Evidence that the adverse effect of urea fertilizer on seed germination in soil is due to ammonia formed through hydrolysis of urea by soil urease.

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• Publication year

  1989

• Venue

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

• Publication date

  1989-11-01

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Medicine, Chemistry

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1073/PNAS.86.21.8185PMID 16594076PMCID PMC298244
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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