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A review is made of the recent literature pertaining to the reactions and processes that soil and fertilizer N undergo in lowland rice soils in relation to the improved N management and overal N economy of lowland rice soils. Topics discussed include: nitrogen leaching, ammonium fixation and release, ammonia volatilization, N2 fixation, mineralization-immobilization, nitrification-denitrification, dissimilatory nitrate reduction, urea hydrolysis, critical pathways for control of nitrogen loss.
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Keeney, D.R., Sahrawat, K.L. (1986). Nitrogen transformations in flooded rice soils. In: De Datta, S.K., Patrick, W.H. (eds) Nitrogen Economy of Flooded Rice Soils. Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences, vol 26. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4428-2_2
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