The rotation of crops with either legumes or natural regrowth of native vegetation is known to supply N to crops in tropical land-use systems, but little is known about the effect of such rotations on P supply to crops. An experiment was conducted on two soils in Kenya, an Oxisol (very fine, isohyperthermic Kandiudalfic Eutrudox), and an Alfisol (mixed, isothermic Kandic Paleustalf), to determine the effect of unfertilized, organic-based land-use systems on fractions of soil inorganic P (Pi) and organic P (Po). The land-use systems involved growth of three maize (Zea mays L.) crops (18 mo total duration) after 17 mo of either (i) Sesbania sesban (L.) Merr. tree growth (sesbania fallow), (ii) natural regrowth of vegetation without cultivation (natural fallow), (iii) three crops of unfertilized maize (maize monoculture), or (iv) bare uncultivated soil (bare fallow). Soil (0-15 cm deep) was collected before post-fallow maize and after the three post-fallow maize crops. Sesbania and natural fallows increased the amount of P in light fraction soil organic matter (OM) (>150 m,
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.2136/sssaj1999.03615995006300020009xPontuação Altmetric:
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Ano de publicação
1999
Autores
Maroko J B; Buresh R J; Smithson P C
Idioma
English
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crop rotation, land use, organic matter, soil
