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Nitrate transformation in soil samples of forest and tea (Camellia sinensis) plantations

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Title Nitrate transformation in soil samples of forest and tea (Camellia sinensis) plantations
 
Creator BEZBARUAH, BALAMANI
BORA, TARUN
SAIKIA, NEELIMA
 
Subject nitrate transformation, tea plantation, forest land, soil sample, ammonium N, volatilized N, age of tea bush, Camellia sinensis
 
Description A comparison was made in 1992 in the rate of nitrate transformation between soil samples from tea [Camelliasinensis (L.) O. Kuntze] plantations from 3 tea-growing regions (Assam 26°44'N 94° 10'E, Dooars 26°54'N 88°55'E,Nilgiris 11°21' N 76°49" E) and corresponding forest land, by estimating the quantity of nitrate, ammonium and volatilizednitrogen recovered from soil samples amended with potassium nitrate. In all the 3 regions of the forest samples and in several samples of Assam plantation, 85-100% of the nitrate added to the forest samples remained unaltered for 24 hr. The nitrate-reducing activity, although a distinctive characteristic of tea-plantation samples, was related neither to the age of the tea plantation nor to the yield of tea in the respective sections.
 
Publisher The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences
 
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Date 2013-05-14
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/29821
 
Source The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences; Vol 67, No 1 (1997)
0019-5022
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/29821/13414
 
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