A new perspective when examining maize fertilizer nitrogen use efficiency, incrementally

• Newell R. Kitchen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Newell R. Kitchen, Curtis J. Ransom, James S. Schepers

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Newell.Kitchen@usda.gov

  Affiliation USDA-ARS Cropping Systems and Water Quality Research Unit, USDA/ARS, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2268-9016

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• Curtis J. Ransom ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Newell R. Kitchen, Curtis J. Ransom, James S. Schepers

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation USDA-ARS Cropping Systems and Water Quality Research Unit, USDA/ARS, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1268-7247

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• James S. Schepers ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Newell R. Kitchen, Curtis J. Ransom, James S. Schepers

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

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• Jerry L. Hatfield ,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ JLH, RM and STD also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation USDA-ARS (retired), National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

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• Raymond Massey ,

  Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ JLH, RM and STD also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

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• Scott T. Drummond

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ JLH, RM and STD also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Corteva Agrisciences, Johnston, Iowa, United States of America

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