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Nitrogen and Phosphorus Uptake and Partitioning in Finger Millet as Influenced by Phosphorus Fertilization

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http://www.sciencedomain.org/abstract/16920
 
Title Nitrogen and Phosphorus Uptake and Partitioning in Finger Millet as Influenced by Phosphorus Fertilization
 
Creator Wafula, W N
Korir, N
Ojulong, H F
Siambi, M
Gweyi-Onyango, J P
 
Subject Finger Millet
Soil Fertility
Soil
 
Description Finger millet (Eleusine coracana) production in Eastern Africa remains low due to a variety of factors including soil nutrient depletion. As intensive row-crop production evolves, improvements in managing soil nutrient quantity and availability of less renewable nutrients like P becomes increasingly important. The yields in Kenya are typical of low input systems ranging below 1.0 t ha-1 against a potential of 5.0 t ha-1 in a season. In an attempt to overcome this constraint, On-station experiments were conducted at the Alupe research station during the long and short rain seasons of 2015 to investigate the influence of phosphate fertilizer rates (0, 12.5, 25 and 37.5 kg ha-1 P2O5) on nutrient uptake and partitioning in finger millet. Partitioning of N and P was significantly influenced (P30%) while the least to the roots (
 
Publisher SCIENCEDOMAIN international
 
Date 2016-10
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/9907/1/Wafula%20et%20al.%20American%20Journal.pdf
Wafula, W N and Korir, N and Ojulong, H F and Siambi, M and Gweyi-Onyango, J P (2016) Nitrogen and Phosphorus Uptake and Partitioning in Finger Millet as Influenced by Phosphorus Fertilization. Journal of Experimental Agriculture International (Previously known as American Journal of Experimental Agriculture), 14 (4). pp. 1-11. ISSN 2231-0606