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Interactions between the beneficial effects of nitrogen, phosphate and potassium on plant growth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

J. T. Wood ,
D. J. Greenwood  and
T. J. Cleaver
J. T. Wood
Affiliation:
National Vegetable Research Station, Wellesbourne, Warwick
D. J. Greenwood
Affiliation:
National Vegetable Research Station, Wellesbourne, Warwick
T. J. Cleaver
Affiliation:
National Vegetable Research Station, Wellesbourne, Warwick
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Summary

Sets of data were selected from 66 nutritional experiments on crop plants with large beneficial effects of at least two of the nutrients, nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus, and the data, the logarithms of the data, and the reciprocals were statistically analysed. It was shown that the beneficial effects of the nutrients were additive much more often on the reciprocal scale, than when a logarithmic transformation, or none at all, was used.

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Research Article
Information
The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 78 , Issue 3 , June 1972 , pp. 389 - 391
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1972

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