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Nutrient Absorption and Applications of Sheepgrass (Leymus chinensis)

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Grassland fertilization is the optimum measure to increase forage yield and its nutrition. Sheepgrass is an important forage grass in the Eurasian steppe; however, the seed and grass yield of sheepgrass are low under natural conditions. The restoration and reconstruction of degraded sheepgrass grasslands have emerged as an urgent problem. Thus, experiments on nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium fertilizer, micro-fertilizer, microbial fertilizer, and other fertilizers have been carried out in artificial sheepgrass grassland in recent years, and the results suggest that rational fertilization is the key to enhancing the yield and quality of sheepgrass.

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  1. Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources, Xi’an, China

    Mingde Hao

  2. Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Xiaobing Dong & Xiaoxia Li

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    Xiaoxia Li

  3. Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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Hao, M., Dong, X., Li, X. (2019). Nutrient Absorption and Applications of Sheepgrass (Leymus chinensis). In: Liu, G., Li, X., Zhang, Q. (eds) Sheepgrass (Leymus chinensis): An Environmentally Friendly Native Grass for Animals. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8633-6_7

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