A comparison of nitrogen fixation in genotypes of groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) using 15N-isotope dilution

Biology and Fertility of Soils - Tập 5 - Trang 23-25 - 1987
K. E. Giller1, P. T. C. Nambiar2, B. Srinivasa Rao2, P. J. Dart1, J. M. Day1
1Soil Microbiology Department, Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden, UK
2International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Andhra Pradesh, India

Tóm tắt

Nitrogen fixation in seven groundnut genotypes was measured by 15N-isotope dilution using a non-nodulating cultivar of groundnut as the nonfixing reference plant. Nitrogen fixation varied between 100 kg N ha−1 in genotype J-11 and 153 kg N ha−1 in Robut 33-1. The amount of plant-available soil N was small, so that 86%–92% of plant nitrogen was derived from N2-fixation. Thus differences in N2-fixation between genotypes closely reflected differences in their total N accumulation.

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