Relationship between phosphorus fractions of some selected Sudanese soil orders to phosphate availability

Autor: Yousif El Gorashi El Mahi, Abdel Wahab Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed, Mohammed Abdalla Elsheikh
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Volume: 7, Issue: 3 224-229
Eurasian Journal of Soil Science
Eurasian Journal of Soil Science, Vol 7, Iss 3, Pp 224-229 (2018)
ISSN: 2147-4249
Popis: A laboratory experiment was conducted todetermine the extent and the importance of phosphorus (P) fractions of someagriculturally important Sudanese soils on P availability. The soils weregathered from different locations in Sudan, to represent three differentorders: Aridisols (Um Dum soil, North Kordofan state), Alfisols (Hagu soil,Senar state), and Vertisols (Hosh soil, Gezira state). The soil P wasfractionated using an authenticated procedure. The results showed that thesoils had low total, organic and available P contents. Most of the inorganicsoil P was present in the Fe-Al fraction in Um Dum soil (> 50%), and about40% of this fraction in Hagu soil, but, only 20% in alkaline Hosh soil. TheCa-P fraction constituted > 60% in Hosh soil, about 40% in Hagu soil and 20% in Um Dum soil. The available P in thetop soils studied was positively related to the percent sum of Al+Fe -P of thetotal P, and was negatively related to the percent Ca-P fraction content of thetotal P. It has been proposed that the P sorption starts by exchange withsingly coordinate Fe or Al- OH clay (OH− edge group) and quickly reorganizes into more stable andless soluble ring forms especially at pH more than 7.0, Alkaline pH more than8.0 in soil like Hosh, will in presence of Ca, favour with time, the formationof inactive less soluble form like octacalcium phosphates and apatites atexpense of the initial Al and Fe-P forms which are less stable at alkaline pH.
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