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Plant Available Zinc Is Influenced by Landscape Position in the Amhara Region, Ethiopia

Mesfin K. Desta, Martin R. Broadley, S. P. McGrath, Javier Hernández-Allica, Kirsty L. Hassall, S. Gameda, Tilahun Amede, Stephan M. Haefele

Plants · 2021

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Summary

Zinc (Zn) is an important element determining the grain quality of staple food crops and deficient in many Ethiopian soils. However, farming systems are highly variable in Ethiopia due to different soil types and landscape cropping positions. Zinc availability and uptake by plants from soil and fertilizer sources are governed by the retention and release potential of the soil, usually termed as adsorption and desorption, respectively. The aim of this study was to characterize the amount of plant available Zn at different landscape positions. During the 2018/19 cropping season, adsorption-desorption studies were carried out on soil samples collected from on-farm trials conducted at Aba Gerima, Debre Mewi and Markuma in the Amhara Region. In all locations and landscape positions, adsorption

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Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.3390/plants10020254
Catalogue ID
BFmobghtqh-8vjy5j
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