Rhizosphere phosphorus solubility and plant uptake as affected by crop in a clay soil from the Central Plateau Region of Haiti

dc.contributor.authorStewart, Ryan E.en
dc.contributor.authorHodges, Steven C.en
dc.contributor.authorMulvaney, Michael J.en
dc.contributor.authorPavuluri, K.en
dc.contributor.authorThomason, Wade E.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialCentral Plateauen
dc.coverage.spatialHaitien
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T20:30:40Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T20:30:40Zen
dc.date.issued2014en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractThe nutrient Phosphorous (P) can be available in forms not available for plant uptake, and it is often a limiting factor in tropical crop production. However, certain plants are particularly efficient at extracting phosphorous. These plants can be effective cover crops because they improve phosphorous availability and uptake for the subsequent crop. This study examines the ability of seven different crops to improve phosphorous availability for farmers in Haiti’s Central Plateau. Surface soil from the Central Plateau was air dried and shipped to researchers in the US, where treatments of black bean (Phaseolus sp.), chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), cowpea (Vigna unguiculata [L.] Walp.), grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor [L.] Moench), lablab, pigeon pea, and velvet bean were applied in a controlled-environment chamber. After forty-nine days the plants were uprooted and samples of rhizosphere and bulk soil were analyzed. Phosphorous uptake did not differ among the seven species studied. However, researchers found that P uptake positively correlated with rhizosphere P and dry weight. Velvet bean was found to have the high quantity of dry mass, a positive characteristic for a cover crop.en
dc.description.notesLTRA-6 (A CAPS program for the Central Plateau of Haiti)en
dc.format.mimetypetext/plainen
dc.identifier7689en
dc.identifier.citationCommunications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, 45:703–712en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/00103624.2013.867047|en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/70226en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00103624.2013.867047#.UzAwK_ldVhoen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2014 by Taylor & Francisen
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectGreen manure cropsen
dc.subjectTropical zonesen
dc.subjectSoil nutrientsen
dc.subjectSoil fertilityen
dc.subjectLow input agricultureen
dc.subjectRhizosphereen
dc.subjectPhosphorous uptakeen
dc.subjectPhosphorous uptakeen
dc.subjectClay soilen
dc.subjectField Scaleen
dc.titleRhizosphere phosphorus solubility and plant uptake as affected by crop in a clay soil from the Central Plateau Region of Haitien
dc.typeAbstracten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

Files