Data from the Braunschweig FACE (free-air CO2 enrichment) experiments on sugar beet at adequate and low levels of nitrogen supply

Abstract

Sugar beet was grown within a crop rotation over two rotation cycles (2001, 2004) at ambient and elevated atmospheric CO₂ concentration (375 and 550 ppm) with practical (126, 156 kg N ha^-1) and low levels (63, 78 kg N ha^-1) of nitrogen supply. In the second year another cultivar was used to prevent infestation by rhizomania, which occured on one half of the field plots at the end of the season of 2001. In 2004, shading was included as an additional treatment. The objectives were to investigate the growth response of sugar beet to elevated CO₂ concentration at high and low nitrogen availability. Data set includes data on management, soil condition, weather, below and above ground growth (individual leaves, leaf area index, total biomass, beet yield and composition, water soluble carbohydrates, root biomass).