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Fertilizers Impact on Grassland in North-eastern Romania Studied by Nuclear and Related Analytical Techniques
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: Received: 4 April 2024 / Approved: 4 April 2024 / Online: 4 April 2024 (12:54:22 CEST)
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Culicov, O.A.; Tarcau, D.; Zinicovscaia, I.; Duliu, O.G.; Stavarache, M.; Vintu, V. Fertilizers’ Impact on Grassland in Northeastern Romania. Separations 2024, 11, 139. Culicov, O.A.; Tarcau, D.; Zinicovscaia, I.; Duliu, O.G.; Stavarache, M.; Vintu, V. Fertilizers’ Impact on Grassland in Northeastern Romania. Separations 2024, 11, 139.
Abstract
To get more data concerning the influence of fertilizers (organic and mineral) on different forage plants existing in North-eastern Romanian grassland, the mass fractions of 14 essential, enzymatic, or considerd toxic elements was determined by Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis together with the amount of crude proteins, ash, fibres as well as ether fact extract. Final results showed a significant variance of the content of analysed elements on organic as well as on mineral fertilized experimental plots, i.e. the content increased in 24% of plots, decreased in 23%, and remained unchanged in 45% while in 8% of plots their content was below the detection limits, as the case of Se. At the same time, an increase content of crude protein and ether extract was evidenced in fertilized grasses for all applied fertilizers while other global indicators such as neutral and acid fibre of sufuric lignin content decreased, suggesting significant higher nutritional values of fertilized forage plant.
Keywords
organic fertilizers; mineral fertilizers; grassland; dietary cation-anion difference; instrumental neutron activation analysis
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Environmental Science
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