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Effect of Straw and Fertilizer Nitrogen Management for Spring Barley on Soil Nitrogen Supply to a Subsequent Potato Crop

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The effect of straw management (straw removed or retained) and fertilizer N rate (0, 80 or 160 kg N ha-1) on a preceding barley rotation crop on N availability to the subsequent potato crop was evaluated in two years. Nitrogen fertilizer application increased barley grain and straw yield and N uptake, and generally decreased straw C:N ratio. Barley N rate increased residual soil nitrate at harvest in one year, but not in the subsequent spring. Barley management had no effect on assays of soil N supply or on total tuber yield, tuber specific gravity, plant dry matter accumulation or petiole nitrate concentration for an unfertilized potato crop. However, straw retention reduced potato plant N accumulation in both years, and reduced soil nitrate content in vegetation-free plots in one year, compared with straw removal. In this cool, humid environment, management of a barley rotation crop has limited short-term effects on N supply to a subsequent potato crop.

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Se evaluó durante dos años el efecto del manejo de residuos de paja de la cosecha (paja removida o retenida) y la dosis de N (0, 80 o l60kg de N/ha-1) en un cultivo de rotación anterior de cebada sobre la disponibilidad de N en un cultivo posterior de papa. La aplicación de N incrementó el rendimiento de grano y paja de cebada y la absorción de N, y generalmente disminuyó la relación C:N de la paja. La dosis de N en la cebada incrementó el nitrato residual del suelo a la cosecha en un año, pero no en la siguiente primavera. El manejo de la cebada no tuvo efecto en pruebas de suministro de N del suelo o en el rendimiento total de tubérculos, gravedad específica del tubérculo, acumulación de materia seca en la planta o concentración de nitrato en el peciolo para un cultivo de papa sin fertilización. Sin embargo, la retención de paja redujo la acumulación de N en la planta de papa en ambos años, el contenido de nitrato del suelo en parcelas libres de vegetación en un año, comparado con la remoción de paja. En este ambiente fresco, húmedo, el manejo de la cebada como cultivo de rotación tiene efectos de corta duración sobre el suministro de N para un cultivo de papa posterior.

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Funding for this project was provided by the AEMI program of NB Department of Agriculture and Aquaculture, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, and Potatoes New Brunswick. Technical assistance was provided by Karen Terry and Mona Levesque.

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  1. Potato Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, PO Box 20280, Fredericton, NB, E3B 4Z7, Canada

    Bernie J. Zebarth

  2. Department of Agriculture and Aquaculture, Potato Development Centre, New Brunswick, 39 Barker Lane, Wicklow, NB, E7L 3S4, Canada

    Peter Scott

  3. Organic Agriculture Centre of Canada, Nova Scotia Agricultural College, PO Box 550, Truro, NS, B2N 5E3, Canada

    Mehdi Sharifi

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Zebarth, B.J., Scott, P. & Sharifi, M. Effect of Straw and Fertilizer Nitrogen Management for Spring Barley on Soil Nitrogen Supply to a Subsequent Potato Crop. Am. J. Pot Res 86, 209–217 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12230-009-9074-2

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