EFFECT OF SOIL AMENDMENT WITH THIN STILLAGE AND GLYCEROL ON PLANT GROWTH AND SOIL PROPERTIES
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Abstract
Controlled environment experiments were set up in 2007 and 2008 to evaluate the potential of using by-products of the biofuel industry as soil amendments to improve fertility and plant growth in Saskatchewan soils. Trials were run with thin stillage (a by-product of ethanol production) and glycerol (by-product of biodiesel production). Canola (B. napus L.) and wheat (T. aestivum) were grown as the test crop in amended pots. Plant yield, composition, and soil properties were measured after five weeks. The stillage was found to be an effective soil amendment for increasing plant biomass yield. Per unit of nitrogen (N) added, canola yields were less than that of urea when nitrogen was the only limitation, due to only a portion of the nitrogen in the thin stillage becoming available over the five week period. However, when nutrients other than nitrogen were limiting, canola dry matter yields with thin stillage amendment approached or exceeded that of urea, due to the ability of the amendments to supply other nutrients such as phosphorus in addition to nitrogen. Glycerol, an amendment that only contains carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, was effective in increasing soil organic carbon content, but required supplemental fertilizer to account for nutrient tie-up by microorganisms during decomposition in the soil. The amendments did not have any biologically significant effects on other soil chemical parameters measured, including soluble metals, pH or salinity.
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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