Article: Research in the area of soil science reported from China Agricultural University.

According to recent research from Beijing, People's Republic of China, "Cropping systems is potentially useful practice for mitigating nitrate leaching and increasing nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) because deeper rooted crops could capture the leached N from previous shallower rooted crops. The recovery of fertilizer nitrogen (FN) applied to maize (Zea mays L.) by the succeeding wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) in a winter wheat-summer maize rotation in North China Plain (NCP) was studied in 2003-2004 and 2005-2006 by creating N-15-labeled soil columns."

"We found that the in-season maize plant use efficiency of FN was about 46 to 48% and the total residual fertilizer ...

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