Use of intensity and capacity measurements to assess the potassium supplying power of soils

Abstract

For depletions of soil exchangeable potassium of between 15 and 50%, potassium concentrations in ryegrass and strawberry leaf were linearly related to pAR^O _K√BC^O where AR^O _K is the equilibrium potassium activity ratio and BC^O is the slope, measured at AR^O _K of the curve relating the quantity of labile potassium and the activity ratio. Potassium supplying power as measured by pAR^O _K√BC^O could also be expressed as a function of the equilibrium activity ratio and the mineral component of the cation exchange capacity of the soil.