Sentences with phrase «different nitrogen fertilizer»

«The big question I had when we started this research was how different nitrogen fertilizer supplements affected the overall soil organic matter composition,» says Dr. Adam Gillespie, a post-doctoral fellow working with Agriculture and Agri - Food Canada (AAFC).

Not exact matches

Using different bacteria but the same overall setup, the researchers later turned nitrogen gas into ammonia for fertilizer, which could offer a more sustainable approach to the energy - guzzling method used for fertilizer production today.

Synthetic fertilizer is available as a variety of commercial products, with different nitrogen - release times, whereas manure and pulse crops need to be broken down by microbial decomposition before nitrogen becomes available.

«What we found is that it's not a linear relationship between the nitrous oxide and the [nitrogen fertilizer] rate applied, but a nonlinear, exponential trend across many different crop types,» including corn, major grain types, rice and grasses, said study co-author Neville Millar, senior research associate with Michigan State's W.K. Kellogg Biological Station.

Beyond producing hydrogen and carbon - rich fuels in a sustainable way, he has demonstrated that equipping the system with a different metabolically altered bacterium can produce nitrogen - based fertilizer right in the soil, an approach that would increase crops yields in areas where conventional fertilizers are not readily available.