Relationship of Soil Qualities to Maize Growth Under Increasing Phosphorus Supply in Acid Soils of Southern Cameroon Project supported by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) (No. SMCN2/1999/004).

Pedosphere

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 645-652

  TCHIENKOUA, ^a   JEMO, M ^b   NJOMGANG, R ^a   NOLTE, C ^b   SANGINGA, N ^c   TAKOW, J ^a  

^a Institut de Recherche Pour le Developpement   (Cameroon)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE   (Cameroon)

^c Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Institute of CIAT   (Kenya)

Author keywords

acid soil; maize growth; P supply; principal component analysis; soil quality

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROWTH RESPONSE; MAIZE; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PHOSPHORUS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SHOOT; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL QUALITY; SOIL TEXTURE; SOIL TYPE; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

AFRICA; CAMEROON; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 53749087918     PISSN: 10020160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1002-0160(08)60059-4     Document Type: Article

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