Highlights

Lithium
Small dose of lithium can increase crop yield
Lithium: essential ultratrace element for ruminants
Lithium in diet is good for mental health
Editorial: Farmer can provide ingredients for good mood and mental health and well-being

Arable farming
Soybean benefits from nickel in several ways
Adding sulphur to potassium phosphate increases maize growth on calcareous soil
Three terms for different forms of ‘leftover’ phosphorus
Wheat seed orientation affects rooting depth

Potato nutrition
High sulphate dose induces oxidative stress in potato
Generic critical potassium dilution curve for potato

Fruits, vegetables and ornamentals
Chloride can partially replace nitrate in lettuce on hydroponics
Seed soaking in phytase solution improves germination

Plant and soil analytics
New extractant for routine soil testing on micronutrients
New method to precisely estimate ammonia emissions from soil surface-applied slurry

Fertilisers
Milling molybdenum and zinc into slow-release molybdenum fertiliser
Anions affect urease enzyme differently
Promising phosphate-solubilizing bacteria found in insect guts

Plant nutrient calculators
From pot to field and vice versa: two novel nutrient calculators

Plant nutrition patents
Recent plant nutrition patent publications

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