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Plant Competition in Relationship to Nitrogen Economy 1
Author(s) -
Peterson Maurice L.,
Bendixen Leo E.
Publication year - 1961
Publication title -
agronomy journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.752
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1435-0645
pISSN - 0002-1962
DOI - 10.2134/agronj1961.00021962005300010017x
Subject(s) - nitrogen , agronomy , competition (biology) , nitrogen fertilizer , fertilizer , environmental science , chemistry , biology , ecology , organic chemistry
Synopsis The recovery of nitrogen in the top growth of orchardgrass was found to be linearly related to the clover nitrogen plus the fertilizer nitrogen in a ladino clover‐orchardgrass mixture. These studies showed a recovery of 72% and the clover nitrogen was able to completely replace fertilizer nitrogen.