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Zi-Min Wei1, Bei-Dou Xi, Shi-Ping Wang
1College of Life Science, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China. weizm691120@163.com
Abstract:
In order to enhance the available phosphorus (P) of compost production, the experimental design of composting included three treatments was conducted. The treatments were: Control (CK) with no dissolved phosphate microbes inoculation, no rock phosphate mixing; CP with no dissolved phosphate microbes inoculation, rock phosphate mixing; CMP with dissolved phosphate microbes inoculation, rock phosphate mixing. At different composting phases, the samples were taken for the determination of phosphorus forms. Compared to CK, organic P, dissolved P and rapidly available P of CP increase by 2 049.8, 264.2, 954.0 mg/kg at final stage of composting, respectively; while that of CMP increase by 4 188.6, 648.7, 3 576.4 mg/kg, respectively. The increase of organic P, dissolved P and rapidly available P in CMP is 2.04, 2.46, 3.75 times as that of CP, respectively. The results indicated dissolved phosphate microbes inoculation composting with pre-mixing rock phosphate would accelerate transform efficiency of insoluble phosphate, increase the available P of compost production.
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