special issue: nitrogen transport and assimilation in plants
;Bertrand Hirel;Anne Krapp
drinking water engineering and science2016Vol. 6pp. 41-
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hirel2016agronomyspecial
Abstract
The doubling of the world’s agricultural production for the past four decades has been associated with a seven-fold increase in nitrogen (N) fertilization [1] which has caused major detrimental impacts onthediversityandfunctioningofthenon-agriculturalbacterial,animalandplantecosystems,notably through the process of freshwater and marine ecosystem eutrophication [2].[...]