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Phosphate Potential as an Index of the Availability of Soil Phosphorus

Volume : 64
Issue: Oct-oct
Pages: 650 - 652
Published: October 11, 2023
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Abstract


The chemical potential of phosphorus in soil solution estimates the free energy or the available energy. The phosphato potential values of the soil samples after flooding for 15 days and 35 days correlated well with the uptake in flooded soils. But the phos phate potential of air dried soils did not correlate with the uptake. Since the phosphate potential values were significantly related to the uptake of P, it may serve as a good index of phosphorus availability in waterlogged soils. However, the ratio between the change in quantity factor and change in intensity known as "differential capacity" or "0/1 relations" would serve as a good index of P availability since the "intensity factor" changes with the "Quantity factor" due to the dynamism of waterlogged soils. Hence the evaluation of "buffering capacity" or the "O/1 relation" in suggested for realistic soil test.

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650 - 652
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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