Impact of controlled-release urea on rice yield, nitrogen use efficiency and soil fertility in a single rice cropping system

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 10; no. 1; pp. 10432 - 10
• Main Authors: Chen, Zhaoming, Wang, Qiang, Ma, Junwei, Zou, Ping, Jiang, Lina
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 26.06.2020; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 631/449; 704/158/2456; Cereal crops; Controlled release; Crop production; Crop yield; Cropping systems; Efficiency; Fertilizers; Field tests; Grain; Humanities and Social Sciences; multidisciplinary; Nitrogen; Polyurethane; Rice; Rice fields; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Soil fertility; Urea; China

Overuse of nitrogen (N) fertilizer has led to low N use efficiency (NUE) and high N loss in single rice cropping systems in southeast China. Application of controlled-release urea (CRU) is considered as an effective N fertilizer practice for improving crop yields and NUE. Here, field experiments wer...