Download or read book Phosphorus Requirements in Soils Amended with Organic Materials written by Ronaldo Severiano Berton and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The addition of organic residues to the soil may modify the amounts of plant available phosphorus (P) found in this ssytem. These studies were undertaken to evaluate the suitability of the sorption isotherm technique for estimating the amounts of inorganic P required for optimum plant growth, the correlation of P availability with the amount of P extracted by three chemical methods, and with the activity of two phosphatase enzymes, when soils were amended with organic materials. Acid phosphatase and phosphodiesterase activities were also compared with the P availability to plants. Soil phosphodiesterase activity correlated better with corn yield and plant uptake than acid phosphatase activity. The correlation of phosphodiesterase activity with microbial activity might be used to indicate the contribution of the soil organic P pool in the P supply to the plant.