Efficiency of soil and fertilizer phosphorus use

FAO FERTILIZER AND PLANT NUTRITION BULLETIN 18

Efficiency of soil and fertilizer
phosphorus use

Reconciling changing concepts of soil phosphorus
behaviour with agronomic information

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Rome, 2008

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Table of Contents

Part 1 [552Kb]

Acknowledgements
Executive summary

Part 2 [484Kb]

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Plant availability of soil and fertilizer phosphorus
Chapter 3: Changing concepts of the behaviour of soil and fertilizer phosphorus and reconciling these with agronomic information
Chapter 4: Measuring the recovery of soil and fertilizer phosphorus and defining phosphorus-use efficiency

Part 3 [696Kb]