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Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology ›› 2012, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (10): 2759-2765.

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Fate and balance of bulk blending controlled release fertilizer nitrogen under continuous cropping of mustard.

ZHANG Pan-pan, FAN Xiao-lin   

  1. (Fertilizer Science and Balanced Fertilization Research & Development Laboratory, Guangdong Province Research Center of Environmental Friend Fertilizer Engineering & Technology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China)
  • Online:2012-10-18 Published:2012-10-18

Abstract: Under the conditions of applying water soluble fertilizer and its bulk blending with controlled release fertilizer (BB-CRF), and by using micro-lysimeter, this paper quantitatively studied the nitrogen (N) uptake by mustard, the soil N losses from N2O emission, leaching and others, and the N residual in soil in  three rotations of continuously cropped mustard. In the treatment of BB-CRF with 25% of controlled release nitrogen, the N uptake by mustard increased with rotations, and the yield by the end of the experiment was significantly higher than that in the treatment of water soluble fertilizer. The cumulated N2O emission loss and the Neaching loss were obviously higher in treatment water soluble fertilizer than in treatment BB-CRF. NO3--N was the primary form of N in the leachate. In relative to water soluble fertilizer, BB-CRF altered the fates of fertilizer nitrogen, i.e., the N uptake by mustard and the N residual in soil increased by 75.4% and 76.0%, and the N leaching loss and other apparent N losses decreased by 27.1% and 66.3%, respectively. The application of BB-CRF could be an effective way to reduce the various losses of fertilizer N while increase the fertilizer N use efficiency, and the controlled release fertilizer is the environmentally friendly fertilizer with the property of high N use efficiency.