Influence of Oil Seed Rape and Faba Bean as Green Manure on Nitrogen Utilization in a Spring Cereal Rotation

• Published in: Journal of agronomy and crop science (1986) Vol. 165; no. 4; pp. 253 - 256
• Main Authors: Jung, J., Dressel, J., Kuchenbuch, R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.11.1990; Blackwell
• Subjects: Agronomy. Soil science and plant productions; Biological and medical sciences; farmyard manure; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General agronomy. Plant production; legumes; mineral fertilizer; N leaching; N uptake; oats; Other nutrients. Amendments. Solid and liquid wastes. Sludges and slurries; Soil-plant relationships. Soil fertility. Fertilization. Amendments; spring wheat; Avena sativa; Nitrogen fertilization; Manure; Monocotyledones; Green manure; Brassica napus var. oleifera; Lysimetry; Vicia faba; Leaching; Cereal crop; Oil plant(vegetal); Leguminosae; Vegetable crop; Cruciferae; Gramineae; Mineral fertilization; Dicotyledones; Crop rotation; Angiospermae; Spermatophyta; Measurement method; Triticum aestivum
• ISSN: 0931-2250; 1439-037X
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-037X.1990.tb00859.x

A lysimeter study was conducted to investigate how nitrogen uptake of spring wheat and oats and N leaching losses are differing when either oilseed rape or faba bean are grown as green manure. The experiment was conducted during 1982–1988, and fertilizer applied to the cereals was either farmyard manure, FYM, (6 and 12 g N/m2/year) or mineral fertilizer, MiF, at a rate of 6 g N/m2. On average of the 7 year period faba bean increased N uptake of the cereals fertilized with FYM at harvest by 3–4 g/m2. Differences between the two application rates were negligible. N‐leaching losses increased twofold when faba bean was grown instead of oilseed rape. Growing faba bean after cereals supplied with MiF, too, increased N uptake of the cereals and significantly increased leaching losses.