, N., Guillou, S., Vinall, K., Lakshmanan, P., Schmidt, S., & Inselsbacher, E. Sci Rep, 5(1):15727, October, 2015. Edition: 2015/10/27
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Globally only approximately 50% of applied nitrogen (N) fertilizer is captured by crops, and the remainder can cause pollution via runoff and gaseous emissions. Synchronizing soil N supply and crop demand will address this problem, however current soil analysis methods provide little insight into delivery and acquisition of N forms by roots. We used microdialysis, a novel technique for in situ quantification of soil nutrient fluxes, to measure N fluxes in sugarcane cropping soils receiving different fertilizer regimes, and compare these with N uptake capacities of sugarcane roots. We show that in fertilized sugarcane soils, fluxes of inorganic N exceed the uptake capacities of sugarcane roots by several orders of magnitude. Contrary, fluxes of organic N closely matched roots' uptake capacity. These results indicate root uptake capacity constrains plant acquisition of inorganic N. This mismatch between soil N supply and root N uptake capacity is a likely key driver for low N efficiency in the studied crop system. Our results also suggest that (i) the relative contribution of inorganic N for plant nutrition may be overestimated when relying on soil extracts as indicators for root-available N, and (ii) organic N may contribute more to crop N supply than is currently assumed.
@article{brackin_nitrogen_2015,
	title = {Nitrogen fluxes at the root-soil interface show a mismatch of nitrogen fertilizer supply and sugarcane root uptake capacity},
	volume = {5},
	issn = {2045-2322 (Electronic) 2045-2322 (Linking)},
	url = {https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26496834},
	doi = {10.1038/srep15727},
	abstract = {Globally only approximately 50\% of applied nitrogen (N) fertilizer is captured by crops, and the remainder can cause pollution via runoff and gaseous emissions. Synchronizing soil N supply and crop demand will address this problem, however current soil analysis methods provide little insight into delivery and acquisition of N forms by roots. We used microdialysis, a novel technique for in situ quantification of soil nutrient fluxes, to measure N fluxes in sugarcane cropping soils receiving different fertilizer regimes, and compare these with N uptake capacities of sugarcane roots. We show that in fertilized sugarcane soils, fluxes of inorganic N exceed the uptake capacities of sugarcane roots by several orders of magnitude. Contrary, fluxes of organic N closely matched roots' uptake capacity. These results indicate root uptake capacity constrains plant acquisition of inorganic N. This mismatch between soil N supply and root N uptake capacity is a likely key driver for low N efficiency in the studied crop system. Our results also suggest that (i) the relative contribution of inorganic N for plant nutrition may be overestimated when relying on soil extracts as indicators for root-available N, and (ii) organic N may contribute more to crop N supply than is currently assumed.},
	language = {en},
	number = {1},
	urldate = {2021-06-07},
	journal = {Sci Rep},
	author = {Brackin, R. and Nasholm, T. and Robinson, N. and Guillou, S. and Vinall, K. and Lakshmanan, P. and Schmidt, S. and Inselsbacher, E.},
	month = oct,
	year = {2015},
	note = {Edition: 2015/10/27},
	keywords = {Amino Acids/metabolism, Ammonium Compounds/chemistry/metabolism, Crops, Agricultural, Kinetics, Nitrogen Isotopes/analysis, Nitrogen/analysis/*metabolism, Plant Roots/metabolism, Saccharum/growth \& development/*metabolism, Soil/*chemistry},
	pages = {15727},
}

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