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The nutrition of maize in sand culture I. The balance of nutrition with particular reference to the level of supply of nitrogen and phosphorus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

J. Glover
J. Glover
Affiliation:
East African Agriculture and Forestry Research Organization
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As part of the overall programme of research directed towards an understanding of fertilizer needs of crop plants in East Africa a study of the nutrition of maize in sand culture has been made.

The purpose of the work was to study growth and yield in relation to changes in the proportion and concentration of the major nutrients, nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, and if possible to relate the results to the field behaviour of the crop in fertilizer trials conducted by another section of this organization. Simultaneously studies of the uptake of nitrogen and phosphorus were also undertaken. These latter are discussed in the second paper of this series.

This first paper deals only with growth, yield and nutrient content in relation to the nitrogen phosphorus balance, though the methods now to be described were common to all experiments.

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Research Article
Information
The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 43 , Issue 2 , April 1953 , pp. 154 - 159
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1953

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