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Re: Terra Preta
On plants that do well on Terra preta
Page 117 Amazonian Dark Earths Lehman et al
"Crops with a high K requirements, such as bananas, may not grow as well as those crops witch have high P requirements, such as legumes.
. . .
Bean yields higher on ADE
. . .Corn no increased yield.
. . . Manioc 50% more increased growth"
p 117
BUT
Different types of ADE have different fertility and production potentials. (p120)
77% of ADEs sampled showed +itive incidence of Azospirillum spp ( free living, nitrogen fixing bacteria)
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