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A study of soil nitrogen organic fractions and correlation with yield response of Sudan-sorghum hybrid grass on Quebec soils

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Acid-hydrolysable organic nitrogen fractions were determined before and after two crops of Sudan-sorghum hybrid grass grown in a growth chamber on twenty Quebec soils. The relationship between the organic nitrogen fractions and yield response to N fertilizer and N uptake was examined by correlation methods and compared with corresponding relations obtained using incubation and boiling water extraction methods as indices of soil N availability.

Mean contributions to total N lost during growth of the two crops were: hydrolysable NH +4 -N−19%, amino acid N−16% and hexosamine N−2%. The amino acid N, hydrolysable NH +4 -N and total hydrolysable N were significantly correlated with percent yield, log percent yield decrement and N uptake. Better correlations were obtained with the incubation and boiling water extraction methods than with the organic-N fractions.

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  1. Department of Agriculture, Peradeniya, Ceylon

    A. F. Mackenzie (Commonwealth Scholar)

  2. Macdonald College of McGill University, Quebec, Canada

    A. F. Mackenzie (Commonwealth Scholar)

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Kadirgamathaiyah, S., Mackenzie, A.F. A study of soil nitrogen organic fractions and correlation with yield response of Sudan-sorghum hybrid grass on Quebec soils. Plant Soil 33, 120–128 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01378204

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