Periphyton closes the nitrogen budget gap in rice paddies.

Pengfei Sun, Yonghong Wu, Yin Chen, Jan Dolfing, Bruce E Rittmann, Kees Jan van Groenigen

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Pengfei SunState Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 211135, China.

Yonghong WuState Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 211135, China.

Yin ChenSchool of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0367-4276

Jan DolfingFaculty of Energy and Environment, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8QH, UK.

Bruce E RittmannBiodesign Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3678-149X

Kees Jan van GroenigenDepartment of Geography, Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QJ, UK.

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Abstract

Persistent 4%-22% gaps in nitrogen (N) mass balances have hindered sustainable N management in paddy agriculture. Periphyton are known N sinks, yet their role in paddies remains unclear. We used

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nitrogen mass balancenitrogen sequestrationpaddy fieldsperiphytonprecision nitrogen management

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PMID41675649

DOI10.1093/nsr/nwag016

PMCPMC12887296

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