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Effect of soil phosphorus availability and residue quality on phosphorus transfer from crop residues to the following wheat

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Background and aims

Legume break crops provide a series of agronomic benefits to the following wheat crop in a rotation. Phosphorus-efficient break-crop plants can mobilise P from non-labile pools in the soil and this could be made available to wheat plants after the decomposition of the break-crop residues. This study aimed to examine the contribution to P uptake by wheat plants, of residues from five different break crops with different maturities and C:P ratios.

Methods

Wheat plants were grown in a soil that varied in P status (Olsen P 7 to 30 mg kg−1) and was labelled with 32P and amended with crop residues at a rate of 1% (w/w). Soil and plant samples were taken after 42 days of plant growth. Wheat plants were analysed for growth and P uptake. Soil samples were analysed for P availability and microbial P content.

Results

Wheat growth was suppressed with the addition of residues to the soil, with P uptake closely related to shoot growth. The residue-P contribution ranged between 5 and 52% of the P taken up by wheat plants. The amount of P transferred from the residues to the wheat ranged between 6 and 15% of total residue P. Microbial P increased 2-fold in the low- and moderate-P soils with the addition of residues.

Conclusions

The transfer of P from break-crop residues to the wheat plant (as % total residue P) is small in the short term regardless of residue quality and soil P status but incorporating residues increased the microbial P uptake in low- and moderate-P soils.

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Acknowledgements

We thank Dr. Robert Norton for providing soils from a long-term fertilizer trial, Dr. Ashlea Doolette for providing crop residues, Associate Professor Ann McNeill and Professor Petra Marschner for helpful discussion, and Dr. Juan Wang for her comments on the manuscript. The research was partly supported by Grains Research and Development Corporation (project no: UA00119).

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Espinosa, D., Sale, P. & Tang, C. Effect of soil phosphorus availability and residue quality on phosphorus transfer from crop residues to the following wheat. Plant Soil 416, 361–375 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-017-3222-0

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