B - Book chapters etc edited externally
Johnston, A. E., Poulton, P. R., Fixen, P. E. and Curtin, D. 2014. Phosphorus: its efficient use in agriculture. in: Sparks, D. L. (ed.) Advances in Agronomy Vol.123 Elsevier.
Authors | Johnston, A. E., Poulton, P. R., Fixen, P. E. and Curtin, D. |
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Editors | Sparks, D. L. |
Abstract | Changes in understanding the behavior of soil and fertilizer phosphorus (P) during the last 150 years are presented and recent concepts have been linked with agronomic data to produce a model that considers four pools of inorganic soil P related to their plant availability and extractability by chemical extractants. The stronger the bonding of phosphate ions to soil components, the lower the plant availability. P-use efficiency in agriculture is related to soils reaching and being maintained at a critical level of readily plant-available P, and factors affecting the critical level are discussed. Efficiency can be assessed by the direct, difference, and balance methods. The latter, calculated as the P output/input ratio, shows that P-use efficiency can exceed 80–90%. Combined data from controlled experiments in England and derived “statewide” aggregate information in the United States relating output/input ratios to changes in plant-available P could best be described by a single, simple function, making a powerful and convincing statement suggesting that there is an underlying “simple rule” for the behavior of plant-available inorganic soil P that is related to the four-pool concept discussed. |
Year of Publication | 2014 |
Book title | Advances in Agronomy Vol.123 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Series | Advances in Agronomy |
ISSN | 00652113 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-420225-2.00005-4 |
Funder | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council |
Funder project or code | Delivering Sustainable Systems (SS) [ISPG] |
Identification of critical soil phosphate levels for cereal and oilseed rape crops on a range of soil types | |
Optimisation of nutrients in soil-plant systems: Determining how phosphorus availability is regulated in soils | |
Open access | Published as non-open access |
Publisher's version | Copyright license Publisher copyright |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 17 Dec 2013 |
Copyright license | Publisher copyright |
Journal citation | 123, pp. 177-228 |
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