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Phosphorus

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Phosphorus in soils occurs almost exclusively in the form of orthophosphate with total P concntrations usually in the range of 500–800 mg/kg dry soil. Quite a substantial amount of this P is associated with organic matter and in mineral soils the proportion of organic P lies between 20 and 80% of the total P.

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  • Soil Solution
  • Phosphate Concentration
  • Soluble Phosphate
  • Phosphate Uptake
  • Organic Phosphate

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    Konrad Mengel & Harald Kosegarten

  2. School of Biology, University Leeds, UK

    Ernest A. Kirkby

  3. University of Applied Sciences, Bingen, Germany

    Thomas Appel

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Mengel, K., Kirkby, E.A., Kosegarten, H., Appel, T. (2001). Phosphorus. In: Mengel, K., Kirkby, E.A., Kosegarten, H., Appel, T. (eds) Principles of Plant Nutrition. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1009-2_9

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