A quantitative review into the contributions of biological nitrogen fixation to agricultural systems by grain legumes
Legumes play a key role in the sustainable intensification of agricultural systems, improving biodiversity, ecosystem services, and reducing the dependency of food production on nitrogen (N) fertilizers. This review aims to: (i) quantify seed yield per kg of total aboveground N and fixed aboveground...
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| author | Palmero, Francisco Fernández, Javier A. Garcia, Fernando Osca Haro Juarez, Ricardo Javier Vara Prasad, P. V. Salvagiotti, Fernando Ciampitti, Ignacio A. |
| author_browse | Ciampitti, Ignacio A. Fernández, Javier A. Garcia, Fernando Osca Haro Juarez, Ricardo Javier Palmero, Francisco Salvagiotti, Fernando Vara Prasad, P. V. |
| author_facet | Palmero, Francisco Fernández, Javier A. Garcia, Fernando Osca Haro Juarez, Ricardo Javier Vara Prasad, P. V. Salvagiotti, Fernando Ciampitti, Ignacio A. |
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| description | Legumes play a key role in the sustainable intensification of agricultural systems, improving biodiversity, ecosystem services, and reducing the dependency of food production on nitrogen (N) fertilizers. This review aims to: (i) quantify seed yield per kg of total aboveground N and fixed aboveground N, (ii) study the N derived from the atmosphere (Ndfa) (as the slope of fixed aboveground N-to-total aboveground N relationship) and its potential, and (iii) estimate the partial N balance and the impact of belowground N on the net contribution of fixed
N after seed harvest. We retrieved 83 studies (n = 889 data points) investigating biological N fixation, spanning from 1982 to 2020, and focusing on blue lupin (Lupinus angustifolius L.), chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp), faba bean (Vicia faba L.), field pea (Pisum sativum L.), groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.), lentil (Lens culinaris Medik) and white lupin (Lupinus albus L.). The overall Ndfa did not change across legumes (0.84 kg fixed aboveground N kg total aboveground N-1), except for
common bean (0.57 kg fixed aboveground N kg total aboveground N-1). In addition, common bean showed the lowest potential for the Ndfa (0.95 quantile slope), with the largest N-gap between potential and mean N fixation (0.5 quantile slope). The straw N concentration (r2 = 0.47) was the main contributor to the variation in the partial N balance. The incorporation of the belowground N to estimate overall N balance showed that this fraction is a key component to study the role of legumes in maintaining soil N fertility in agricultural systems.
Future studies should accurately quantify both above- and below-ground contribution to N fixation process in order to improve the estimation of field N balances in legume-based systems. |
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| spelling | INTA231802025-07-25T17:12:24Z A quantitative review into the contributions of biological nitrogen fixation to agricultural systems by grain legumes Palmero, Francisco Fernández, Javier A. Garcia, Fernando Osca Haro Juarez, Ricardo Javier Vara Prasad, P. V. Salvagiotti, Fernando Ciampitti, Ignacio A. Fijación Biológica del Nitrógeno Sistemas de Explotación Leguminosas de Grano Análisis Cuantitativo Biological Nitrogen Fixation Farming Systems Grain Legumes Quantitative Analysis Legumes play a key role in the sustainable intensification of agricultural systems, improving biodiversity, ecosystem services, and reducing the dependency of food production on nitrogen (N) fertilizers. This review aims to: (i) quantify seed yield per kg of total aboveground N and fixed aboveground N, (ii) study the N derived from the atmosphere (Ndfa) (as the slope of fixed aboveground N-to-total aboveground N relationship) and its potential, and (iii) estimate the partial N balance and the impact of belowground N on the net contribution of fixed N after seed harvest. We retrieved 83 studies (n = 889 data points) investigating biological N fixation, spanning from 1982 to 2020, and focusing on blue lupin (Lupinus angustifolius L.), chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp), faba bean (Vicia faba L.), field pea (Pisum sativum L.), groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.), lentil (Lens culinaris Medik) and white lupin (Lupinus albus L.). The overall Ndfa did not change across legumes (0.84 kg fixed aboveground N kg total aboveground N-1), except for common bean (0.57 kg fixed aboveground N kg total aboveground N-1). In addition, common bean showed the lowest potential for the Ndfa (0.95 quantile slope), with the largest N-gap between potential and mean N fixation (0.5 quantile slope). The straw N concentration (r2 = 0.47) was the main contributor to the variation in the partial N balance. The incorporation of the belowground N to estimate overall N balance showed that this fraction is a key component to study the role of legumes in maintaining soil N fertility in agricultural systems. Future studies should accurately quantify both above- and below-ground contribution to N fixation process in order to improve the estimation of field N balances in legume-based systems. EEA Manfredi Fil: Palmero, Francisco. Kansas State University. Department of Agronomy; Estados Unidos Fil: Palmero, Francisco. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC). Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias; Argentina Fil: Fernández, Javier A. Kansas State University. Department of Agronomy; Estados Unidos Fil: Garcia, Fernando Oscar. Actividad privada; Argentina Fil: Haro Juarez, Ricardo Javier. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Manfredi; Argentina Fil: Vara Prasad, P. V. Kansas State University. Department of Agronomy; Estados Unidos Fil: Salvagiotti, Fernando. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Oliveros; Argentina Fil: Salvagiotti, Fernando. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET); Argentina Fil: Ciampitti, Ignacio A. Kansas State University. Department of Agronomy; Estados Unidos 2025-07-25T17:09:00Z 2025-07-25T17:09:00Z 2022-05 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/23180 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1161030122000624?via%3Dihub 1161-0301 1873-7331 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eja.2022.126514 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf Elsevier European Journal of Agronomy 136 : 126514 (May 2022) |
| spellingShingle | Fijación Biológica del Nitrógeno Sistemas de Explotación Leguminosas de Grano Análisis Cuantitativo Biological Nitrogen Fixation Farming Systems Grain Legumes Quantitative Analysis Palmero, Francisco Fernández, Javier A. Garcia, Fernando Osca Haro Juarez, Ricardo Javier Vara Prasad, P. V. Salvagiotti, Fernando Ciampitti, Ignacio A. A quantitative review into the contributions of biological nitrogen fixation to agricultural systems by grain legumes |
| title | A quantitative review into the contributions of biological nitrogen fixation to agricultural systems by grain legumes |
| title_full | A quantitative review into the contributions of biological nitrogen fixation to agricultural systems by grain legumes |
| title_fullStr | A quantitative review into the contributions of biological nitrogen fixation to agricultural systems by grain legumes |
| title_full_unstemmed | A quantitative review into the contributions of biological nitrogen fixation to agricultural systems by grain legumes |
| title_short | A quantitative review into the contributions of biological nitrogen fixation to agricultural systems by grain legumes |
| title_sort | quantitative review into the contributions of biological nitrogen fixation to agricultural systems by grain legumes |
| topic | Fijación Biológica del Nitrógeno Sistemas de Explotación Leguminosas de Grano Análisis Cuantitativo Biological Nitrogen Fixation Farming Systems Grain Legumes Quantitative Analysis |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/23180 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1161030122000624?via%3Dihub https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eja.2022.126514 |
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