Titlebook: Biological Processes and Soil Fertility; J. Tinsley,J. F. Darbyshire Book 1984 Martinus Nijhoff/Dr W. Junk Publishers, The Hague 1984 soil

Projection

The role of microorganisms in mediating and facilitating the uptake of plant nutrients from soiloorganisms is discussed. Shortage of substrate makes it unlikely that the N-fixers in the population can fix useful amounts of N. There is a possibility that P supply is improved, but an analysis of possible processes shows them to be rather unlikely, and evidence for them to be poor. Manganese and