ReviewPlants (Basel, Switzerland)2020
Crop Mass and N Status as Prerequisite Covariables for Unraveling Nitrogen Use Efficiency across Genotype-by-Environment-by-Management Scenarios: A Review.
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- Effect of municipal biowaste derived biostimulant on nitrogen fate in the plant-soil system during lettuce cultivation.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The Dissection of Nitrogen Response Traits Using Drone Phenotyping and Dynamic Phenotypic Analysis to Explore N Responsiveness and Associated Genetic Loci in Wheat.Plant phenomics (Washington, D.C.) · 2023Article
- Comparing CNNs and PLSr for estimating wheat organs biophysical variables using proximal sensing.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Article
- Effect of l-amino acid-based biostimulants on nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) in lettuce plants.Journal of the science of food and agriculture · 2022Article
- Redefining crop breeding strategy for effective use of nitrogen in cropping systems.Communications biology · 2022Article
- Nutrition vs association: plant defenses are altered by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi association not by nutritional provisioning alone.BMC plant biology · 2022Article
- Phenological optimization of late reproductive phase for raising wheat yield potential in irrigated mega-environments.Journal of experimental botany · 2022Article
- Current Status and Future Prospective for Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Wheat (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Simultaneously genetic selection of wheat yield and grain protein quality in rice-wheat and soybean-wheat cropping systems through critical nitrogen efficiency-related traits.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- Enhancing Sorghum Yield Through Efficient Use of Nitrogen - Challenges and Opportunities.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Review
- Targeting Nitrogen Metabolism and Transport Processes to Improve Plant Nitrogen Use Efficiency.Frontiers in plant science · 2020Review
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Abstract
Due to the asymptotic nature of the crop yield response curve to fertilizer N supply, the nitrogen use efficiency (NUE, yield per unit of fertilizer applied) of crops declines as the crop N nutrition becomes less limiting. Therefore, it is difficult to directly compare the NUE of crops according to genotype-by-environment-by-management interactions in the absence of any indication of crop N status. The determination of the nitrogen nutrition index (NNI) allows the estimation of crop N status independently of the N fertilizer application rate. Moreover, the theory of N dilution in crops indicates clearly that crop N uptake is coregulated by (i) soil N availability and (ii) plant growth rate capacity. Thus, according to genotype-by-environment-by-management interactions leading to variation in potential plant growth capacity, N demand for a given soil N supply condition would be different; consequently, the NUE of the crop would be dissimilar. We demonstrate that NUE depends on the crop potential growth rate and N status defined by the crop NNI. Thus, providing proper context to NUE changes needs to be achieved by considering comparisons with similar crop mass and NNI to avoid any misinterpretation. The latter needs to be considered not only when analyzing genotype-by-environment-by-management interactions for NUE but for other resource use efficiency inputs such as water use efficiency (colimitation N-water) under field conditions.
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