{"id":125,"date":"2015-06-03T08:03:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T07:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/bacasable\/2015\/06\/03\/the-roots-of-free-fertilisation\/"},"modified":"2015-06-03T08:03:24","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T07:03:24","slug":"the-roots-of-free-fertilisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2015\/06\/03\/the-roots-of-free-fertilisation\/","title":{"rendered":"The roots of free fertilisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><p style=\"text-align: justify\">Nitrogen (N) is a major element that plant need for growth. Legumes are nitrogen-rich plants that are named \u2018green fertilisers\u2019 because legume residues enrich the soil in nitrogen after plant death. This fertilising effect is actually assessed by measuring shoot N concentrations, which does not take into account root contribution. Agronomists <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s13593-015-0297-y\" target=\"_blank\">Carranca et al.<\/a> indeed found that roots contain&nbsp; 7 &#8211; 11% of total legume N. The power of legumes as fertilisers for the next crop is thus underestimated.<\/p>\n<div class=\"altmetric-embed\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nitrogen (N) is a major element that plant need for growth. Legumes are nitrogen-rich plants that are named \u2018green fertilisers\u2019 because legume residues enrich the soil in nitrogen after plant death. This fertilising effect is actually assessed by measuring shoot N concentrations, which does not take into account root contribution. Agronomists Carranca et al. indeed &#8230; <a title=\"The roots of free fertilisation\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2015\/06\/03\/the-roots-of-free-fertilisation\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The roots of free fertilisation\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fertilization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}