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Soil Phosphorus

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Soil Organic Matter and Biological Activity

Part of the book series: Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences ((DPSS,volume 16))

Abstract

Phosphorus (P) has a unique metabolic role in all living systems as the energy transducer in the enzymic generation of ATP (adenosine-5′-triphosphate) and ADP (adenosine-5′-diphosphate) from inorganic orthosphosphate (Pi). Phosphate derivatives are also involved in almost all significant metabolic pathways, as well as being present as a structural component of many biochemicals including nucleic acids, coenzymes, phosphoproteins and phospholipids190. As Pi, P also participates in the chemical processes of precipitation-solubilisation and adsorption-desorption in soil that largely control its availability to plants and soil organisms. Compared to these processes, the rates and pathways of P through soil organic matter (used in its broadest sense to include both living and dead soil constituents) are relatively little understood. Recent reports45,55,57,85, however, indicate that organic phosphorus (Po) has an important role to play in the nutrition of plants grown in temperate soils, as well as in tropical soils6.

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