Zaheer Ahmad
College of Agriculture, D.G. Khan, Pakistan
Muhammad Aslam
College of Agriculture, D.G. Khan, Pakistan
Maqsood Ahmad Gill
Department of Soil Science, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan
Muhammad Yaseen
College of Agriculture, D.G. Khan, Pakistan
Hamud -ur- Rehman
College of Agriculture, D.G. Khan, Pakistan
ABSTRACT
Soils of Pakistan are frequently characterized as deficient in plant-available phosphorus (P). The option of fertilizer applications to cope the situation has proved cost-intensive for resource-poor farmers of the country. Under the circumstances, exploitation of genetic variations in crops for P-use efficiency and identification of P-efficient crop cultivars hold great promise. Experiments conducted at the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad indicated significant growth differences among varieties of wheat, rice, chickpea and cotton when grown under P-deficient as well as P-adequate conditions. Differences in relative adaptability of varieties to P-deficiency stress were also considerable. In this paper, work done in Pakistan and elsewhere on genotypic variations of P-nutrition of crops is briefly reviewed. Various physiological mechanisms responsible for such variations are also discussed.
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Zaheer Ahmad, Muhammad Aslam, Maqsood Ahmad Gill, Muhammad Yaseen and Hamud -ur- Rehman, 2000. Intra-Specific Variations of Phosphorus Utilization Efficiency. Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences, 3: 537-541.
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2000.537.541
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DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2000.537.541
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