Claim · model-written summary
Adding compost to mineral fertilizer improved microbial biomass carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus.
- Taxon
- cocoa
Theobroma cacaot0 - Treatment
- adding compost to mineral fertilizere0
- Outcome
- microbial biomass carbon (MBC), microbial biomass nitrogen (MBN), and microbial biomass phosphorus (MBP)e0
- Direction
- improvede0
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Verbatim
e0“adding compost to mineral fertilizer improved microbial biomass carbon (MBC), microbial biomass nitrogen (MBN), and microbial biomass phosphorus (MBP)”
t0“cocoa”
Title
Joseph Anokye; Akwasi Adutwum Abunyewa; Uffe Jørgensen; et al. Journal of Plant Nutrition 2025. doi:10.1080/01904167.2025.2481132
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- Intervention effect Medium shade had lower soil temperature and higher water content.
- Observation Shade system and soil amendment significantly affected soil pH, organic carbon, total N, available P and cation exchange capacity.
- Intervention effect Shade and amendments particularly enhanced soil organic carbon and nitrogen.
- Intervention effect T5 significantly improved nitrogen use efficiency.
- Intervention effect T5 significantly improved phosphorus use efficiency.
- Intervention effect T5 significantly improved potassium use efficiency.
- Intervention effect Rock phosphate improved availability of N, P and K for uptake.
- Association A 1% increase in soil N was associated with a 79% increase in nitrogen use efficiency.
- Association A 1% increase in soil N was associated with a 111% increase in potassium use efficiency.