"Nutrient burn is an excess build-up of nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorous or potassium in a plant," Eldred Steinkopf says. Plants use these and other nutrients for root, stem, leaf and seed ...

What kinds of fertilizers are best for your lawn and garden? Are organic or synthetic fertilizers the better option? Get the ...

Nitrogen fixing bacteria may have helped some cycads survive to the present day DURHAM, N.C. -- Once a favored food of grazing dinosaurs, an ancient lineage of plants called cycads helped sustain ...

Burning fossil fuels ... In agricultural systems, fertilizers are used extensively to increase plant production, but unused nitrogen, usually in the form of nitrate, can leach out of the soil ...

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, the University of Cologne, and the University of ...

Nitrogen oxides are produced by burning fossil fuels and contribute to ozone formation, acid rain, nutrient pollution and poor visibility. Acid rain harms plants and wildlife by altering the pH levels ...

However, although our atmosphere contains plenty of nitrogen, neither humans nor the vast majority of plants can absorb ... We measure this by burning nitrogen-containing biomass and collecting ...

Fertilization of gardens and landscapes typically begins in April after soils have warmed. With fertilization, one size (or ...

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, the University of Cologne, and the University of Copenhagen have uncovered a hidden talent of the Casparian strip—a root structure ...