Nucleus: a virtual joint centre to deliver enhanced nitrogen use efficiency via an integrated soil-plant systems approach for the UK and Brazil

• Grant number: 16/12317-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Effective date (Start): September 01, 2016
• Effective date (End): April 30, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Agronomy - Soil Science
• Acordo de Cooperação: BBSRC, UKRI ; CONFAP ; Newton Fund, with FAPESP as a partner institution in Brazil
• Principal Investigator: Ciro Antonio Rosolem
• Grantee: Carlos Antonio Costa Do Nascimento
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Agronômicas (FCA). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Botucatu. Botucatu , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 15/50305-8 - A virtual joint centre to deliver enhanced nitrogen use efficiency via an integrated soil-plant systems approach for the UK & Brazil, AP.TEM
• Associated scholarship(s): 18/12775-0 - Can previous cultivation of grass affect rice rooting depth and nitrogen uptake?, BE.EP.PD

Abstract

The cultivation of annual crops in succession to forage grasses under no-tillage occupies large areas in Brazil. New alternatives for nitrogen fertilization management have emerged in this system, and farmers have applied in advance all nitrogen in the forage crops or before sowing maize. However, there are many doubts about the efficiency of nitrogen utilization by annual crops in succession to Urochloa brizantha and Urochloa ruziziensis in no-till system. The response of rice and maize to N application time and rates will be determined, when grown after grasses. In maize 15N will be applied to determine N recovery and use efficiency. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

MOMESSO, LETUSA; COSTA CRUSCIOL, CARLOS ALEXANDRE; COSTA DO NASCIMENTO, CARLOS ANTONIO; SORATTO, ROGERIO P.; CANISARES, LUCAS PECCI; MORETTI, LUIZ GUSTAVO; ROSOLEM, CIRO ANTONIO; OCHEUZE TRIVELIN, PAULO CESAR; KURAMAE, EIKO EURYA; CANTARELLA, HEITOR. Feasibility of early fertilization of maize with 15 N application to preceding cover crop. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY, v. 135, p. 11-pg., 2022-04-01. (15/50305-8, 16/12317-7, 15/17953-6)

MOMESSO, LETUSA; CRUSCIOL, CARLOS A. C.; SORATTO, ROGERIO P.; NASCIMENTO, CARLOS A. C.; ROSOLEM, CIRO A.; MORETTI, LUIZ G.; KURAMAE, EIKO E.; CANTARELLA, HEITOR. Early nitrogen supply as an alternative management for a cover crop-maize sequence under a no-till system. NUTRIENT CYCLING IN AGROECOSYSTEMS, v. 121, n. 1, JUL 2021. (15/50305-8, 15/17953-6, 16/12317-7)

DE QUEIROZ BARCELOS, JESSICA PIGATTO; DE SOUZA, MURILO; DO NASCIMENTO, CARLOS ANTONIO COSTA; ROSOLEM, CIRO ANTONIO. Soil acidity amelioration improves N and C cycles in the short term in a system with soybean followed by maize-guinea grass intercropping. Geoderma, v. 421, p. 12-pg., 2022-09-01. (17/00398-5, 17/22134-0, 16/12317-7)