Acta Agriculturae Boreali-Sinica ›› 2026, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (3): 158-168. doi: 10.7668/hbnxb.20196104

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Effect of Different Ammonium-Nitrate Ratios on Cadmium Uptake by Pakchoi and Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Cadmium Contaminated Soil

ZHANG Junyue1,2, LI Ping1,2, LANG Man1,2, HANG Zixuan2, CHEN Baitong2, NIE Hao2   

  1. 1 Jiangsu Provincial University Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Ecological Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
    2 School of Ecology and Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
  • Received:2025-05-01 Published:2026-06-28

Abstract:

Application of nitrogen fertilizer can change the bioavailability of heavy metals in soil,thereby affecting heavy metal uptake by crops.To explore the effect of nitrogen fertilizer with different ammonium-nitrate ratios on cadmium(Cd)uptake by pakchoi and nitrogen use efficiency in Cd-contaminated soil,a pakchoi pot experiment was conducted to examine the changes in the height and biomass of pakchoi,soil inorganic nitrogen content,soil pH,soil available Cd content,pakchoi Cd content,total nitrogen and nitrate nitrogen content in pakchoi,and the nitrogen use efficiency after applying nitrogen fertilizers with different ammonium-nitrate ratios(10∶0, 8∶2, 6∶4, 5∶5, 4∶6, 2∶8, and 0∶10).The results showed that the application of nitrogen fertilizer significantly promoted pakchoi growth.The height and biomass of pakchoi in the treatments of the combined application of ammonium and nitrate nitrogen fertilizers were increased by 2.5%-32.8% and 45.0%-66.8%,respectively,as compared to the treatment of single application of ammonium nitrogen fertilizer.Nitrogen fertilizer significantly increased inorganic N contents in the soil,the combined application of ammonium-nitrate nitrogen reduced the ammonium nitrogen and alkaline nitrogen content by 6.6%-71.9% and 10.1%-27.1%,as compared to the treatment of single application of ammonium nitrogen fertilizer.However,there was no significant difference in nitrate nitrogen content among the nitrogen application treatments.When the proportion of ammonium nitrogen in nitrogen fertilizer was higher than that of nitrate nitrogen,soil pH was decreased by 0.03-0.18,and soil available Cd content and Cd content in pakchoi were increased by 3.0%-10.9% and 4.3%-33.2%,respectively,as compared to the CK treatment.When the proportion of nitrate nitrogen was higher than that of ammonium nitrogen,soil pH was increased by 0.11-0.62.The soil available Cd content and Cd content in pakchoi was decreased by 3.8%-13.1% and 7.9%-17.7%,respectively,as compared to the CK treatment.The higher the proportion of nitrate nitrogen,the lower the soil available Cd content and pakchoi Cd content.The total nitrogen content of pakchoi in the treatments with nitrogen fertilizer application was increased by 38.5%-78.6%,as compared to the CK treatment,the higher the proportion of nitrate nitrogen in nitrogen fertilizer,the higher the content of nitrate in pakchoi.Compared with the treatment of single application of ammonium nitrogen fertilizer,the combined application of ammonium nitrogen and nitrate nitrogen significantly increased the physiological use efficiency,agronomic use efficiency,and partial productivity of nitrogen fertilizer by 61.5%-125.3%,182.1%-270.1%,and 45.0%-66.8%,respectively.In general,application of nitrogen fertilizer with different ammonium-nitrate ratios increased soil inorganic nitrogen content,promoted pakchoi growth and nitrogen uptake.Increasing the proportion of nitrate nitrogen in nitrogen fertilizers significantly improved nitrogen use efficiency.Application of nitrogen fertilizer with a dominant proportion of ammonium nitrogen increased the bioavailability of Cd in soil,and promoted uptake of Cd by pakchoi.Increasing the proportion of nitrate nitrogen in nitrogen fertilizer can effectively inhibit the uptake and enrichment of soil Cd by pakchoi.

Key words: Pakchoi, Cadmium contamination, Nitrogen fertilizer, Ammonium-nitrate ratio, Nitrogen use efficiency, Bioavailability

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ZHANG Junyue, LI Ping, LANG Man, HANG Zixuan, CHEN Baitong, NIE Hao. Effect of Different Ammonium-Nitrate Ratios on Cadmium Uptake by Pakchoi and Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Cadmium Contaminated Soil[J]. Acta Agriculturae Boreali-Sinica, 2026, 41(3): 158-168. doi: 10.7668/hbnxb.20196104.

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