Abstract: This paper introduced the main kinds of slow/controlled release fertilizers, and summarized the research advances in their action mechanisms and application effects in agriculture. Slow/controlled release fertilizers have positive effects on crop growth and grain yield, can improve the fertilizer N use efficiency to some extent, and protect the environment by inhibiting NH₄⁺ oxidizing to NO₃^- and reducing the accumulation of NO₃^- in soil, which in turn decreases the fertilizer N losses and environmental pollution. The N₂O emission from soil can be also mitigated by slow/controlled release fertilizers. The issues and further directions in the applied research of slow/controlled release fertilizers were brought forward.

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