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Effect of P and Zn addition on maize grown on calcareous soils

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

A. Nychas
Affiliation:
Athens Faculty of Agriculture, Laboratory of Agricultural Chemistry and Soils, Botanikos, Athens, Greece
V. Skarlou
Affiliation:
Nuclear Research Center ‘Demokritos’, Department of Solis and Plant Nutrition, Aghia Paraskevi, Attiki, Greece

Extract

Nutritional problems for cultivated plants related to phosphorus (P) and zinc (Zn), among other elements, are common in recent alluvial calcareous soils of Greece. The negative interaction which exists between these two elements aggravates these problems.

Type
Short Note
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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