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Journal of Biological Sciences

Year: 2001 | Volume: 1 | Issue: 3 | Page No.: 124-125
DOI: 10.3923/jbs.2001.124.125
Effect of Incubation Period on Phosphate Sorption from Two P Sources
Muhammad Akhtar and S. M. Alam

Abstract: The results showed that by increasing the time of incubation, P availability in soil gradually decreased for both organic (DCP) and inorganic (SSP) sources. Phosphorus sorption irrespective of source, however, increased with incubation time. SSP compared to DCP yielded more AB-DTPA extractable P up to day 7, P content of SSP after day 14 became equal to that of DCP, and there after declined. After day 56, as much as half of P from SSP was sorbed out compared to 1/4th of P from DCP. Thus a readily soluble P source (SSP) was more affected to sorption under an alkaline calcareous soil environment compared to slowly soluble P source (DCP) which maintained P availability in soil for a longer period of time.

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Muhammad Akhtar and S. M. Alam, 2001. Effect of Incubation Period on Phosphate Sorption from Two P Sources. Journal of Biological Sciences, 1: 124-125.

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