Applicability of phosphate buffer extractable organic nitrogen as an indicator of available nitrogen in the sandy soils of the Sahel zone of Niger, West Africa

Soil Science and Plant Nutrition

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 449-458

  Suzuki, Kanako ^a   Matsunaga, Ryoichi ^b   Hayashi, Keiichi ^c   Matsumoto, Naruo ^c   Tobita, Satoshi ^c   Okada, Kensuke ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CROP SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c JAPAN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Nitrogen uptake; Pearl millet; Phosphate buffer extractable organic nitrogen; Sahel; Spectrophotometry

Indexed keywords

PENNISETUM GLAUCUM;

EID: 43249129119     PISSN: 00380768     EISSN: 17470765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0765.2008.00248.x     Document Type: Article

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