Paper · 2022 · Agronomy

Use of Digestate as an Alternative to Mineral Fertilizer: Effects on Soil Mineral Nitrogen and Winter Wheat Nitrogen Accumulation in Clay Loam

Danute Petraityte; Ausra Arlauskiene; Jurgita Ceseviciene

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Abstract

Knowledge of the mineralisation and nutrient release of organic fertilisers is essential to ensure plant nutrient demand and availability, to increase N use efficiency and to minimise environmental risks. In 2018–2020, two similar field experiments were carried out on clay loam Cambisol with winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) grown without N application and applying liquid anaerobic digestate (LD), pig slurry (PS) and ammonium nitrate (AN) fertilizer with and without additional fertilization (N120 and N120+50). The aim of the research was to compare the effect of organic and mineral fertilizers on the variation of soil mineral nitrogen forms in the 0–30, 30–60 cm soil layers and N accumulation in wheat yield. Fertilizers applied during the previous growing season increased the nitrate and ammonium nitrogen (N-NO3 and N-NH4) content after the resumption of winter wheat vegetation. The dry period in spring (2019) had a negative impact on winter wheat N uptake. In a year of normal moisture content (2020), PS and LD fertilizers and the fertilizer application of the previous year (2019) significantly increased the N-NO3 content in the topsoil, while all applied fertilizers increased it in the deeper soil layer (by a factor of between 3.6 and 12.3), compared to unfertilized soil.

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Previous-season fertilizer increased soil nitrate and ammonium after winter wheat growth resumed.

Taxon
winter wheatTriticum aestivume0
Treatment
Fertilizers applied during the previous growing seasone0
Outcome
nitrate and ammonium nitrogen (N-NO3 and N-NH4) contente0
Direction
increasede0
Qualifier
after the resumption of winter wheat vegetatione0

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Triticum aestivum
Triticum aestivum · TaxonRasbak · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“Fertilizers applied during the previous growing season increased the nitrate and ammonium nitrogen (N-NO3 and N-NH4) content after the resumption of winter wheat vegetation”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 720–892 · show in text ↑
Associationobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

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Dry spring conditions in 2019 reduced winter wheat nitrogen uptake.

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winter wheatTriticum aestivume0
Outcome
winter wheat N uptakee0
Direction
negative impacte0
Qualifier
dry period in spring (2019)e0
Setting
spring (2019)e0

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Triticum aestivum
Triticum aestivum · TaxonRasbak · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“The dry period in spring (2019) had a negative impact on winter wheat N uptake”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 894–972 · show in text ↑
Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivesignificant (as stated)measured

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Pig slurry significantly increased topsoil nitrate in 2020.

Taxon
winter wheatTriticum aestivumt0
Treatment
PSe0
Outcome
N-NO3 content in the topsoile0
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increasede0

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Triticum aestivum
Triticum aestivum · TaxonRasbak · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“In a year of normal moisture content (2020), PS and LD fertilizers and the fertilizer application of the previous year (2019) significantly increased the N-NO3 content in the topsoil”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 974–1156 · show in text ↑
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“Winter Wheat”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivesignificant (as stated)measured

Claim · model-written summary

Liquid digestate significantly increased topsoil nitrate in 2020.

Taxon
winter wheatTriticum aestivumt0
Treatment
LD fertilizerse0
Outcome
N-NO3 content in the topsoile0
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increasede0

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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Triticum aestivum
Triticum aestivum · TaxonRasbak · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“In a year of normal moisture content (2020), PS and LD fertilizers and the fertilizer application of the previous year (2019) significantly increased the N-NO3 content in the topsoil”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 974–1156 · show in text ↑
t0

“Winter Wheat”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 95–107 · show in text ↑
Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivesignificant (as stated)measured

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Previous-year fertilizer significantly increased topsoil nitrate in 2020.

Taxon
winter wheatTriticum aestivumt0
Treatment
fertilizer application of the previous year (2019)e0
Outcome
N-NO3 content in the topsoile0
Direction
increasede0

Not reportedComparator

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Triticum aestivum
Triticum aestivum · TaxonRasbak · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“In a year of normal moisture content (2020), PS and LD fertilizers and the fertilizer application of the previous year (2019) significantly increased the N-NO3 content in the topsoil”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 974–1156 · show in text ↑
t0

“Winter Wheat”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 95–107 · show in text ↑
Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

All applied fertilizers increased deeper-layer soil nitrate by a factor of 3.6 to 12.3 versus unfertilized soil.

Taxon
winter wheatTriticum aestivumt0
Treatment
all applied fertilizerse0
Outcome
deeper soil layere0
Direction
increasede0
Value
a factor of between 3.6 and 12.3e0
Comparator
unfertilized soile0

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Triticum aestivum
Triticum aestivum · TaxonRasbak · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“all applied fertilizers increased it in the deeper soil layer (by a factor of between 3.6 and 12.3), compared to unfertilized soil”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1164–1294 · show in text ↑
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“Winter Wheat”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 95–107 · show in text ↑

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