Effects of hairy vetch, rye, and alternating cultivation of rye-vetch cover crops on soil nutrient concentrations and the production of red pepper (Capsicum annuumL.)

Abstract

2014) Effects of hairy vetch, rye, and alternating cultivation of rye-vetch cover crops on soil nutrient concentrations and the production of red pepper (Capsicum annuum L.

Physiological and metabolic responses in broccoli plants fertilized with green manure

“…There was an increase in the N content of the index leaf as the ratio of jack beans in the mixture increased (Figure 2). The higher N content in the broccoli index leaf with 100JB application is due to the greater mineralization (Lee et al, 2014;Watthier et al, 2020) and availability of this nutrient in the soil solution for absorption by the broccoli roots (Peralta-Antonio et al, 2019). It also partly reflects the leaf's investment in photosynthetic proteins such as Rubisco (Boussadia et al, 2010), since about 50% of the total leaf N in C3 plants is allocated to Rubisco (Kant et al, 2011;Mcallister et al, 2012).…”

Short‐term responses of soil carbon, nitrogen, and microbial biomass to cover crop mixtures and monocultures

“…Cover crops can improve soil nutrient status by decreasing nitrogen (N) losses to the environment (Delgado et al., 2011) and, in the case of legumes, by fixing atmospheric N (Kambauwa et al., 2015). Biological N inputs by legumes increase the availability of N in soils (Lee et al., 2014; Oelmann et al., 2007), leading to increases in both above‐ and below‐ground plant biomass (Fornara & Tilman, 2008), as well as increases in the metabolic activity of soil microorganisms (Tiemann et al., 2015).…”