<p><strong>Aim: </strong>Develop plants and planting strategies that result in reduced emissions from soil.</p>
<p class="h5">What does success look like?</p>
<p>Low nitrous oxide plants and strategies adopted on farm</p>
<p class="h5">How will&nbsp;we get there?</p>
<ol>
<li>Understand the differences in nitrification between species, between cultivars and between endophyte-grass combinations</li>
<li>Confirm lab results are repeatable in plot and field trials</li>
<li>Undertake paddock scale trials to quantify effect</li>
<li>Develop commercial pipeline for new pant breeds to be taken up on farm</li>
</ol>
<p class="h5">What input is needed?</p>
<p>Science is needed to identify and understand plant effects on soil processes related to nitrous oxide emissions.</p>
<p>Commercial input will be needed, if plant varieties/breeding are agronomically sensible, to gather data to support incorporation into New Zealand farming practice.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Commercial input will also be needed if natural nitrous oxide inhibitors are identified to evaluate and breed&nbsp;</p>
<p class="h5">What's the timeline?&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p class="h5">&nbsp;<img title="pipeline_plants.jpg" src="user/image/large/487/pipeline_plants.jpg" alt="pipeline_plants.jpg" data-href="" /></p>
<h3>Latest update</h3>
<p><em>"POTENTIAL TO REDUCE N2O EMISSIONS FROM URINE PATCHES: Trials aligned with the FRNL programme have demonstrated the potential of feed management options and plant species to reduce N2O emissions from urine patches during 2015/16. Monoculture trials have shown that plantain and lucerne had around 35-70% lower emissions than perennial or Italian ryegrass and white clover at the same level of nitrogen (N) supply. Linking in with a P21 trial using winter forage crops and crop-specific urine, showed that, at the same rate of urine-N returned, N2O emissions from fodder beet were about 40% lower than from a kale crop."</em></p>
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