Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 58

Phosphorus Use Efficiency for Sustainable Agriculture

Muhammad Arif editor Asif Iqbal editor Mazhar Iqbal editor Eric Lichtfouse editor Madeeha Alamzeb editor Song Meizhen editor Zhang Xiling editor Xiongming Du editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG

Published:17th Nov '23

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Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 58 cover

This book presents recently-developed crop, soil, and management practices that can be used to improve phosphorous use efficiency in agriculture. Food security highly depends on the availability of plant nutrients such as phosphorus, yet rock phosphate reserves are expected to be exhausted in the next 50–100 years. Moreover, about 80% of the phosphorous fertilizers applied to soils become unavailable to plants due to phosphorous fixation in iron and aluminum oxides in acidic soils and with carbonates in alkaline soils. As a consequence, only 10-15% of applied phosphorous is up taken by crops. Therefore, there is a need for advanced practices for improving phosphorus use efficiency.

ISBN: 9783031161575

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Weight: unknown

235 pages

1st ed. 2023