Biosolids differently affect seed yield, nodule growth, nodule-specific activity, and symbiotic nitrogen fixation of field bean
S. Pampana A , A. Scartazza B , R. Cardelli A , A. Saviozzi A , L. Guglielminetti A , G. Vannacci A , M. Mariotti C , A. Masoni A and I. Arduini A D
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A Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Pisa, Via del Borghetto 80, 56124 Pisa, Italy.
B Institute of Agro-environmental and Forest Biology, National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Via Salaria km 29, 300, I-00016 Monterotondo Scalo, RM, Italy.
C Department of Veterinary Science, University of Pisa, Viale delle Piagge 2, 56124 Pisa, Italy.
D Corresponding author. Email: iduna.arduini@unipi.it
Crop and Pasture Science 68(8) 735-745 https://doi.org/10.1071/CP17166
Submitted: 24 April 2017 Accepted: 2 August 2017 Published: 15 September 2017
Abstract
The main aim of this research was to verify whether mineral nitrogen (N) continuously released by organic fertilisers during the field bean growth cycle may be sufficiently high to enhance plant growth and seed yield but sufficiently low that it does not negatively affect nodulation and symbiotic N2 fixation. Plants were grown without N fertilisation, and with mineral and organic N (biosolids) fertilisation. All plant parts were collected and dry matter, N content, %Ndfa, and N2 fixed were measured at 8th node, flowering, and maturity stages. Nodule specific activity, N derived from soil, and N remobilisation were estimated. The nitrate concentration of soil was also determined. Biosolids reduced nodule growth, nodule fixation activity, and N2 fixation during the vegetative but not the reproductive phase. During seed filling, nodule fixation activity increased and N2 fixation was roughly twice that of the Control plants. Biosolids increased seed yield by removing the imbalance between N demand and N supply for pod growth. This may be related to an increase in nodule-specific activity due to the reduction in mineral N in the soil.
Additional keywords: nitrogen isotope composition, nitrogen remobilisation, %Ndfa.
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