The findings, published in Soil Ecology Letters, provide valuable insights into the relationship between soil microbial communities, functional genes, and the rate of soil nitrogen mineralization ...

In soil science and biogeochemistry mineralization can refer to the conversation of organic compounds such as carbohydrates to carbon dioxide, or the conversion of organic forms of nitrogen to ...

According to a University of Illinois crop sciences researcher, there has been a great deal of interest recently in the idea of using nitrogen fertilizer during the growing season to increase ...

a purpose-built metabolite targets liberation of organic pools of nitrogen in the soil for greater mineralization. “What this product offers is multiple ways nitrogen can be made available ...

Nitrogen is an important plant nutrient that is often deficient in the sandy soils that dominate Delaware, so application of manures and/or fertilizers is necessary to produce maximum economic yields.