Highlights

Arable farming
Iron-rich sand reduced nitrate leaching
Monopotassium phosphate spray protects wheat against heat stress
Water scarcity frustrates cultivation of cover crops

Potato nutrition
Calcium and its antagonists control potato powdery scab
Best practice for chlorophyll a fluorescence diagnosing of phosphorus in potato

Grass and forage
Grass nitrogen yield linked to soil pH, not Ca:Mg ratio

Fruits and vegetables
Extreme slaked lime application rate keeps clubroot away for years
Potassium foliar fertiliser pH does matter

Biological and synthetic nitrification inhibitors
High-throughput screening of nitrification inhibiting crops
Sorghum intercrop inhibits nitrification under maize
Hydrophilic nitrification inhibitor found in maize roots
Doubts about mode of action of nitrification inhibitors DMPP and DMPSA

Fertilisers
Reviews of enhanced efficiency nitrogen fertilisers scrutinised
Hydroabsorbents reduce ammonia volatilisation from urea ammonium nitrate
At-field and on-demand nitrogen synthesis for fertigation
Soil type and cultivation period determine the added value of polyphosphate
Milling elemental sulphur into water-soluble fertiliser

Plant and soil analytics
Soil scientists: soil solution pH says little about plant-availability of nutrients
Tracking the path of foliar-applied nutrients

Silicon
Scientists scrutinise significance of silicon for plants
Silicon content in plant material can best be determined with Tiron extractant

Plant nutrition patents
Recent plant nutrition patent publications

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