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Phosphorus and Micronutrient Interactions in soil and their Impacts on Maize Growth

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Iteractions among phosphorus (P) and micronutrients may greatly influence plant growth and soil productivity. Thus, a greenhouse investigation of a complete randomized design was conducted to highlight such interactions in which a clayey soil (enriched with either 5 mg Fe kg-1 soil , 1mg Mn kg-1 soil ,or 1.5 mg Zn kg-1 soil) received P in the form of calcium superphosphate at three rates equivalent to 6.7 (P1), 13.4 (P2, recommended dose) and 20.1 mg P kg-1 (P3). Then, the soil was planted with maize seeds (Zea mays L var f16) for 60 days. Our results showed that application of P3, but not P2, raised significantly the fraction of P in soil which was extracted by ammonium bicarbonate- diethylene Tri amine penta acetic acid (AB-DTPA- P) versus P1. Likewise, AB-DTPA extractable Fe and Mn increased significantly in soil with increasing the rate of applied P, while AB-DTPA extractable-Zn decreased. In P-Fe interaction experiment, increasing the dose of applied P enhanced significantly maize dry weights, although did not affect significantly their heights. This is because P applications led to significant increases in Fe and K contents within plant tissues. Regarding P-Mn interactions, application of P2 significantly raised Mn content within plants while the highest application rate of P (P3) diminished this content. In spite of that, maize dry weights seemed to be comparable between P2and P3 and both exhibited higher dry weights than P1. Finally, results of P-Zn interactions revealed that both N and Zn contents significantly increased within plants due to increasing the rate of applied P fertilizer. Accordingly, plant dry weights increased significantly. In conclusion, plants that received the recommended doses of P or even less need to absorb more micronutrient (Fe, Mn and Zn) from soil for metabolism and growth; yet, high P inputs increased the uptake of Fe and Zn by plants while diminished Mn uptake.

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10.21608/ejss.2023.220182.1610

Keywords

Fe, Zn, Mn, micronutrient availability, Micronutrient uptake, interactions, Maize

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First Name

Ihab

Last Name

Farid

MiddleName

Mohamed

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Soils and water department, Agriculture Faculty, Benha University

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ehab.farid@fagr.bu.edu.eg

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Reham

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El-Shinawy

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Soils and Water Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Benha University

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rehamsaad529@yahoo.com

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First Name

Omar

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Elhussiny

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-

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Soils and Water Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Benha University

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omarelhussiny53@gmail.com

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First Name

Hassan

Last Name

Abbas

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Benha University, Faculty of Agriculture

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hharsalem@yahoo.com

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0000-0001-5645-4835

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Mohamed

Last Name

Abbas

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H.H.

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Benha University, Faculty of Agriculture, Soils and Water department

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mohamed.abbas@fagr.bu.edu.eg

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Obour

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0000-0002-1905-1241

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Mohamed

Last Name

Bassouny

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Ahmed

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Department of Soil and Water, Faculty of Agriculture, Benha University, Egypt

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mohamed.bassuony@fagr.bu.edu.eg

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https://scholar.google.com.eg/citations?hl=en&user=vyqv-fIAAAAJ

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https://orcid.org/00

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63

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3

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42643

Issue Date

2023-09-01

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2023-06-26

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2023-09-01

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405

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416

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0302-6701

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2357-0369

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Egyptian Journal of Soil Science

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https://ejss.journals.ekb.eg/

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Phosphorus and Micronutrient Interactions in soil and their Impacts on Maize Growth

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23 Dec 2024