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Crop residue incorporation negates the positive effect of elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration on wheat productivity and fertilizer nitrogen recovery

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Plant and Soil, 366 (1-2): 551--561 (Sep 16, 2013)
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-012-1448-4

Abstract

Background and purpose Rapid increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration (CO 2 ) may increase crop residue production and carbon: nitrogen (C:N) ratio. Whether the incorporation of residues produced under elevated CO 2 will limit soil N availability and fertilizer N recovery in the plant is unknown. This study investigated the interaction between crop residue incorporation and elevated CO 2 on the growth, grain yield and the recovery of 15 N-labeled fertilizer by wheat ( Triticum aestivum L. cv. Yitpi) under controlled environmental conditions. Methods Residue for ambient and elevated CO 2 treatments, obtained from wheat grown previously under ambient and elevated CO 2 , respectively, was incorporated into two soils (from a cereal-legume rotation and a cereal-fallow rotation) 1 month before the sowing of wheat. At the early vegetative stage 15 N-labeled granular urea (10.22 atom\%) was applied at 50 kg N ha −1 and the wheat grown to maturity. Results When residue was not incorporated into the soil, elevated CO 2 increased wheat shoot (16 \%) and root biomass (41 \%), grain yield (19 \%), total N uptake (4 \%) and grain N removal (8 \%). However, the positive CO 2 fertilization effect on these parameters was absent in the soil amended with residue. In the absence of residue, elevated CO 2 increased fertilizer N recovery in the plant (7 \%), but when residue was incorporated elevated CO 2 decreased fertilizer N recovery. Conclusions A higher fertilizer application rate will be required under future elevated CO 2 atmospheres to replenish the extra N removed in grains from cropping systems if no residue is incorporated, or to facilitate the CO 2 fertilization effect on grain yield by overcoming N immobilization resulting from residue amendment.

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