Potential of basalt amendments to increase Nitrogen Use Efficiency and reduce the N2O emission factor of agriculture


Elena Blanc-Betes1, Ilsa B Kantola1, Melannie Diane Hartman2, Nuria Gomez-Casanovas3,4, David John Beerling5 and Evan H DeLucia6,7, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment, Urbana, IL, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Fort Collins, United States, (3)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment; Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation; Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, Urbana, IL, United States, (4)Texas A&M AgriLife Research Center, Rangeland, Wildlife, Fisheries and Management, Vernon, United States, (5)University of Sheffield, Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation; School of Biosciences, Sheffield, S10, United Kingdom, (6)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Plant Biology and Carl. R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, Urbana, United States, (7)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment, Urbana, United States