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Supply of soil nitrogen to the plant during the growing season

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Fundamental, Ecological and Agricultural Aspects of Nitrogen Metabolism in Higher Plants

Part of the book series: Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences ((DPSS,volume 19))

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Plants take up nitrogen almost exclusively in inorganic forms. The size of the pool of inorganic nitrogen in the soil is the resultant of many complicated processes, and strongly fluctuates due to their dynamic nature.

In this paper some of the more important processes, which compete with plant uptake for mineral nitrogen during the growing season (leaching, immobilization, denitrification) will be dealt with.

Some attention will be paid to the special role of the rhizosphere in this respect.

Next, the contribution of mineralization of soil organic nitrogen to the nitrogen supply of a crop and the influence of root density and distribution on nitrogen availability will be considered.

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De Willigen, P. (1986). Supply of soil nitrogen to the plant during the growing season. In: Lambers, H., Neeteson, J.J., Stulen, I. (eds) Fundamental, Ecological and Agricultural Aspects of Nitrogen Metabolism in Higher Plants. Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences, vol 19. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4356-8_62

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