Exploring the Fate of Substituted 1,2,3-Triazoles: Unraveling the Soil Degradation Pathways of a Novel Class of Nitrification Inhibitors

Abstract

Nitrification inhibitors are used in agriculture to maintain ammonium (NH4+) available for crops for longer periods while reducing leaching of nitrate (NO3–) and emission of the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O). Unfortunately, the current commercial inhibitors exhibit inconsistent performances across various agroecosystems, underscoring the need for the development of new inhibitors to increase agriculture’s environmental sustainability. We recently presented 1,4-disubstituted 1,2,3-triazoles as a novel class of nitrification inhibitors (NIs), which can outperform the commercial ‘gold standard’ 3,4-dimethylpyrazole phosphate (DMPP) in laboratory soil incubations. In this work, we ex..