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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Volume 256, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109952
Keywords
Soil phosphorus activators; Phosphorus fractions; Phosphorus availability; Calcareous soil
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51279004]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2015ZCQ-HJ-01]
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Legacy phosphorus (P) in soil, accumulated over several years of fertilizer application in excess of crop demand, represents a huge and largely untapped resource. P activators can increase the availability of this P to plants by accelerating its transformation into soluble P fractions. In this study, we evaluated the potentials of four P activators (oxalic acid, lignin, phytase and ascorbic acid) to increase plant available P in a laboratory incubation experiment with two P-deficient calcareous soils used for wheat production. Samples were analysed for Olsen P, phosphomonoesterase and with Hedley sequential P fractionation. All four treatments had significant effects on different soil P fractions. Oxalic acid mainly enhanced inorganic P (P-i) solubility from the HCl-extractable P pool. Lignin enhanced P lability from the NaOH-, HCl- and residual-P pools. Phytase and ascorbic acid principally affected the organic P fractions (P-o). Oxalic acid and lignin showed most potential to improve P (H2O-P, NaHCO3-P-i and NaHCO3-P-o) availability, which increased by 110-419% and 4.1-122%, respectively. These findings illustrated the potential mechanisms responsible for P release associated with different P activators and reinforced the case for their use in increasing legacy P availability for agriculture in calcareous soils.
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