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The Feeding Power of Plants for Phosphates
Author(s) -
Fried Maurice
Publication year - 1953
Publication title -
soil science society of america journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.836
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1435-0661
pISSN - 0361-5995
DOI - 10.2136/sssaj1953.03615995001700040014x
Subject(s) - monocalcium phosphate , phosphorus , agronomy , phosphate , phosphorite , perennial plant , lolium perenne , calcium , orchard , chemistry , biology , organic chemistry , fishery , fish <actinopterygii> , fish meal
Plant species were compared as to their feeding power for both monocalcium phosphate and rock phosphate. Even after the effect of size and extensiveness of the root absorbing surface was eliminated, species differed in their capacity to absorb phosphorus from basic calcium phosphates. The phosphorus of rock phosphate was most available to buckwheat and was more available to the legumes, alfalfa, crotalaria, and ladino clover, than to the grasses, orchard grass, bromegrass, perennial ryegrass, millet and oats.