Claim · model-written summary
The authors concluded digestate may have less impact on soil microflora diversity and function than conventional fertilizers.
- Taxon
- Annual ryegrasse1
- Outcome
- use of digestate can readily be incorporated into agricultural practicese0
- Comparator
- conventional fertilizerse0
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Verbatim
e0“the use of digestate can readily be incorporated into agricultural practices with potentially less impact on soil microflora diversity and function than conventional fertilizers”
e1“Annual ryegrass growth”
Title
Ai-Tian Ren; Lynette K. Abbott; Yinglong Chen; et al. Biology and Fertility of Soils 2020. doi:10.1007/s00374-020-01477-6
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Digestate significantly increased annual ryegrass growth.
- Intervention effect Liquid urea ammonium nitrate significantly increased annual ryegrass growth.
- Intervention effect Digestate was as effective as liquid urea ammonium nitrate for ryegrass growth.
- Intervention effect Digestate at 50 kg N ha −1 significantly increased AM fungal hyphae density.
- Intervention effect Liquid urea ammonium nitrate at 50 kg N ha −1 significantly reduced AM fungal hyphae density versus 25 kg N ha −1 at DAE 75.
- Intervention effect Digestate significantly shifted rhizosphere bacterial community composition, OTU richness, and C and N cycling gene abundance.
- Intervention effect Liquid urea ammonium nitrate significantly shifted rhizosphere bacterial community composition and OTU richness.
- Intervention effect Application rates had no significant effect on rhizosphere bacterial community measures.