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Measuring Phosphorus Release in Laboratory Microcosms for Water Quality Assessment
Published on: July 22, 2019
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Correction: Soil phosphorus availability as affected by root exudates of cover crop species
Tamjid Us Sakib1, Nathan O Nelson2, Ganga M Hettiarachchi2
1Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University, 2004 Throckmorton Plant Sciences Center 1712 Claflin Rd., Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA. tamjidus@ksu.edu.
Scientific Reports
|March 24, 2026
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